WSU

Department of Mathematics
Colloquium 2007-08

Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


The Mathematics Department Colloquium meets every Monday at 2:45 PM, in 169 Education, with tea at 2 PM in the Nelson Library. Occasionally, the meeting will be moved to another room and/or day to accomodate special circumstances. For information, contact Bert Schreiber.

All seminars
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Date Speaker and Title
Sept 17
Elijah Liflyand, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Open Problems on Hausdorff Operators (abstract)
Sept 24
Ricardo Nochetto, University of Maryland
Discrete Gradient Flows for Shape Optimization and Applications (abstract)
Oct    1
N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon
Higher Dimensional Noncommutative Tori (abstract)
Oct    8
No colloquium.
Oct  15
George Yin, Wayne State University
Switching Diffusion Processes and Applications (abstract)
Oct  22
Cornel Pasnicu, University of Puerto Rico at San Juan
Purely Infinite C*-Algebras of Real Rank Zero (abstract)
Oct  29
Harm Derksen University of Michigan
Generators of Invariant Rings (abstract)
Nov   5
Razvan Teodorescu Los Alamos National Laboratory
Harmonic Growth in Two Dimensions via Biorthogonal Polynomials (abstract)
Nov 12
Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University
Nonconforming Methods for Electromagnetics (abstract)
Nov 19
Guihua Gong, University of Puerto Rico at San Juan
Positive Scalar Curvature and Noncommutative Geometry (abstract)
Nov 26
Vesselin Drensky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Computing with Matrix Invariants (abstract)
Dec    3
Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati
Nonhomogeneous Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations (abstract)
Dec  10
Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Noncommutative Riesz Transforms (abstract)

 
Winter Break
Jan   14
John Klein, Wayne State University
Higher Reidemeister Torsion (abstract)
Jan   15
3:00 pm
Atabey Kaygun, Ohio State University
Hopf-Cyclic (Co)Homology (abstract)
Jan   18
2:00 pm
Phillipe Rigollet, Georgia Institute of Technology
Model Selection, Aggregation and Stochastic Convex Optimization Using Mirror Averaging Algorithms (abstract)
Jan   21
Martin Luther King
Jan   23
3:00 pm
Adrian Vasiu State Universiy of New York at Binghamton
Good Reductions of Abelian Varieties over Number Fields (abstract)
Jan   28
Joel Smoller, University of Michigan
Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of Newtonian Rotating White Dwarfs and Supermassive Stars (abstract)
Jan  30
3:00 pm
Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology: An Elementary Approach (abstract)
Feb    4
Vasileios Maroulas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Small Noise Large Deviations for Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Systems (abstract)
Feb    6
3:00 pm
Ualbai Umirbaev, Wayne State University
Free Poisson Algebras and their Relations (abstract)
Feb  12
3:00 pm
Jun-Fang Li, McGill University
Singularity Analysis of the Ricci Flow and Monotonicity Properties of Entropy Functionals (abstract)
Feb  18
Chair Search Committee Interviews 2:30 - 4:00 pm.
Feb  25
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria, Canada (Visiting Scholar)
C*-Algebras and Topological Dynamics 1: From Dynamical Systems to Operator Algebras (abstract)
Feb  27
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria, Canada (Visiting Scholar)
C*-Algebras and Topological Dynamics 2: Topological Orbit Equivalence (abstract)
Mar   3
Dmitry Fuchs, University of California at Davis
Knots in Contact Geometry (abstract)
Mar 10
Spring Break
Mar 17
Robert McCann, University of Toronto
Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures and Optimal Transportation (abstract)
Mar 19
Ivan Blank, Kansas State University
Sharp Results for the Regularity and Stability of the Obstacle Problem (abstract)
Mar 24
Gregory Lawler, University of Chicago
Conformal Invariance and Two-Dimensional Statistical Physics (abstract)
Mar 31
Owens Lecture: Stephen Smale, University of Chicago and Toyota Technological Institute
Understanding Vision via Mathematics (abstract)
Apr   7
Zbigniew Jurek, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Relations Between Urbanik and Mehler Semigroups (abstract)
Apr 14
Zhiming Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Adaptive Computation of Electromagnetic Problems (abstract)
Apr 21
John Cagnol, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, Paris
Shell Modeling by Means of Intrinsic Geometric Methods (abstract)