Spring 2010 Mathematics Colloquia
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Colloquia
Thursday, January 21, 2010 — SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Josephine Yu, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
Title: Metric Graphs and Tropical Geometry
Abstract
Host: A. Yong
Friday, January 22, 2010 — SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kay Kirkpatrick, NYU, Courant Institute
Title: Bose-Einstein condensation: from many quantum particles to a quantum "super-particle."
Abstract
Host: R. Bauer
Monday, January 25, 2010 — SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
Title: Modular representations of p-adic groups
Abstract
Hosts: S. Ahlgren, N. Dunfield
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 — SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sam Payne, Stanford University and Clay Mathematics Institute
Title: Nonarchimedean algebraic geometry
Abstract
Host: T. Nevins
Thursday, February 25, 2010
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Zhen-Qing Chen, University of Washington
Title: Global Heat Kernel Estimates for Jump-Diffusions
Abstract
Host: Renming Song
Thursday, March 4, 2010
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: William T. Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Chains and Antichains in Finite Partially Ordered Sets
Abstract
Host: Douglas West
Thursday, April 1, 2010
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Xuding Zhu, National Sun Yat-sen University
Title: TBA
Hosts: Douglas West and Alexandr Kostochka
M-E Hamstrom Memorial Lecture
Thursday, April 15, 2010
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jeff Brock, Brown University
Title: TBA
Host: Chris Leininger
Thursday, April 29, 2010
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Irina Mitrea, Worcester Polytech
Title: TBA
Host: Joseph Rosenblatt
Items for inclusion in the calendar can be submitted via the web on the calendar webpage or by sending an e-mail seminar@math.uiuc.edu.