Colloquium Archives

Date Speakers
Friday, April 1, 2016 - 15:30
Einstein's general relativity, black holes and the quixotic search for gravitational waves
George Sparling
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 25, 2016 - 15:30
Why Gradient Flows of Some Energies Good for Defect Equilibria are not Good for Dynamics, and an Improvement
Amit Acharya
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 15:30
Discrete Game Theory and Nonlinear Patial Differential Equations
Qing Liu
Fukuoka University
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 15:30
Turbulent Fluctuations are Dissipative in the Mean
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 15:30
Isometric immersion of completesurface with negative Gauss curvature
Feimin Huang
Harvard University
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 15:30 to 16:30
Type II Singularity Formation in Harmonic Map Flow
Juncheng Wei
University of British Columbia
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 15:30
Characterization of Optimal Strategy for Multi-Asset Investment and Consumptiomn with Transaction Costs
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 15:30
Principal Bundles, Moduli Spaces, Landlands Duality and Motives
Roman Fedorov
Kansas State University
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 15:00
Algebraic Tori and a Computational Inverse Galois Problem
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 15:30
Deterministic and Probabilistic Well-posedness Results for Nonlinear Schrodinger and Wave Equations
Aynur Bulut
University of Michigan
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 15:00
On Discrete Spectrum of Quasi-split Classical Groups and the Generalized Ramanujan Problem
Baiying Liu
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 15:00
Nonlocal Aspects in Geometric Analysis
Armin Schikorra
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 15:30
Solutions to the Incompressible Euler Equations that Fail to Conserve Energy
Philip Isett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 15:00
Hyperelliptic Curves and Springer Theory
Tsao-Hsien Chen
Northwestern University
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 15:00
Multiscale Analysis of Rectifiable Sets
Jonas Azzam
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Friday, January 8, 2016 - 15:30
Beyond Euclidean Rectifiability
Sean Li
University of Chicago
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 15:30
Nonlocal nonlinear advection-diffusion equations
Peter Constantin
Princeton University
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 16:00
Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture: Taming infinities
Martin Hairer, University of Warwick
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 15:30
Well-posedness and stability in the integrable systems
Dmitry Pelinovsky
McMaster University
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 15:30
Well-posedness and stability in the integrable systems
Dmitry Pelinovsky
McMaster University
Friday, November 13, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Energy-based fracture evolution
Christopher Larsen
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 15:30
Perspectives of Differential Geometry in Continuum Mechanics
Marcelo Epstein
University of Calgary
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 15:30
Monotone Sobolev Mappings of Plannar Domains and Surfaces
Tadeusz Iwaniec
Syracuse University
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 15:30
Uniform error estimates for finite difference methods applied to problems with interfaces
James Thomas Beale
Duke University
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 15:30
Best Constants and Maximizers of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg and Moser-Trudinger Inequalities
Guozhen Lu
Wayne State University
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 15:30
Mean Curvature Flow and Sphere Theorem
Hongwei Xu
Harvard University
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 15:30
Steady Water Waves
Walter Strauss
Brown University
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 15:30
Induction of representations and Poincaré duality
Reyer Sjamaar
Cornell University
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 15:30
The stabilized supralinear network: A simple circuit mechanism underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex
Ken Miller
Columbia University
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 15:30
The stabilized supralinear network: A simple circuit mechanism underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex
Ken Miller
Columbia University
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Discretizations of incompressible fluids yielding divergence-free approximations
Friday, September 4, 2015 - 15:30
Graphs, dynamics, and persistent activity
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Paradoxical oscillations in feedforward nets and damaged nerves
Andre Longtin
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Degenerate Diffusions arising in Population Genetics
Charles Epstein
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Hermitian eigenvalue problem and its generalization to any semisimple group: A survey
Shrawan Kumar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
On PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows
Vladimir Sverak
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
PDE/ODE models of motility in active biosystems
Leonid Berlyand
Penn State University
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Theory, Computation, Experiments and Applications
Panayotis Kevrekidis
University of Massachusetts
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics
Gunther Uhlmann
University of Washington
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
The formal proof of the Kepler conjecture
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 13, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
The Tiger and the Magic Hoop: The Dirac Particle and the Kerr-Newman Spacetime
Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh
Rutgers University
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Computational Tools for Data Assimilation
Adrian Sandu
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Lagrangian Floer theory and surgery
Christopher Woodward
Rutgers University
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Curvature and (contact) topology
John Etnyre
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
A trace finite element method for PDEs posed on surfaces
Maxim Olshanskii
University of Houston
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Traveling waves in lattices of coupled pendula
Mark Levi
Penn State University
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 15:30 to 16:30
3D Ricci flow since Perelman
John Lott
University of California, Berkeley
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 15:30
Normal functions and the Archmedean Height
Patrick Brosnan
University of Maryland
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 15:30
The Variational Multiscale Method in Large Eddy Simulation, Reduced Order Models, and Uncertainty Quantification
Assad Oberai
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Friday, November 7, 2014 - 15:30
The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects
Gilles Francfort
Universite Paris-Nord and Courant Institute, NYU
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 15:30
Geometry and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
Lizhen Ji
University of Michigan
Friday, October 24, 2014 - 15:30
Multilevel methods for uncertainty quantification of systems governed by PDEs with random inputs
Max Gunzburger
Florida State University
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 15:30
Convex bodies, algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 15:30
Deformations with constraints: Analysis and applications in calculus of variations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 15:30
Weyl's asymptotic law in the setting of Levy processes
Rodrigo Banuelos
Purdue University
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 15:30
Vertical versus horizontal Poincare inequalities
Assaf Naor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Friday, September 12, 2014 - 15:30
Subelliptic harmonic analysis on compact, semi-simple Lie groups
Andras Domokos
California State University Sacramento
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 15:30
Asymptotically compatible discretization of parametrized variational problems with applications
Qiang Du
Columbia University
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 15:30
Geometric properties of the Heisenberg Groups
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 15:30
Coagulation, Gelation and Smoluchowski Equation
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Berkeley University
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 15:30
From `entopology' to morphology in hyperbolic geometry
Jeffrey F. Brock
Brown University
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 15:30
Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry
Ravi Vakil
Stanford University
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 15:30
The Analytic Hierarchy Process
Thomas Saaty
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 15:30
A non-linear eigenvaule problem
Peter Lindqvist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 15:30
3-Dimensional Affine Crystals
William Goldman
University of Maryland
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 15:30
Discrete Total Variation Flows
Ricardo Nochetto
University of Maryland
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 15:30
Time Domain Integral Equations for Computational Wave Propagation
Peter Monk
University of Delaware
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 15:30
Random Structures and Algorithms
Alan Frieze
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 15:30
Liquid droplets on a solid surface
Antoine Mellet
University of Maryland
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 15:30
Evolution and robustness in genetic networks
Leon Glass
McGill University
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 15:30
New Challenges for Mathematical Neuroscience
Professor Michael Reed
Duke University
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
New approximations of the total variation and filters in Image Processing
Haim Brezis
Rutgers, Technion, Paris VI
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 15:30
Singularities in Mean Curvature Flow
William Minicozzi
MIT
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 15:00
The discrete charm of nonlinearity: kinetics of lattice phase transitions
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Moving surfaces in phase transitions
Gieri Simonett
Vanderbilt University
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Mean Curvature Flow
Bruce Kleiner
Courant Institute, New York University
Friday, November 8, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Spatial and Spectral Viewpoints on Nonlinear Waves
John Hunter
University of California Davis
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Traveling Waves Under Discretization
Eric Van Vleck
University of Kansas
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Recent Developments on Certain Dispersive Equations as Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems
Gigliola Staffilani
MIT
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Recent Developments on Certain Dispersive Equations as Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems
Gigliola Staffilani
MIT
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Long and Short Waves in Shallow Water
Clint Dawson
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
The Mathematics of Life - Decisions, Decisions
James Keener
University of Utah
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 15:30
Multiscale stochastic modeling of coupled Stokes-Darcy flows
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Stability of high-density lipoprotein particles
Eliot Fried
McGill University
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Universal Grobner basis and toric geometry
Askold Khovanskii
University of Toronto
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 15:30
Simplicial volume and its applications
Jean-Francois Lafont
Ohio State University
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Type-II singularities of Ricci flow
Daniel Knopf
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:20
Asymptotics and generalized Borel summability
Ovidiu Costin
Ohio State University
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
The Mathematics of Dispersion for Optical Metamaterials
Robert Lipton
Louisiana State University
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:20
Variational Problems and Mixed Formulations of coupled systems of mechanics and diffusion
Ralph Showalter
Oregon State University
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Self-similar vortex spiral solutions of the 2d incompressible Euler equations
Volker Elling
University of Michigan
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Soap bubbles, tilings, and other partitioning problems
Frank Morgan
Williams College
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 14:00 to 14:50
Invariant Subspaces and Orbits of Operators
Per Enflo
Kent State University
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Memory and intelligence in simple mechanical systems
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
Harvard University
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Modelingthe neuroprotective role of enhanced astrocyte mitochondrial metabolism during stroke
David Terman
Ohio State University
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Games in Space
Andrew Belmonte
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Mathematical challenges in blood flow
Suncica Canic
University of Houston
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Energetic Variational Approaches for General Diffusion
Chun Liu
Penn State University
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
A Comparison of Classical and Modern Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Some large time behaviors of the water wave motion
Sijue Wu
University of Michigan