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 Monday 4-5 PM in MATH
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          title of a talk for the abstract (if available).
          Click here for last semester's
            schedule.
| January
                16 (Wednesday) | Stephen Curran (MIT) | Quantum
                  symmetries in free probability | 
| January
                18 (Friday) | Partha Dey (NYU) | Energy Landscape for
                  large average submatrix detection problems in Gaussian
                  random matrices | 
| January 23 (Wednesday) | Erik van Erp (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | Index
                  theory in topology and analysis: two histories | 
| January 28 (3PM) | Po-Lam Yung (Rutgers) | Harmonic
                  analysis (with a little taste of geometry) | 
| February 18 | Jose Rodriguez (UC Berkeley) | Numerical
                  algebraic geometry: an introduction and applications | 
| March 18 | Alejandro Sarria (U. New Orleans) | Regularity
                  of solutions to a simple generalized model of fluid
                  dynamics | 
| April 15 | Mariusz Wodzicki (UC Berkeley) | Mathematics
                  and beauty | 
| April 29 | Brian Osserman (UC Davis) | Revisiting
                  relative dimension of maps of varieties | 
| May 6 | Morgan Sherman (Cal Poly) | Complex
                  geometry and the Ricci flow |