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Colloquium 2011-2012 Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Occasionally, the meeting will be moved to another room and/or day to accommodate special circumstances.
For information, contact Fatih Celiker (celiker) or Tao Mei (tmei) @math.wayne.edu.
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FALL 2011 SCHEDULE
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| Sep. 5 |
Labor Day. No colloquium.
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| Sep. 12 |
Tatiana Bandman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Geometry and dynamics of some word maps on SL(2,F_q). (Abstract) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep. 19 | Kyungyong Lee, Wayne State University.
Introduction to cluster algebras. (Abstract) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep. 26 | No colloquium. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct. 3 | Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo.
Eberlein compactifications of locally compact groups. (Abstract)
Oct. 10
| John Klein, Wayne State University.
| Stochastic driving and algebraic topology. (Abstract)
Oct. 17 |
Jianlang Qian, Michigan State University.
| Fast multiscale Gaussian wavepacket transforms and multiscale Gaussian beams for the wave equation. (Abstract)
Oct. 24
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Robert Lazarsfeld, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
| Positivity of algebraic cycles. (Abstract)
Oct. 31 |
Divakar Viswanath, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
| Navier-Stokes solver using Green's functions. (Abstract)
Nov. 7
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Alex Izzo, Bowling Green State University.
| Algebras of holomorphic functions and a replacement for the peak point conjecture. (Abstract)
Nov. 14
| Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve
University.
| Entropies for cone measures of convex bodies. (Abstract)
Nov. 21
| Di Liu, Michigan State University.
| Numerical methods for stochastic bio-chemical reacting networks with multiple time scales. (Abstract)
Nov. 28
| Hengguang Li, Wayne State University.
| Introduction to multigrid methods. (Abstract)
Dec. 5
| Victor Nistor, Penn State.
| Boundary value problems on polyhedral domains, index theory and applications to numerical methods. (Abstract)
Dec. 12 |
Shouhong Wang, Indiana University.
| Dynamic transition theory and its application to gas-liquid phase transitions. (Abstract) |
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WINTER 2012 SCHEDULE
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| Jan. 9 | No colloquium. |
| Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. No
colloquium. |
| Jan. 23 | No colloquium. |
| Jan. 30 |
Jeff Ovall, University of Kentucky. Flexible Finite Element Error Estimation Using Auxiliary-Subspaces. (Abstract) |
| Feb. 6 |
Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut. On cluster algebras from surfaces. (Abstract) |
| Feb. 13 |
Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Non-asymptotic theory of random matrices: the extreme singular values. (Abstract) |
| Feb. 20 |
Young Ju Lee, Rutgers University.
An application of multigrid methods for the simulation of non-Newtonian fluid flows. (Abstract) |
| Feb. 27 |
Kenneth Davidson, University or Waterloo.
Operator theory meets algebraic geometry. (Abstract) |
| Mar. 5 |
Qing Zhang, University of Georgia.
The mathematics of momentum trading. (Abstract) |
| Mar. 12 | Spring Break. No Colloquium. |
| Mar. 19 |
Ivo Dell'Ambrogio, Universitat Bielefeld-Germany.
From equivariant K-theory to equivariant KK-theory via restricted Yoneda and Mackey functors. (Abstract) |
| Mar. 26 | Richard Falk, Rutgers University
Finite element exterior calculus. (Abstract) |
| Apr. 2 |
Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Harmonic analysis and cocycles. (Abstract) |
| Apr. 9 |
Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas.
A mathematical characterization of anisotropic meshes and its applications in numerical solution of partial differential equations. (Abstract) |
| Apr. 16 |
Vladimir Shpilrain, CUNY.
Non-commutative cryptography. (Abstract) |
| Apr. 23 |
Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Large deviation problems for infinite dimensional stochastic systems. (Abstract) |