Colloquium Archives

Date Speakers
Friday, January 25, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Probabilistic reasoning in compressed sensing
Roman Vershynin
University of Michigan
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Compactified Jacobians, Cherednik algebras and knot homology
Eugene Gorsky
Stony Brook University
Friday, January 18, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Equivalent Schubert calculus: positivity, formulas, applications
David Anderson
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Intersection theory and tautological rings of moduli spaces of curves
Hao Xu
Harvard University
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Laplacian growth and the mystery of the abelian sandpile: A visual tour
Yuval Peres
Microsoft Research
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Asymptotic representation theory of symmetric groups
Sevak Mkrtchyan
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
“Ultimate state” of two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Charles Doering
University of Michigan
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Quasi-local Mass and the Static Extension Problem in General Relativity
Marcus Khuri
Stony Brook University
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 15:00 to 16:00
Structure of algebraic groups
Michel Brion
Université Grenoble I
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 15:00
Ramanujan at 125
George E. Andrews
Penn State University
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability
John Rinzel
New York University
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Loops, Strings, and Topology
Ralph L. Cohen
Stanford University
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 04:00 to 17:00
Hilbert's 13th Problem
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Mathematical and Computational Methods for Predictive Simulation of Evolution Systems
Catalin Trenchea
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Geometry: from Riemann to Einstein and on to String Theory
Shing-Tung Yau
Harvard University
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Free boundary problems arising from materials science
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Isometric immersions: rigidity, regularity and aspects from nonlinear elasticity
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
A random walk in neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 7, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
All the way with Gaston Floquet: A theory for flicker hallucinations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:45
Harmonic analysis on reductive p-adic groups
Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Scalable Maximum Likelihood Calculations of Gaussian Models for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Data
Mihai Anitescu
Aragonne National Laboratory
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
What is GTH, the general theory of homogenization?
Luc Tartar
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Surfaces refracting or reflecting radiation in a prescribed manner
Cristian Gutiérrez
Temple University
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Non-local minimal surfaces
Ovidiu Savin
Columbia University
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Dynamics on random graphs
Amitabha Bose
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Packing space with regular tetrahedra
Jeffrey Lagarias
University of Michigan
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Patterns of Phase-Shift Synchrony
Martin Golubitsky
Ohio State University
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Generalized Phase Field Models and Interface Problems
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Geometry and physics of Arnold diffusion
Mark Levi
Penn State University
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 15:00 to 15:50
An introduction to noncommutative geometry and noncommutative tori
Jonathan Rosenberg
University of Maryland
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Sheaves, Cohomology, and Data
Robert Ghrist
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Polycrystalline Microstructures, Critical Events, Entropy and the Grain Boundary Character Distribution
Yekaterina Epshteyn
University of Utah
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Construction and Analysis of Unstructured Mesh Generation Algorithms
Noel J. Walkington
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:45
The National Alliance For Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences: A community based approach to broadening participation
Philip Kutzko
University of Iowa
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Cooling a solid to its ground state
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Square ice, symmetric functions and automorphic forms
Benjamin Brubaker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
On the Boltzmann equation without angular cut-off
Robert Strain
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Jacobian Conjecture and Birational Algebraic Geometry
Alexander Borisov
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Combinatorics and Geometry of KP solitons
Yuji Kodama
Ohio State University
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Molecular motor-based models of random intermittent search
Paul Bressloff
University of Utah
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Logical analysis of hybrid systems
André Platzer
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Beauty is only skin deep: Why the Kepler Conjecture (for example) is much more interesting than any result in (Erdos's) BOOK
Doron Zeilberger
Rutgers University
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 16:00 to 16:50
Evolution of dispersal
Yuan Lou
Ohio State University