Colloquium 2004-05
Fall 2004
(Note: The first two colloquia are joint with the Seminar on the History of Mathematics and the Commonwealth Consortium for the History of Mathematics)- Sep 2
- Peter Neumann (Oxford University)
- Early Modern Algebra: a contribution of {\'E}variste Galois (1811--1832)
- Host: Karen Parshall
- Early Modern Algebra: a contribution of {\'E}variste Galois (1811--1832)
- Friday, Sep 3
- Jackie Stedall (Oxford University)
- Early Modern Algebra: the contribution of Thomas Harriot (1560--1621)
- Host: Karen Parshall
- Early Modern Algebra: the contribution of Thomas Harriot (1560--1621)
- Sep 9
- No Colloquium
- Sep 16
- No Colloquium
- Sep 23
- No Colloquium
- Sep 30
- Sa'ar Hersonsky (Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel)
- Diophantine Approximation in Negatively Curved Manifolds
- Host: G. Arone
- Diophantine Approximation in Negatively Curved Manifolds
- Oct 7
- Slava Krushkal (UVA)
- Kazhdan groups, quantum representations, and the Fourier transform
- Oct 14
- Todd Williams (Sagamore Hill Capital Management)
- A Survey of Recent Monte Carlo Techniques
- L. Scott and the IMS
- A Survey of Recent Monte Carlo Techniques
- Oct 21
- Gene Wayne (Boston University)
- Dynamical systems and the Navier-Stokes equations
- Host: L. Thomas
- Dynamical systems and the Navier-Stokes equations
- Oct 28
- H. Abels (Univeristy of Bielefeld)
- Properly discontinuous and crystallographic affine groups
- Host: A. Rapinchuk
- Properly discontinuous and crystallographic affine groups
- Nov 4
- Carmen Chicone (University of Missouri)
- The Tiger Fountain Problem: An introduction to the mathematics of water waves
- Host: C. Zeng
- The Tiger Fountain Problem: An introduction to the mathematics of water waves
- Nov 11
- B. Sury (Indian Statistical Institute at Bangalore and UNC)
- Congruence kernels in nonarchimedean rank 1 groups
- Host: A. Rapinchuk
- Congruence kernels in nonarchimedean rank 1 groups
- Nov 18
- Arun Ram (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Is there information in the turns?
- Host: W. Wang
- Is there information in the turns?
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Nov 25
- Thanksgiving - No colloquium
- Dec 2
- David Evans (Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia)
- Host: IMS
- Dec 9
- Dan Freed (University of Texas - Austin)
- Representations of loop groups and topology
- Host: S. Krushkal
- Representations of loop groups and topology
Spring 2005
- Jan 27
- Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland)
- Irrational triangular billiards ( abstract )
- Host: S. Krushkal
- Irrational triangular billiards ( abstract )
- Feb 3
- Alex Szimayer (University of Western Australia)
- Leonard Scott and the IMS
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Feb 10
- No colloquium
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Feb 17
- No colloquium
- Feb 24
- John Nolan (American University)
- Host: Leonard Scott and the IMS
- Mar 3
- John Thompson (Professor Emeritus at Cambridge, currently at the University of Florida)
- Conjugacy classes in upper triangular groups
- Host: Leonard Scott
- Conjugacy classes in upper triangular groups
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Mar 10
- Spring Break
- Mar 17
- John Meier
- A case study in the new combinatorial group theory
- Host: Kai-Uwe Bux
- A case study in the new combinatorial group theory
- Mar 24
- Mario Geysen (Department of Chemistry, UVA)
- Host: IMS
- Mar 31
- Amol Sasane (London school of economics)
- Nullstellensatz for systems of PDEs
- Host: Sara Maad
- Nullstellensatz for systems of PDEs
- April 7
- Mike Reed (Duke University)
- Probability and Neurobiology
- Host: I. Herbst
- Probability and Neurobiology
- April 14
- Ed Swartz
- Counting Faces
- Host: Kai-Uwe Bux
- Counting Faces
- April 21
- O. Schiffman (Paris)
- Vector bundles on curves and Lie algebras
- Hosts: S. Krushkal and W. Wang
- Vector bundles on curves and Lie algebras
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April 28
- Reserved for a special occasion
- May 5
- Marius Mitrea (University of Missouri)
- Host: I. Lasiecka
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