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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices 2011-2012

MONDAY, 2/20
3:00 PM
MTH 1313
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Speaker: Scott Wolpert, UMCP
Title: Infinitesimal deformations of nodal stable curves
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
APPLIED PDE RIT
Speaker: David Levermore, UMCP
Title: Global Maxwellians over All Space and Their Relation to Conserved Quantities of Classical Kinetic Equations
4:00 PM
MTH 1308
RIT ON ASPECTS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Speaker: Mark Freidlin, UMCP
Title: Interface Motion in Reaction-Diffusion Equations
TUESDAY, 2/21
12:00 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Chris Davis, University of Maryland
Title: Optical Properties of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays
1:00 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jon Huang, UMCP
Title: TBA
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LOGIC SEMINAR
Speaker: Chris Laskowski, UMCP
Title: Defining automorphism groups in stable theories
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR/APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Prof. Michael Hintermüller, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Title: Recent Advances in Fast Solvers for Variation Inequality Problems
3:30 PM
MTH 1308
STUDENT DYNAMICS SEMINAR AND RIT
Speaker: Fabian Contreras, UMCP
Title: Review of some topic in hyperbolic dynamics
WEDNESDAY, 2/22
11:00 AM
CSIC 4122
AMSC STUDENT SEMINAR
Speaker: Lee Mendelowitz, UMCP
Title: Improving Genome Assembly Using Optical Maps
Speaker: Oliver Rourke, UMCP
Title: On the Importance of Population Structure and Diversity in Genetic Algorithms
12:30 PM
AVW 2460
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR
Speaker: Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University
Title: Population Scale Detection of Common and Rare Genomic Rearrangements and Transcriptomic Aberrations
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
Joint CSCAMM SEMINAR-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
Speaker: Prof. George Haller, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Title: Geodesic Theory of Transport Barriers
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams, UMCP
Title: Hermitian forms on representations, II
3:15 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM (Aziz Lecture)
Speaker: Michael Hintermüller (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Title: Semismooth Newton Methods: Theory, Numerics and Applications
THURSDAY, 2/23
12:30 PM
ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Dionisios Margetis, UMCP
Title: Dynamics of Facets on Crystal Surfaces
3:30 PM
MTH 1308
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom Meyerovitch (UBC)
Title: Stationary Markov random fields and Gibbs measures
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Yu Gorb, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
Title: Blow Up Phenomena in High Contrast Composites
3:30 PM
MTH 1313
STATISTICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Ping Li, Cornell University
Title: Probabilistic Hashing Methods for Fitting Massive Logistic Regressions and SVM with Billions of Variables
FRIDAY, 2/24
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
LEARNING SEMINAR ON P-ADIC HODGE THEORY
Speaker: Sean Kelly, UMCP
Title: Conrad and Brinon, Section 5
3:00 PM
MTH 0102
STUDENT PROBABILITY/COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Wenqing Hu, UMCP
Title: Martingales and tight concentration (I)