Colloquium 2005-06

Fall 2005

Sep 1

Bernhard Muhlherr (University of Brussels)

Simply connected subsets of buildings

Host: P. Abramenko

Sep 8

No Colloquium

Sep 15

No colloquium

> Sep 22: No colloquium

Sep 29

Weiqiang Wang (UVA)

Platonic Solids, Hamilton's Quaternions, and Dynkin Diagrams.

Oct 6

Tom de Medts (Ghent University)

Jordan identities in Moufang sets.

Hosts: K. McCrimmon and P. Abramenko

Oct 13

No Colloquium

Oct 20

Tom Haines (University of Maryland)

Triangles in buildings and applications to Lie theory

Host: W. Wang

Oct 27

Kenneth Brown (Cornell)

Applications of ring theory to probability

Host: P. Abramenko

Nov 3

Zoran Grujic (UVA)

Avoiding singularity formation in turbulent flows

Nov 10

The talk will be held at a special time: 3:30-4:30.

Tea and refreshments will be served after the talk, at 4:30

Bill Duren (Professor Emeritus, UVA)

A Career as a Scientific Generalist Based in Mathematics

Host: I. Herbst

Nov 17

Virginia Young (University of Michigan)

Mimizing the probability of lifetime ruin under borrowing constraints

Leonard Scott and the IMS

Nov 24

Thanksgiving recess - no colloquium

Dec 1

Jie Du (New South Wales)

Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in symmetric groups

Host: Brian Parshall

Spring 2006

Jan 19

Thomas Mark (Southern Louisiana University)

Geometric and topological invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds

Jan 24

Olga Plamenevskaya (MIT)

Heegaard Floer theory, knots, and contact structures

Jan 26

Jeffrey Schenker (Institute of Advance Study)

"1/t tails" for resolvents and the analysis of waves in random media

Note the special dates for the next three talks.

All the lectures will be given at the usual hour and room.

Refreshments will be provided at 3:30, as always

Monday, Jan 30

Tai Melcher (Berkeley)

Malliavin calculus and gradient estimates

Tuesday, Jan 31

Christian Gromoll (Stanford)

Measure valued processes, queues, and limit theorems

Monday, Feb 6

Joseph Coffey (Stanford)

Symplectic geometry: a geometry of area

Feb 9

No Colloquium

Feb 16

No Colloquium

Feb 23

No Colloquium

Mar 2

No Colloquium

Mar 9

Spring break

Mar 16

Dijana Jakelic (UVA)

On representations of quantum groups: crystal bases and completions

Mar 23

No colloquium

Mar 30

Misha Ershov (IAS)

On some properties of the Nottingham group

Host: A. Rapinchuk

April 6

Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt University)

Residually finite groups and dynamics of polynomial maps over finite fields

Host: D. Sonkin

April 13

Mike Jury (U. Florida)

C*-algebras, composition operators, and Fuchsian groups

Host: T. Kriete

April 20

Jong Kim (VPI)

Invariant measures for stochastic evolution equations

Host: I. Lasiesca

April 21

Sean Keel (University of Austin, Texas)

Tropicalisation and modular compactifications

April 27

Jill Pipher (Brown University)

Multi-parameter Fourier analysis

Host: I. Mitrea

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