The University of British Columbia Colloquium 
2004-05: Fridays 3pm Math Annex Room 1100 (occasionally Mondays)  


The colloquium will normally take place in the Math Annex room 1100 at 3:00pm on Fridays and there will be tea and cookies in the math lounge at approximately 2:45pm. Occasionally, the colloquium will be on a Monday 4:00pm in the Math building room 105 or on a Wednesday 3:00PM in the Math building room 103.

Schedule of this year's talks:

DATE and TIME  SPEAKER  TITLE 
September 10
Friday, 3pm 
Klaus Schmidt
(University of Vienna)
Recurrence of stationary random walks
September 17
Friday, 3pm  
Otmar Scherzer
(University of Innsbruck)
Linear, Non-linear, Non-differentiable, Non-convex regularization involving unbounded operators
September 24
Friday, 3pm  
Izabella Laba
(UBC)
Distance sets corresponding to non-Euclidean norms
October 1
Friday, 3pm  
Greg Martin
(UBC)
Prime number races
October 8
Friday, 3pm  
Tai-Peng Tsai
(UBC)
Stability of solitary waves
October 15
Friday, 3pm  
Zinovy Reichstein
(UBC)
Cayley maps for algebraic groups
October 22
Friday, 3pm  
Nassif Ghoussoub
(UBC)
Anti-self dual Lagrangians and variational formulations for non self-adjoint boundary value problems and dissipative evolutions
October 29
Friday, 3pm  
Dan Rudolph
(University of Maryland)
Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Measure Preserving Dynamics
November 5
Friday, 3pm  
Allen Knutson
(University of California, Berkeley)
Singularities of mappings, equivariant cohomology, and pipe dreams
November 12
Friday, 3pm  
Sebastian Ferrando
(Ryerson University)
Martingales and Wavelets: Applications to Hedging Financial Derivatives.
November 19
Friday, 3pm  
Michael Ward
(UBC)
Eigenvalue Optimization, Spikes, and the Neumann Green's Function
November 26
Friday, 3pm  
Vladimir L. Popov
(Steklov Mathematical Institute)
Polynomial automorphisms
December 3
Friday, 3pm  
Kee Lam
(UBC)
The Kervaire invariant: what we still don't know
about the real projective plane.
December 6
Monday, 3pm
MATX 1100 
Helmut Hofer
(Courant Institute)

Quantitative Symplectic Geometry
December 8
Wednesay, 3pm
MATX 1100
John McKay
(Concordia University)
196884 = 196883 + 1 and the wonders of moonshine

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