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Colloquium Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: Thomas Haines, Harry Tamvakis, Konstantina Trivisa


Schedule 2006-2007

September 8: Dynamics of interfacial Langmuir domains: theory and experiment
James C. Alexander (Case Western University), james.alexander@case.edu
September 22: TBA
Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Karsten Grove
September 29: Some remarkable properties of Gamma processes
Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Dilip Madan
Marc Yor (Universit Pierre et Marie Curie), deaproba@proba.jussieu.fr
October 6: Fluid Dynamics from Boltzmann Equations Department's ICM Lecture Series
C. David Levermore (UMD), lvrmr@math.umd.edu
October 13: 3-5 pm
No Colloquium (Departmental Reception for Jackie Adams)
October 20: Discrete Gradient Flows for Shape Optimization and Applications
Ricardo Nochetto (UMD)
October 23: On the speed of ergodicity for rational polygonal billiards
Special Colloquium: Monday, Oct 23, 4-5 pm.
Giovanni Forni (University of Toronto)
October 27: Mahler measure, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and entropy
Klaus Schmidt
November 3: Image Noise Removal based on the Variational Approach and Wavelets
Charles Chui (Stanford University and University of Missouri-St. Louis)
November 24: TBA
No colloquium (Thanksgiving)
December 1: Optimal Illumination in Array Imaging Aziz Lecture
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
December 8: Formation of Singularities in the Critical Harmonic-Map Wave-Flow into S2
Jacob Sterbenz (UCSD)
December 15: Problem reduction and memory
Alexandre Chorin (UC Berkeley)
January 26: Fourier Series: Past, Present, Future
Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
February 2: Homogenization of some free boundary problems
Antoine Mellet (UBC)
February 9: Early Mathematics at Maryland
Emeriti Colloquium
February 16: Radar Imaging February Fourier Talks
Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), cheney(at)rpi.edu
February 23: The work of Grigory Perelman
John Lott (University of Michigan)
March 2: The Galton board Department's ICM Lecture Series
Dmitry Dolgopyat (UMD)
March 16: Finite groups and hyperbolic manifolds
This talk marks the opening of the Spring Dynamics Conference
in honor of Hillel Furstenberg, who is receiving the Wolf Prize this year.
Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University)
March 23: TBA
No colloquium (Spring Break)
March 30: Steady Water Waves: Theory and Computation Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture
Walter Strauss (Brown University), math.brown.edu>wstraussmath.brown.edu
April 6: Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condenstates.
Horng-Tzer Yau (Havard University)
April 13: TBA
Graduation Conference
April 20: TBA
FINITE ELEMENT CIRCUS
April 27: Secondary differential-geometric invariants, generalized cohomology, and QCD (East Coast Geometry Festival)
Dan Freed (University of Texas, Austin)
May 4: Applications of Compressive Sampling to Error Correction Aziz Lecture
Emmanuel Candes (Cal Tech)
May 11: The Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations
Jeff Adams (UMCP)


Previous Schedules

Academic Year 1997-1998 Academic Year 2000-2001
Academic Year 1998-1999 Academic Year 2001-2002
Academic Year 1999-2000 Academic Year 2002-2003
Academic Year 2003-2004 Academic Year 2004-2005
Academic Year 2005-2006