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Mathematics Colloquium: Tentative Schedule for 2013-2014

All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm.

Spring 2013

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Tues, Jan 15, B139	Lillian Pierce (Oxford)	A new twist on the Carleson operator	Denissov
Thurs, Jan 17, 2pm, 901VV	Jonah Blasiak (Michigan)	Positivity, complexity, and the Kronecker problem	Terwilliger
Jan 25	Alexander Fish (Sydney)	Product sets in amenable groups through a dynamical approach	Gurevich
Feb 1	Tullia Dymarz (Madison)	Quasisymmetric vs Bi-Lipschitz maps	Street
Feb 8	Jean-Luc Thiffeault (Madison)	pseudo-Anosovs with small or large dilatation	Roch
Feb 15	Eric Lauga (UCSD)	Optimization in fluid-based locomotion	Spagnolie
Feb 22	Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota)	Elliptic PDEs, analysis, and potential theory in irregular media	Stovall
Mar 1	Kirsten Wickelgren (Harvard)	Grothendieck's anabelian conjectures	Street
March 8	Dan Negrut (UW - Mechanical Engineering)	Using Advanced Computing in Applied Dynamics: From the Dynamics of Granular Material to the Motion of the Mars Rover	Caldararu
March 15	Kurusch Ebrahimi Fard (Madrid)	Spitzer-type identities in non-commutative Rota-Baxter algebras	Gurvich
March 22	Neil O'Connell (Warwick)	CANCELLED	Timo Seppalainen
March 29	Spring Break	No Colloquium
April 5	John Jones (ASU)	Number fields with prescribed ramification	Boston
April 12	Andrew Snowden (MIT)	TBA	Street
April 19	Moe Hirsch (Madison)		Street
April 26	Temporarily Reserved		Street
Tuesday, April 30, 4PM	Laure Saint-Raymond (ENS)		Wasow Lecture
May 3	Davesh Maulik (Columbia)	TBA	Street
May 10	Steve Gelbart (Weizmann Institute)	TBA	Gurevich

Fall 2012

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Sept 14	Jordan Ellenberg (Madison)	FI-modules: an introduction	local
Sept 20, 4pm	Persi Diaconis (Stanford)	CANCELLED	Jean-Luc
Sept 21	Joyce McLaughlin (RPI)	Mathematics for Imaging Biomechanical Parameters in Dynamic Elastography	WIMAW
Sept 28	Eric Marberg (MIT)	Supercharacters for algebra groups: applications and extensions	Isaacs
Oct 5	Howard Masur (Chicago)	Winning games for badly approximable real numbers and billiards in polygons	Dymarz
Wed, Oct 10, 4pm	Bas Lemmens (Univ. of Kent)	From hyperbolic geometry to nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory	LAA lecture
Thur, Oct 11, 4pm	Irene Gamba (UT-Austin)	Analytical and numerical issues associated with the dynamics of the non-linear Boltzmann equation	WIMAW
Oct 12	Joachim Rosenthal (Univ. of Zurich)	Linear Random Network Codes, a Grassmannian Approach	Boston
Oct 19	Saverio E Spagnolie (Madison)	Elastic slender bodies in fluids and slender bodies in elastic fluids	Roch
Oct 26	Luke Oeding (UC Berkeley)	The Trifocal Variety	Gurevich
Tues, Oct 30	Andrew Majda (Courant)	Data Driven Methods for Complex Turbulent Systems	Smith, Stechmann
Thurs, Nov 1	Lenya Ryzhik (Chicago)	The role of a drift in elliptic and parabolic equations	Kiselev
Nov 2	Vladimir Sverak (Minnesota)	On scale-invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations	Kiselev
Nov 9	Uri Andrews (Madison)	Computable Stability Theory	Lempp
Mon, Nov 12	Charles Smart (MIT)	Regularity and stochastic homogenization of fully nonlinear equations without uniform ellipticity	Feldman
Mon, Nov 26	Daniel Erman (U.Michigan)	TBA	Boston
Wed, Nov 28	Cameron Hill (Notre Dame)	Genericity in Discrete Mathematics	Lempp
Nov 30	Nam Le (Columbia)	Boundary regularity for solutions to the linearized Monge-Ampere equations and applications	Feldman
Dec 14	Amanda Folsom (Yale)	q-series and quantum modular forms	Ellenberg/WIMAW