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April 2009 Talks



Thursday, April 30, 2009
2:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Dan Mauldin - University of North Texas
Logic Seminar

Title:  Dimension and measures for random sets
Abstract


Thursday, April 30, 2009
3:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Randal Ruchti - Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Mathematical Physics/Physical Mathematics Seminar

Title:  The Large Hadron Collider:  Physics at the Energy Frontier
Abstract


Thursday, April 30, 2009
4:00 pm - 127 Hayes-Healy Hall

David Eklund - KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Title:  Kinematics, Intersection Theory and C*-Actions
Abstract


Wednesday, April 29, 2009
3:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Bonnie Smith - University of Notre Dame
Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra Seminar

Title:  Strongly Stable Ideals and the Core
Abstract


Wednesday, April 29, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Xiaochun Rong - Rutgers University
Colloquium

Title:  Collapsed manifolds with bounded sectional curvature
Abstract


Tuesday, April 28, 2009
3:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Frederico Xavier - University of Notre Dame
Topology-Analysis-Geometry Seminar

Title:  Mechanisms of Gobal Invertibility. Part II
Abstract


Monday, April 27, 2009
4:00 pm - 127 Hayes-Healy Hall

Pavel Lushnikov - University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Title:  Regularization of Collapse in Cellular Dynamics
Abstract


Friday, April 24, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Xiuxiong Chen - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Colloquium

Title:  Space of Ricci flows
Abstract


Thursday, April 23, 2009
1:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Sam Evens - University of Notre Dame
Algebra Seminar

Title:  Poisson geometry and integration on homogeneous spaces
Abstract


Thursday, April 23, 2009
2:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Ryan Grady - University of Notre Dame
Felix Klein Seminar

Title:  An Introduction to Homological Mirror Symmetry.  Part I
Abstract


Thursday, April 23, 2009
2:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Doug Cenzer - University of Florida
Logic Seminar

Title:  Structures and Isomorphisms in the Difference Hierarchy
Abstract


Thursday, April 23, 2009
3:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Katrina Barron - University of Notre Dame
Mathematical Physics/Physical Mathematics Seminar

Title:  Two dimensional conformal field theory and vertex operator algebras
Abstract


Thursday, April 23, 2009
4:30 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Ryan Grady - University of Notre Dame
Special Topology Seminar

Title:  An Introduction to Homological Mirror Symmetry.  Part II
Abstract


Wednesday, April 22, 2009
3:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Sandra Di Rocco - KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden
Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra Seminar

Title:  Classifying polytopes via Toric fibrations
Abstract


Wednesday, April 22, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Ronald Fintushel - Michigan State University
Colloquium

Title:  Smooth 4-manifolds and retional surfaces
Abstract


Tuesday, April 21, 2009
3:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Frederico Xavier - University of Notre Dame

Topology-Analysis-Geometry Seminar

Title:  Mechanisms of Global Invertibility. Part I


Tuesday, April 21, 2009
4:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Dima Burago - Pennsylvania State University

Topology-Analysis-Geometry Seminar

Title:  Area spaces:  First steps.
Abstract


Tuesday, April 21, 2009
11:00 am - 258 Hurley Hall

Xinan Ma - University of Science and Technology of China & Institute of Advanced Studies
PDE, Complex Analysis and Differential Geometry Seminar

Title:  The sharp curvature estimates of the level sets of Green functions on 3-dimensional convex domains
Abstract


Tuesday, April 21, 2009
5:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Brandon Rowekamp - University of Notre Dame
Mathematics Teaching Seminar

Title:  Brandon will be giving a mock lecture on Related Rates.  Please come show your support and give him some feedback.

the mock lecture will be followed by a panel discussion on experience with job search.  You will get to hear from some of our newly minted math PhDs about their job search.  The panel will include Steven Broad, Tom Edgar, Jon Hauenstein and Stacy Hoehn.


Monday, April 20, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Dima Burago - Pennsylvania State University
Colloquium

Title:  Boundary rigidity, volume minimality, and minimal surfaces in L_{infty}: a survey
Abstract


Monday, April 20, 2009
4:00 pm - 127 Hayes-Healy Hall

Sandra Di Rocco - KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Title:  C* - Actions and Kinematics
Abstract


Monday, April 20, 2009
4:15 pm - 229 Hayes-Healy Hall

Ryan Grady - University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Seminar

Title:  A Mathematical Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Abstract


Friday, April 17, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Qi Zhang - University of California, Riverside

Colloquium

Title:  Perelman's entropy, Sobolev inequalitites and heat kernel estimates under Ricci flow
Abstract


Thursday, April 16, 2009
2:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Dima Burago - Pennsylvania State University
Felix Klein Seminar

Title:  Conjugation-invariant norms on groups of geometric origin
Abstract


Thursday, April 16, 2009
3:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Stephan Stolz - University of Notre Dame
Mathematical Physics/Physical Mathematics Seminar

Title:  Quantum field theories and generalized cohomology
Abstract


Thursday, April 16, 2009
4:00 pm - 127 Hayes-Healy Hall

John Kirby - University of Iowa
Center for Biocomplexity Colloquium

Title:  Chemosensory Regulation of Biofilm Formation
Abstract


Thursday, April 16, 2009
4:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Russell Miller - Queens College, CUNY
Logic Seminar

Title:  Degrees of Categoricity of Algebraic Fields
Abstract


Wednesday, April 15, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Ralph Cohen - Stanford University
Colloquium

Title:  Loops, strings, and algebraic topology
Abstract


Tuesday, April 14, 2009
11:00 am - 258 Hurley Hall

Qi Zhang - University of California, Riverside
PDE, Complex Analysis and Differential Geometry Seminar

Title:  Heat kernels bounds on ancient solutions of the Ricci flow
Abstract


Tuesday, April 14, 2009
1:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Chris Schommer-Pries - University of California, Berkeley
Special Topology Seminar

Title:  Classifying Extended Topological Field Theories in Low Dimensions
Abstract


Tuesday, April 14, 2009
5:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Katie Grayshan and Yuan Liu - University of Notre Dame
Mathematics Teaching Seminar

Katie Grayshan - Quotient Rule
Yuan Liu - Slope of the Tangent Line to a Curve


Monday, April 13, 2009
10:00 am - 258 Hurley Hall

Ralph Cohen - Stanford University
Special Topology Seminar

Title:  String topology, field theories, and Hochschild homology
Abstract


Thursday, April 9, 2009
2:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall (Note room change)

Philip Ehrlich - Ohio Univesity, Athens

Logic Seminar

Title:  Surreal Numbers, Conway Names, and the Simplicity Hierarchy
Abstract


Wednesday, April 8, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Andrew Raich - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Colloquium

Title:  Compactness of the Complex Green Operator on CR manifolds of Hypersurface Type
Abstract


Tuesday, April 7, 2009
3:00 pm - 258 Hurley Hall

Fernando Galaz Garcia - University of Maryland/University of Notre Dame
Topology-Analysis-Geometry Seminar

Title:  On classification of nonnegatively curved fixed point homogeneous manifolds in low dimensions


Tuesday, April 7, 2009
4:00 pm - 127 Hayes-Healy Hall

Shmuel Friedland - University of Illinois - Chicago
Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Title:  Counting Matchings in Graphs with Applications to the Monomer-dimer Models
Abstract


Tuesday, April 7, 2009
5:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Curtis Holliman and David Karapetyan - University of Notre Dame
Mathematics Teaching Seminar

Title:  Curtis Holliman - Inverse Trigonometric function
David Karapetyan - Taylor Polynomial Approximation


Monday, April 6, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Tommaso de Fernex - University of Utah
Colloquium

Title:  Rigidity properties of Fano manifolds
Abstract


Monday, April 6, 2009
4:15 pm - 229 Hayes-Healy Hall

Josh Lioi - University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Seminar

Title:  An Applied Mathematics Perspective on Blood Clotting
Abstract


Thursday, April 2, 2009
2:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Josh Cole - University of Notre Dame
Logic Seminar

Title:  The two-quantifier theory of the Medvedev lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ classes is decidable
Abstract


Thursday, April 2, 2009
3:00 pm - 125 Hayes-Healy Hall

Doug Pickrell - University of Arizona
Mathematical Physics/Physical Mathematics Seminar

Title:  Segal's Axioms and Constructive 2d QFT
Abstract


Wednesday, April 1, 2009
3:30 pm - McKenna Hall Auditorium

Charles Westbrook - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ret.)
Center for Applied Mathematics 2009 Nieuwland Lecture Series

Title:  The Role of Combustion in Future Energy Scenarios
Abstract


Wednesday, April 1, 2009
4:00 pm - 117 Hayes-Healy Hall

Doug Pickrell - University of Arizona
Colloquium

Title:  Traingular Factorization
Abstract


 

 

 

 

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