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Calendar of Seminars & Colloquia

SPRING 2012

May 7-11

May 14-18 May 21-25

May 28-Jun 1 June 4-8

This page contains listings of all seminar and colloquium meetings scheduled for the quarter, updated on an ongoing basis. Send seminar announcements to Mike Munz at munz[at]math.washington.edu.
If an ongoing seminar has its own web page, click on the name of the seminar to visit that page.

Week of May 7 - 11

Monday, May 7

Probability Seminar
   Spinning Brownian Motion
   Mauricio Duarte, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Smith 211

Tuesday, May 8

Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   2-Dimensional Local-Global Principles
   Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36

Rainwater Seminar
   Spectral Analysis of Z^d-Substitutions of Constant Length
   Alan Bartlett, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401

Optimization Seminar
   Gaussian Smoothing and Asymptotic Convexity
   Hossein Mobahi, University of Illinois

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Wednesday, May 9

Combinatorics Seminar
   Schubert Calculus Associated to Richardson Varieties Stable Under Spherical Levi Subgroups
   Ben Wyser, University of Georgia

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 10

Grad Student Analysis Seminar
   Decoupling of Modes for the Elastic Wave Equation
   Justin Tittlefitz, University of Washington

   2:00pm, Padelford C-401

Current Topics Seminar
   The Wonderful World of Polytopes
   Isabella Novik, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36

Friday, May 11

MathAcrossCampus Colloquium
   We Vote, But Do We Elect Who We Really Want?
   Don Saari, UC Irvine

   3:00pm, Kane Hall 220

Week of May 14 - 18

Monday, May 14

Probability Seminar
   Connections Between the Abelian Sandpile Model and the Dimer Model
   Laura Florescu, Los Alamos National Lab

   2:30pm, Smith 211

Tuesday, May 15

Optimization Seminar
   Mathematical Programs with Vanishing Constraints
   Tim Hoheisel, University of Würzburg

   3:48pm, Padelford C-401

Wednesday, May 16

Combinatorics Seminar
   The Mobius Function of Generalized Subword Order
   Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 17

Grad Student Analysis Seminar
   Conformal Welding Maps for Plane Trees
   Joel Barnes, University of Washington

   2:00pm, Padelford C-401

Number Theory Seminar
   The Local Langlands Correspondence and Character Sheaves
   David Roe, University of Calgary

   3:35pm, Padelford C-401

Friday, May 18

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium
   The Secret Lives of Polynomial Identities
   Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

   2:30pm, CHL 015

Week of May 21 - 25

Monday, May 21

Probability Seminar
   A Geometric Perspective on First-Passage Competition
   Nathaniel Blair-Stahn, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Smith 211

Tuesday, May 22

Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   (To be announced.)
   Joe Ross, USC

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36

Optimization Seminar
   Periodic Optimization Suffices for Infinite Horizon Planar Optimal Control
   Ido Bright, University of Washington (Applied Math)

   3:48pm, Padelford C-401

2011-2012 Milliman Lecture Series
   Aspects of Conformal Invariant Randomness
   Lecture I: The Global Picture
   Wendelin Werner, Université Paris-Sud

   4:00pm, Savery 260

Wednesday, May 23

2011-2012 Milliman Lecture Series
   Aspects of Conformal Invariant Randomness
   Lecture II: Introduction the Gaussian Free Field
   Wendelin Werner, Université Paris-Sud

   4:00pm, Smith 205

Thursday, May 24

2011-2012 Milliman Lecture Series
   Aspects of Conformal Invariant Randomness
   Lecture III: Conformal Loop Ensembles
   Wendelin Werner, Université Paris-Sud

   4:00pm, Savery 260

Friday, May 25

Week of May 28 - June 1

Monday, May 28

~Memorial Day~

Tuesday, May 29

Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Luke Wolcott, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36

Optimization Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Sonali Tamhankar, University of Washington

   3:48pm, Padelford C-401

Wednesday, May 30

Combinatorics Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Alexander Woo, University of Idaho

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 31

Friday, June 1

Week of June 4 - 8

Monday, June 4

Tuesday, June 5

Wednesday, June 6

Thursday, June 7

Friday, June 8

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