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

Friday, Sep 3: Jackie Stedall (Oxford University); Early Modern Algebra: the contribution of Thomas Harriot (1560--1621); Host: Karen Parshall

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

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

Oct 21: Gene Wayne (Boston University); Dynamical systems and the Navier-Stokes equations; Host: L. Thomas

Oct 28: H. Abels (Univeristy of Bielefeld); Properly discontinuous and crystallographic affine groups; Host: A. Rapinchuk

Nov 4: Carmen Chicone (University of Missouri); The Tiger Fountain Problem: An introduction to the mathematics of water waves; Host: C. Zeng

Nov 11: B. Sury (Indian Statistical Institute at Bangalore and UNC); Congruence kernels in nonarchimedean rank 1 groups; Host: A. Rapinchuk

Nov 18: Arun Ram (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Is there information in the turns?; Host: W. Wang

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

Spring 2005

Jan 27: Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland); Irrational triangular billiards ( abstract ); Host: S. Krushkal

Feb 3: Alex Szimayer (University of Western Australia); Leonard Scott and the IMS

Feb 10: No colloquium

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

Mar 10: Spring Break

Mar 17: John Meier; A case study in the new combinatorial group theory; Host: Kai-Uwe Bux

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

April 7: Mike Reed (Duke University); Probability and Neurobiology; Host: I. Herbst

April 14: Ed Swartz; Counting Faces; Host: Kai-Uwe Bux

April 21: O. Schiffman (Paris); Vector bundles on curves and Lie algebras; Hosts: S. Krushkal and W. Wang

April 28: Reserved for a special occasion

May 5: Marius Mitrea (University of Missouri); Host: I. Lasiecka

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