| Date | Speaker and title |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 8 JOB TALK lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm |
Professor Sevak Mkrtchyan
, Carnegie Mellon University Asymptotic representation theory of symmetric groups |
| Monday, January 14 lecture at 3pm University Club, Ballroom A refreshments will follow the lecture |
Inaugural Lecture of the
Mathematics Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Professor Yuval Peres , Microsoft Laplacian growth and the mystery of the abelian sandpile: A visual tour This Colloquium is also a part of the 2013 Theme Semester on Game Theory and PDEs |
| Thursday, January 17 JOB TALK lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm |
Professor Hao Xu
, Harvard University Intersection theory and tautological rings of moduli spaces of curves |
| Friday, January 18 JOB TALK lecture at 4pm refreshments at 3:30pm |
Professor David Anderson
, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris Equivalent Schubert calculus: positivity, formulas, applications |
| Tuesday, January 22 JOB TALK lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm |
Professor Eugene Gorsky
, Stony Brook University Compactified jacobians, Cherednik algebras and knot homology |
| January 25 | Professor
Roman Vershynin ,
University of Michigan, Probabilistic reasoning in compressed sensing |
| February 1 | Professor
Sijue Wu , University of Michigan, Some large time behaviors of the water wave motion |
| February 8 |
Professor Stuart Hastings
, University of Pittsburgh A Comparison of Classical and Modern Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations |
| February 15 | Professor Chun Liu
, Penn State Energetic Variational Approaches for General Diffusion |
| February 22 | Professor Suncica Canic ,
University of Houston Mathematical challenges in blood flow |
| March 1 | Professor
Andrew Belmonte , Penn State Games in Space |
| March 8 | Professor
David Terman , Ohio State University Modeling the neuroprotective role of enhanced astrocyte mitochondrial metabolism during stroke |
| Friday, March 15, 2pm | Professor
L. Mahadevan , Harvard University Memory and intelligence in simple mechanical systems This Colloquium is also a plenary lecture at the "Advances in Nonlinear Science" conference. |
| Friday, March 22, 2pm | Special Graduate Colloquium Professor Per Enflo , Kent State University Invariant Subspaces and Orbits of Operators |
| March 22 lecture at 4pm Ballroom B, University Club |
Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical
Sciences Professor Frank Morgan , Williams College Soap bubbles, tilings, and other partitioning problems |
| March 29 | Professor Volker Elling
, University of Michigan Self-similar vortex spiral solutions of the 2d incompressible Euler equations |
| Special presentation Thursday, April 4, 3pm |
Professor Scott Chapman
, Sam Houston State University Editor in Chief of The American Mathematical Monthly Monthly Past, Monthly Present, and Monthly Future |
| April 5 | Professor Ralph Showalter
, Oregon State University Variational Problems & Mixed Formulations of coupled systems of mechanics and diffusion |
| April 12 | Professor Robert Lipton
, Louisiana State University The Mathematics of Dispersion for Optical Metamaterials |
| April 19 |
Professor Ovidiu Costin ,
Ohio State University Asymptotics and generalized Borel summability |
| Date | Speaker and title |
|---|---|
| September 7 | Professor
Bard Ermentrout , University of Pittsburgh All the way with Gaston Floquet: A theory for flicker hallucinations |
| September 14 | Professor
Brent Doiron , University of Pittsburgh A random walk in neuroscience |
| September 21 | Professor
Reza Pakzad , University of Pittsburgh
Isometric immersions: rigidity, regularity and aspects from nonlinear elasticity |
| September 28 | Professor
Huiqiang Jiang , University of Pittsburgh Free boundary problems arising from materials science |
| October 5 lecture at 4pm Ballroom, Rm. 202, O'Hara Student Center |
Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical
Sciences Professor Shing-Tung Yau , Harvard University Geometry: from Riemann to Einstein and on to String Theory |
| October 12 | Professor
Catalin Trenchea , University of Pittsburgh
Mathematical and Computational Methods for Predictive Simulation of Evolution Systems |
| October 19 | Professor Paul Gartside ,
University of Pittsburgh Hilbert's 13th Problem |
| October 26 | Professor Ralph L. Cohen ,
Stanford University Loops, Strings, and Topology |
| November 2 | Professor Andrew Belmonte ,
Penn State Games in Space |
| November 9 | Professor John Rinzel
, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute, New York
University Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability |
| Thursday, November 15 lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm |
Professor
George E. Andrews , Penn State Ramanujan at 125 |
| November 23 | Thanksgiving Break |
| Thursday, November 29 lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm |
Professor
Michel Brion , Universite Grenoble I Structure of algebraic groups |
| November 30 | Professor Marcus Khuri ,
Stony Brook University Quasi-local Mass and the Static Extension Problem in General Relativity |
| December 7 | Professor
Charles Doering , University of Michigan ``Ultimate state'' of two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection |
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