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Calendar of Seminars & Colloquia

AUTUMN 2009
November 9-13 November 16-20
November 23-27 Nov 30-Dec 4
December 7-11 December 14-18
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 November 9 - 13
Monday, November 9
Probability Seminar
   Stable-Like Processes
   Richard Bass, University of Connecticut

   2:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building 235
Inverse Problems Seminar
   On Support Theorems for the X-ray Transform with Incomplete Data
   Alexander Denisjuk, Elblag University of Humanities and Economy, Poland

   4:00pm, Raitt 116
Tuesday, November 10
Optimization Seminar
   Puiseux Series and Prox-Regularity of the Spectral Abscissa Map
   Jonathan Cross, University of Washington

   12:30pm, Padelford C-401
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Stable Deformations of Canonically Polarized Varieties
   Sándor Kovács, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, November 11
~Veterans' Day~
Thursday, November 12
 
Friday, November 13
Inverse Problems Seminar
   Topological Aspects of the Dvoretsky Theorem
   Dmitri Burago, Penn State University

   4:00pm, Thomson 235

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Week of November 16 - 20
Monday, November 16
Number Theory Seminar
   A Gentle Introduction to Hilbert Modular Forms, Part 2
   Alyson Deines, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401
Probability Seminar
   Dirichlet Forms and Reflecting Brownian Motion
   Mauricio Duarte, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building 235
Inverse Problems Seminar
   Quantum Decay Rates for Manifolds with Hyperbolic Ends
   Kiril Datchev, UC Berkeley

   4:00pm, Raitt 116
Tuesday, November 17
Optimization Seminar
   Spectral Abscissa of Matrices and Continuous Time Dynamical Systems
   Julia Eaton, University of Washington

   12:30pm, Padelford C-401
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Rationally Smooth Schubert Varieties and B-modules
   Jim Carrell, University of British Columbia

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, November 18
Topology Seminar
   The Kervaire Invariant
   Steve Mitchell, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Loew 115
Combinatorics Seminar
   Tableaux Combinatorics for the Asymmetric Exclusion Process and Askey-Wilson Polynomials
   Lauren Williams, Harvard University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   Backward Uniqueness for Parabolic Equations with Variable Coefficients
   Tu Nguyen, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Thursday, November 19
 
Friday, November 20
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium
   Cloaking and Transformation Optics
   Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 241

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Week of November 23 - 27
Monday, November 23
Number Theory Seminar
   Explicit 3-descent
   Robert Miller, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-401
Probability Seminar
   Properties of Superprocesses
   Julia Ruscher, Microsoft Research

   2:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building 235
Combinatorics Seminar
   A Few Themes from Combinatorial Algebraic Topology
   Dmitri Kozlov, MSRI

   4:00pm, Thomson 231
Inverse Problems Seminar
   Reconstruction of Positron Emission Tomography Images Using Planograms
   Paul Kinahan, University of Washington

   4:00pm, Raitt 116
Tuesday, November 24
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   Wonderful versus Tropical Compactifications of Arrangement Complements
   Eva Feichtner, University of Bremen

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Topology Seminar
   A Solution to the Arf-Kervaire Invariant Problem I
   Douglas Ravenel, University of Rochester

   4:30pm, Loew 201
Wednesday, November 25
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   On the Parabolic Complex Monge Ampere Equation and Applications
   Albert Chau, University of British Columbia

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Topology Seminar
   A Solution to the Arf-Kervaire Invariant Problem II
   Douglas Ravenel, University of Rochester

   4:00pm, Loew 201
Thursday, November 26
~Thanksgiving Holiday~
Friday, November 27
~Thanksgiving Holiday~

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Week of Nov 30 - Dec 4
Monday, November 30
 
Tuesday, December 1
Optimization Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University

   12:30pm, Padelford C-401
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Jeremy Berquist, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, December 2
Combinatorics Seminar
   Higher Integrality Conditions and Volumes of Slices
   Fu Liu, UC Davis

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   Wave Equations on Asymptotically de Sitter Spaces
   Dean Baskin, Stanford University

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Thursday, December 3
MathAcrossCampus Colloquium
   Estimation and Prediction of Complex Systems: Progress in Weather and Climate
   Greg Hakim, UW Atmospheric Sciences

   4:00pm, Kane Hall 210
Friday, December 4
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   Extremal Metrics and the Calabi Flow
   Wenyong He, University of Oregon

   4:00pm, Thomson 231

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Week of December 7 - 11
Monday, December 7
 
Tuesday, December 8
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Dan Nakano, University of Georgia

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, December 9
Combinatorics Seminar
   Kneser's Theorem and Inequalities in Ehrhart Theory
   Alan Stapledon, University of British Columbia

   4:00pm, Padelford C-401
Differential Geometry/PDE Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri, Columbia

   4:00pm, Padelford C-36
Thursday, December 10
 
Friday, December 11
 

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Week of December 14 - 18
Monday, December 14
 
Tuesday, December 15
Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Seminar
   (To be announced)
   Ariana Dundon, University of Washington

   2:30pm, Padelford C-36
Wednesday, December 16
 
Thursday, December 17
 
Friday, December 18
 

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