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University of Oregon

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 in 210 Deady

Speaker: Yuan Xu
Title: Hardy-Rellich inequality and uncertainty principle

 

Geometry/Topology:                  3:00 in 210 Deady

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 in 102 Deady

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 Arizona
Title: The non-commutative Waring problem