Mathematics Department Colloquium Schedule
  Spring 2008

All talks will be at  4:00PM in Van Vleck Hall room B239 unless otherwise noted

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

Fri., January 25 Craig Westerland UW-Madison Hurwitz spaces and string topology

Fri., February 8
Edriss Titi UC Irvine
Global Regularity for Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations and Other Relevant Geophysical Models
Marshall Slemrod
Fri., February 15
Predrag Cvitanovic'
Georgia Institute of Technology
Geometry of boundary shear turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions
Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Fabian Waleffe
Fri., February 22
Gregory Chirikjian
Johns Hopkins
Conformational statistics of DNA: Applications of Harmonic Analysis on the Euclidean Group
Julie Mitchell
Fri., February 29 David Griffeath
UW-Madison A 3-D mesoscopic snow crystal simulator

Fri., March 7 Maria Westdickenberg Georgia Tech Noise-Driven Rare Events and Action Minimization
Christine Lien
Fri., March 28 Gui-Qiang Chen Northwestern University Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type in Mechanics and Geometry
Marshall Slemrod and Mikhail Feldman
Fri., April 4
Nathalie Wahl
University of Copenhagen
Stabilization in the symmetries of 3-manifolds
Craig Westerland
Wed., April 9, room B102  (please note special day and special room) J. P. Bourguignon
IHES, France
University Lecture: Trends in Mathematics: Geometry from the Ancient Greeks to Poincare and Perelman
Xiuxiong Chen
Thu., April 10, 11:00am, room 114 Ingraham Hall (please note special time and special room, not in Van Vleck Hall)
J. P. Bourguignon IHES, France The Geometry of Measure Spaces
Xiuxiong Chen
Fri., April 11 Rod Downey
Victoria University, New Zealand
When does a problem have a solution: A logician and computability-theorist's view
Steffen Lempp
Fri., April 18 Nick Trefethen Oxford Spring 2008 LAA Lecture: Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers

Fri., April 25 - CANCELLED (to be rescheduled in Fall 2008)
Chuu-Lian Terng
UC Irvine Conformally flat hypersurfaces in 4-sphere
and soliton equations

Gloria Mari-Beffa
Fri., May 2
Morris Hirsch
UC Berkeley and UW-Madison
Dynamics of acyclic 1-dimensional maps

Wed., May 7, 12:00pm, 9th floor lounge (please note special day, time, and place) Weinan E Princeton Brown bag seminar: Linear scaling algorithms for model reduction

Wed., May 7 (please note special day) Weinan E Princeton Spring 2008 Distinguished Lecture: Mathematical challenges in multiscale modeling

Fri., May 9 Ruth Williams UC San Diego Stochastic networks with resource sharing
Christine Lien



Fall 2008:

Distinguished Lecture: November 12-14, 2008.