Colloquium Schedule
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh
Academic Year 2006-2007
All talks are on Fridays in Thackeray 704 at 4 pm unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are usually served at 3:30 pm in Thackeray 705. If you have any questions about a particular colloquium, please contact the person hosting the speaker. For general questions about colloquium schedule, please contact David Swigon (swigon@pitt.edu).
Fall 2006
|
Date |
Speaker and title |
Host |
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September 15 |
Professor Beatrice Riviere, University of Pittsburgh Complex flow processes with applications in porous media (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
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September 22 |
Professor George Sparling, University of Pittsburgh The Ξ-transform (abstract) |
George Sparling |
|
September 29 |
Colloquium in honor of Professor Thomas A. Metzger Professor Joseph A. Cima,
University of North Carolina analyticity in
finite and infinite dimensions (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
October 6 |
Professor Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh Generalizations
of Sard's theorem and Whitney's construction of
smooth functions with large critical sets (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
October 13 |
Professor Martin Feinberg, Ohio State University Understanding Bistability
in Complex Enzyme-Driven Reaction Networks (abstract) |
David Swigon |
|
October 27 |
Professor Traian Iliescu, Virginia Tech Numerical Simulation of Gravity Currents in the Ocean (abstract) |
Bill Layton |
|
November 3 |
Professor Isabel Darcy, University of Iowa Modeling protein-DNA complexes using
tangles (abstract) |
David Swigon |
|
November 10 |
Professor Ivan Yotov, University of Pittsburgh Mathematical and Computational Modeling of
Multiphysics Systems (abstract) |
Ivan Yotov |
|
November 17 |
Professor Diane Henderson, Penn State University Stability, instability, and stability in
deep-water surface waves (abstract) |
Bill Layton |
|
December 1 |
Faculty Circus |
Anna Vainchtein |
|
December 8 |
Professor Xiang-Sun
Zhang, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science Mutual Promotion of Operations Research
and Bioinformatics (abstract) |
Dehua Wang |
Spring 2007
|
Date |
Speaker and title |
Host |
|
January 4 Thursday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Huiqiang Jiang, University of Minnesota Applied analysis candidate Analysis on an activator-inhibitor system: Global solutions & steady states (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 5 |
Dr. Traian Pirvu, University of British Columbia Applied analysis candidate Pricing in complete & incomplete markets (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 9 Tuesday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University Applied analysis candidate Hyperbolic systems with dissipation (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 10 Wednesday 4:00 pm |
Dr. Mohammad Reza Pakzad, University of Minnesota Analysis candidate Sobolev mappings with geometric type constraints (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 11 Thursday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Izzet Coskun, MIT Algebra candidate The geometry of Grassmannians and flag varieties (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 12 |
Dr. Adrian Tudorascu, Georgia Tech Applied analysis candidate Euler-Poisson systems as Hamiltonian flows in the Wasserstein space (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 16 Tuesday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Julianna Tymoczko, University
of Michigan Algebra candidate Geometric representations of the permutation group (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 18 Thursday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Mihran Papikian, Stanford
University Algebra candidate Drinfeld modular varieties and the Weil-Deligne bound (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 19 |
Dr. Razvan Fetecau, Simon Fraser University Applied analysis candidate Leray-type regularizations of the Burgers and the isentropic Euler equations (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
January 23 Tuesday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Luke Rogers,
Cornell University Analysis candidate Analysis on fractals (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
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January 25 Thursday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Peter Keevash, Caltech Algebra candidate The hypergraph Turan problem (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
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January 30 Tuesday 4:30 pm |
Dr. Nguyen Truyen, Georgia Tech Analysis candidate Regularity of maps for the optimal transport problem (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
February 1 Thursday 3:00 pm |
Dr. Artem Zvavitch, Kent State
University Analysis candidate The Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary measures (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
February 16 |
Professor Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh When the signal is the noise: Stochastic synchronization (abstract) |
David Swigon |
|
February 23 |
Professor Olof Widlund, Courant Institute The Analysis of Domain Decomposition
Algorithms with Irregular Subdomains (abstract) |
Piotr Hajlasz |
|
March 2 CANCELED |
Professor Philippe LeFloch, University of Paris VI An Introduction to Kinetic Relations for Undercompressive Shocks (abstract) |
Dehua Wang |
|
March 16 |
Professor Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University The Composite Membrane Problem (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
March 23 CANCELED |
Professor Max Gunzburger, Florida State University TBA |
Bill Layton |
|
March 30 CANCELED |
Professor Jinchao Xu, Penn State University TBA |
Ivan Yotov |
|
April 6 SPECIAL LECTURE |
Edmund R. Michalik distinguished Mathematical Sciences Lecture Auditorium 125 Frick Fine Arts
Building 4:30-5:30pm Professor Cathleen S. Morawetz, NYU - Courant Institute Collisionless shocks in space (abstract) |
Juan Manfredi |
|
April 13 |
Colloquium in honor of Professor Bryce McLeod Professor James Serrin,
University of Minnesota |
Juan Manfredi |
|
April 19 Thursday 4:00 pm |
Professor Malgorzata Peszynska, Oregon State University Nonlocal models of transport in multiscale porous media (abstract) |
Beatrice Riviere |
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April 27 |
Professor Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas Orthogonal integration and the error in approximating lyapunov exponents (abstract) |
Anna Vainchtein |