Past Events

Abstract: Homogeneous dynamics is another name for the theory of flows on homogeneous spaces, or homogeneous flows. The study of homogeoeus flows has been attracting considerable attention for the last 40-50 years. During the last three decades, it...

Abstract: Self assembly is the idea of creating a system whose component parts spontaneously assemble into a structure of interest. In biological systems, there are striking examples where complicated structures (ie the bacterial ribosome) can...

3pm, MATX 1100. Prelecture reception at 2pm, MATH126. All welcome. The quantification of uncertainty in large-scale scientific and engineering computations is rapidly emerging as a research area that poses some very challenging fundamental problems...

Abstract: When solving convection dominated partial differential equations, such as the incompressible and compressible Euler equations in fluid dynamics, it is a challenge to design numerical schemes which are both strongly stable and high order...

Abstract: Problems in extremal set theory take the form of determining the maximum number of subsets of {1,2, ..., m } you can choose so that the resulting family of subsets has some property. The property I will consider is a trace being forbidden...

If X is a Riemannian manifold, the Laplacian is a second order elliptic operator on X. The hypoelliptic Laplacian L_b is an operator acting on the total space of the tangent bundle of X, that is supposed to interpolate between the elliptic Laplacian...

Graph theory is the study of networks. In many situations, the only way we can study key combinatorial parameters of graphs such as edge-distribution, connectivity or expansion, is by using their eigenvalues. In this talk, I will describe some...

Alan Weinstein is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a colleague of Jerry Marsden throughout Jerry’s career at Berkeley, and their joint papers on “Reduction of...

About the Niven Lectures: Ivan Niven was a famous number theorist and expositor; his textbooks have won numerous awards and have been translated into many languages. They are widely used to this day. Niven was born in Vancouver in 1915, earned his...