University of Pittsburgh Mathematics Colloquium

Date	Speaker and title
January 9	Professor Mark Levi , Penn State University Traveling waves in lattices of coupled pendula
January 16	Professor Maxim Olshanskii , University of Houston A trace finite element method for PDEs posed on surfaces
January 23	Professor John Etnyre , Georgia Institute of Technology Curvature and (contact) topology
January 30	Professor Christopher Woodward , Rutgers University Lagrangian Floer theory and surgery
February 6	Professor Adrian Sandu , Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Computational Tools for Data Assimilation
February 13	Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh , Rutgers University The Tiger and the Magic Hoop: The Dirac Particle and the Kerr-Newman Spacetime
February 20	Professor Thomas Hales , University of Pittsburgh The formal proof of the Kepler conjecture
February 27	Professor Gunther Uhlmann , University of Washington Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics
March 6	Professor Panayotis Kevrekidis , University of Massachusetts Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Theory, Computation, Experiments and Applications
March 13	Spring Break
March 20	Professor Leonid Berlyand , Penn State University PDE/ODE models of motility in active biosystems
March 27	Professor Vladimir Sverak , University of Minnesota On PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows
April 3	Professor Shrawan Kumar , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hermitian eigenvalue problem and its generalization to any semisimple group: A survey
April 10	Professor Charles Epstein , University of Pennsylvania Degenerate Diffusions arising in Population Genetics
April 17	Professor Andre Longtin , University of Ottawa Paradoxical oscillations in feedforward nets and damaged nerves

Date

Speaker and title

January 9

Professor Mark Levi , Penn State University
Traveling waves in lattices of coupled pendula

January 16

Professor Maxim Olshanskii , University of Houston
A trace finite element method for PDEs posed on surfaces

January 23

Professor John Etnyre , Georgia Institute of Technology
Curvature and (contact) topology

January 30

Professor Christopher Woodward , Rutgers University
Lagrangian Floer theory and surgery

February 6

Professor Adrian Sandu , Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Computational Tools for Data Assimilation

February 13

Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh , Rutgers University
The Tiger and the Magic Hoop: The Dirac Particle and the Kerr-Newman Spacetime

February 20

Professor Thomas Hales , University of Pittsburgh
The formal proof of the Kepler conjecture

February 27

Professor Gunther Uhlmann , University of Washington
Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics

March 6

Professor Panayotis Kevrekidis , University of Massachusetts
Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Theory, Computation, Experiments and Applications

March 13

Spring Break

March 20

Professor Leonid Berlyand , Penn State University
PDE/ODE models of motility in active biosystems

March 27

Professor Vladimir Sverak , University of Minnesota
On PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows

April 3

Professor Shrawan Kumar , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hermitian eigenvalue problem and its generalization to any semisimple group: A survey

April 10

Professor Charles Epstein , University of Pennsylvania
Degenerate Diffusions arising in Population Genetics

April 17

Professor Andre Longtin , University of Ottawa
Paradoxical oscillations in feedforward nets and damaged nerves

Date	Speaker and title
September 5	Professor Qiang Du , Columbia University Asymptotically compatible discretization of parametrized variational problems with applications
September 12	Professor Andras Domokos , California State University Sacramento Subelliptic harmonic analysis on compact, semi-simple Lie groups
September 19	Professor Assaf Naor , Princeton University Vertical versus horizontal Poincare inequalities
September 26	Professor Mark Newman Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The form and function of networks
October 3	Professor Rodrigo Bañuelos , Purdue University Weyl's asymptotic law in the setting of Levy processes
October 10	Professor Mohammadreza Pakzad , University of Pittsburgh Deformations with constraints: Analysis and applications in calculus of variations
October 17	Professor Kiumars Kaveh , University of Pittsburgh Convex bodies, algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
October 24	Professor Max Gunzburger , Florida State University Multilevel methods for uncertainty quantification of systems governed by PDEs with random inputs
October 31	Professor Lizhen Ji , University of Michigan Geometry and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
November 7	Professor Gilles Francfort , Universite Paris-Nord and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects
November 14	Professor Assad Oberai , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The Variational Multiscale Method in Large Eddy Simulation, Reduced Order Models, and Uncertainty Quantification
November 21	Professor Patrick Brosnan , University of Maryland Normal functions and the Archmedean Height
November 28	Thanksgiving Break
December 5	Professor John Lott , Berkeley University 3D Ricci flow since Perelman

Department of Mathematics Colloquium

University of Pittsburgh, Academic Year 2014-2015

Schedule for Spring 2015

Schedule for Fall 2014