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Weekly Colloquium/Seminar Notices

MONDAY, 11/07
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Karin Melnick (University of Chicago):
Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry
4:00 PM
MTH 1313
SPECIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR
Professor Lise Getoor, Department of Computer Science, UMCP:
Topic related to Machine Learning
4:00 PM SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
(All talks will be held in MTH 1308)
(There will be pizza in the lounge at 3:30, before the Spotlight talks.)
Christian Zorn:
Methods in the Representation Theory of p-Adic Groups
4:30 PM Jacopo De Simoi:
Phase Transitions and Complex Dynamics
5:00 PM Amy Finkbiner:
A Self-Adapting Peer-to-Peer System
5:30 PM Jeff Frazier:
Subsum Sets of Positive Series
TUESDAY, 11/08
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
STUDENT GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Karin Melnick - University of Chicago:
Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds.
3:30 PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Prof. Jerry Prince (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Johns Hopkins University,:
Cortical Surface Alignment Using Optical Flow in an Eulerian Framework
4:30 PM SPOTLIGHT ON GRADUATE RESEARCH
(All talks will be held in MTH 1308)
Elisha Peterson:
A Not So Characteristic Equation
5:00 PM
Emily King:
Some Constructions of Finite Tight Frames
5:30 PM
Dave McClendon:
Discontinuous identification of points by semiflows
WEDNESDAY, 11/09
2:00 PM
CSIC 4122
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Preconditioners for the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations in Mixed Form
3:00 PM
MTH 1311
LIE GROUP AND REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Joseph Hundley (Penn State):
Some new Rankin-Selberg Integrals on Orthogonal Groups
4:00 PM
MTH 1311
ALGEBRA/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Kobi Snitz (UMCP/University of Be'er Sheva):
TBA
4:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS MINICOURSE SERIES
Bing Zhang:
"My Life as a Future Quant -- Reflections on Math and Finance"
THURSDAY, 11/10
12:15 PM
1207 Energy Res. Bldg.
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR -- Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Kaveri Joshi, University of Maryland:
TBA
Santiago Tirana, University of Maryland:
Laboratory experiments on liquid metal spherical- Couette flows
2:00 PM
MTH 1311
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern):
C1 genericity of trivial centralizers
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
PDE-APPLIED MATH SEMINAR/SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
By Invitation of the Hiring Committee
(Please Note Time Change)
Dionisios Margetis (MIT):
Evolution of crystal surfaces: From microscopic models to continuum laws
4:00 PM
MTH 3206
STATISTICS SEMINAR/SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
By Invitation of the Hiring Committee
(Please Note Time and Room Change)
Professor Victor de Oliveira, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas:
Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Data: Some Theoretical Issues and Applications in the Earth Sciences
FRIDAY, 11/11
3:00 PM
MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Pierre Degond (Université Paul Sabatier):
Mathematical and computer models for plasmas