All Seminars & Colloquia

Math Colloquium

Friday, 4/3/2015, 5:00pm - 11:59pm

Math Colloquium

(Distinguished Speculative First of April Talk)

Speaker: Scott Aaronson, MIT

http://scottaaronson.com/

Title: How Pervasive Is Incompleteness?

Math Colloquium

Friday, 3/27/2015, 5:00pm - 11:59pm

 

Analysis Seminar

Wednesday, 3/25/2015, 7:00pm - 11:59pm

Analysis Seminar

Friday, 3/20/2015, 8:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Professor Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: Elliptic Functions, Lattices, and Dynamics

Applied Seminar

Wednesday, 3/18/2015, 8:00pm - 11:59pm

 

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Colloquium

Tuesday, 3/10/2015, 2:00pm - 11:59pm

Mathematics Colloquium (Jointly with Knots in Washington XL)

Speaker: Sergei Chmutov, Ohio State University, Mansfield
https://people.math.osu.edu/chmutov.1/

Title: In memory of Sergei Duzhin (1956–2015)

Topology Seminar

Friday, 2/27/2015, 8:45pm - 11:59pm

Topology Seminar
Speaker Carl Hammarsten (GWU)
Time: 3:45 - 5:00 Friday, February 27, 2015
Place: Monroe 250
Title: Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology and Decorated Heegaard Diagrams.

 

Applied Math Seminar

Wednesday, 2/25/2015, 9:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Alina Chertock,
North Carolina State University

Title: Interaction Dynamics of Singular Wave Fronts Computed by Particle Methods

Analysis Seminar

Wednesday, 2/25/2015, 8:00am - 11:59pm

Speaker: Robbie Robinson
Title: Introduction to Gaussian Processes Part 2
 
Abstract: Stationary Gaussian processes are classical probabilistic models used in applications such as digital signal processing, machine learning and quantum mechanics. This is the second talk in this series.

Applied Math Seminar

Friday, 2/20/2015, 7:30pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Francesco Maggi,
University of Texas, Austin

Title: Formulations of Plateau problem and the existence of minimizers

Abstract: We review various mathematical formulations of the Plateau-Lagrange problem and present a measure-theoretic approach to compactness of surfaces leading to various existence results.