MSCS Departmental Colloquium

Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2010

Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.

Date	Speaker	Title
January 11	Benjamin Miller	Dichotomy Theorems in Descriptive Set Theory
January 15	Christof Sparber Cambridge University	On nonlinear Schrodinger equations modeling collective quantum dynamics
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12	Christian Rosendal UIC	Combinatorics of block sequences
February 19	Ryan Martin IUPUI	Recursive nonparametric estimation of mixing distributions
February 22	Martin C. Golumbic University of Haifa	The Mathematics of Uri N. Peled
February 26	Jeffrey Brock Brown University	Length spectra of moduli spaces and volumes of hyperbolic surface bundles
March 5	Michael Wolf Rice University	Minimal Desingularizations of Planes in Space
March 8	JM Landsberg Texas AM	P v. NP and geometry
March 12
March 19	Mihnea Popa UIC	Projective versus abelian geometry
March 26	No seminar	Spring Break
April 2	Ravi Vakil Stanford University	Generalizing the cross ratio: The moduli space of n points on the projective line up to projective equivalence
April 9	Sergey Yuzvinsky University of Oregon	RESONANCE VARIETIES OF HYPERPLANE COMPLEMENTS
April 16	Mihai Paun Nancy	Bergman Kernel and applications to geometry
April 23	William Goldman University of Maryland	3-dimensional affine space forms and hyperbolic geometry
April 30	Stephen Kudla University of Toronto	Cycles on ball quotients and modular forms