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Colloquium 2007-08 Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Date | Speaker and Title |
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Sept 17 |
Elijah Liflyand,
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Open Problems on Hausdorff Operators (abstract) |
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Sept 24 |
Ricardo Nochetto,
University of Maryland
Discrete Gradient Flows for Shape Optimization and Applications (abstract) |
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Oct 1 |
N. Christopher Phillips,
University of Oregon
Higher Dimensional Noncommutative Tori (abstract) |
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Oct 8 | No colloquium. |
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Oct 15 |
George Yin,
Wayne State University
Switching Diffusion Processes and Applications (abstract) |
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Oct 22 |
Cornel Pasnicu,
University of Puerto Rico at San Juan
Purely Infinite C*-Algebras of Real Rank Zero (abstract) |
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Oct 29 |
Harm Derksen
University of Michigan
Generators of Invariant Rings (abstract) |
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Nov 5 |
Razvan Teodorescu
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Harmonic Growth in Two Dimensions via Biorthogonal Polynomials (abstract) |
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Nov 12 |
Susanne Brenner,
Louisiana State University
Nonconforming Methods for Electromagnetics (abstract) |
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Nov 19 |
Guihua Gong,
University of Puerto Rico at San Juan
Positive Scalar Curvature and Noncommutative Geometry (abstract) |
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Nov 26 |
Vesselin Drensky,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Computing with Matrix Invariants (abstract) |
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Dec 3 |
Bingyu Zhang,
University of Cincinnati
Nonhomogeneous Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations (abstract) |
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Dec 10 |
Marius Junge,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Noncommutative Riesz Transforms (abstract) |
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Winter Break |
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Jan 14 |
John Klein,
Wayne State University
Higher Reidemeister Torsion (abstract) |
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Jan 15 3:00 pm |
Atabey Kaygun,
Ohio State University
Hopf-Cyclic (Co)Homology (abstract) |
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Jan 18 2:00 pm |
Phillipe Rigollet,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Model Selection, Aggregation and Stochastic Convex Optimization Using Mirror Averaging Algorithms (abstract) |
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Jan 21 | Martin Luther King |
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Jan 23 3:00 pm |
Adrian Vasiu
State Universiy of New York at Binghamton
Good Reductions of Abelian Varieties over Number Fields (abstract) |
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Jan 28 |
Joel Smoller,
University of Michigan
Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of Newtonian Rotating White Dwarfs and Supermassive Stars (abstract) |
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Jan 30 3:00 pm |
Julia Pevtsova,
University of Washington
Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology: An Elementary Approach (abstract) |
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Feb 4 |
Vasileios Maroulas,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Small Noise Large Deviations for Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Systems (abstract) |
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Feb 6 3:00 pm |
Ualbai Umirbaev,
Wayne State University
Free Poisson Algebras and their Relations (abstract) |
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Feb 12 3:00 pm |
Jun-Fang Li,
McGill University
Singularity Analysis of the Ricci Flow and Monotonicity Properties of Entropy Functionals (abstract) |
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Feb 18 |
Chair Search Committee Interviews
2:30 - 4:00 pm.
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Feb 25 |
Ian Putnam,
University of Victoria, Canada (Visiting Scholar)
C*-Algebras and Topological Dynamics 1: From Dynamical Systems to Operator Algebras (abstract) |
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Feb 27 |
Ian Putnam,
University of Victoria, Canada (Visiting Scholar)
C*-Algebras and Topological Dynamics 2: Topological Orbit Equivalence (abstract) |
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Mar 3 |
Dmitry Fuchs,
University of California at Davis
Knots in Contact Geometry (abstract) |
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Mar 10 | Spring Break |
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Mar 17 |
Robert McCann,
University of Toronto
Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures and Optimal Transportation (abstract) |
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Mar 19 |
Ivan Blank,
Kansas State University
Sharp Results for the Regularity and Stability of the Obstacle Problem (abstract) |
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Mar 24 |
Gregory Lawler,
University of Chicago
Conformal Invariance and Two-Dimensional Statistical Physics (abstract) |
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Mar 31 |
Owens Lecture: Stephen Smale,
University of Chicago and Toyota Technological Institute
Understanding Vision via Mathematics (abstract) |
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Apr 7 |
Zbigniew Jurek,
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Relations Between Urbanik and Mehler Semigroups (abstract) |
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Apr 14 |
Zhiming Chen,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Adaptive Computation of Electromagnetic Problems (abstract) |
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Apr 21 |
John Cagnol,
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, Paris
Shell Modeling by Means of Intrinsic Geometric Methods (abstract) |