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Current Seminar Schedule

SPRING 2008

May 5-9 May 12-16

May 19-23 May 26-30

June 2-6 June 9-13

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 5 - 9

Monday, May 5

Probability Seminar
   Glauber Dynamics for the Mean-field Ising Model and Cutoff in Birth-and-Death Chains
   Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research

   2:30pm, Loew 101

Tuesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 7

Combinatorics Seminar
   Reflexive Polytopes and String Duality
   Chuck Doran, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 8

Mathematics Colloquium
   Semiclassical Limits and the Index Theorem
   Richard Melrose, MIT

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36

Current Topics Seminar
   Beyond Fourier: Some Analysis Inspired by Signal and Image Processing
   Gerald Folland, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36

Friday, May 9

Number Theory Seminar
   Point Counting on Reductions of CM Elliptic Curves
   Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine

   3:45pm, Padelford C-36

Number Theory Seminar
   Whyever Iwasawa Theory?
   John Coates, University of Cambridge

   5:00pm, Padelford C-36

Week of May 12 - 16

Monday, May 12

Probability Seminar
   Intersections of Random Walks in Supercritical Dimensions
   Peter Moerters, University of Bath

   2:30pm, Loew 101

Inverse Problems Seminar
   Determining Glacier Velocities from Surface Measurements
   David Maxwell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

   4:00pm, Mechanical Engineering Building 245

Tuesday, May 13

Algebra Seminar
   Exceptional Vector Bundles Associated to Degenerations of Surfaces
   Paul Hacking, University of Washington

   1:30pm, Padelford C-36

Wednesday, May 14

Joint Inverse Problems & DG/PDE Seminar
   Rough and Partial Data Problem for Systems - Case of the Pauli-Dirac Equation
   Leo Tzou, Stanford University

   3:50pm, Padelford C-36

Combinatorics Seminar
   Hyperkahler Kirwan Surjectivity for Quiver Varieties: Morse Theory and Examples
   Megumi Harada, McMaster University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 15

Computational Number Theory & Cryptography Seminar
   E-Voting
   Josh Benaloh

   1:30pm, Guggenheim 415L

Current Topics Seminar
   Brave New Algebra
   Dave Rosoff, University of Washington

   3:50pm, Padelford C-36

Friday, May 16

SuperSeminar
   A Perfect Pairing of Derived Categories of Sheaves
   Matthew Ballard, University of Washington

   12:30pm, Padelford C-401

Joint Inverse Problems & DG/PDE Seminar
   Rigidity of Broken Geodesic Flow and Inverse Problems for Radiative Transfer Equation
   Matti Lassas, Helsinki University of Technology

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401

Inverse Problems Seminar
   Discretization Invariant Bayesian Inversion
   Samuli Siltanen, Tampere University of Technology

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36

Week of May 19 - 23

Monday, May 19

Probability Seminar
   Random Metrics, the Mathematics of Quantum Gravity
   Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research

   2:30pm, Loew 101

Tuesday, May 20

Complex Analysis Seminar
   Generalizations of the Chang-Marshall Theorem in Space
   Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University

   1:30pm, Padelford C-401

Rainwater Seminar
   Quadratic Julia Sets and the Construction of Hubbard Trees
   Henk Bruin, University of Surrey

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401

Mathematics Colloquium
   Special Lagrangian Submanifolds in Cⁿ
   Jingyi Chen, University of British Columbia

   4:00pm, Smith 102

Wednesday, May 21

Joint Inverse Problems & DG/PDE Seminar
   Rigidity of Broken Geodesic Flow and Inverse Problems for Radiative Transfer Equation
   Laurent Demanet, Stanford University

   3:50pm, Padelford C-36

Combinatorics Seminar
   77 Years of Ramsey R(3,k) (and Counting!)
   Joel Spencer, New York University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, May 22

Current Topics Seminar
   Cylindric Partitions, Hilbert Schemes and a CY3-Fold
   Amer Iqbal, University of Washington

   3:50pm, Padelford C-36

Friday, May 23

Joint Inverse Problems & DG/PDE Seminar
   Carleman Estimates and Calder�n's Inverse Problem on Manifolds
   Mikko Salo, University of Helsinki

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401

Week of May 26 - 30

Monday, May 26

~Memorial Day~

Tuesday, May 27

Mathematics Colloquium
   (To be announced)
   Plamen Stefanov, Purdue University

   4:00pm, Smith 102

Wednesday, May 28

Thursday, May 29

Friday, May 30

Week of June 2 - 6

Monday, June 2

Tuesday, June 3

Rainwater Seminar
   New Asymptotic Bounds for the Erdos Lemniscate Length Problem
   Fedor Nazarov, University of Wisconsin, Madison

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401

Wednesday, June 4

Combinatorics Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Alvaro Pelayo, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401

Thursday, June 5

Current Topics Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Ian Langmore, University of Washington

   3:50pm, Padelford C-36

Friday, June 6

Week of June 9 - 13

Monday, June 9

Tuesday, June 10

Wednesday, June 11

Thursday, June 12

Friday, June 13

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