University of Southern California, Department of
Mathematics
Colloquium
Fall 2009
Wed. Sep. 2, David Gabai, Princeton University,
Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (click
here for abstract)
Fri. Sep. 18, 3-4pm (joint with CAMS), Haim Brezis,
Rutgers University, Can you hear the winding number? (click here for abstract)
Wed. Sep. 30, Christian Kassel, Universite de
Strasbourg and CNRS, Polynomial identities (click here for abstract)
Wed. Oct. 7, Daniel Bump, Stanford University, Schur Polynomials and The Yang-Baxter Equation (click here for abstract)
Fri. Oct. 9, 3:30-4:30 (joint with CAMS), Margaret
Wright, Courant Institute, Optimization without derivatives:
consensus and controversies (click here for
abstract)
Wed. Oct. 14, Igor Pak, UCLA, Acute triangulations
of convex polytopes (click here for abstract)
Wed. Oct. 21, Davar Khoshnevisan, University of
Utah, An asymptotic theory for randomly-forced discrete heat
equations (click here for abstract)
Wed. Oct. 28, Zhenqing Chen, University of Washington,
Metropolis algorithm and distorted Brownian motion (click here for abstract)
Mon. Nov. 2 (joint with CAMS, 3:30-4:30 in KAP 414), Bela Bollobas, Cambridge University, Probabilistic Cellular Automata (click here for abstract)
Wed. Nov. 4, Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State
University, Verified Computational Methods in Dynamical Systems
(click here for abstract)
Wed. Nov. 11 (joint with CAMS), Peter Jones, Yale
University, Diffusion Geometry and Local Coordinates on Sets or
Manifolds (click here for abstract)
Fri. Nov. 13 (*Location SGM-101, 2-3pm*), Lun-Yi Tsai, Miami Dade College, Math & Art: The creative connection (click here for abstract)
Wed. Nov. 18: Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University,
Stringy Orbifold K-theory (click here for abstract)
Wed. Dec. 9: Gregg Musiker, MIT,
Elliptic curves and chip-firing games on wheel graphs (click here for abstract)
Spring
2010
Wed. Jan 20:
Fri. Jan. 29 (joint with Prob. and Stat. seminar), Lawren Smithline,
Center for Communications Research-Princeton, A cryptic letter to
Thomas Jefferson
Wed. Feb. 3:
Wed. Feb. 10, Sami Assaf, MIT,
title to be announced
Wed. Feb. 17:
Wed. Feb. 24:
Wed. Mar. 3:
Wed. Mar. 10
Wed. Mar. 24:
Wed. Mar. 31:
Wed. Apr. 7:
Wed. Apr. 14:
Wed. Apr. 21: Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, title to be announced
Wed. Apr. 28:
An asterisk (*) beside the name
of the speaker indicates that the talk is tentatively scheduled.
Colloquiums will typically be held on Wednesday
afternoons at 3:30 in KAP 414 (Kaprielan Hall 414). The talks will be
preceded by the Departmental Tea at 3:00 in KAP 410 (Kaprielan Hall
410).
The 2009-2010 colloquium chairs are Jason Fulman and "to be
announced". Please click for our contact information.
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