Colloquium 2003-04

Fall 2003

Sep 4  

No Colloquium

Sep 11  

Lucy Lifschitz (University of Oklahoma, Norman)

Arithmetic groups that cannot be right-ordered

Host: A. Rapinchuk

Sep 25  

Toby Berger (Cornell University; currently UVa, Dept. of Electrical Engineering)

Mathematical models of biological information transduction

Host: L. Pitt

Oct 2  

Daniel Biss (University of Chicago and Institute for Advanced Studies)

Decomposing Out(F_n)

Host: G. Arone

Oct 9  

Mark Shimozono (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)

Quiver polynomials via Grobner deformation

Host: W.Wang/IMS

Oct 16  

William B. Levy (University of Virginia, Dept. of Neurological Surgery)

Understanding biological computation via constraint-based optimizations

Host: IMS

Oct 23  

Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton University, State University of New York)

Some interplay between group theory, Geometry, Topology

Host: P. Abramenko

Oct 30  

Yuri Berest (Cornell University, Ithaca)

Representation theory of Dunkl-Cherednik algebras

Host: W. Wang/IMS

Nov 6  

Special location: The talk will take place at 4pm in Physics 203

(Refreshments as usual at 3:30pm in Kerchof 314)

George Hornberger (University of Virginia, Dept. of Environmental Sciences)

Use of simulation models in early phases of studying an environmental problem

Host: IMS

Nov 13  

Grozdena Todorova (University of Tennesse, Knoxville)

The energy decay for wave equations with nonlinear dissipative term in R^n

Host: I. Lasiecka

Nov 20  

Ping Xu (Penn State University)

Symplectic realizations of Poisson manifolds

Host: W. Wang/IMS

Dec 4  

No Colloquium (but a SAM talk given by Toby Berger in Physics 203 at 4pm)

Spring 2004

Jan 15  

Bernhard Muehlherr (University of Brussels, Belgium)

On the isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups Muehlherr-01-15-04.html">

Host: P. Abramenko/IMS

Jan 29  

Jon Brundan (University of Oregon)

Shifted Yangians and nilpotent matrices Brundan-01-29-04.html">

Host: W. Wang/IMS

Feb 5  

Special location: The talk will take place at 4pm in Rouss 202

(Refreshments as usual at 3:30pm in Kerchof 314)

Jeffrey Roach (University of North Carolina, School of Medicine)

Protein structure determination via x-ray

Host: IMS

Feb 9  

Special colloquium:

The talk will take place on Monday at 4pm in CAB 119

Romyar Sharifi (Max Planck Institut Bonn, Germany)

The various faces of a pairing on p-units

Host: Dept. of Mathematics

Feb 26  

Ilya Spitkovsky (William and Mary College, Williamsburg)

Factorization of almost periodic matrix functions and its applications abstract )

Host: B. MacCluer

Mar 4  

Richard Weiss (Tufts University, Boston)

Generalized polygons and spherical buildings abstract )

Host: P. Abramenko

Mar 18  

Jesper Grodal (University of Chicago)

Lie groups from a homotopy point of view abstract )

Host: G. Arone

Mar 25  

Greg Lawler (Cornell University, Ithaca)

Random planar curves and conformal invariance abstract )

Host: A. Burchard

April 8  

Bernard Leclerc (University of Caen, France)

On the multiplicative structure of the dual canonical basis abstract )

Host: W. Wang/IMS

April 15  

Mary Beth Ruskai (Tufts University, Boston)

Additivity conjectures in quantum information theory

Host: L. Thomas

April 22  

Jan Philip Solovej (University of Kopenhagen and IAS, Princeton)

Host: A. Burchard

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