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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