Events

« Week of November 1, 2009 »
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1	2 (event) Monday November 2nd Start: 11/02/2009 2:23 pm End: 11/02/2009 2:23 pm 9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge. SEMINAR: COMBINATORICS: Diana Cerzo, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck. GPS TOPOLOGY: Oyku Yurttas, University of Liverpool, will speak on “On The Topological Entropy Of Families Of Braids” 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. CANCELLED. LIE THEORY: Ed Hanson, UW-Madison, will speak at 1:20pm in 901 Van Vleck.	3 (event) Tuesday November 3rd Start: 11/03/2009 2:28 pm ANALYSIS: Wanke Yin, Wuhan University, will speak on “A Bishop Surface With A Vanishing Bishop Invariant” at 4:00pm in B139 Van Vleck. GPS NUMBER THEORY: Evan Dummit, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.	4 (event) Wednesday November 4th Start: 11/04/2009 2:30 pm 9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge. SEMINAR: GPS APPLIED MATH: Daniela Banu, UW-Madison, will speak on “An Introduction To The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Model” at 3:45pm in 901 Van Vleck. HOMOLOGICAL MIRROR SYMMETRY: Nick Addington, UW-Madison, will speak on “Degeneration Of Hodge Structures Redux” at 3:30pm in B139 Van Vleck. TOPOLOGY & DATA READING GROUP: Jordan Ellenberg, will speak on “Section 2.3 Persistent Homology” at 1:30pm in 4610 Engineering Hall.	5 (event) Thursday November 5th Start: 11/05/2009 2:32 pm HILLDALE LECTURE SERIES: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5TH: Persi Diaconis, Stanford University, will speak on “From Magic To Mathematics And Back” at 4:00pm in B102 Van Vleck. A Reception to follow in the 9th floor lounge. SEMINAR: 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: Hui June Zhu, SUNY-Buffalo, will speak on “Serre Weights Over Totally Real Fields And Crystalline Representation” at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck. (event) Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) Start: 11/05/2009 6:41 pm 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	6 (event) Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) Start: 11/05/2009 6:41 pm End: 11/06/2009 6:41 pm 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 (event) Midwest Number Theory Day - Nov. 6 Start: 11/06/2009 6:05 am End: 11/06/2009 6:07 pm Website for Midwest Number Theory Day - Nov. 6 (event) Friday November 6th Start: 11/06/2009 2:34 pm 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.	7 (event) Midwest Number Theory Conference for Graduate Students Start: 11/07/2009 6:08 am The conference will be held in Madison, WI on Nov 7-8, 2009. Here is the website.