Colloquium
The UC Math Department Colloquia are held on scheduled Thursdays, and occasionally on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 4 pm in either Room 801 of the Old Chemistry Building or Room 309 Braunstein Hall. Some will be held in the Computer Lab 825 Old Chem. The room will be noted on the posted announcements and the link announcements (below.) There are no colloquia scheduled during Summer Quarter.
Refreshments are served at 3:30 pm in the Faculty & Graduate Student Lounge, Room 840 of the Old Chemistry Bldg. This is an opportunity to meet the speaker in a casual setting.
These events are free and open to students and the general public. Each "Topic of Talk" (below) is a link to a detailed announcement and the speaker's abstract in .pdf format.
2007 - 2008
Speaker &
Affiliation
|
Topic of
Talk |
Date of Talk |
Prof Valentino Magnani
University of Pisa, Italy |
Surface Measure in Stratified Groups |
Thursday,
May 8 |
Prof Florence Merlevède
University of Paris 6
LPMA |
Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem |
Thursday,
April 10 |
Prof Nick Cogan
Florida State University |
Simulating Biofilm Growth and Dynamics in a Flowing Environment |
Wednesday,
April 2 |
Prof Renling Jin
College of Charlston |
Non-standard Power in the Standard World: A New Result for Freiman's Inverse Problems |
Wednesday,
March 5 |
Prof Steven Cox
Rice University |
Functional Localization of Calcium Handling Machinery - a special Math-Biosciences lecture |
Monday,
March 3 |
Prof Min Chen
Purdue University |
Study of Water Waves: Wave Patterns and Tsunami |
Thursday,
Feb 14 |
Prof Todd Kemp
M.I.T. |
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities: New Insights on an Important Tool |
Thursday,
Jan 24 |
Prof Virgil Pierce
Ohio State University |
Recent Results for the Toda and Pfaff Lattice Hierarchies |
Thursday,
Nov 15 |
Prof Changyou Wang
University of Kentucky |
Asymptotics of Infinity Harmonic Functions near Isolated Singularity |
Thursday,
Nov 1
|
Prof Tom Bieske
University of South Florida |
Infinite Harmonic Functions and Absolute Minimizers in Metric Spaces |
Thursday,
Oct 25 |
Prof Roger W Barnard
Texas Tech University |
How Far Can You Deform a Disk Under a Convex Map? |
Thursday, Oct 18 |
Prof Alex Iosevich
University of Missouri - Columbia |
Discrete Radon transforms and applications to arithmetic problems in finite fields |
Thursday, Sept 20 |