Geometry-Analysis Seminar

Spring 2006

The Geometry-Analysis Seminar meets Wednesdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

Date
Speaker
Title
January 18
Chris Tisdell, The University of New South Wales
On First-order Boundary Value Problems: Existence of Solutions
January 25
C. Sidney Burrus, Rice-ECE
The Factoring of Very High Degree Polynomials
February 1
Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel
Hierarchical Threshold Secret Sharing or why it wouldn't hurt bankers to know Birkhoff interpolation
February 8
Dmitry Leykekhman, Rice-CAAM
Maximum norm estimates for the finite element method
February 15
 
 
February 23
(Thursday!)
Tarn Adams, Texas A&M
Flat Chains in Metric Spaces
March 1
 
 
March 8
Theron Hitchman, Rice
Harmonic maps with infinite dimensional targets and geometric cocycle superrigidity
March 22
 
 
March 29
(Special colloquium)
Nick Shepherd-Barron, Cambridge
Moduli spaces in algebraic geometry
April 5
Michael Boshernitzan, Rice-Math
Nilpotent groups are round
April 12
Jian Song, Johns Hopkins University
The Kähler-Ricci flow on surfaces
April 19
Adrian Tudorascu, Georgia Tech
Remarks on the JKO variational scheme and constrained optimization in the Wasserstein metric
April 26
Steve Cox, Rice-CAAM
Inverting Calcium Fluorescence


Fall 2005


Date
Speaker
Title
August 24
Daniel Cole, Rice-Math
Minimal Graphs in Certain Sub-Riemannian Spaces
August 31
Bradford Peercy, Rice-CAAM
A Model for Calcium Wave Initiation in a Neuron
September 7
Kamlesh Parwani, University of Houston
Fixed points of abelian actions on the sphere and the plane
September 14
Daniel Berend, Rice-Math
On a Discrete Maximization Problem Originating in Physics
September 21
No seminar
 
September 28
Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky
Stable stationary harmonic maps into spheres
October 5
No seminar
October 12
David Yang, Tulane University (visiting Rice)
Lower bound estimates of the first eigenvalue on compact Riemannian manifolds
October 19
Ilie Ugarcovici, Rice
Existence of chaotic attractors for some two-dimensional maps with applications to population dynamics
October 26
Elham Izadi, University of Georgia
Some remarks on the Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties
November 2
Bochner lecture
 
November 9
Bochner lecture
 
November 10
David Fisher, Indiana University
Asymptotic geometry of solvable groups
November 16
Hugh Bray, Duke University
Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity
November 30