Colloquium, Rice University Math Department
Most talks are Thursdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

Fall 2009

August 27 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado (Rice) Rational points on rational surfaces
September 3 Danijela Damjanovic (Rice) Dynamics of Weyl chamber flows
September 10 Joe Harris (Harvard) The Interpolation Problem
September 17 Robert Gompf (University of Texas at Austin) On the 4-dimensional smooth Poincare Conjecture
September 24 William Ott (University of Houston) Probabilistic chaos: history, recent developments, and future prospects
October 1 Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College) Voting in Agreeable Societies
October 8 Rafel de la Llave (University of Texas at Austin) Equilibrium solutions for variational problems with symmetry
October 15 Nimish Shah (Ohio State University) Dirichlet’s theorem on Diophantine approximation
October 22 Min Ru (University of Houston) Holomorphic curves into algebraic varieties and the uniqueness theorems
October 29 Michael Goldstein (University of Toronto) Schroedinger equations with potentials generated by shifts and skew-shifts
November 5    
November 12 Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC, Irvine) Eigenvalue Statistics for Ergodic Localization
November 19 Gordon Heier (University of Houston) On uniformly effective boundedness of Shafarevich Conjecture-type
November 26 No seminar, Thanksgiving
December 3 Paul Melvin (Bryn Mawr College/ MSRI) From asteroids to bicycles

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