Colloquia 2012-2013

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Mathematics Colloquium

All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, unless otherwise indicated.

Fall 2012

date speaker title host(s)
Sept 14 Jordan Ellenberg (Madison) TBA local
Sept 20, 4pm Persi Diaconis (Stanford) Spatial mixing: problems and progress Jean-Luc
Sept 21 Joyce McLaughlin (RPI) TBA WIMAW
Sept 28 Eric Marberg (MIT) TBA Isaacs
Oct 12 Joachim Rosenthal (Univ. of Zurich) TBA Boston
Oct 19 Irene Gamba (Univ. of Texas) TBA WIMAW
Tues, Oct 30 Andrew Majda (Courant) TBA Smith, Stechmann
Thurs, Nov 1 Peter Constantin (Princeton) TBA Distinguished Lecture Series
Nov 2 Peter Constantin (Princeton) TBA Distinguished Lecture Series
Nov 9 and later Reserved for potential interviews

Spring 2013

date speaker title host(s)
Feb 15 Eric Lauga (UCSD) TBA Spagnolie
March 22 Neil O'Connell (Warwick) TBA Timo Seppalainen

Abstracts

Thu, Sept 20: Persi Diaconis (Stanford)

Spatial mixing: problems and progress

One standard way of mixing (cards, dominos, Mahjong tiles) is to 'smoosh' them around on the table with two hands. I will introduce some models for this, present data (it's surprisingly effective) and some first theorems. The math involved is related to fluid flow and Baxendale-Harris random homeomorphisims.