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University of Oregon

University of Oregon

Department of Mathematics

Weekly Seminar Bulletin

May 13-17, 2013

 

Monday, May 13

NIVEN TEA                                                              3:15 in Fenton Lounge

 

NIVEN LECTURE I:                                               4:00 in 208 Deady

Speaker: Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan

Title: Periodicity of cluster transformation

 

NIVEN RECEPTION (following lecture):             Fenton Lounge

 

Tuesday, May 14

oral Defense:                                                   9:00 in 146 Straub

Speaker: Christopher Shum

Title: Examples of Solvable Point Processes Which Interpolate Between 
Classical Beta-Ensembles

 

Homotopy:                                                           10:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker:Deb Vicinsky

Title: The Blakers-Massey Theorem and Goodwillie calculus

 

Geometric Analysis:                                    11:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Ellery Ames

Title: On the observer-dependence of AVTD behavior in Gowdy 
spacetimes
 

undergraduate teaching:                      12:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Shlomo Libeskind
Title: On Learning, Teaching, and Learning Teaching – 
An MAA Article by Polya

 

Ring Theory:                                                      1:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Rob Muth

Title: Representations of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras

 

Analysis:                                                              2:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Marcin Bownik, University of Oregon

Title:  Spectra of operators with prescribed diagonal

 

Geometry/Topology:                                    3:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Dev Sinha

Title: Equivariant topology and the Segal Conjecture – 
towards Carlsson's reduction – Continued
 

Niven Tea:                                                             3:15 in Fenton Lounge

 

Niven LECTURE II:                                             4:00 in 208 Deady

Speaker: Sergey Fomin

Title: Cluster algebras and invariant theory

 

Algebra:                                                               None this week

 

ITS:                                                                            4:00 in 472 Willamette

Speaker: Marina Guenza

Title: TBA

 

Wednesday, May 15

Probability & Statistics:                          1:00 in 206 Deady

Speaker: Chris Sinclair
Title: Root statistics of polynomials with bounded Mahler measure

 

Departmental Tea:                                       3:30 in Fenton Lounge

 
Thursday, May 16

oral Defense:                                                   8:00  in 210 Deady

Speaker: Thomas Bell

Title: Uniqueness of Conformal Ricci Flow and Backward Ricci Flow on 
Homogeneous 4-Manifolds

 

oral Defense:                                                   11:00  in 210 Deady

Speaker: David Platt

Title: Chern Character for Global Matrix Factorizations
 

Graduate Notions:                                        1:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Andrew Schopieray
Title: TBA

 

oral Defense:                                                   2:00  in 119 Fenton

Speaker: Jeremiah Bartz

Title: Multinets in P2 and P3

 

Functional Analysis:                                  2:00 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Aaron Montgomery

Title: Ugly Determinant
 

differential Geometry:                            None this week

 

Friday, May 17

oral Defense:                                                   2:00  in 119 Fenton

Speaker: Aaron Montgomery

Title: Topics in Random Walks

 

Basic Notions:                                                   None this week