Department of Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

Seminars and Colloquia: Week of February 20, 2011 - February 26, 2011

Seminar and Colloquia Abstracts:

Weekly Seminars

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SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 20, 2011

No events scheduled for this day.

MONDAY - FEBRUARY 21, 2011

No events scheduled for this day.

TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Math 292 - Topology Seminar

Date - Time:
02/22/2011 - 10:30 AM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Katie Walsh -
Title:
Open books and contact structures - II

Center for Computational Mathematics Seminar

Date - Time:
02/22/2011 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 2402
Speaker:
Li Wang - UCSD
Title:
Regularization Methods for SDP Relaxations in Large Scale Polynomial Optimization

WEDNESDAY - FEBRUARY 23, 2011

No events scheduled for this day.

THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Math 288 - Probability and Statistics Seminar

Date - Time:
02/24/2011 - 10:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Perla Sousi - University of Cambridge
Title:
Mobile geometric graphs: detection, coverage and percolation

Food For Thought Seminar

Date - Time:
02/24/2011 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Ravi Shroff - UCSD
Title:
Local and global embedding problems in Riemannian geometry

Special Colloquium

Date - Time:
02/24/2011 - 02:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Zhihua (Sophia) Su - University of Minnesota, Department of Statistics
Title:
Envelope models: efficient estimation in multivariate linear regression

Math 295 - Mathematics Colloquium

Date - Time:
02/24/2011 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Ben Andrews - Australia National University
Title:
On the fundamental gap of a convex domain

FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Differential Geometry Seminar

Date - Time:
02/25/2011 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Xiangdong Li - Chinese Academy of Science
Title:
Perelman's entropy for the Witten-Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds via the Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature

Differential Geometry Seminar

Date - Time:
02/25/2011 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6402
Speaker:
Xiaodong Cao - Cornell University
Title:
Harnack Inequalities, Heat Kernel Estimates and the Ricci flow

SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 26, 2011

No events scheduled for this day.