Department of Mathematics
Colloquium Series and Milton Wing Lecture Series

Time: Thursdays 3:30-4:30

Academic Year 2012-13 Colloquia

Date Speaker Title
Sept 21, 2012
Room: Hylan 1106A		 Michael Christ, University of California, Berkeley On Arithmetic Progressions and Sharp Affine-Invariant Inequalities (abstract)
Oct 18, 2012
Room: Hylan 1106A		 Alan Adolphson, Oklahoma State Exponential sums and A-hypergeometric functions
Oct 23, 2012
Room: Hutch 473		 Izabella Laba, University of British Columbia Buffon's needle estimates for rational product Cantor sets
Nov 1, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.
Room: Hylan 1106A		 Brett Wick, Georgia Tech The Corona Theorem
Nov 15, 2012, at 3:30 p.m.
Room: Hylan 1106A		 Niles Johnson, Ohio State Visualizing Seven-Manifolds

Academic Year 2011-12 Colloquia

Date Speaker Title
April 26, 2012
Room: TBA		 Daqing Wan, University of California, Irvine How many values does a polynomial map miss? (abstract)
April 12, 2012
Room: TBA		 Andrew Granville, University of Montreal A pretentious introduction to analytic number theory ( abstract)
March 22, 2012 (Special time: 4:30)
Room: Wilmot 116		 Luca Brandolini, University of Bergamo Koksma-Hlawka inequality and quadrature rules on compact manifolds (abstract)
November 11, 2011
Room: TBA		 Camil Muscalu, Cornell Triangular Fourier series and physical reality (abstract)
November 3, 2011
Room: Goergen 109		 Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and its universality class (abstract)
October 6, 2011
Goergen 109 		Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan Non-asymptotic theory of random matrices: the extreme singular values (abstract)

Milton Wing Lecture Series

Date Speaker Title

Spring 2012

 Adrien Treuille, Carnegie Mellon University

Lecture 1: Interactive Biology (abstract)

Wednesday, March 7, 5 - 6 pm, Hutch 140 (Hubbell Auditorium)

Lecture 2: New Approaches to Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics (abstract)


Thursday, March 8, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Goergen 101 (Sloan Auditorium)

Fall 2012

Tony DeRose, Pixar Research

Public Lecture: How mathematics has changed Hollywood


Wednesday, Oct. 3, 5-6 pm, Goergen 101
Abstract: Over the past two decades filmmaking has been completely revolutionized by advances in areas such as computational physics and applied math. Using numerous examples drawn from Pixar's films, this lay audience talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that mathematics has played in the revolution.

Wavelets in computer graphics, I and II


Thursday, Oc. 4, 10-11am and 1-2 pm, Schlegel Hall Rotunda
Abstract: Wavelets are an important mathematical tool that has found uses in many scientific and engineering disciplines. They are an important technique for use in computer graphics and the closely related field of image processing. In this two part talk I'll provide an introduction to the theory of wavelets, and I'll highlight their use to solve a variety of computer graphics problems.

Spring 2013

Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford
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Public Lecture: The Shape of Data


Thursday, March 21, 5 - 6p.m, Hutchison Hall, Hubbell Auditorium
Abstract: The problem of extracting knowledge from large and complex data sets is a growing problem in many areas, including the sciences, engineering, and the commercial world. Most existing methods fit data to a restrictive model. We will discuss how topology, the mathematical sub discipline that studies generalized notions of shape, can be applied successfully to get around many of the difficulties and generate insight into data. Numerous examples will be discussed.

Persistent Homology with Examples


Friday, March 22, 11-11:50 a.m. Dewey Hall, Room 1101
Abstract: We will discuss persistent homology, which is the extension of homology to the context of point clouds or finite metric spaces. We will motivate and define it and demonstrate its use in examples.

Generalized Persistence and Mapping Data


Friday, March 22, 2-2:50 a.m. Goergen Hall, Room 101
Abstract: We will continue the discussion from the first talk to introduce various generalizations of persistence, as well as the study of the space of persistence barcodes. We will conclude with a discussion of methods for mapping data sets to provide visual and manageable representations of data sets that can be used for interactive studies.

Spring 2013

Mauro Maggioni, Duke
  1. Wednesday April 17, 2013, 5:00, Hubbell Auditorium --- Slides
  2. Thursday April 18, 2013, 2:00, Gavett 310 --- Slides
  3. Friday April 19, 2013, 2:00, Hylan 1106A --- Slides

Fall 2013

Ken Golden, Utah TBA, Sept. 26-27, 2013

Fall 2013

Gil Strang, MIT TBA

Academic Year 2010-11 Colloquia

Date Speaker Title
November 4, 2010
Meliora 221		 Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University Evolution problem in General Relativity (abstract)
November 15, 2010
Lander Auditorium (Hutchison 140) 		Michael Lacy, Georgia Institute of Technology Pointwise Convergence of Fourier Series: Past, Present and Future. (abstract)
January 27, 2011
Wilmot 116 		Dimitry Bilyk, University of South Carolina Geometric Discrepancy and Analysis. (abstract)
March 17, 2011
Goergen 101 		Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Ice Models and Automorphic Forms. (abstract)
April 7, 2011
Goergen 101 		Miklos Bona, University of Florida Combinatorics of Genome Rearrangements (abstract)
April 14, 2011
Goergen 101 		Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero, Michigan State Two conjectures of Astala on distortion of sets under quasiconformal maps and related removability problems. (abstract)
April 21, 2011
Goergen 101 		Van Vu, Rutgers University Universality for random matrices. (abstract)
April 28, 2011
B&L 106 		Robert Seiringer, McGill University Dilute Quantum Gases and Bose-Einstein Condensation. (abstract)

Earlier colloquia and Wing Lectures