Events
Persi Diaconis will give two lectures:
- Nov 5
- Hilldale Lecture "From Magic to Mathematics and Back" at 4:00 p.m. in Van Vleck B102
- Nov 6
- Math Dept Colloquium
- "Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards" at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B102
COLLOQUIUM:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6TH: Persi Diaconis, Stanford University, will speak on “Adding Numbers And Shuffling Cards” at 4:00pm in B239 Van Vleck. Coffee and cookies at 3:30pm in the 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
APPLIED MATH/PDE: Jue Wang, Union College, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY: Tobias Dyckerhoff, University of Pennsylvania, will speak on “Isolated Hypersurface Singularities As Noncommutative Spaces” at 2:25pm in B131 Van Vleck.
The conference will be held in Madison, WI on Nov 7-8, 2009. Here is the website.
The conference will be held in Madison, WI on Nov 7-8, 2009. Here is the website.
9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
COMBINATORICS: Hiroshi Suzuki, ICU Japan, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
GPS TOPOLOGY: Christine Lien, UW-Madison, will speak on “Morse Theory” at 2:25pm in B131 Van Vleck.
GROUP THEORY: Don Passman, UW-Madison, will speak on “Constructing The Mathieu Groups” at 3:30pm in 901 Van Vleck.
LIE THEORY: Dianne Cerzo, UW-Madison, will speak at 1:20pm in 901 Van Vleck.
ANALYSIS: Vladimir Sverak, Minnesota, will speak on “Minimal Initial Data For Potential Navier-Stokes Singularities” at 4:00pm in B139 Van Vleck.
GPS NUMBER THEORY: Brian Rice, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.
9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
GPS APPLIED MATH: Bokai Yan, UW-Madison, will speak on “An Exact Solution Of The Homogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation” at 3:45pm in 901 Van Vleck.
HOMOLOGICAL MIRROR SYMMETRY: Nick Addington, UW-Madison, will speak on “More On Degeneration Of Hodge Structures” at 3:30pm in B139 Van Vleck.
TOPOLOGY & DATA READING GROUP: B. Sethares, will speak on “Most of Section 2.4 – Natural Image Statistics” at 1:30pm in 4610 Engineering Hall.
GPS ANALYSIS: James Knapp, UW- Madison, will speak at 4:00pm in B129 Van Vleck.
GPS LOGIC: at 4:00pm in 901 Van Vleck.
NUMBER THEORY: Jeremy Rouse, University of Illinois, will speak on “Critical L-Values Of Level p Newforms (mod p)” at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.
PROBABILITY: Fedja Nazarov, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
COLLOQUIUM:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13TH: Deane Yang, NY Polytech, will speak on "Affine Isoperimetric Inequalities" at 4:00pm in B239 Van Vleck. Coffee and cookies at 3:30pm in the 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
APPLIED MATH/PDE: Andrej Zlatos, University of Chicago, will speak on “Traveling Fronts In Combustible Media” at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY: Deane Yang, NYU Polytech, will speak on “An Information Theoretic View Of The Sharp Sobolev Inequality” at 1:20pm in 901 Van Vleck.
9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
COMBINATORICS: Richard Brualdi, UW-Madison, will speak on “Completion Of Partial Matrices To Singular/Nonsingular Matrices” at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS: Xuan Hien Nguyen, Kansas State University will speak at 3:30pm in B115 Van Vleck.
GPS TOPOLOGY: Nick Addington, UW-Madison, will speak on “The Lefschetz Hyperplane Theorem” at 3:30pm in B305 Van Vleck.
GPS NUMBER THEORY: Irena Wang, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.
LOGIC: Logan Hoehn, University of Toronto, will speak on “A Counterexample For Lelek’s Problem In Continuum Theory” at 4:00pm in 901 Van Vleck.
9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
APPLIED MATH/PDE: Cory Hauck, Oak Ridge National Lab, will speak on “Optimization Based Closures For Radiation Transport” at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
GPS APPLIED MATH: Jingwei Hu, UW-Madison, will speak on “A Spectral Method For The Bolzmann Collison Operator” at 3:45pm in 901 Van Vleck.
SPECIAL APPLIED MATH/PDE: Michael Crandall, UC Santa Barbara,will speak on " Almost Global Solutions of Eikonal Equations" at 4pm, in B239 Van Vleck
ANALYSIS: Allan Greenleaf, Rochester, will speak on “Microlocal Analysis Of Some Singular Lagrangian Manifolds” at 2:25pm in B325 Van Vleck.
GPS ANALYSIS: Marc Conrad, UW- Madison, will speak at 4:00pm in B129 Van Vleck.
GPS LOGIC: at 4:00pm in 901 Van Vleck.
NUMBER THEORY: Jan Bruinier, TU-Darmstadt, will speak on “Regularized Theta Lifts For Orthogonal Groups Over Totally Real Fields” at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.
PROBABILITY: Ton Dieker, Georgia Institute of Technology, will speak on “Interlacings And The Interchange Process On Weighted Graphs” at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.
WASOW LECTURE:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20TH: Mike Crandall, UC-Santa Barbara, will speak on “Absolutely Minimizing Functions, The Infinity Laplacian And All That” at 4:00pm in B239 Van Vleck. Coffee and cookies at 3:30pm in the 9th floor lounge.
SEMINAR:
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY: Emanuele Macri, University of Utah, will speak on “Stability Conditions On The Local Projective Plane And \Gamma_1(3)-Action” at 2:25pm in B131 Van Vleck.
