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 LibeskindTitle: 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 SinclairTitle: 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 SchopierayTitle: 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
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