| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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| Wed, 16 Jan 2008 | Anton Petrunin, PSU | Weak convergence of scalar curvature |
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| Wed, 23 Jan 2008 | Yuri Burago, Steklov Institute | PL-isometric immersions of 2-polyhedra into R^3 and and R^n |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2008
3:35pm - 4:35pm | Roman Vershynin, UC Davis | Randomness in functional analysis: towards universality ****THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE SYNERGISTIC ROOM**** |
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| Wed, 30 Jan 2008 | Mike Hochman, Princeton | A characterization of entropies for mult-dimensional symbolic systems |
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Mon, 4 Feb 2008
MB114
3:35pm - 4:35pm | Sandra Cerrai, Universita di Firenze | On some asymptotic problems for stochastic partial differential equations *****THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SYNERGISTIC ROOM ****** |
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| Wed, 6 Feb 2008 | Dmitry Fuchs, UC Davis | Closed geodesics on regular polyhedra |
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Mon, 11 Feb 2008
3:35pm - 4:35pm | Alexander Gorodnik, Bristol | Regularity of conjugacy for actions of large groups |
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| Wed, 13 Feb 2008 | Bart Kastermans, U. of Wisconsin | generating sets of cofinitary groups. |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2008
3:35pm - 4:35pm | Yong Moo Chung, Hiroshima University | Recurrence times and large deviations |
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| Wed, 20 Feb 2008 | Feliks Przytycki, Polish academy of Sciences: a CD&G colloquium | Iteration of rational functions: non-uniform hyperbolicity |
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| Mon, 25 Feb 2008 | Mahesh Nerurkar, Rutgers | Density of SL(2, R) valued cocycles with positive Lyapunov exponents in the smooth category |
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| Wed, 27 Feb 2008 | S. Tabachnikov, PSU | Tire tracks geometry, hatchet planimeter, Menzin's conjecture and oscillation of unicycle tracks |
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| Wed, 5 Mar 2008 | Bing Long Chen, SYSU | The analytic aspects of Ricci flow I |
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| Wed, 19 Mar 2008 | Bing Long Chen (AFTER THIS TALK WE'LL HAVE A CD&G COLLOQUIUM), SYSU | The analytic aspects of Ricci flow II |
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| Wed, 26 Mar 2008 | Stefan Wenger, Courant | Gromov hyperbolic spaces and the sharp isoperimetric constant |
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| Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | Ian Melbourne, Surrey | Decay of correlations for Lorentz gases |
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| Wed, 2 Apr 2008 | Dmitri Scheglov, PSU | Absence of mixing for smooth flows on compact surfaces |
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| Mon, 7 Apr 2008 | Patt Hooper, Northwestern | An infinite surface with the lattice property |
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| Wed, 9 Apr 2008 | Stephanie Alexander, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Topological finiteness for submanifolds with prescribed boundary |
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| Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | Peter Albers, Courant | TBA |
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| Wed, 16 Apr 2008 | Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers | Pairs of minimal geodesics and injectivity radius |
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| Mon, 21 Apr 2008 | Stefano Luzzatto, Imperial College | Invariant measures for interval maps with critical points and singularities |
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| Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | Nina Lebedeva, Steklov Institute (St Petersburg) | On asymptotic dimension of hyperbolic groups |
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| Mon, 28 Apr 2008 | Bruce Kleiner, Yale | A new proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth |
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008
3:35pm - 5:35pm | Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University | Nonconvergence examples in averaging |
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| Wed, 27 Aug 2008 | Giorgio Mantica, Insubria | Dynamical Entropies in Quantum Mechanics: Relevance and Problems |
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| Mon, 8 Sep 2008 | Godofredo Iommi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Multifractal analysis for the backward continued fraction map |
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| Wed, 10 Sep 2008 | M. Ghomi, Georgia Tech | Topology of Riemannian submanifolds with prescribed boundary |
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| Mon, 15 Sep 2008 | Mark Levi, PSU | Arnold diffusion in a chain of coupled pendula |
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| Mon, 22 Sep 2008 | Nimish Shah, TATA Institute | Limiting distributions of evolution of smooth curves under geodesic flow on hyperbolic manifolds |
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| Mon, 29 Sep 2008 | V. Kaloshin, Maryland | An example of nearly integrable Hamiltonian system with a trajectory dense in a set of almost maximal Hausdorff dimension |
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| Mon, 13 Oct 2008 | Misha Guysinsky, PSU | Livsic theorem for matrix cocycles |
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| Mon, 20 Oct 2008 | Jayadev Athreya, Yale | Logarithm laws for unipotent flows |
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| Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | | TBA |
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| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 | Penn State Maryland Workshop | From THURSDAY 23 to SUNDAY 26 |
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| Wed, 29 Oct 2008 | I. Vinogradov, Princeton | On a Separating Solution of a Recurrent Equation |
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| Mon, 3 Nov 2008 | D. Burago, PSU | Boundary rigidity, old and new (a geometric approach) |
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| Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | Wing Kai Ho, PSU | Blocking geodesics in Riemannian 2-manifolds |
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| Mon, 10 Nov 2008 | V. Cyr, PSU | A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Transient Potentials |
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| Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | | TBA |
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 | S. Tabachnikov, PSU | The pentagram map: a completely integrable system |
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| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 | | TBA |
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| Mon, 24 Nov 2008 | Thanksgiving | No seminar |
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| Wed, 26 Nov 2008 | Thanksgiving | No seminar |
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| Mon, 1 Dec 2008 | | TBA |
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