Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fall 2005
The Mathematics Department Colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Synergistic room, 114
McAllister Building.
The colloquium is preceded by refreshments (departmental tea) at 3:15 PM.
Thursday, September 8
Michael Shelley
(Courant Institute)
Modeling and simulating dynamic boundary problems in fluids
Thursday, September 15
Chengbo Yue
(Academy of Mathematical and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Entropy in compression, geometry, Kleinian groups and neurosciences
Thursday, September 22
Krishnaswami Alladi
(University of Florida)
A theorem of Gollnitz and its place in the theory of partitions
Thursday, September 29
Don Zagier
(MPI-Bonn & College de France)
The enigma of Ramanujan's mock theta functions
Thursday, October 6
Gianni Dal Maso
(International Scool for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste )
Variational problems in fracture mechanics
Thursday, October 13
No colloquium. The conference on October 14-17
will feature a number of talks of broad interest.
Thursday, October 20
Adrian Ocneanu
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Mathematics of symmetry in 4 dimensions - a sculpture
Thursday, October 27
Richard Montgomery
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
The N-body problem. New orbits. New problems
Thursday, November 3
Vadim Kaloshin
(The Pennsylvania State University and California Institute of Technology )
Nonlocal Arnold diffusion for the Restricted Planar Circular
3 Body Problem
Thursday, November 10
Mikhail Vishik
(University of Texas at Austin )
Incompressible Flows of an Ideal Fluid: Existence, Uniqueness, Stability
Thursday, November 17
Louis Kauffman
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
From Skein Relations, Spin Networks to the Jones Polynomial and
Khovanov Homology
Thursday, November 24
No colloquium, Thanksgiving Holiday
Thursday, December 1
Krystyna Kuperberg
(Auburn University)
Flows along wild arcs
Thursday, December 8
Scott Wolpert
(University of Maryland )
Integration and symplectic reduction for Teichmueller space
Past semesters:[Spring 2005]
[Fall 2001 - Fall 2004]