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Date Speaker Seminar Title
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Start: 2:30 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Ross Kravitz
UM
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Thesis Defense: Problems in Optimal Stopping and Control

Thursday, January 10, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Greg Muller
Louisiana State University
Commutative Algebra Locally acyclic cluster algebras

Thursday, January 10, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Benjamin Dodson
Berkeley
Differential Equations Mass critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation

Friday, January 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Bogdan Vioreanu
University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Spectra of multiplication operators as a numerical tool

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 335 West Hall *
Silas Alben
University of Michigan
Mathematical Biology Mechanical models of fish and krill swimming

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Florian Sprung
Brown University
Group, Lie and Number Theory Pairs of p-adic analogues of the conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Zhixian Zhu
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry An Invitation to Fujita's Conjectures 1

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Steffen Marcus
Utah
Geometry & Physics Computations and comparisons for double ramification classes on the moduli space of curves

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Tuyen Truong
Syracuse
Several Complex Variables On automorphisms of blowups of projective manifolds

Monday, January 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall

Student Combinatorics Seminar Planning and Cookies!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Peter Miller
Univ of Michigan
What is... ? What is the inverse-scattering transform?

Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Horng-Tzer  Yau
Harvard University
Colloquium Series Ziwet Lectures: Universality of random matrices and log-gases

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall *

Student AIM Seminar Planning Meeting

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
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UM
Student Commutative Algebra Organizational meeting

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall *

Student Arithmetic Organizational meeting

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Holly Krieger
UIC
Algebraic Geometry TBA

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Horng-Tzer Yau
Harvard University
Analysis/Probability Dyson's Brownian and De Georgi-Nash-Moser theory of parabolic regularity. (Ziwet Lecture II)

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Grigori Avramidi
University of Chicago
Topology Symmetries of aspherical manifolds

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Paul Gauthier
Univ. of Montreal
SPECIAL EVENT Zero-free polynomial approximation and universality of the Riemann zeta-function

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Philip Isett
Princeton Univ.
Differential Equations Holder Continuous Euler Flows with Compact Support in Time

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Matthew Satriano
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club The Four Squares Theorem

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Daniel Hathaway
U. Mich.
Logic Domination of Continuous and Borel functions

Thursday, January 17, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall

Student Analysis Organizational Meeting

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 10:30 AM
Location: 3941 BBB/CSE
Seth Pettie
U-M
Theoretical Computer Science The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Jean M.-S. Lubuma
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics On nonstandard finite-difference schemes in biosciences

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Christopher Mooney
Bradley University
Geometry Old School Topology and Invariants of CAT(0) Group Boundaries

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall *
Jean M.-S. Lubuma
Dept. of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mathematical Biology On nonstandard finite-difference schemes in biosciences

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall *
Ryan Reich
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Multiplicity one for automorphic representations of GL_n

Friday, January 18, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Tomoo Matsumura
KAIST
Combinatorics (Factorial) Schur functions and weighted Grassmannians

Monday, January 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Tudor Dimofte
IAS
Geometry & Physics 3-Manifolds and 3d Gauge Theories

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Richard Tapia
Rice University
Colloquium Series The Isoperimetric Problem Revisited: Extracting a Short Proof of Sufficiency from Euler's 1744 Proof of Necessity

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Start: 5:15 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Nina White
Univ Michigan, Math Dept and School of Education
Teaching Mathematics The math content sequence for pre-service elementary teachers: students, goals, and methods

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Luis Nunez-Betancourt
UM
Student Commutative Algebra An overview of tight closure

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Zach Scherr
UM
Student Arithmetic Linear Forms in Logarithms

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Bobbie Wu
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Fractal Image Compression

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: B844 East Hall *
Sarah Koch
Harvard University
Colloquium Series An algebraic fingerprint for postcritically finite rational maps

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Tyler Foster
Yale
Algebraic Geometry Configuration operads via quiver Grassmannians

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Joe Conlon
Umich
Differential Equations On Global Stability for Lifschitz-Slyozov-Wagner like equations

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Hester Graves
IDA
Math Club Drawing and the Projective Plane

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Daniel Hathaway
Univ. of Michigan
Logic Domination of Borel functions

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Mark Rudelson
University of Michigan
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar A simple proof of Paouris' inequality

Thursday, January 24, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Matt Jacobs
University of Michigan
Student Analysis The Prime Number Theorem

Friday, January 25, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Travis Martin
U-M
Theoretical Computer Science Characterizing Strategic Cascades on Networks

Friday, January 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Charlie Doering
University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Features of fast living: on the weak selection for longevity in degenerate birth-death processes

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 335 West Hall *
Adam Stinchcombe
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Mathematical Biology General gene-state switching models for stochastic gene expression

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Baiying Liu
University of Minnesota
Group, Lie and Number Theory Fourier Coefficients of Automorphic Forms and Arthur Classification

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
David Renardy
UM
Student Geometry/Topology Computing the Khovanov Homology

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Linquan Ma
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Fujita's conjecture in characteristic p

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Huazhong Ke
Tsinghua Univ/Michigan
Geometry & Physics Quantum McKay correspondence via gauged linear sigma model

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Yi Su
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Electrical Networks, Electrical Lie Group and Lie Algebra

Monday, January 28, 2013
Start: 5:15 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Grace Kennedy
UCSB
Teaching Mathematics Teaching Math for Elementary School Teachers Through Observation and Inquiry

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Jean-francois Lafont
Ohio State University
What is... ? What is... a homology manifold?

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Jean-francois Lafont
Ohio State University
Colloquium Series Isomorphism conjectures in K-theory

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Sarah Mayes
University of Michigan
Student Commutative Algebra Applications of Commutative Algebra: Integer Programming

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Robert Walker
UM
Student Arithmetic The Saga of Fermat's Last Theorem

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Brittan Farmer
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Interatomic forces

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Brian Lehmann
Rice
Algebraic Geometry Big cycles and volume functions

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Daniel Erman
University of Michigan
Commutative Algebra Laurent Polynomials and Eulerian Numbers

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Priyam Patel
Rutgers
Topology Quantifying Residual Finiteness and LERF-ness in Terms of Geometric Data

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Moritz Reintjes
Univ. Regensburg
Differential Equations Points of General Relativistic Shock Wave Interaction are "Regularity Singularities" where Spacetime is Not Locally Flat

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
David Speyer
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Unsolvability of the quintic equation

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Purvi Gupta
University of Michigan
Student Analysis Deconstructing the Infinity Laplacian

Friday, February 01, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Atri Rudra
Buffalo
Theoretical Computer Science One algorithm to rule them all: One join query at a time

Friday, February 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Shravan Veerapaneni
University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics A fast algorithm for spherical grid rotations and its application to singular quadrature

Friday, February 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Amie Wilkinson
University of Chicago
Geometry Absolute continuity, exponents, and rigidity

Friday, February 01, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charles Stibitz
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Spectra and Cohomology Theories

Friday, February 01, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Andreas Blass
University of Michigan
Combinatorics Shelah's bipartite matching algorithm

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Daniel Fiorilli
UM
Group, Lie and Number Theory Unbounded ranks of elliptic curves, highly biased prime number races and the explicit formula

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Tengren Zhang
UM
Student Geometry/Topology A Gentle Introduction to Higher Teichmuller Theory

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Xin Zhou
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Asymptotic Schur decomposition of Veronese Syzygies

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Zhengyu Zong
Columbia
Geometry & Physics The two-leg orbifold Gromov-Witten vertex

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Elizabeth Wulcan
U Gothenburg/Chalmers
Several Complex Variables Green functions and Segre numbers

Monday, February 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Alex Leaf
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar The Seymour-Robertson Theorem and Graph Minor Theory

Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Joel Smoller
Univ of Michigan
Colloquium Series Gravitation

Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Zhibek Kadyrsizova
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Tight closure of ideals

Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Jake Levinson
UM
Student Arithmetic Local fields and Galois representations

Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall

Student AIM Seminar No Talk. Reminder: SIAM Student Conference This Saturday, Feb 9, 1360 EH, 10:00am

Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Daniel Erman
UM
Algebraic Geometry Semiample Bertini theorems over finite fields

Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Alexander Powell
Vanderbilt University
Analysis/Probability Consistent reconstruction and some geometry of random polytopes

Thursday, February 07, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Luis Nunez-Betancourt
University of Michigan
Commutative Algebra Associated primes of local cohomology of flat extensions with regular fibers

Thursday, February 07, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Jinho Baik
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Longest Monotone Subsequences

Thursday, February 07, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Alexander Powell
Vanderbilt University
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar Consist reconstruction and some geometry of random polytopes

Thursday, February 07, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Derek Wood
University of Michigan
Student Analysis Strichartz Estimates

Friday, February 08, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Qi Cheng
University of Oklahoma
Theoretical Computer Science On the Decodability of Primitive Reed-Solomon Codes

Friday, February 08, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Pej Rohani
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Unmasking the interaction between influenza and bacterial pneumonia

Friday, February 08, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charles Stibitz
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Spectra and Cohomology Theories, part 2

Friday, February 08, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Michael Shapiro
Michigan State University
Combinatorics Growth rate classification for cluster algebras

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 335 West Hall *
Allen Liu
Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Mathematical Biology Systems analysis of clathrin-coated pit dynamics

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
AVAILABLE
Group, Lie and Number Theory TBA

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Andrew Zimmer
UM
Student Geometry/Topology Random walks on discrete subgroups of Lie groups

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Nic Ford
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Positroid varieties and Schubert calculus

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Todor Milanov
IPMU
Geometry & Physics The local Eynard-Orantin recursion in Gromov--Witten theory

Monday, February 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charlotte Chan
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Chevalley's Theorems: Representations of Lie Groups and Invariants of Finite Groups

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Ilya Kapovich
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colloquium Series (cancelled due to medical reason).

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Ari Shnidman
UM
Student Arithmetic Galois representations and their deformations

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Andre Souza
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Boussinesq Convection

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Sam Payne
Yale
Algebraic Geometry Tropicalization of the moduli space of curves

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Mathias Lederer
Universität Bielefeld
Commutative Algebra Geometric Littlewood-Richardson rules

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Alexander Duncan
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Undecidable Problems

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Elena Yudovina
University of Michigan
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar The scaling of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal inequality with dimension

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall

Student Analysis No Talk

Friday, February 15, 2013
Start: 10:30 AM
Location: 3941 BBB/CSE
Steve Lu
Theoretical Computer Science Distributed Oblivious RAM for Secure Two-Party Computation

Friday, February 15, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Deniz Akcabay
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Cantilever beams in axial flows: flutter Instabilities, post-critical dynamics, scaling laws, and energy harvesting applications

Friday, February 15, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charles Stibitz
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Spectra and Cohomology Theories, part 3

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Bianca Viray
Brown University
Group, Lie and Number Theory Reductions of CM j-invariants modulo p

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Andrew Schaug
UM
Student Geometry/Topology An outline of basic Hodge theory

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Felipe Perez
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry The Briancon-Skoda Theorem

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Yongbin Ruan
UM
Geometry & Physics Gromov-Witten theory of quotient of quintic 3-fold

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Alexander Izzo
Bowling Green State / UM
Several Complex Variables Generators for Algebras Dense in L^p spaces

Monday, February 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Robert Walker
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar An Evening with Lagrange Inversion and Interpolation

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Joseph Silverman
Brown University
What is... ? A whirlwind survey of the arithmetic of elliptic curves

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Joe Silverman
Brown University
Colloquium Series The dynamical complexity of rational maps and an arithmetic analogue

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Patricia Klein
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Algebraic Statistics

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Gene Kopp
UM
Student Arithmetic Zagier's Magic Formulas for Real Quadratic Fields

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Olivia Walch
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Critical Exponents

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Gabi Farkas
Berlin
Algebraic Geometry Syzygies of torsion bundles and the geometry of the level l modular variety over M_g

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Ralf Spatzier
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology On automorphisms of convex cones I (after Benoist)

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Morgan Brown
University of Michigan
Commutative Algebra Finite generation in characteristic $0$ and characteristic $p$

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Kevin Zumbrun
Indiana U.
Differential Equations CONVEX ENTROPY, HOPF BIFURCATION, AND VISCOUS AND INVISCID SHOCK STABILITY

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Mark Conger
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Mathematics of Card Shuffling

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Fedor Nazarov
Kent State University
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar Estimates for the number of real zeroes of random polynomials

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Rafe Kinsey
University of Michigan
Student Analysis How to Prove Existence of Nonlinear PDE

Friday, February 22, 2013
canceled Start: 10:30 AM
Location: *
None
Theoretical Computer Science TBA

Friday, February 22, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Jun Zhang
Psychology, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Topological characterization of interval and semi-orders

Friday, February 22, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Pierre Patie
Cornell University
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Fluctuation theory for completely asymmetric Markov processes

Friday, February 22, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Li Li
Oakland University
Combinatorics Positivity and tameness in rank 2 cluster algebras

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Jeffrey Lagarias
UM
Group, Lie and Number Theory Addition versus Multiplication

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Russell Ricks
UM
Student Geometry/Topology Patterson-Sullivan Theory

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
David Stapleton
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Introduction to Toric Variety Invariants from Algebraic Topology

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Huai-Liang Chang
HKUST
Geometry & Physics On algebraic geometric construction of enumerative invariants

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Michael Chmutov
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Combinatorial Hopf Algebras

Monday, February 25, 2013
Start: 5:15 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Michael Von Korff
Reasoning Mind
Teaching Mathematics Mathematical Knowledge for Online Instruction

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Guillaume Bal
Columbia University
Colloquium Series Equations with random coefficients and theories of random fluctuations.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Luis Nunez-Betancourt
UM
Student Commutative Algebra The Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Brandon Carter
UM
Student Arithmetic The Herbrand-Ribet Theorem

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Yee Chee See
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Turbulent Combustion Modeling

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Jun Li
Stanford
Algebraic Geometry Categorification of DT invariants and GV numbers

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall *
Jun Li
Stanford
Geometry & Physics Categorification of DT invariants and GV numbers (Joint with Algebraic geometry seminar)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Ralf Spatzier
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology Automorphisms of Convex Projective Cones

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Artem Zvavitch
Kent State University
Analysis/Probability Some remarks on Mahler's conjecture for convex bodies

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Jesse Burke
UCLA
Commutative Algebra Graded matrix factorizations and complete intersections

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Darinka Dentcheva
Stevens Institute of Technology
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Risk-averse optimization via stochastic order constraints

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Tai-Ping Liu
Academia Sinica, Taipei
Differential Equations Solving Boltzmann Equation - The Green's function approach

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Igor Kriz
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club The Beauty of Statistical Tests

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Scott Schneider
University of Michigan
Logic Countable locally nilpotent group actions and hyperfinite equivalence relations

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Joe Roberts
University of Michigan
Student Analysis Ill Posed Problems

Friday, March 01, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Ely Porat
BIU/UM
Theoretical Computer Science Sketching For Big Data Recommender Systems Using Fast Pseudo-Random Fingerprints

Friday, March 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
John Boyd
Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Hermite function interpolation on a finite interval and the interrelationships of polynomial and radial basis functions

Friday, March 01, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charle Stibitz
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Spectra and Cohomology Theories, part 4

Friday, March 01, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Alexander Barvinok
University of Michigan
Combinatorics Thrifty approximations of convex bodies by polytopes

Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Winter Break
Colloquium Series TBA

Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall

Student AIM Seminar Spring Break. No Talk

Thursday, March 07, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall

Student Analysis No Talk (Spring Break)

Monday, March 11, 2013
canceled Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Nick Ramsey
DePaul University
Group, Lie and Number Theory CANCELED

Monday, March 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Tengren Zhang
UM
Student Geometry/Topology What are Affine Spheres?

Monday, March 11, 2013
canceled Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall

Student Algebraic Geometry Canceled

Monday, March 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Si Li
BU
Geometry & Physics Landau-Ginzburg B-model at higher genus

Monday, March 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Kevin Carde
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Distributive Lattices

Monday, March 11, 2013
Start: 5:15 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Michael Weiss
Michigan State Univ
Teaching Mathematics More than Problem-Solving: Mathematical Practices Beyond the Common Core

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Andreas Blass
University of Michigan
What is... ? What Is ... Ingleton's Inequality?

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Steve Shreve
Carnegie Mellon University
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Diffusion scaling of a limit-order book model

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Mike Hopkins
Harvard University
Colloquium Series Ziwet Lectures: Lecture I: The Kervaire invariant problem

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Sarah Mayes
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Applications of commutative algebra to game theory

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1372 East Hall *
Michael Hopkins
Harvard University
Topology Ziwet Lecture II: Equivariant Homotopy Theory and the Solution to the Kervaire Invariant Problem

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Xiaolin Wang
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar A numerical study of vorticity-enhanced heat transfer

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Anton Khoroshkin
Stonybrook
Algebraic Geometry Syzygies via Lie algebra cohomology

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Ralf Spatzier
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology Benoist' dichotomy on Zariski density

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Will Traves
US Naval Academy
Commutative Algebra From Pascal's Theorem to Constructible Curves

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall *
Michael Hopkins
Harvard University
Topology Ziwet Lecture III: Equivariant multiplicative closure

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Jason Metcalfe
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Differential Equations Local well-posedness for quasilinear Schrodinger equations with rough data

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Selim Esedoglu
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Math in Computer Vision

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Daniel Hathaway
Univ. of Michigan
Logic Fusion in Sacks Forcing

Friday, March 15, 2013

SPECIAL EVENT Graduate Recruitment Weekend

Friday, March 15, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Andrew Wynn
Imperial College
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Optimal Mode Decomposition: a new technique to analyse fluid flow data

Friday, March 15, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Dave Futer
Temple
Geometry Surface quotients of hyperbolic buildings

Friday, March 15, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Bruce Sagan
Michigan State University
Combinatorics Factoring the characteristic polynomial of a poset

Saturday, March 16, 2013

SPECIAL EVENT Graduate Recruitment Weekend

Monday, March 18, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 335 West Hall *
Gennady Cymbalyuk
Neuroscience Institutue, Georgia State University
Mathematical Biology Cellular mechanisms controlling temporal characteristics of neuronal activity

Monday, March 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Ari Shnidman
UM
Group, Lie and Number Theory p-adic heights of algebraic cycles

Monday, March 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Brooke Ullery
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Introduction to Boij-Soderberg Theory

Monday, March 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Simon Rose
Queens University
Geometry & Physics Counting Hyperelliptic curves in Abelian surfaces with Quasi-modular forms

Monday, March 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Chris Fraser
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Statistical Mechanics and Enumerative Combinatorics

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
John Schotland
University of Michigan
What is... ? What is ... the inverse problem?

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
David Fisher
Indiana University
Colloquium Series Quasi-isometric rigidity of polycyclic groups

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Linquan Ma
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Colon-capturing

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Julian Rosen
UM
Student Arithmetic TBA

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Hamed Razavi
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Bipedal Robots

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Morgan Brown
UM
Algebraic Geometry The McKay correspondence

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Andrew Zimmer
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology Dynamics of the geodesic flow on divisible strictly convex sets

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Asaf Hadari
Yale
Topology Homological Shadows of Attracting laminations

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 1:00 PM
Location: 1060 East Hall
Stephen DeBacker
UM
SPECIAL EVENT Working Seminar on Representation Theory

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Jenna Rajchgot
University of Michigan
Commutative Algebra Doubly Universal Grobner bases

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Igor Cialenco
Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Dynamic Conic Finance

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Michael Kiessling
Rutgers University
Differential Equations Nonlinear electromagnetism and the problem of point charge motion

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Daniel Erman
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Hilbert's Third Problem

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Andreas Blass
Univ. of Mich.
Logic Sacks property and ultrafilter preservation

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Start: 5:00 PM
Location: Mathematics Atrium

SPECIAL EVENT Social Hour

Friday, March 22, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Arnab Bhattacharyya
DIMACS
Theoretical Computer Science Every locally characterized affine-invariant property is testable

Friday, March 22, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Aaron King
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Using mathematics to explain and forecast infectious disease dynamics

Friday, March 22, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Siu-Cheong Lau
Harvard
Geometry An introduction to SYZ mirror symmetry

Friday, March 22, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Michael Chmutov
University of Michigan
Combinatorics Type A molecules are of Kazhdan-Lusztig type

Monday, March 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Igor Dolgachev
UM
Group, Lie and Number Theory Cayley property of algebraic groups

Monday, March 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
David Renardy
UM
Student Geometry/Topology How to compute hyperbolic volume

Monday, March 25, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
David Stapleton
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Toric Blow-ups

Monday, March 25, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Siu-Cheong Lau
Harvard
Geometry & Physics Open mirror theorem and crepant resolutions

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Mattias Jonsson
Univ of Michigan
What is... ? What is a Berkovich space

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Domingo Toledo
University of Utah
Colloquium Series Geometry of Period Domains

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Jenna Rajchgot
UM
Student Commutative Algebra F-splitting, Grobner bases, and applications

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Suchandan Pal
UM
Student Arithmetic TBA

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Yen Ting Lin
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar On Interaction between Stochasticity and Nonlinearity: In the Context of Stochastic Competitive Population Dynamics

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
John Lesieutre
MIT
Algebraic Geometry A divisor with non-closed diminished base locus

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Andrew Zimmer
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology More on convex divisible sets

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
Berkeley
Analysis/Probability Large deviations for diffusions interacting through their ranks

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 2:00 PM
Location: Randall Lab 4404 *
Kentaro Hori
IPMU
Geometry & Physics D-brane (FRG Special Lectures)

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Florian Enescu
Georgia State University
Commutative Algebra On strong test ideals

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
UC Berkeley
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Asymmetrically colliding Brownian particles in stochastic portfolio theory and beyond

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Thomas Koberda
Yale
Topology Curve complexes for right-angled Artin groups.

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Cindy Keeler
UMICH Dept. Physics
Differential Equations From Navier-Stokes to Einstein

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Scott Schneider
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club The Banach-Tarski Paradox

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Pierre Youssef
Paris-Est Marne-la Vallee University
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar On some column selection problems and applications

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Jeff Calder
University of Michigan
Student Analysis A Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the continuum limit of non-dominated sorting

Friday, March 29, 2013
Start: 1:00 PM
Location: B 844, East Hall
Vadim Kaimanovich
U Ottawa
RTG Workshops/Lectures Random walks and Poisson boundaries; entropy and the Liouville property

Friday, March 29, 2013
Start: 2:15 PM
Location: B 844
Anders Karlsson
U Geneva
RTG Workshops/Lectures An ergodic theorem for noncommuting products

Friday, March 29, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Brian Arbic
Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Impact of stratification and climatic perturbations to stratification on barotropic tides

Friday, March 29, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: B 844
Alex Furman
UIC
RTG Workshops/Lectures Products of random matrices: Lyapunov exponents and stationary measures

Friday, March 29, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Kevin Carde
University of Michigan
Combinatorics Cluster structures on mixed invariant rings, and related combinatorics

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 9:00 AM
Location: B 844
Vadim Kaimanovich
U Ottawa
RTG Workshops/Lectures Boundary convergence and identification; applications to the mapping class group

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 10:15 AM
Location: B 844
Giulio Tiozzo
Harvard U
RTG Workshops/Lectures Geodesic ray tracking for random walks on groups

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 11:15 AM
Location: B 844
Alex Furman
UIC
RTG Workshops/Lectures Lyapunov exponents: positivity of the top exponent, simplicity of the spectrum, regularity

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 1:30 PM
Location: B 844
Moon Duchin
Tufts U
RTG Workshops/Lectures Random Teichmüller geodesics

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 2:45 PM
Location: B 844
Andrew Zimmer
U Michigan
RTG Workshops/Lectures The Poisson and Martin boundary of a harmonic manifold

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: B 844
Anders Karlsson
U Geneva
RTG Workshops/Lectures An ergodic theorem for noncommuting products II

Monday, April 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Alexei Oblomkov
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Group, Lie and Number Theory The elliptic Affine Springer Fibers in type A and the rational Cherednik Algebras

Monday, April 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Patrick Boland
UM
Student Geometry/Topology SL(2,Z)\SL(2,R)

Monday, April 01, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Robert Auffarth
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Student Algebraic Geometry Elliptic curves in abelian varieties

Monday, April 01, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: EH 3096 *
Jeff Danciger
UT Austin
Geometry Geometric transitions in Lorentzian geometry I

Monday, April 01, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Rachel Karpman
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Puzzles and (equivariant) cohomology of Grassmannians

Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Bob Griess
Univ of Michigan
What is... ? What is moonshine?

Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Max Glick
Univ of Michigan
Colloquium Series Sumner Myers colloquium: The pentagram map and Y-patterns

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Luis Nunez-Betancourt
UM
Student Commutative Algebra F-purity

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Adam Kaye
UM
Student Arithmetic Damerell's Theorem on L-functions of Elliptic curves with CM

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Alfredo Wetzel
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Whitham Modulation Theory

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Jeff Danciger
UT Austin
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology Geometric transitions in Lorentzian geometry

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Tamara Grava
SISSA (Italy)
Analysis/Probability Hamiltonian perturbation of elliptic and hyperbolic systems: universality of critical behaviour

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Mel Hochster
University of Michigan
Commutative Algebra Ideals and algebras generated by forms of degree at most 4 in polynomial rings

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Jin Ma
USC
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Pathwise Stochastic Taylor Expansion and Forward Path-Dependent PDEs

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Chong-Qing Cheng
Nanjing Univ.
Differential Equations Dynamical Instability of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Daniel Fiorilli
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Prime Number Races

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Andreas Blass
Univ. of Michigan
Logic Sacks forcing and ultrafilter preservation

Thursday, April 04, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Roman Vershynin
UM
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar Density of eigenvalues of random matrices (after Erdos, Schlein and Yau)

Friday, April 05, 2013
Start: 10:30 AM
Location: 3941 BBB/CSE
Aaron Snook
U-M
Theoretical Computer Science An Optimal Lower Bound on the Number of Variables for Graph Identification

Friday, April 05, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Denis Zorin
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics O(N) direct solver for integral equations on 2D domains

Friday, April 05, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Gabor Szekelyhidi
Notre Dame
Geometry Filtrations and test-configurations

Friday, April 05, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Charles Stibitz
UM
Kottwitz Seminar Spectra and Cohomology Theories, part 5

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Pierre Debes
Universite Lille 1, France
Group, Lie and Number Theory The Inverse Galois Problem with Local Conditions

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Robert Silversmith
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Excess Intersections

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Wenxuan Lu
Upenn
Geometry & Physics Stability Conditions and Mirror Symmetry of K3 Surfaces in Attractor Backgrounds

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Elena Yudovina
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar A character-building way of computing chromatic polynomials

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Antti Knowles
Courant Institute
Differential Equations Quantum diffusion and delocalization for random band matrices. COMBINED WITH ANALYSIS/PROBABILITY SEMINAR.

Monday, April 08, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Antti Knowles
Courant Institute
Analysis/Probability Quantum diffusion and delocalization for random band matrices [Combined with Differential Equations Seminar]

Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Igor Dolgachev
University of Michigan
Colloquium Series Algebra, geometry and topology of Cremona groups

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Ashley Wheeler
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Introduction to Semigroup Rings

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Hunter Brooks
UM
Student Arithmetic TBA

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Richard B. Choroszucha
University of Michigan
Student AIM Seminar Linear Model Order Reduction In Model Predictive Control

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Paolo Aluffi
FSU
Algebraic Geometry Segre classes of monomial subschemes

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Andrew Zimmer
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology More on convex divisible sets

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Yuliy Baryshnikov
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Analysis/Probability Hadwiger's theorem for functions

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Diane Maclagan
University of Warwick
Commutative Algebra Tropical Commutative Algebra

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Thaleia Zariphopoulou
Oxford University and UT Austin.
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Postponed to Fall

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Johannes Nicaise
Leuven
Algebraic Geometry The Kontsevich-Soibelman skeleton of a degeneration of Calabi-Yau varieties

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Andreas Grotz
Harvard
Differential Equations On the initial value problem for causal variational principles

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Hala Shehadeh
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club Convexity

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Start: 5:10 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Jeremy Hoskins
University of Michigan
Student Analysis TBA

Friday, April 12, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Aram Harrow
MIT
Theoretical Computer Science High-degree graphs cannot be used for a quantum PCP

Friday, April 12, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Yuan Young
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Nonlinear dynamics of a lipid membrane under a DC field

Friday, April 12, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Livio Flaminio
U Lille
Geometry Cohomology and equidistribution for Abelian actions on nilmanifolds

Monday, April 15, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Jiarui Fei
UC Riverside
Group, Lie and Number Theory Categorical Homotopy from Quivers

Monday, April 15, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Zhixian Zhu
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Zariski decomposition

Monday, April 15, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
David Benson-Putnins
UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar Quantum Groups - why are they quantum, and what makes them groups?

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Algebraic Geometry The Göttsche conjecture

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1096 East Hall *
Umut Cetin
London School of Economics
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Explicit construction of a dynamic Bessel bridge of dimension 3

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Start: 3:10 PM
Location: 1360 EH *
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Colloquium Series Algebraic geometry Spring lectures: The Gottsche conjecture

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Start: 4:30 PM
Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons (4th floor) *
Stephen Smale
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Colloquium Series Mathematics of Protein Folding

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Ashley Wheeler
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Introduction to Semigroup Rings II

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Corey Everlove
UM
Student Arithmetic Generalized prime numbers and integers

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Algebraic Geometry Stable maps, ideal sheaves and the MNOP conjecture

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall *
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Geometry & Physics See(Spring Lectures in Algebraic Geometry)

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Tengren Zhang
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology Convex real projective structures on surfaces

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Pavel Bleher
IUPUI
Analysis/Probability Normal matrix model with a cubic potential. The Riemann-Hilbert approach

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 2:50 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall *
Umut Cetin
London School of Economics
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Risk aversion of market makers and asymmetric information

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall *
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Algebraic Geometry Stable pairs

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3866 *
Guillaume Dreyer
Notre Dame
Topology Parametrizing Hitchin components

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Michael Dabkowski
UMICH Dept. Mathematics
Differential Equations Eventual Regularity for Solutions of Supercritical Active Scalar Equations

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Room
Charlie Doering
Univ. of Michigan
Math Club The Paradox of Enrichment

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Ashwini Aroskar
Univ. of Michigan
Logic Limits, Regularity and Removal for Relational Structures - A Non-standard Approach

Thursday, April 18, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Elisabeth Meckes
Case Western Reserve University
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar TBA

Friday, April 19, 2013
Start: 4:00 AM
Location: 4088 EH *
Richard Thomas
Imperial College
Algebraic Geometry BPS invariants

Friday, April 19, 2013
Start: 10:00 AM
Location: 411 West Hall *
Mary Wootters
U-M
Theoretical Computer Science What gaussian processes can do for you: applications of probability and geometry in theoretical computer science

Friday, April 19, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1084 East Hall
Martin Strauss
University of Michigan
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Some open problems in sustainable energy

Friday, April 19, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Karsten Grove
U Notre Dame
Geometry Tits Geometry and Positive Curvature

Monday, April 22, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 335 West Hall *
Joern Davidsen
Complexity Science Group, University of Calgary
Mathematical Biology Inferring Causal Connections and Functional Networks

Monday, April 22, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 4088 East Hall
Xiaolei Zhao
UM
Student Algebraic Geometry Dual cone of pseudo-effective divisor cone

Monday, April 22, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall
Kenneth Koenig
Ohio State
Several Complex Variables Maximal hypoellipticity for the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem

Monday, April 22, 2013
canceled Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3088 East Hall

UM
Student Combinatorics Seminar

Monday, April 22, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3866 EH (Special date!) *
Dong Wang
National University of Singapore
Analysis/Probability Non-intersecting Brownian motions on the circle and discrete Gaussian orthogonal polynomials

Monday, April 22, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall *
Hunter Brooks
UM
Group, Lie and Number Theory Generalized Heegner cycles, Shimura curves, and special values of p-adic L-functions

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Start: 2:10 PM
Location: 3866 East Hall
Bill Fulton
Univ of Michigan
What is... ? What is ... a bad math talk?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Sebastian Jaimungal
University of Toronto
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Robust Market Making

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 1360 East Hall
Andreas Blass
Univ of Michigan
Colloquium Series The Continuum Hypothesis and Its Enemies

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Start: 3:00 PM
Location: 2866 East Hall *
Angelica Benito
UM
Student Commutative Algebra Test ideals in quotients of F-finite regular local rings

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Start: 4:00 PM
Location: 3096 East Hall *
Tengren Zhang
U Michigan
RTG Working Seminar on Geometry, Dynamics and Topology More on convex projective structures on surfaces

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Hoi Nguyen
Yale University
Analysis/Probability Random matrix: Law of the determinant

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Start: 1:30 AM
Location: 1096 East Hall *
Yu-Jui Huang
UM
Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Thesis Defense: Topics in Stochastic Control with Applications to Finance

Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Start: 12:00 PM
Location: 4941 BBB/CSE *
Valerie King
University of Victoria
Theoretical Computer Science Dynamic Graph Connectivity in Polylogarithmic Worst Case Time

Friday, May 03, 2013
Start: 10:30 AM
Location: 3941 BBB/CSE
Jared Saia
University of New Mexico
Theoretical Computer Science Byzantine Agreement in Polynomial Expected Time

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Algebraic Geometry Conference in Algebraic Geometry

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Algebraic Geometry Conference in Algebraic Geometry

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Algebraic Geometry Conference in Algebraic Geometry

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Algebraic Geometry Conference in Algebraic Geometry

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Start: 4:10 PM
Location: 4096 East Hall
Raja Giryes
Technion, Israel
Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar The analysis cosparse model for signals and images


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