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Colloquium [Show Abstracts]
Fall 2006

Description: Our colloquium talks are aimed at faculty and graduate students. Talks should lean more towards being broadly accessible rather than being specialized like a seminar talk. The colloquium is preceded by tea and cookies at 3:30 in the department lounge and usually followed by dinner with the speaker.

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Variances of First Passage Times in a Markov Chain with Application to Mixing Times Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jeffrey Hunter (Massey University Auckland)
Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Integer Valued Polynomials - A Survey Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III/UConn)
Time: Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lauren Williams (Harvard)
Time: Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Triangular billiards, scaling limits, and Fourier series Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University)
Time: Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Vector bundles over holomorphic symplectic surfaces Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eyal Markman (UMass)
Time: Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Mirror symmetry for quotients of tori by finite groups Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University)
Time: Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Computer Experiments in Representation Theory Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gregg Zuckerman (Yale)
Time: Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Hyperbolic Polynomials & Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures Link: View Poster
Speaker: Leonid Gurvits (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)
Time: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Place: ITEB 336 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Joint with CS. New time!!, Wednesday colloquium, not at the usual time and not at the usual place

Nonnegativity and stability in matrix theory Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daniel Hershkowitz (Technion,)
Time: Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

The Central Limit Theorem in infinite dimensions Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joel Zinn (Texas A&M)
Time: Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Upper bounds on the coarsening rates of discrete ill-posed nonlinear diffusions Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Boone Greer (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
Time: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 407 (UConn - Storrs)

On the overlap in the multiple spherical SK models. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dmitry Panchenko (MIT)
Time: Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and computations for Oldroyd-B fluids Link: View Poster
Speaker: Becca Thomases (Courant Institute of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
Time: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Upper bound on coarsening rate for epitaxial growth models Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiaodong Yan ( Michigan State University)
Time: Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)


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