UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

480 LINCOLN DRIVE

MADISON, WISCONSIN 53706

 

COLLOQUIUM AND

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

 

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 thru NOVEMBER 19, 2010

 

 

COLLOQUIUM

 

 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19TH:  Jeff Xia, Northwestern University, will speak on “Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems” at 4:00pm in B239 Van Vleck. Coffee and cookies at 3:30pm in the 9th floor lounge.

 

 

BROWN BAG SEMINAR

 

 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19TH: David Bressoud, Macalester University, will speak on “Future Of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics” at 12:00pm in 9th floor lounge.

 

 

 


 

9th FLOOR SOCIAL: Monday, Wednesday cookies and coffee and conversation at 3:30pm 9th floor lounge.

                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMINARS:

 

 

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH  

 

 

COMBINATORICS:  Shifra Reif, Weizmann Institute, will speak on “Denominator Identities For Lie Superalgebras” at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

GROUP THEORY:  Sara Jensen, UW-Madison, will speak on “A Theorem Of Jordan On Primitive And Multiply Transitive Actions” at 3:30pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH

 

 

ANALYSIS:  Vladimir Eiderman, visiting UW-Madison, will speak on “Singular Operators With Antisymmetric Kernels, Related Capacities, And Wolff Potentials” at 4:00pm in B139 Van Vleck.

 

GPS NUMBER THEORY:  Rachel Davis, UW-Madison, will speak on “Prep for Woods Talk” at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.

 

NUMBER THEORY:  Danny Neftin, Technion, will speak at 3:40pm in B105 Van Vleck.

 

LOGIC:  Mushfeg Khan, UW-Madison, will speak on “Every Strongly Jump Traceable Set Is K-Trivial (specialty exam)” at 3:30pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

 

APPLIED/ACMS:  Bin Dong, University of California, San Diego, will speak at 3:30pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

GPS ANALYSIS:  Nicos Georgiou, UW-Madison, will speak at 3:30pm in B317 Van Vleck.

 

HOMOLOGICAL MIRROR SYMMETRY: Junwu Tu, UW-Madison, will speak on “TCFT And Calabi-Yau Categories”, continued at 3:30pm in B139 Van Vleck.

 

PROBABILITY:  Philip Matchett Wood, Stanford, will speak on “Singularity Of Discrete Random Matrices” at 2:30pm in B239 Van Vleck.

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH

 

GPS LOGIC:  at 4:00pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

NUMBER THEORY:  Melanie Matchett Wood, Stanford University, will speak on “Geometric Parametrizations Of Ideal Classes” at 2:30pm in B105 Van Vleck.

 

PDE GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS:  Hiroshi Matano, Tokyo University, will speak on “Traveling Waves In A Sawtoothed Cylinder And Their Homogenization Limit” at 1:20pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

PROBABILITY:  Joseph Miller, UW-Madison, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH 

 

 

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY:  Alina Marian, UIC, will speak on “The Moduli Space Of Stable Quotients” at 2:25pm in B305 Van Vleck.

 

APPLIED/ACMS:  Anne Gelb, Arizona State University, will speak at 2:25pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY:  Ma Chit, Chinese U. Of Hong Kong, will speak on “A Growth Estimate Of Lattice Points In Gorenstein Cones Using Toric Einstein Metrices” at 1:20pm in 901 Van Vleck.

 

GPS TOPOLOGY:  Christine Lien, UW-Madison will speak at 10:00am in 901 Van Vleck.