UMass Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium
- Room: Lederle Graduate Research Tower, Room 1634
- Time: Refreshment at 3:30pm. Talk starts at 4pm
- Driving Direction and Campus Map
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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Jan 22 (Tues) |
Prakash Belkale (University of Utah) |
Quantum cohomology and representations of the fundamental group |
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Jan 24 |
Luc Rey-Bellet (University of virginia) |
Heat conduction and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics |
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Feb 4 (Mon) |
Thomas J. Haines (Univ. Toronto) |
Towards the local Hasse-Weil zeta function for some Shimura varieties at primes of bad reduction |
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Feb 11 (Mon) |
Marcel Oliver (Univ. Tubingen) |
Variational asymptotics for rotating fluids near geostrophy |
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Feb 14 |
Sally Thurston (Harvard) |
Bayesian measurement error models for in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls |
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Feb 21 |
Dan Knopf (U. Wisconinsin) |
K\"ahler--Ricci solitons |
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Feb 27 (Wed) |
Jayson Wilbur (Purdue Univ.) |
Variable selection in high-dimensional binary data with application to microbial community DNA fingerprint analysis |
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Feb 28 |
Christopher Raphael (UMass Amherst) |
Rhythmic Parsing and MAP Estimation in CG Distributions |
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March 7 |
George Knightly (UMass Amherst) |
Surviving as a Math./Stat. Department: Technology in Large Classes |
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March 14 |
Farshid Hajir (Cal State San Macros & UNC Chapel Hill) |
Arithmetic fundamental groups |
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March 21 |
Spring Break |
No Talk |
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March 27 |
Dr. Ian McIntosh (University of York) |
Constant mean curvature surfaces and parabolic vector bundles |
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March 28 |
Arun Ram (Univ Wisconsin-Madison) |
21st century questions about dihedral and icosahedral groups |
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April 4 |
Chris Jones (Brown University) |
Optical Pulse Propagation and Averaged Variational Principles |
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April 11 |
Jeff Viaclovsky (MIT) |
Fully nonlinear equations in conformal geometry |
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April 18 |
Tatiana Toro ( Univ. of Washington/ Harvard ) |
Free boundary regularity below the continuous threshold |
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April 25 |
Robert D. MacPherson (IAS) |
Geometry of torus actions (UMass CVC) |
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May 2 |
Manoussos Grillakis (Univ. Maryland) |
TBA |
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May 9 |
Steven Fienberg (CMU) |
Conditional Distributions, Log-linear Models, and Disclosure Limitation Methods |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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Sept 13 |
Robin Young (UMass) |
Weak and strong nonlinear waves in continuum mechanics |
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Sept 20 |
Eyal Markman (UMass) |
Vector bundles and integrable systems |
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Sept 27 |
Yuri Latushkin |
Fourier Multipliers and Spectral Mapping Theorems for Linearized Fluid Equations |
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Oct 5 (Friday) |
Vitor Kac (MIT) |
Exceptional infinite-dimensional superalgebras and elementary particles (joint UMass Colloquium/Valley Geometry Seminar) |
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Oct 11 |
Louis Billera (Cornell) |
Geometry of the Space of Phylogenetic Trees |
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Oct 18 |
Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis) |
A categorification of the Jones polynomial |
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Oct 25 |
Daniel Pollack (University of Washington at Seattle and Brown University |
Gluing and wormholes for the Einstein constraint equations |
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Nov 1 |
Igor Verbitsky |
cancelled |
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Nov 8 |
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no talk |
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Nov 15 |
Yuanan Diao (UNC Charlotte) |
How much rope is needed to tie a particular knot? |
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Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving |
Thanksgiving |
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Nov 29 |
Andrea Nahmod (UMass) |
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Dec 6 |
Alina Chertock |
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