Mathematics Department Colloquium
Spring 2005
The Mathematics Department Colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:00 PM in room 215 Thomas Building.
The colloquium is preceded by refreshments (departmental tea) at 3:15 PM at the basement of Thomas
Building, in the kitchen area beginning the week of January 17.
Thursday, January 13
Helmut Hofer
(Courant Institute)
Dynamical systems at the interface of symplectic geometry
and three-dimensional topology
Thursday, January 20
Alberto Bressan
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Geometric control and optimal feedback stabilization
Thursday, January 27
David Kazhdan
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Integration over non-archimedian fields
Thursday, February 3
David Gabai
(Princeton University)
Shrinkwrapping and the Taming of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Thursday, February 10
Constantine Dafermos
(Brown University)
Hyperbolic conservation laws with involutions and contingent entropies
Thursday, February 17
Roland Glowinski
(University of Houston)
Numerical Methods for some Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
Thursday, February 24
Giovanni Forni
(Northwestern University)
Renormalization and quantitative equidistribution
for parabolic flows
Thursday, March 3
Yongbin Ruan
(University of Wisconsin)
Topology of orbifolds
Thursday, March 10
No colloquium, Spring break
Thursday, March 17
A.B. Sossinsky
(Independent University of Moscow)
Could the Poincaré conjecture be false?
Thursday, March 24
Jens Marklof
(University of Bristol)
Quantum Chaos, Lattice Points and Equidistribution
Thursday, March 31
Sheldon Newhouse
(Michigan State University)
Cantor Sets, Continued Fractions, and Dynamics on Surfaces
Thursday, April 7
Raphael Rouquier
(CNRS, Paris and Yale University)
Dunkl operators and Hecke algebras
Thursday, April 21
Leonid Polterovich
(Tel Aviv University)
Quasi-morphisms and quasi-states in symplectic topology.
Thursday, April 28
Eitan Tadmor
(University of Maryland)
Edge detections, hierarchical decompositions
and multiscale nonlinear dynamics
Past semesters:[Fall 2001 - Fall 2004]