University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics
Colloquium

Spring 2008


Wed. 1/16: Jerrold Marsden, Caltech, Lagrangian Coherent Structures: Hurricanes, Oceans, Jellyfish (click here for abstract)
Wed. 1/23: Danny Calegari, Caltech, Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality (click here for abstract)
Wed. 1/30: Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington, Essential uses of probability in analysis (click here for abstract)
Wed. 2/6: David Morrison, UC Santa Barbara, Understanding singular algebraic varieties via string theory (click here for abstract)
Wed. 2/13: Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley, Floer homology of 3-manifolds via contact geometry (click here for abstract)
Wed. 2/20: Alexander Soshnikov, UC Davis, Spectral properties of large random matrices with independent entries (click here for abstract)
Wed. 2/27: Wee Teck Gan, UC San Diego, The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4) (click here for abstract)
Wed. 3/5: * talk cancelled *
Wed. 3/12: Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, Water Wave Theory with Applications to the Generation of Rogue Waves (click here for abstract)
Wed. 3/26: Bao Chau Ngo, Institute for Advanced Study, Orbital integrals and algebraic geometry (click here for abstract)
Wed. 4/9: Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State, Tire tracks geometry, hatchet planimeter, Menzin's conjecture and oscillation of unicycle tracks (click here for abstract)
Wed. 4/16: Paul Balmer, UCLA, An excursion into triangular geometry (click here for abstract)
Mon. 4/21: (Special colloquium) Karen Parshall, University of Virginia, Creating New Mathematical Entities in Victorian Britain: The Case of Algebra (click here for abstract)
Wed. 4/23: Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State University, A scaling limit for a tagged particle in a zero-range interacting particle system (click here for abstract)
Wed. 4/30: Vincent Colin, Universite de Nantes, Open book decompositions in contact geometry and applications to Reeb dynamics (click here for abstract)
Fri. 5/2: *2-3pm in KAP 249* (Special colloquium) Hans-Juergen Schneider, University of Munich, Nichols algebras, root systems, and Weyl groupoids (click here for abstract)
Wed. 5/7: Simeon Reich, Technion, Continuous semigroups of holomorphic mappings (click here for abstract)


Fall 2007


Tue. 9/25: (3:30-4:30 in *DRB 337*): Franz Kappel, University of Graz, Sensitivities and Generalized Sensitivities for a Model of the Cardiovascular System (click here for abstract)
Wed. 10/3: Eric Rains, Caltech, Bounds on self-dual codes and lattices (click here for abstract)
Wed. 10/10: Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Invariants of singularities, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 10/31: Thomas Liggett, UCLA, Negative dependence and the geometry of polynomials -- a meeting ground for probability, analysis, and combinatorics, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 11/7: Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago, An introduction to Measurable Group Theory, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 11/14: V. Futorny, University of Sao Paolo, Extension of characters in representation theory, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 11/28: C. Weibel, Rutgers University, The Norm Residue is an Isomorphism, (click here for abstract)
Tue. 12/4: (Special colloquium) *2-3 pm in KAP 249* Pan Peng, Harvard University, String duality and the integrality structure in Calabi-Yau geometry, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 12/5: (Special colloquium) Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri, Sums and products in finite fields via Fourier analysis and geometric combinatorics (click here for abstract)
Mon. 12/10: (Special colloquium) *3:30-4:30 in KAP 249* Alexey Cheskidov, University of Chicago, On the regularity problem for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations, (click here for abstract)
Wed. 12/12: (Special colloquium) Dragos Oprea, Stanford University, The tautological classes of the moduli spaces of stable maps (click here for abstract)
Fri. 12/14: *11-12 in KAP 249* (Special colloquium) Alex Gamburd, UCSC (visiting IAS), Expanders: from arithmetic to combinatorics and back

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 room 249 of Kaprielian Hall. The talks will be preceded by the Departmental Tea at 3:00 in room 248.

The 2007-2008 colloquium chairs are Jason Fulman and Jian He. Please click for our contact information.

For a street address, please visit the departmental website and select Contact Us on the left. For driving instructions and other practical information, visit the University's website and click on the Maps: University Park Campus link on the bottom right. Please note that our buildings (Denney Research Center, DRB and Kaprielian Hall, KAP) are on Vermont Avenue, next to gate 6 of the campus.