Mathematics Department Colloquium
Spring 2006
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, January 19
No colloquium, Faculty meeting
Thursday, January 26
Thursday, February 2
Thursday, February 9
William Goldman
(University of Maryland)
Geometry and Dynamics of Surface Group Representations
Thursday, February 16
Andrew Torok
(University of Houston)
Symmetry breaking and hallucinations
Thursday, February 23
Thursday, March 2
Thursday, March 9
No colloquium, Spring Break
Thursday, March 16
Karen Vogtmann
(Cornell University)
Automorphisms of Free Groups and Outer space
Thursday, March 23
Shrawan Kumar
(University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill)
On Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras
Thursday, March 30
Mark Pollicott
(University of Warwick)
Dynamical Zeta functions
Thursday, April 6
Amos Nevo
(Technion, Haifa and IAS)
Ergodic theory and lattice points
Thursday, April 13
Thursday, April 20
Alexander Shnirelman
(Concordia University)
The mystery of 2-d fluid
Thursday, April 27
Max Gunzburger
(Florida State University)
Least-squares finite element methods
Past semesters:
[Fall 2005]
[Fall 2001 - Fall 2004]