Department of Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

Seminars and Colloquia: Week of November 26, 2006 - December 02, 2006

Seminar and Colloquia Abstracts:

Weekly Seminars

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SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 26, 2006

No events scheduled for this day.

MONDAY - NOVEMBER 27, 2006

Algebra Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/27/2006 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
V. K. Kharchenko - UNAM, Mexico
Title:
Braided version of Shirshov - Witt Theorem

Special Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/27/2006 - 04:30 PM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Alexander I. Bufetov - Rice University
Title:
Existence and uniqueness of the measure of maximal entropy for the Teichmuller flow on the moduli space of abelian differentials \\ \small [joint work with B.M. Gurevich]

Final Defense

Date - Time:
11/27/2006 - 05:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 5402
Speaker:
John Farina -
Title:
Stability Properties in Ring Theory

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Spectral Sequences Seminar

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 10:30 AM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Henning Hohnhold -
Title:
The Adams Spectral sequence, II

Special Probability Seminar

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Kouji Yano - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto Japan
Title:
Convergence of excursion measures of one-dimensional diffusion processes with an exit boundary

Math 278 - Numerical Analysis Seminar

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Dan Reynolds - UCSD
Title:
Reformulation of the resistive MHD system for ensuring discrete preservation of constraints

Final Defense

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 5829
Speaker:
Thomas Voden -
Title:
Subalgebras of Golod-Shafarevich algebras

Special Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 02:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Craig Westerland - University of Wisconsin
Title:
String topology and moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

Representation Theory Seminar

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Sergey Lysenko - Institute for Advanced Studies
Title:
Moduli of metaplectic bundles on curves and Theta-sheaves

Special Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/28/2006 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Edward Frenkel - University of California, Berkeley
Title:
Langlands correspondence for loop groups

WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 29, 2006

No events scheduled for this day.

THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Probability Seminar

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 10:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Stanislav Molchanov - The University of North Carolina at Charlotte\\ \it visiting\\UC Irvine
Title:
On the class of the differential-functional equations

Probability Seminar

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Yves LE JAN - Probabilities and Random Models Laboratory -- Paris 11
Title:
Dynkin isomorphism and loops

Math 196/296 - Student Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 12:00 PM
Location:
AP&M B402A
Speaker:
Kristin Lauter - Microsoft Research
Title:
Cryptography and expander graphs

Food for Thought Seminar

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 01:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Raul Gomez -
Title:
The Symmetry Group of Differential Equations

Math 209 - Number Theory

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 02:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Shuichiro Takeda - UCSD
Title:
On the non-vanishing of global theta lifts from even orthogonal groups

Special Recruitment Colloquium

Date - Time:
11/30/2006 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Nathan Dunfield - Mathematics, Caltech
Title:
Surfaces in finite covers of 3-manifolds: the Virtual Haken Conjecture

FRIDAY - DECEMBER 01, 2006

Advancement to Candidacy

Date - Time:
12/01/2006 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 5218
Speaker:
Nate Eldredge - UCSD, Graduate Student
Title:
Heat kernel inequalities on Lie groups

Advancement to Candidacy

Date - Time:
12/01/2006 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Maia Averett - UCSD
Title:
Obstructions to Thom classes in complex cobordism

SATURDAY - DECEMBER 02, 2006

No events scheduled for this day.