Colloquium Schedule
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh

2009-2010 Academic Year

All talks are 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 Catalin Trenchea (trenchea@pitt.edu).


 Fall 2009

 
Date
Speaker and title
Host
October 9
Adam Oberman, Simon Frazier University at Vancouver
Robust solvers for the Monge-Ampere equation and other fully nonlinear elliptic equations. (abstract)
Juan Manfredi
October 16
Yan Guo, Brown University
Stability and Instability in Stefan problem with surface tension (abstract)
Dehua Wang
October 30
Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
Exact reconstruction of color images by a total variation model (abstract)
Dehua Wang
November 06
Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico
Arithmetic differential equations (abstract)
Alexander Borisov
November 13
Sookkyung Lim, University of Cincinnati
Fluid-mechanical interaction of flexible bacterial flagella by the immersed boundary method (abstract)
David Swigon
November 20
Lizette Zietsman Virginia Tech
On Computational challenges in feedback control of PDEs (abstract)
Catalin Trenchea
December 4
Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh


 Spring 2010

 
Date
Speaker and title
Host
January 29
Bruno Franchi, University of Bologna
(abstract)
Juan Manfredi
February 5
,
(abstract)
February 19
,
(abstract)
February 26
Carson Chow, National Institute of Health
(abstract)
Ivan Yotov
March 12
,
(abstract)
March 19
Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences
,
(abstract)
March 26
,
(abstract)
April 2
,
(abstract)
April 16
Tristan Rivière, ETH, Zurich
(abstract)
Reza Pakzad


John E. McCarthy, Washington University in St. Louis: "How to give a good colloquium"