Spring 2015
The Kempner Colloquium meets Tuesdays from 12:10-12:50 PM in MATH 350. Lunch will be provided.
The colloquium is being organized by Sebastian (Yano) Casalaina-Martin.
Schedule of Talks
| February 10 | Jim Carlson (University of Utah) |
Transcendental numbers and periods (Link to lecture notes on Noteshare) |
| February 13 Joint Math & Applied Math Colloquium Friday 3 PM ECCR 265 |
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) |
Particle laden thin films: theory and experiment |
| February 17 | Piotr M. Hajac (Polish Academy of Sciences) |
There and back again: from the Borsuk-Ulam theorem to quantum spaces |
| February 19 Thursday |
Alison Reddy (UI Urbana-Champaign) |
Appropriate placement of students into a first math course: Placement program best practices |
| March 3 3 PM |
Wei Ho (University of Michigan) |
Distributions of ranks of elliptic curves |
| March 10 | David Zureick-Brown (Emory University) |
Diophantine and tropical geometry |
| March 17 | Jordan Watts (UI Urbana-Champaign) |
The differential structure of an orbifold |
| March 31 | Karola Meszaros (Cornell) |
Product formulas for volumes of flow polytopes |
| April 21 | Michael Fried (UC Irvine) |
Connected components of sphere covers (Further materials here html) |
| April 24 Joint Math & Applied Math Colloquium Friday 4 PM ECCR 245 |
Vladimir Sverak (University of Minnesota) |
On PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows |
| April 28 | Charles Vial (Cambridge and IAS) |
A strange linear algebra statement |
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