Colloquium Archives

Date Speakers
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 15:30
The stabilized supralinear network: A simple circuit mechanism underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex
Ken Miller
Columbia University
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 15:30
The stabilized supralinear network: A simple circuit mechanism underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex
Ken Miller
Columbia University
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Discretizations of incompressible fluids yielding divergence-free approximations
Friday, September 4, 2015 - 15:30
Graphs, dynamics, and persistent activity
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Paradoxical oscillations in feedforward nets and damaged nerves
Andre Longtin
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Degenerate Diffusions arising in Population Genetics
Charles Epstein
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Hermitian eigenvalue problem and its generalization to any semisimple group: A survey
Shrawan Kumar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
On PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows
Vladimir Sverak
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
PDE/ODE models of motility in active biosystems
Leonid Berlyand
Penn State University
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Theory, Computation, Experiments and Applications
Panayotis Kevrekidis
University of Massachusetts
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics
Gunther Uhlmann
University of Washington
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
The formal proof of the Kepler conjecture
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 13, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
The Tiger and the Magic Hoop: The Dirac Particle and the Kerr-Newman Spacetime
Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh
Rutgers University
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Computational Tools for Data Assimilation
Adrian Sandu
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Lagrangian Floer theory and surgery
Christopher Woodward
Rutgers University
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Curvature and (contact) topology
John Etnyre
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
A trace finite element method for PDEs posed on surfaces
Maxim Olshanskii
University of Houston
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30
Traveling waves in lattices of coupled pendula
Mark Levi
Penn State University
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 15:30 to 16:30
3D Ricci flow since Perelman
John Lott
University of California, Berkeley
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 15:30
Normal functions and the Archmedean Height
Patrick Brosnan
University of Maryland
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 15:30
The Variational Multiscale Method in Large Eddy Simulation, Reduced Order Models, and Uncertainty Quantification
Assad Oberai
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Friday, November 7, 2014 - 15:30
The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects
Gilles Francfort
Universite Paris-Nord and Courant Institute, NYU
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 15:30
Geometry and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
Lizhen Ji
University of Michigan
Friday, October 24, 2014 - 15:30
Multilevel methods for uncertainty quantification of systems governed by PDEs with random inputs
Max Gunzburger
Florida State University
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 15:30
Convex bodies, algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 15:30
Deformations with constraints: Analysis and applications in calculus of variations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 15:30
Weyl's asymptotic law in the setting of Levy processes
Rodrigo Banuelos
Purdue University
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 15:30
Vertical versus horizontal Poincare inequalities
Assaf Naor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Friday, September 12, 2014 - 15:30
Subelliptic harmonic analysis on compact, semi-simple Lie groups
Andras Domokos
California State University Sacramento
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 15:30
Asymptotically compatible discretization of parametrized variational problems with applications
Qiang Du
Columbia University
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 15:30
Geometric properties of the Heisenberg Groups
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 15:30
Coagulation, Gelation and Smoluchowski Equation
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Berkeley University
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 15:30
From `entopology' to morphology in hyperbolic geometry
Jeffrey F. Brock
Brown University
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 15:30
Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry
Ravi Vakil
Stanford University
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 15:30
The Analytic Hierarchy Process
Thomas Saaty
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 15:30
A non-linear eigenvaule problem
Peter Lindqvist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 15:30
3-Dimensional Affine Crystals
William Goldman
University of Maryland
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 15:30
Discrete Total Variation Flows
Ricardo Nochetto
University of Maryland
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 15:30
Time Domain Integral Equations for Computational Wave Propagation
Peter Monk
University of Delaware
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 15:30
Random Structures and Algorithms
Alan Frieze
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 15:30
Liquid droplets on a solid surface
Antoine Mellet
University of Maryland
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 15:30
Evolution and robustness in genetic networks
Leon Glass
McGill University
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 15:30
New Challenges for Mathematical Neuroscience
Professor Michael Reed
Duke University
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
New approximations of the total variation and filters in Image Processing
Haim Brezis
Rutgers, Technion, Paris VI
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 15:30
Singularities in Mean Curvature Flow
William Minicozzi
MIT
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 15:00
The discrete charm of nonlinearity: kinetics of lattice phase transitions
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Moving surfaces in phase transitions
Gieri Simonett
Vanderbilt University
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Mean Curvature Flow
Bruce Kleiner
Courant Institute, New York University
Friday, November 8, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Spatial and Spectral Viewpoints on Nonlinear Waves
John Hunter
University of California Davis
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Traveling Waves Under Discretization
Eric Van Vleck
University of Kansas
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Recent Developments on Certain Dispersive Equations as Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems
Gigliola Staffilani
MIT
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Recent Developments on Certain Dispersive Equations as Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems
Gigliola Staffilani
MIT
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Long and Short Waves in Shallow Water
Clint Dawson
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
The Mathematics of Life - Decisions, Decisions
James Keener
University of Utah
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 15:30
Multiscale stochastic modeling of coupled Stokes-Darcy flows
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Stability of high-density lipoprotein particles
Eliot Fried
McGill University
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Universal Grobner basis and toric geometry
Askold Khovanskii
University of Toronto
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 15:30
Simplicial volume and its applications
Jean-Francois Lafont
Ohio State University
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:30
Type-II singularities of Ricci flow
Daniel Knopf
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:20
Asymptotics and generalized Borel summability
Ovidiu Costin
Ohio State University
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
The Mathematics of Dispersion for Optical Metamaterials
Robert Lipton
Louisiana State University
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 15:30 to 16:20
Variational Problems and Mixed Formulations of coupled systems of mechanics and diffusion
Ralph Showalter
Oregon State University
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Self-similar vortex spiral solutions of the 2d incompressible Euler equations
Volker Elling
University of Michigan
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Soap bubbles, tilings, and other partitioning problems
Frank Morgan
Williams College
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 14:00 to 14:50
Invariant Subspaces and Orbits of Operators
Per Enflo
Kent State University
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Memory and intelligence in simple mechanical systems
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
Harvard University
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Modelingthe neuroprotective role of enhanced astrocyte mitochondrial metabolism during stroke
David Terman
Ohio State University
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Games in Space
Andrew Belmonte
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Mathematical challenges in blood flow
Suncica Canic
University of Houston
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Energetic Variational Approaches for General Diffusion
Chun Liu
Penn State University
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
A Comparison of Classical and Modern Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Some large time behaviors of the water wave motion
Sijue Wu
University of Michigan
Friday, January 25, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Probabilistic reasoning in compressed sensing
Roman Vershynin
University of Michigan
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Compactified Jacobians, Cherednik algebras and knot homology
Eugene Gorsky
Stony Brook University
Friday, January 18, 2013 - 16:00 to 16:50
Equivalent Schubert calculus: positivity, formulas, applications
David Anderson
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Intersection theory and tautological rings of moduli spaces of curves
Hao Xu
Harvard University
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Laplacian growth and the mystery of the abelian sandpile: A visual tour
Yuval Peres
Microsoft Research
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 15:00 to 15:50
Asymptotic representation theory of symmetric groups
Sevak Mkrtchyan
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
“Ultimate state” of two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Charles Doering
University of Michigan
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Quasi-local Mass and the Static Extension Problem in General Relativity
Marcus Khuri
Stony Brook University
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 15:00 to 16:00
Structure of algebraic groups
Michel Brion
Université Grenoble I
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 15:00
Ramanujan at 125
George E. Andrews
Penn State University
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability
John Rinzel
New York University
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Loops, Strings, and Topology
Ralph L. Cohen
Stanford University
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 04:00 to 17:00
Hilbert's 13th Problem
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Mathematical and Computational Methods for Predictive Simulation of Evolution Systems
Catalin Trenchea
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Geometry: from Riemann to Einstein and on to String Theory
Shing-Tung Yau
Harvard University
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Free boundary problems arising from materials science
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Isometric immersions: rigidity, regularity and aspects from nonlinear elasticity
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
A random walk in neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 7, 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
All the way with Gaston Floquet: A theory for flicker hallucinations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:45
Harmonic analysis on reductive p-adic groups
Stephen DeBacker
University of Michigan
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Scalable Maximum Likelihood Calculations of Gaussian Models for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Data
Mihai Anitescu
Aragonne National Laboratory
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
What is GTH, the general theory of homogenization?
Luc Tartar
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Surfaces refracting or reflecting radiation in a prescribed manner
Cristian Gutiérrez
Temple University
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Non-local minimal surfaces
Ovidiu Savin
Columbia University
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Dynamics on random graphs
Amitabha Bose
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Packing space with regular tetrahedra
Jeffrey Lagarias
University of Michigan
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Patterns of Phase-Shift Synchrony
Martin Golubitsky
Ohio State University
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
Generalized Phase Field Models and Interface Problems
University of Pittsburgh