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Colloquium Seminar Schedule Academic Year 2005/06

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: Jian-Guo Liu


Schedule

September 9: Introduction of Faculty
Mike Fitzpatrick (UMD ), pmf@math.umd.edu
September 16: THE RIEMANN MAPPING THEOREM in R3
David Hamilton (UMD), dhh@math.umd.edu
September 23: The mathematics of compact discs
Douglas Lind (University of Washington), lind@math.washington.edu
September 30: A new perspective on motion by curvature Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture
Bob Kohn (Courant Institute), kohn@cims.nyu.edu
October 7: Global regularity of the critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation
Terence Tao (UCLA), tao@math.ucla.edu
October 14: Geometry and analysis of 4-manifolds 2:00pm (TIME CHANGE!) This will be a general talk.
Gang Tian (Princeton University and MIT), tian@math.mit.edu
October 21: Transition from the network of the fiber waveguides to the quantum graphs
Stanislav Molchanov (UNC Charlotte), smolchan@uncc.edu
October 28: Equilibrium configurations in periodic media
Rafael de la Llave (UT-Austin), llave@math.utexas.edu
November 4: The Department of Mathematics...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow '05-'06 Retiree Colloquium
Chancellor Brit Kirwan (University System of Maryland)
November 11: Mathematical and computer models for plasmas
Pierre Degond (Universite Paul Sabatier), degond@mip.ups-tlse.fr
November 18: A mathematical theory of strange attractors
Lai-Sang Young (Courant Institute ), lsy @ cims.nyu.edu
December 2: Hamiltonian dynamics, Wasserstein distance and fluids mechanics.
Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Tech), gangbo@math.gatech.edu
December 9: Multi-scale Modelling in Biosciences- Ion Transport Through Membranes Aziz's Lecture
Willi Jaeger (University of Heidelberg), Jaeger@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.DE
December 16: Department Holiday Party
UMD
February 3: Multiscale Analysis in Micromagnetics Aziz's Lecture
Felix Otto (University of Bonn), otto@riemann.iam.uni-bonn.de
February 10: Recent advances in lossless image compression
Marek Rychlik (Qbit, LLC, Bethesda MD and University of Arizona ), rychlik@math.arizona.edu
February 17: Frames and the Homogeneous Approximation Property conference on harmonic analysis and applications
Christopher Heil (Georgia Institute of Technology), h e i l @ m a t h . g a t e c h . e d u
February 24: Equidistribution of nilflows and number theory
Giovanni Forni (University of Toronto), forni@math.toronto.edu
March 3: Energy Transfer in a Nonlinear Hamiltonian PDE
Markus Keel (University of Minnesota), keel@math.umn.edu
March 10: Some results on subsonic-sonic flow
Marshall Slemrod (University of Wisconsin-Madison), slemrod@math.wisc.edu
March 17: Closed orbits of group actions Dynamics System Conference
Gregory A. Margulis (Yale University), margulis@math.yale.edu
March 31: Mathematical theory of solids: From atomic to macroscopic scales
Weinan E (Princeton University), weinan@math.princeton.edu
April 7: Particles and Fluids
Peter Constantin (University of Chicago), const@cs.uchicago.edu
April 21: String Integration of Some MHD Equations Aziz's Lecture
Yann Brenier (Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), brenier@math.unice.fr
May 5: Unsolved mysteries of solutions to elliptic PDEs near the boundary
Vladimir Maz'ya (Ohio State University), vlmaz@math.ohio-state.edu
May 12: Resolution of Gibbs' Phenomenon, from Global to Semi-Global Monroe Martin Prize Lecture
Jared Tanner (Stanford University and University of Utah), tanner@math.utah.edu
May 12: Accuracy of One-Bit Quantization 11:00am (SPECIAL TIME!)Monroe Martin Prize Lecture
C. Sinan Gntrk (New York University), gunturk@cims.nyu.edu
September 1: Introduction of Faculty
Mike Fitzpatrick (UMD), pmf@math.umd.edu
September 8: Dynamics of interfacial Langmuir domains: theory and experiment
James C. Alexander (Case Western University)
September 15: TBA
Stephen Halperin (Dean of CMPS, UMD)
September 22: TBA
No Colloquium (Rosh Hashanah)
September 29: TBA 60th birthday conference in honor of Dilip Madan
Marc Yor (Universit Pierre et Marie Curie ), deaproba@proba.jussieu.fr
October 6: TBA
open
October 13: TBA
open
October 20: TBA
open
October 27: TBA
Klaus Schmidt
November 10: TBA
Alexandre Chorin (UC Berkeley)
November 24: TBA
No colloquium (Thanksgiving)
December 1: TBA Aziz Lecture
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)