Rainwater seminar

We announce a new "Rainwater seminar", which will replace the old "Rainwater seminar" and the Complex Analysis seminar. It will cover a broad range of topics in Analysis, including Real and Complex Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, and Ergodic Theory. This new seminar is not just a merger of the two old seminars; it reflects the recent trends and emerging areas in Non-Smooth Analysis and Geometry, characterized by interdisciplinary connections. Some examples of these areas are Gromov's hyperbolic spaces, measure metric spaces, Schramm's Stochastic Loewner Evolution, the Zipper algorithm for conformal mappings, fractals arising in PDE's and in Dynamics, and PDEs on non-smooth domains.

The format will be as follows: the seminar meets on Tuesdays at 1:30 in C-401, and lasts for up to two hours. The first 25-30 minutes will be a general introduction accessible to the non-experts. Then we will have a 15 minute coffee break (at which time it is perfectly permissible to leave), followed by an hour talk. We are experimenting with this new format, so some fine-tuning may be necessary.

The seminar is organized by Don Marshall, Steffen Rohde, Boris Solomyak and Tatiana Toro, who are now forming a new research group under the heading of "Non-smooth analysis." We will take turns managing the website and the announcements, and Boris will be doing it this year. Graduate students can register for a credit.

  • October 1: Ryan Hynd, UPenn, Infinity Laplacian (infinity harmonic functions and infinity ground states).

  • October 8: Boris Solomyak, UWashington, Recent progress on self-similar sets and measures.

  • Archive ("Old Rainwater seminar")

  • Rainwater Seminar mailing list:
    Announcements of upcoming seminars are sent by e-mail to all interested participants. If you would like to be added to (or removed from) the Rainwater Seminar mailing list, send e-mail to solomyak at math dot washington dot edu.

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