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University of Maryland
Colloquium Schedule 2004-2005

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: Bill Adams/Jeff Cooper



Current Schedule

September 10: Introduction of New Faculty and Future of the Department
Mike Fitzpatrick (UMCP)
October 1: Probability and Neurobiology First in the series Mathematics and Biology
Mike Reed (Duke University ), Durham, N.C.
October 8: Reflections, Polygons, and GUIs Ruth Davis Lecture
Richard Schwartz (UMCP)
October 22: Traditional Dedekind sums and new polynomial Dedekind sums for weighted lattice point enumeration in polytopes
Sinai Robins (Temple University)
October 29: Applications of higher dimensional brownian motion to finance and biology
Larry Shepp (Rutgers University)
November 5: Screening, Structure and Simulation of Ionic Fluids: The Long and Short of It Distinguished University Professor
John D. Weeks (IPST, UMCP)
November 12: Entropy methods in hyperbolic systems
A. Tzavaras (University of Crete, Heraklion)
November 19: Electromagnetic Imaging for small inhomogeneities Aziz Lecture
Micheal Vogelius (Rutgers University)
December 3: Scoring systems for protein sequence alignment Second in the series Mathematics and Biology
Stephen Altschul (National Library of Medicine, NIH, and AMSC)
January 28: The Whitney Extension Theorem Colloquium in memory of Seymour Goldberg
Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
February 4: Graph Theoretical Insights into Protein Evolution Third in the series Mathematics and Biology
Teresa Przytycka ( National Library of Medicine, NIH)
February 11: Branched derivatives
Michal Misiurewicz (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis )
February 18: Simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and volumes of moduli space of curves
Maryam Mirzakhani (Princeton University), mirzak@math.harvard.edu
February 25: Learning Synchrony Oscillations and spike-time dependent plasticity Fourth in the Series Mathematics and Biology
Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
March 4: Logic, Ramsey theory and topological dynamics
Alexander Kechris (California Institute of Technology)
March 11: What I Know and Would Like to Know About The Meshless and Generalized FEM
Ivo Babuska (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
March 18: On measures invariant under tori and other actions
Elon Lindenstrauss (Princeton University)
April 1: Fundamental groups of manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bound
Burkhard Wilking (University of Munster)
April 8: Mathematics in Biology: Blowing smoke or clearing the air? Fifth in the series Mathematics and Biology
Avis Cohen (Department of Biology and ISR, UMCP)
April 15: Conservation Laws and Some Consequences Douglis Lecture
Cathleen Morawetz (New York University )
April 22: What are Zeta Functions of Graphs, and What are They Good For? Emeriti Colloquium
Audrey Terras (UCSD)
May 6: String integration of some MHD equations Spring Aziz Lecture
Yann Brenier (Universite of Nice)