UBC Mathematics DepartmentColloquium Schedule 2006 Spring |
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| DATE and TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| January 6 Friday, 3pm |
Andrej Zlatoš (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Spectral Theory and the Sum Rules for Jacobi Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomials |
| January 9 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Malabika Pramanik ( California Institute of Technology) |
Optimal Sobolev regularity of a class |
| January
13 Friday, 3pm |
David Damanik ( California Institute of Technology) |
Structures of intermediate complexity and quantum dynamics |
| January 16 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Ryan O'Donnell (Microsoft) |
Noise stability, in elections and elsewhere |
| January 20 Friday, 3pm |
Zhiwu Lin (Courant Institute) |
Stability of ideal plane flows |
| January 23 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Antoine Mellet (University of Texas, Austin) |
On the homogenization of some free boundary problems |
| January 27 Friday, 3pm |
Joseph Mahaffy (San Diego State University) |
Mathematical Models for Red Blood Cell Production |
| February 3 Friday, 3pm |
Frank Den Hollander (University of Leiden, EURANDOM) |
Random walk in random scenery |
| February 9 Thursday,12:30pm MATH 104 |
Andrew Rechnitzer (University of Melbourne) |
The analytic structure of lattice models --- looking inside unsolved problems |
| February
17 Friday, 3pm |
Reading Week |
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| February 20 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Adam D. Smith (Weizmann Institute) |
Error-Correction and Randomness Extraction in Cryptographic Protocols |
| February
24 Friday, 3pm |
Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
On the greatest lower bound of the Calabi energy |
| February 27 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Shakhar Smorodinsky (Courant Institute) |
Coloring Geometric Hypergraphs |
| March
3 Friday, 3pm |
Martin Barlow (UBC) |
Random walks, the heat equation, and percolation |
| March 10 Friday, 3pm |
Ching-Li
Chai (University of Pennsylvania) |
Hecke orbits (Niven lecture) |
| March
17 Friday, 3pm |
Robert Moody (University of Victoria) |
Dynamics in the Theory of Diffraction in Systems with Long-range Aperiodic Order |
| March 24 Friday, 3pm |
Richard Ehrenborg (University of Kentucky) |
Counting pattern avoiding permutations via integral operators |
| March
31 Friday, 3pm |
Anette Hosoi (MIT) |
Building a better snail: lubrication, optimization and adhesive locomotion. |
| April 3 Monday, 4pm MATH 105 |
Gang Tian (Princeton University) |
Geometry of low dimensional manifolds |
| April 7 Friday, 3pm |
Uzi
Vishne (Bar Ilan University) |
Isospectral manifolds and Cayley graphs |
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