Schedule for 2006-2007

September| October| November| December

January | February | March | April | May

Back to current Collouquium talks.

Information for speakers and hosts: Here is a nice article by John McCarthy (Washington University) on how to give a good colloquium (Canad. Math. Soc. Notes, vol 35, no. 3-4, Sept. 1999).

September
September 21, 2006
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
September 28, 2006
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
October
October 5, 2006
No Colloquium (Ida Beam Distinguished Visitor Lecture)
October 12, 2006
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	M. Rajagopalan (Tennessee State University, Nashville)
Title	Shift Operators on Banach Spaces
Host	Surjit Singh Khurana
Room	118 MLH
October 19, 2006
3:30 pm	Phil Kutzko's 60th Birthday Conference
Speaker	tba
October 26, 2006
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Yuk-Kam Lau
Title	Some Recent Work on Automorphic L-functions
Host	Yangbo Ye
Room	118 MLH
November
November 2, 2006
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Dan Britten
Title	Infinite Dimensional Lie Modules with Finite Dimensional Weight Spaces
Host	Kent Fuller
Room	118 MLH
November 9, 2006
3:30	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
Thursday, November 16, 2006
No Colloquium  (Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series)
November 23, 2006
3:30	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
November 30, 2006
3:30	Mathematics Colloquium
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December
December 7, 2006
3:30	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
December 14, 2006
3.15 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Thomas A. Hogan (The Boeing Company)
Title	Implications of design optimization on geometry generation
Hosts	Palle Jorgensen and Yi Li
Room	MLH 210
January
January 4, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
January 11, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
January 18, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
January 26, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
February
February 5, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Huiqiang Jiang (University of Minnesota)
Title	Regularity of a type of free boundary problem with volume constraint
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
February 6, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Rodica Curtu (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)
Title	Mechanisms for Frequency Control in Neuronal Competition Models
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
February 8, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Andrew Nevai
Title	The Spatial Spread of Infectious Diseases
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
February 8, 2007
2:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Gerard Buskes
Title	Tensor products for Banach lattices
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	22 SH
February 13, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Julianna Tymoczko (University of Michigan)
Title	Geometric representations of the permutation group
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
February 15, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Mihran Papikian (Stanford University)
Title	Drinfeld modular varieties and the Weil-Deligne bound
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
February 16, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Bruce Ayati
Title	A Multiscale Model of Biofilm as a Senescence-Structured Fluid
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	MLH 205
MARCH
March 1 ,2007
March 8,2007
3.30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Melvin Leok (Purdue University)
Title	Computational Geometric Mechanics and its Applications to Geometric Optimal Control Theory
Host	Laurent Jay
Room	205 MLH
March 15, 2007
No Colloquium,  Spring Break
March 22, 2007
No Colloquium (Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series)
March 29, 2007
3:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium
	tba
April
April 2, 2007
2:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Seunghoon Bang (Penn State)
Title	Rarefaction Wave interaction of a Subsystem of the Euler System in 2-D
Host	Lihe Wang
Room	205 MLH
April 10, 2007
2:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium (Note: Unusual time and day)
Speaker	Wenxiong Chen (Yeshiva University)
Title	Method of Moving Planes in Both Differential and Integral Forms
Host	Lihe Wang
Room	MLH 210
April 18, 2007
3:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium (Note: Not the usual day)
Speaker	Daniel Onofrei (Worcester Polytechic Institute)
Title	Error estimates in homogenization and applications
Host	Lihe Wang
Room	205 MLH
April 20, 2007
3:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium (Note: Not the usual day)
Speaker	Zhiqin Lu (Universiy of California, Irvine)
Title	On the Chern classes of CY moduli
Host	Hao Fang
Room	MLH 205
April 26, 2007
3:30 p.m.	No Colloquium
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Title
Host
Room
May
May 1, 2007
2:30 p.m.	Mathematics Colloquium (Note: Unusual day and time)
Speaker	Shulin Zhou (Peking University)
Title	Existence and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions for a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation
Host	Lihe Wang
Room	MLH 210
May 2, 2007
3:30 p.m.	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium (Note: Not the usual day)
Speaker	James S.W.Wong (City University of Honk Kong)
Title	Rectifiable Oscillations of Second Order Linear Differential Equations in Finite Intervals
Host	Bor_Luh Lin
Room	MLH 105
May 3, 2007
2:30 p.m.	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium (Note: Not the usual day)
Speaker	Man Kam Kwong (Alcatel-Lucent)
Title	The Brouwer and Krasnoselskii fixed point theorems
Host	Yi Li
Room	MLH 205
May 10, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium (Note the unusual room)
Speaker	Mark McKee (Purdue University)
Title	Whittaker functions, Eisenstein series, and finite order
Host	M. Krishnamurthy
Room	MLH 114
May 15, 2007
1:30 pm	Mathematics-AMCS-Physics Colloquium
Speaker	Rod Gover
Title	Conformal Laplacian operators and Q-curvature on Einstein manifolds
Host	Palle Jorgensen
Room	VAN 301
May 15, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics-AMCS-Physics Colloquium
Speaker	Mike Eastwood
Title	The X-ray Transform on ComplexProjective Space
Host	Palle Jorgensen
Room	VAN 301
May 16, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics-AMCS-Physics Colloquium
Speaker	Mike Eastwood
Title	Higher symmetries of the Laplacian
Host	Palle Jorgensen
Room	VAN 301