This page is not longer being maintained. Please visit the new UMD Mathematics website at www-math.umd.edu.
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Math Home > Research > Seminars > [ Search | Contact | Help! ]

Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

MONDAY, 5/2
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Niranjan Ramachandran, UMCP
Title: Algebraic Hecke Characters
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Rasmus Villemoes, UMCP
Title: Cohomology of Mapping Class Groups
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: Peter Wolfe, UMCP
Title: Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin Methods
TUESDAY, 5/3
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR (joint with STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR)
Speaker: Kevin McGoff, UMCP
Title: Subshifts, tilings, and recursion theory
NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
(Joint with CSCAMM on Wednesday)
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Florian Potra, UMBC
Title: Interior-Point Methods
3:30 PM
MTH 1313
STATISTICS SEMINAR (Note Day Change)
Speaker: Prof. Robert Kass, Carnegie-Mellon University
Title: Statistical Analysis of Neural Spike Train Data
WEDNESDAY, 5/4
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
Joint CSCAMM SEMINAR and NORBERT WIENER CENTER SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Vivek Goyal, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Title: Bayesian Analysis of Compressed Sensing and Improved Reconstruction from Quantized Samples
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Scott Crofts (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: Extending the Atlas Software to Nonlinear Groups
3:00 PM
MTH 1308
STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS: MODELS, ANALYSIS, AND NUMERICS (RIT)
Speaker: Dionisios Margetis, UMCP
Title: A taste of mathematical physics: Zwanzig-Mori formalism
3:30 PM
MTH 1311
GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS RIT
Speaker: Steve Balady, UMCP
Title: Lurie's categorical approach to TQFTs, II
THURSDAY, 5/5
12:15 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dawn M. Wendell, MIT, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Using Biomimetic Design to Increase Digging Efficiency in Granular Substrates
2:00 PM
MTH 0102
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR (Note Day, Time, Location)
Speaker: Richard Canary (University of Michigan)
Title: Mapping class groups and moduli spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
3:00 PM
MTH 1310
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR (Note Day, Time, Location)
Speaker: Tonghai Yang (University of Wisconsin)
Title: An arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula over a real quadratic field
3:30 PM
MTH 1308
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dmitry Scheglov, University of Oklahoma
Title: Explicit splitting for triangle billiards
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Xuwen Chen, UMCP
Title: Second order corrections to mean field evolution for weakly interacting Bosons in the case of 3-body interactions
FRIDAY, 5/6
12:00 PM
CSS 4301
AMSC STUDENT SEMINAR
Speaker: Joyce Hsiao, UMCP
Title: Model-based base-calling and quality assessment for second-generation sequencing data
Speaker: Patrick Sodre, UMCP
Title: Optimal Control of a Free Boundary Problem
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Richard Canary (University of Michigan)
Title: Dynamics on character varieties
3:00 PM
MTH 1310
DOCTORAL THESIS DEFENSE
Speaker: Anastasia Voulgaraki, UMCP
Title: Semiparametric Regression and Mortality Rate Prediction