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Stanford University Department of Mathematics Seminar Schedule for the week of February 8, 2010

 

Saturday, February 6

Joint PNGS/BADGS Meeting
  • 11:00am; Bldg. 380, Room 381-T
    John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
    “Tightness in contact metric manifolds”
  • 2:00pm; Sequoia Hall, Room 200
    Natasa Sesum (Pennsylvania)
    “Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow on surfaces”
  • 4:00pm; Sequoia Hall, Room 200
    Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia)
    “Isometric embedding problems in the definition of quasilocal mass”

Sunday, February 7

Joint PNGS/BADGS Meeting
Sequoia Hall, Room 200
  • 10:00am
    Xiadong Wang (Michigan State)
    “An integral formula for the volume entropy with applications to rigidity”
  • 11:30am
    Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan Univ)
    “The Existence of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangians”

Monday, February 8

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
12:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Ben Williams
TBA

Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar
1:30pm; Varian Labs, Room 355
Michele Papucci
“PAMELA, Fermi and Indirect Signals of Dark Matter”

Symplectic Geometry Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Sonja Hohloch (MSRI & Stanford)
“Floer theory, hypercontact structures and hyperkaehler geometry”

ICME Colloquium
4:15pm; Bldg. 300, Room 128
Pushkin Kachroo (UNLV)
“Uncertainty Propagation in General Dynamic Systems using Conservation Laws”

Probability Seminar
4:15pm; Sequoia Hall, Room 200
Jean-Dominique Deuschel (Technische Universität Berlin)
“Markov chain approximations to non-symmetric diffusions in divergence form with bounded coefficients”


Tuesday, February 9

Topology Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
TBA

Fluid Mechanics Seminar
4:15pm; Bldg. 300, Room 300
Rocky Geyer (WHOI & MIT)
“The Anatomy of a Shear Instability”

Mathematical Logic Seminar
4:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-X
Sol Feferman (Stanford)
“Mac Lane CFWM, Ch.V, secs. 4–8 (‘Limits and the Adjoint Functor Theorem’)”


Wednesday, February 10

Student Research Colloquium
12:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Joan Licata
“What is a Knot Homology Theory?”

Frobenius and Hodge Degeneration Seminar
1:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Brandon Levin
“Frobenius and the Cartier isomorphism”

Analysis & PDE Seminar
3:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Analytic Number Theory Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-Y
Xiannan Li
“The least prime that does not split in a field extension”

Geometry Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Yng-Ing Lee (Taiwan)
“Eternal Solutions to Lagrangian Brakke Flow”

Applied Mathematics Seminar—CANCELED
4:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-X
Mark Freidlin (Maryland)
“Perturbation theory for dynamical systems with many attractors”

Computer Science Department Distinguished Computer Scientist Lecture
4:15pm; Gates Bldg., Room B03
David Salesin (Adobe)
“Computational Aesthetics & Adobe's Creative Technologies Laboratory: Drawing upon Artistic Tradition to Enhance Communication and Adorn Modern Life”

Linear Algebra & Optimization Seminar
12:15pm; Terman Eng., Room 332
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Stanford University Mathematical Organization (SUMO)
4:40pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-C
Greg Brumfiel (Stanford)
“Dessins d'enfants and complex rational functions”

Operations Research Colloquium
4:30pm; Terman Eng., Room 453
Bernardo Huberman (HP Labs)
“Social Attention in the Age of the Web”


Thursday, February 11

Department Colloquium
4:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-W
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK


Friday, February 12

Number Theory Seminar
12:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
Matt Greenberg (Calgary)
“Shimura curves and p-adic representations”

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:15pm; Bldg. 380, Room 383-N
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Student Geometry & Analysis Seminar
4:00pm; Bldg. 380, Room 380-W
Jesse Gell-Redman
TBA


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