University of Oregon Department of Mathematics
Weekly Seminar Bulletin May 14-18, 2012 Monday, May 14 NIVEN LECTURE I: 4:00
in 208 Deady Speaker: Ravi Vakil Title: The Mathematics of Doodling NIVEN RECEPTION (following lecture): Fenton
Lounge Tuesday,
May 15
Homotopy: None
this week
Geometric Analysis: 11:00
in 210 Deady
Speaker: Mark Walsh, OSU Title: TBA
Ring Theory: 1:00
in 210 Deady
Speaker: Matthew Arbo Title: Divisors on Toric Varieties Probability/Stats: 1:00 in 307 Deady
Speaker: Maxim Yattselev Title: Large deviations and linear statistics for potential theoretic ensembles associated with regular closed sets Analysis: 2:00
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Speaker: Yuan XuTitle: Hardy-Rellich inequality and uncertainty principle Geometry/Topology: 3:00
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Speaker: Greg Friedman, Texas A&M Title: Intersection Homology of Stratified Spaces
Niven Tea: 3:15 in Fenton Lounge
NIVEN LECTURE II: 4:00
in 208 Deady Speaker: Ravi Vakil Title: Cutting and Pasting in Algebraic Geometry Algebra: None
this week
ITS: None
this week
Wednesday, May 16
oral Defense: 12:00
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Speaker: Kristine Pelatt Title: Geometry and Combinatorics Pertaining to the Homology of Spaces of Knots Departmental Tea: 3:30 in Fenton Lounge
Thursday, May 17
oral Defense: 11:00
in 210 Deady
Speaker: Rob Fisette Title: The A-infinity algebra of a curve and the j-invariant
oral Defense: 1:00
in 210 Deady
Speaker: Josiah Thornton Title: Generalized Near-Group Categories
DG Categories: None this week
CATEGORIES: None this week
Graduate Notions: None
this week
Functional Analysis: 3:00
in 210 Deady
Speaker: Nathan Perlmutter Title: Adams Operations in K-Theory
Friday,
May 18
oral Defense: 10:00
in 254 Lawrence
Speaker: Daniel Moseley Title: Group Actions on Hyperplane Arrangements
COLLOQUIUM Tea: 3:30 in Fenton Lounge
COLLOQUIUM: 4:00
in 208 Deady Speaker: Pham Huu Tiep, University of ArizonaTitle: The non-commutative Waring problem |



