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Calendar of Seminars & Colloquia

SPRING 2013
This page contains listings of all seminar and colloquium meetings scheduled for the quarter, updated on an ongoing basis. Send seminar announcements to Rose Choi at rosechoi[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 6-10
Monday, May 6
Number Theory Seminar
   Projectivity of certain Iwasawa modules
   Bharathwaj Palvannan, University of Washington

   3:30pm, LOW 114
Probability seminar
   Hamiltonian cycles in random regular graphs and the small subgraph conditioning    method
   Elliot Paquette, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Physics & Astronomy Auditorium A114
Tuesday, May 7
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   The birational geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on surfaces and Bridgeland
   stability
   Izzet Coskun, University of Illinois at Chicago

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, May 8
Combinatorics Seminar
   Permutation patterns and Stanley symmetric functions
   Brendan Pawlowski, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Thursday, May 9
Current Topics Seminar
   Inverse Problems for Electrical Networks
   James Morrow, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Friday, May 10
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium
   Counting Graphs
   S.R.Srinivasa Varadhan, New York University's Courant Institute

   2:30pm, Dempsey Hall 004

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Week of May 13-17
Monday, May 13
Probability seminar
   TBA
   Weiyang Ning, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Physics & Astronomy Auditorium A114
Tuesday, May 14
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   On the unirationality of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2
   Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Number Theory Seminar
   Two-torsion Brauer classes on double covers of ruled surfaces
   Bianca Viary, Brown University

   11:30am, Padelford C-401
Optimization Seminar
   Extraordinary Convex Programs
   Jim Burke, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Wednesday, May 15
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Zajj Daugherty, Dartmouth College

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Thursday, May 16
 
Friday, May 17
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium
   Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets
   Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher and Theory Group Manager at Microsoft Research Redmond

   2:30pm, Dempsey Hall 004

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Week of May 20-24
Monday, May 20
Probability seminar
   TBA
   Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina

   2:30pm, Physics & Astronomy Auditorium A114
Tuesday, May 21
Optimization Seminar
   TBA
   Yang Song, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, May 22
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Jair Taylor, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Thursday, May 23
Current Topics Seminar
   TBA
   Jim Burke, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Friday, May 24
 

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Week of May 27-31
Monday, May 27
 
Tuesday, May 28
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   TBA
   Nicolas Addington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Optimization Seminar
   TBA
   Christopher Jordan-Squire, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Wednesday, May 29
Combinatorics Seminar
   Geometric Graphs
   Moshe Rosenfeld, University of Washington-Tacoma

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Thursday, May 30
 
Friday, May 31
 

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Week of June 3-7
Monday, June 3
Probability seminar
   TBA
   Jeff Steif, Chalmers/Microsoft

   2:30pm, Physics & Astronomy Auditorium A114
Tuesday, June 4
Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Rational singular loci of nilpotent varieties
   Monty McGovern, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, June 5
Combinatorics Seminar
   TBA
   Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Coast University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Thursday, June 6
Current Topics Seminar
   TBA
   Sara Billey, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Friday, June 7
 

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Week of June 10-14
Monday, June 10
 
Tuesday, June 11
 
Wednesday, June 12
 
Thursday, June 13
 
Friday, June 14
 

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