Spring 2012 Mathematics Colloquia
Colloquia
January 12, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
345 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Erhardt (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Title: Approximate Bayesian Computing for Spatial Extremes
Abstract
Host: R. Gorvett
January 12, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jianfeng Lu (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
Title: Efficient algorithm for electronic structure calculations
Abstract
Host: J. Bronski
January 17, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
345 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yiqing Chen (University of Liverpool)
Title: Interplay of Dependent Insurance and Financial Risks
Abstract
Host: R. Gorvett
January 17, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: David Treumann (Northwestern University)
Title: Mirror symmetry and constructible sheaves
Abstract
Host: T. Nevins
January 18, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Lindsay Betsy Stovall (UCLA)
Title: Counteracting flatness with affine arclength measure
Abstract
Host: B. Erdogan
January 19, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
345 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Runhuan Feng (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Title: Modeling Investment Guarantees:
From Asian option To Titanic option
Abstract
Host: R. Gorvett
January 19, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: John Francis (Northwestern University)
Title: Factorization homology of topological manifolds
Abstract
Host: C. Rezk
January 20, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Anthony Várilly-Alvarado (Rice University)
Title: Explicit Arithmetic on Algebraic Surfaces
Abstract
Host: I. Duursma
January 23, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Natalia Saulina (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada)
Title: Topological Boundary Conditions and Domain Walls in Abelian Chern-Simons Theory
Abstract
Host: S. Katz
January 24, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jon Chaika (University of Chicago)
Title: Interval exchange transformations
Abstract
Host: J. Athreya
January 25, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Philipp Hieronymi, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Tame geometry
Abstract
Host: L. van den Dries
February 14, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: P. Di Francesco (Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA)
Title: Discrete Integrable Systems and Cluster Algebras
Abstract
Hosts: S. Katz and A. Yong
February 20, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Benjamin Brubaker (MIT)
Title: Whittaker coefficients of Eisenstein series
Abstract
February 23, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)
Title: Absolute continuity, exponents, and rigidity
Abstract
Host: Jayadev Athreya
February 28, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Rui Loja Fernandes (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
Title: Stability of Leaves
Abstract
Host: E. Lerman
March 1, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Kral (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Title: Testing first order logic properties in sparse combinatorial structures
Abstract
Host: Alexandr Kostochka
March 6-8, 2012 -- Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Ghrist (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Sheaves and the Global Topology of Data
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich
March 12, 2012 -- SPECIAL LECTURE
143 Altgeld Hall, 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Amit Singer (Princeton)
Title: Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian
Abstract
March 29, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: James Haglund (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Macdonald Polynomials and the Hilbert Series of the Quotient Ring of Diagonal Coinvariants
Abstract
Host: Alex Yong
April 5, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sijue Wu (University of Michigan)
Title: Wellposedness of the two and three dimensional full water wave problem
Abstract
Host: Vera Hur
April 19, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Ford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Prime chains and applications
Abstract
April 26, 2012
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Catharina Stroppel (University of Bonn)
Title: Categorification with applications in low-dimensional topology
Abstract
Host: Tom Nevins
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.