| January 8 | Reserved | TBA | |
| January 15 | Alan Reid (U. Texas) | LERF, the Lubotzky-Sarnak Conjecture and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. | |
| January 22 | Elizabeth Dan-Cohen | Maximal toral subalgebras of root-reductive Lie algebras | |
| January 29 | no seminar | ||
| February 5 | Lewis Bowen (University of Hawaii) | Entropy in measurable dynamics | |
| February 12 | Bill Meeks (U. Mass) | The classical theory of minimal and constant mean curvature surface theory with an emphasis on the uniqueness of examples found by Euler, Delaunay, Scherk and Riemann. | |
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Porter Lectures February 16 - February 20 |
Dr. Yuval Peres of the Microsoft Theory Group and adjunct affiliations with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington |
See math calendar | |
| February 26 | Beatrice Riviere (CAAM, Rice) | Weak solutions and numerical approximations of coupled Navier-Stokes and Darcy equations | |
| March 5 | No seminar (midterm recess) | ||
| March 12 | Lior Fishman (Brandeis) | Schmidt's game, badly approximable vectors and fractals | |
| March 19 | Masato Tsujii (University of Kyushu) | Semi-classical zeta functions for geodesic flows on negatively curved manifolds | |
| Wolfe Lecture March 26 |
Ian Agol (UC Berkeley) | See The
virtual fibering conjecture and related questions or Wolfe Lecture |
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| April 2 | No seminar (spring recess) | ||
| Bochner Lecture series April 6-April 10 |
Neshan Wickramasekera (University of Cambridge) | See math calendar | |
| April 16 |
| August 28 | no seminar | ||
| September 4 | Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern U.) | From uniform to partial hyperbolocity | |
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Monday, September 8 Special Joint Math/CAAM seminar |
Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri) | Variations on a Theme of Jost and Pais | |
| September 11 | no seminar due to joint math/camm seminar on Sept. 8th | ||
| September 18 | Michael Blank (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) | Ergodic properties of exclusion type discrete time processes in continuum | |
| September 25 | Jayadev Athreya | Logarithm laws, diophantine approximation, and the geometry of numbers. | |
| October 2 | William Johnson (Texas A&M) | Nine twenty+ year old problems in the geometry of Banach spaces. | |
| October 9 | Mirela Ciperiani (Columbia University) | Genus one curves over the rationals | |
| October 16 | no seminar | ||
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Monday, October 20, 4-5 PM Ken Kennedy Institute series McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall |
Ian Foster (Professor
of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago) |
click here for calendar entry | |
| October 23 | Alina Marian (UIC) | Intersections on moduli spaces of bundles and Grassmannian TQFTs. | |
| October 30 | Rupert Frank (Princeton) | Hardy-Lieb-Thirring inequalities for eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators | |
| November 6 | Hossein Namazi (University of Texas) | 3-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry and models | |
| November 13 | Marta Asaeda (UC Riverside) | An unexpected application of algebraic number theory to operator algebras | |
| November 20 | Gordana Matic (University of Georgia) | Contact structures and sutured Floer homology | |
| November 27 | No seminar, Thanksgiving | ||
| December 4 | Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) | Arithmetic progressions in sets of fractional dimension |
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