UBC Department of Mathematics
Colloquium - 2009/2010

The colloquium is usually held in the Math Annex (Room 1100) at 3:00pm on Fridays.
Tea and cookies are served in the math lounge (MATH 125) at approximately 2:45pm.
Occasionally, talks will be scheduled on

Mondays at 4:00pm in the Math Annex building room 1100;
Wednesdays at 3:00PM in the PIMS large seminar room (WMAX110).
These appear below in a different colour.

Talks

Time and Place	Speaker	Title
Fri., Sept. 11; 3:00, MATX 1100	Johannes Nicaise University of Leuven, Belgium	Rational points on varieties over a discretely valued field
Thurs., Sept. 17; 2:00, WMAX 216	Mohammad El Smaily PIMS/UBC	KPP pulsating traveling fronts within large drift (PIMS/WMAX Postdoctoral Colloquium)
Fri., Sept. 25; 3:00, MATX 1100	Albert Chau UBC	Lagrangian Mean Curvature flow for entire Lipschitz graphs
Fri., Oct. 2; 3:00, MATX 1100	Bill Minicozzi Johns Hopkins, USA	Generic singularities of mean curvature flow
Fri., Oct. 9; 3:00, MATX 1100	Tai-Peng T sai UBC	Navier-Stokes flows with scaling invariant bounds
Fri., Oct. 16; 3:00, MATX 1100	Tobias Lamm UBC	Parabolic systems with rough initial data
Fri., Oct. 23; 3:00, MATX 1100	Aleks Owczarek University of Melbourne, Australia	Lattice Paths as Interfacial phase boundaries: some history and a new solution
Fri., Oct. 30; 3:00, MATX 1100	Nassif Ghoussoub UBC	Mathematical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Modeling Electrostatic MEMS
Fri., Nov. 6; 3:00, MATX 1100	Carl de Boor University of Wisconsin	Issues in multivariate polynomial interpolation (PIMS/UBC special colloquium)
Fri., Nov. 13; 3:00, MATX 1100	Robert McCann University of Toronto	Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures and Optimal Transportation
Fri., Nov. 20; 3:00, MATX 1100	Jeff Smith UBC	Group actions on spheres
Fri., Nov. 27; 3:00, MATX 1100	Geoffrey Grimmett Cambridge U. Canceled.	Problems for the clairvoyant demon
Mon., Dec. 7; 4:00, MATX 1100	Alexandra Pettet U.Michigan	The outer automorphism group of a free group and its relatives
Wed., Dec. 9; 3:00, MATX 1100	Juan Souto U.Michigan	Relations between geometry and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Mon., Jan. 11, 2010; 4:00, MATX 1100	Richard Kent Brown University	Analytic functions from hyperbolic manifolds
Wed., Jan. 13; 3:00, WMAX 110	Nicolas Templier Institute for Advanced Study
Mon., Jan. 18; 4:00, MATX 1100	Florian Herzig Northwestern University	Modular representations of p-adic groups
Fri., Jan. 22; 3:00, MATX 1100	Dragos Ghioca University of Lethbridge	The dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture
Mon., Jan. 25; 4:00, MATX 1100	Leo Tzou Stanford University	The Calderon problem -- from the past to the present
Fri., Jan. 29; 3:00, MATX 1100	Andrej Zlatos University of Chicago	Reaction and Diffusion in Fluid Flow
Mon., Feb. 1; 4:00, MATX 1100	Andrew Putman MIT	The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures
Wed., Feb. 3; 3:00, WMAX 110	Tadahrio Oh University of Toronto	Probability in the PDE theory
Fri., March. 5; 3:00, MATX 1100	Harald Helfgott	Growth in simple groups of Lie type -- a survey talk
Fri., Mar. 19; 3:00, MATX 1100	Patricia Hersh North Carolina State University, USA.	Combinatorics and topology of stratified spaces
Fri., Mar. 26; 3:00, MATX 1100 (CRM-Fields-PIMS prize lecture)	Gordon Slade UBC	The Self-Avoiding Walk
Fri.,April 9; 3:00, MATX 1100	Balazs Szegedy Toronto
Fri.,April. 16; 3:00, MATX 1100 (PIMS lecutre/colloquium)	Kannan Soundararajan Stanford	Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory

Past talks

Time and Place	Speaker	Title

Fall 2008 Schedule

Winter 2009 Schedule

This page is maintained by Julia Gordon, Young-Heon Kim and Lior Silberman, the colloquium co-chairs for 2009-2010.

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UBC Department of Mathematics Colloquium - 2009/2010

Talks

Combinatorics and topology of stratified spaces

UBC Department of Mathematics
Colloquium - 2009/2010