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Colloquium for 2008-09

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Topic: Conserved quantities of planar contour dynamics
Dr. Alexander Vailiev
University of Bergen

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Mathematics and Robotics
Dr. Florian Potra
Georgetown University

Friday, March 20, 2009
Initial Value Problem of the Whitham equations for the Camassa Holm equation
Speaker: Professor Fen-Ran Tian
Ohio State University

Monday, March 23, 2009
Explicit Construction of the Moduli Space of Bounded Complete Reinhardt Domains in Cn and Hilbert's 14th Problem
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yau
University of Illinois at Chicago

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Mathematical models for the geographic profiling problems
Speaker: Professor Michael O'Leary
Towson University

Friday, March 6,2009
Topic: A Bishop surface with a vanishing Bishop invariant
Speaker: Professor Xiaojun Huang

Friday, February 27, 2009
The div-curl lemma and Hardy spaces
Speaker: Professor Galia Dafni

Monday, January 26, 2009
Constructing Real Numbers Through The Ages
Speaker Joe Mourad

Friday, December 5, 2008
Calibrated submanifolds in G2 and Spin (7) manifolds
Professor Weiqing Gu, Harvey Mudd College and NSF

Friday, November 21, 2008
Hierarchical Bayesian Markov Switching Models with Application to Predicting Spawning Success of Shovelnose Sturgeon
Professor Scott Holan, University of Missouri Columbia

Friday, November 14, 2008
Billiards in Rational Polygons, Renormalization and Teichmueller theory
Professor Giovanni Forni, University of Maryland

Friday, November 7, 2008
Empirical likelihood based calibration and imputation methods for missing data problems
Dr. Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Friday, October 31, 2008
Fronts Propagation in heterogeneous medium
Professor Antoine Mellet, Univ. of MD, College Park

Friday, October 24, 2008
Nonlinear dynamical phenomena in mesoscale modeling of polycrystals
Professor Maria Emelianenko

Friday, October 17, 2008
Bishop surfaces with vanishing Bishop invariant
Professor Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics
Professor Hailiang Liu

Friday, October 3,2008
Time-stepping schemes for nonsmooth rigid multibody dynamics
Professor Florian Potra, UMd and Georgetown

Monday, September 22, 2008
Round Droplet solutions and oval droplet soultions for the Ohta-Kawasaki theory and the Gierer-Meinhardt theory
Professor Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University

Friday, September 12, 2008
A Sampling Theorem for Non-bandlimited Signals
Professor Yi Wang, Auburn University

Wednesday September 3, 2008
Mixed Type Equations and Compressible Flows in nozzle
Professor Zhouping Xin, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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