Mathematics Colloquium

University of Pittsburgh, Academic Year 2013-2014

The Mathematics Department Colloquium meets weekly on Friday from 3:30--4:30 pm in Thackerey Hall, Room 704.
Refreshments are served from 3:00 pm in Room 705.

The colloquium committee consists of: Jason DeBlois, Catalin Trenchea, Anna Vainstein, Marta Lewicka (Chair, lewicka@pitt.edu).

Schedule for Spring 2014

Date	Speaker and title
January 10	Professor William Minicozzi , MIT Singularities in Mean Curvature Flow
Thursday, January 16 lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm	Professor Haim Brezis , Rutgers, Technion, Paris VI New approximations of the total variation and filters in Image Processing
January 17	Professor Michael Reed , Duke University New Challenges for Mathematical Neuroscience
January 24	Professor Leon Glass , McGill University Evolution and robustness in genetic networks
January 31	Professor Antoine Mellet , University of Maryland Liquid droplets on a solid surface
February 7	Professor Alan Frieze , Carnegie Mellon University Random Structures and Algorithms
February 14	Professor Peter Monk , University of Delaware Time Domain Integral Equations for Computational Wave Propagation
February 21	Professor Ricardo Nochetto , University of Maryland Discrete Total Variation Flows
February 28	Professor William Goldman , University of Maryland 3-Dimensional Affine Crystals
Wednesday, March 5 Special PDE Colloquium lecture at 4:30pm	Professor Alain Miranville , University of Poitiers, France Some equations with logarithmic nonlinear terms
March 7	Professor Peter Lindqvist , Norwegian University of Science and Technology A non-linear eigenvaule problem
March 14	Spring Break
Monday, March 17 lecture at 4pm reception follows	The Edmund R. Michalik Distinguished Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences Professor John Ball , Oxford University Defects in Materials and their Mathematical Description
March 21	Professor Thomas Saaty , Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh The Analytic Hierarchy Process
March 28	Professor Ravi Vakil , Stanford University Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry
April 4	Professor Jeffrey F. Brock , Brown University From `entopology' to morphology in hyperbolic geometry
April 11	Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou , Berkeley University Coagulation, Gelation and Smoluchowski Equation
April 18	Professor Piotr Hajlasz , University of Pittsburgh Geometric properties of the Heisenberg Groups

Schedule for Fall 2013

Date	Speaker and title
September 6	Professor Daniel Knopf , University of Texas at Austin Type-II singularities of Ricci flow
September 13	Professor Jean-Francois Lafont , Ohio State University Simplicial volume and its applications
September 20	Professor Askold Khovanskii , University of Toronto Universal Grobner basis and toric geometry
September 27	Professor Eliot Fried , McGill University Stability of high-density lipoprotein particles
October 4	Professor Ivan Yotov , University of Pittsburgh Multiscale stochastic modeling of coupled Stokes-Darcy flows
October 11	Professor James Keener , University of Utah The Mathematics of Life - Decisions, Decisions
October 18	Professor Clint Dawson , University of Texas at Austin Long and short waves in shallow water
October 25	Professor Gigliola Staffilani , MIT Recent developments on certain dispersive equations as infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems
November 1	Professor Eric Van Vleck , University of Kansas Traveling Waves Under Discretization
November 8	Professor John Hunter , UC Davis Spatial and Spectral Viewpoints on Nonlinear Waves
November 15	Professor Bruce Kleiner , NYU Courant Institute Mean curvature flow
November 22	Professor Gieri Simonett , Vanderbilt University Moving surfaces in phase transitions
November 29	Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, December 3 lecture at 3pm refreshments at 2:30pm	Professor Anna Vainchtein , University of Pittsburgh The discrete charm of nonlinearity: kinetics of lattice phase transitions

Past colloquia: 2012-2013 . 2010-2011 . 2009-2010 . 2008-2009 . 2007-2008