Mathematics Department Colloquium
Spring 2007
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 18
Thursday, January 25
Thursday, February 1
Bryan Grenfell
(Penn State University)
Dynamics of infectious diseases in space and time
Thursday, February 8
Richard Schwartz
(Brown University)
Triangle groups, complex hyperbolic geometry, and Dehn surgery
Thursday, February 15
Thursday, February 22
Hector Sussmann
(Rutgers University)
Old and new results on optimal curves
Thursday, March 1
Danny Calegari
(Caltech)
Shrinkwrapping and the classification of Kleinian groups
(joint with D. Gabai)
Thursday, March 8
Dmitry Dolgopyat
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Galton board
Thursday, March 15
SPRING BREAK
Thursday, March 22
Benjamin Weiss
(Hebrew University)
Universal estimators in probability and ergodic theory.
Thursday, March 29
No colloquium, Faculty Meeting
Thursday, April 5
Steven J. Schiff
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Spatiotemporal Organization and Control of Cortical Dynamics
Thursday, April 12
Charles S. Peskin
(NYU)
Muscle and Blood:
Mechanics and Electrophysiology of the Heart by the Immersed Boundry Method
Thursday, April 19
Thursday, April 26
Jean-Michel Bismut
(Universite Paris-Sud and NYU)
The hypoelliptic Laplacian and applications
Thursday, May 3
Izabella Laba
(University of British Columbia)
Harmonic analysis and incidence geometry: a survey
Past semesters:
[Fall 2006]
[Spring 2006]
[Fall 2005]
[Fall 2001 - Fall 2004]