Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2008
Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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January 11
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Stefan Wenger
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
Isoperimetric inequalities and the large scale geometry of metric spaces |
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January 14
|
Hyman Bass & Mark Thames
University of Michigan |
The Role of Definitions in Teaching, Learning, and Doing Mathematics: An Example of MKT |
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January 15
|
Iana I. Anguelova
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), Concordia University |
Vertex Algebras: From Super to Quantum |
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January 16
|
Leonid V. Kovalev
Texas A&M University |
Monotonicity in geometric mapping theory and functional analysis |
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January 17
|
Dan Margalit
University of Utah |
Finiteness properties of Torelli groups |
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January 18
|
Natasa Sesum
Columbia University |
The Ricci flow and precise asymptotics of a type II singularity on R^2 |
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January 22
|
Michael Greenblatt
SUNY at Buffalo |
Resolution of Singularities and Analysis |
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January 23
|
Julia Pevtsova
University of Washington |
Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology: An Elementary Approach |
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January 24
(1:00 pm; SEO 636)
|
Thomas Judson
Harvard University |
High School Calculus in Japan and the United States |
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January 24
|
Alexey Cheskidov
University of Chicago |
On the regularity of weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in the largest critical space |
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January 25
|
Irina Nenciu
Courant Institute |
On the Toda and Ablowitz-Ladik equations: comparing two discrete completely integrable systems |
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January 28
|
Craig Westerland
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Hurwitz Spaces and String Topology |
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January 29
(1:00 pm; SEO 636)
|
Sharon Kay Strickland
Michigan State University |
The Implicit Curriculum of Mathematics Pedagogy |
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January 29
|
Junhui Wang
Columbia University |
On Large Margin Hierarchical Classification |
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January 30
|
Christian Rosendal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Descriptive Kakutani equivalence |
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January 31
(1:00 pm; SEO 636)
|
Hyung Sook Lee
University of Georgia |
Multiplicative reasoning in fractional contexts: A case study of a middle school teacher |
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February 1
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February 8
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Izzet Coskun
UIC |
The interpolation problem |
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February 12
|
Gloriana Gonzalez
University of Michigan |
Remembering and forgetting in a geometry class: How do geometry teachers manage students' prior knowledge? |
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February 13
|
Michael Singer
North Carolina State University |
TBA |
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February 15
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February 22
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February 29
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March 7
(3:00 pm; Lecture Center D-2)
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Winnie Li
Penn State University |
Noncongruence modular forms and modularity |
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March 14
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March 17
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Timothy P. Fukawa-Connelly
University of Maryland |
Observed uses of examples and implications for student learning in abstract algebra |
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March 18
|
Mara V. Martinez
Tufts University |
Integrating Algebra and Proof in High School: The Case of the Calendar Sequence |
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March 20
|
Bernard Deconinck
University of Washington |
Cnoidal wave solutions of the KdV equation are linearly stable. |
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March 21
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March 28
|
No seminar
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Spring Break |
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April 4
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April 10
|
Song-Ying Li
UCI |
Complex Monge-Ampere Operators in Complex Analysis and Pseudo-Hermitian CR Manifolds |
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April 11
(3:00 pm; Lecture Center D4)
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Robin Hartshorne
University of California at Berkeley |
On Noether's theorem |
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April 18
|
Richard Schwartz
Brown University |
Polygonal outer billiards |
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April 25
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May 2
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