Colloquium: Fall 2008 & Spring 2009

Colloquium, Rice University Math Department
Most talks are Thursdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

Fall 2008

August 28 no seminar
September 4 Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern U.) From uniform to partial hyperbolocity
Monday, September 8
Special Joint Math/CAAM seminar
Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri) Variations on a Theme of Jost and Pais
September 11
September 18 Michael Blank (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Ergodic properties of exclusion type discrete time processes in continuum
September 25 Jayadev Athreya Logarithm laws, diophantine approximation, and the geometry of numbers
October 2 William Johnson (Texas A&M) TBA
October 9 Mirela Ciperiani TBA
October 16
Monday, October 20, 4-5 PM
Ken Kennedy Institute series
McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall
Ian Foster (Professor of Computer Science Argonne
National Laboratory & University of Chicago)
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October 23 Alina Marian TBA
October 30
November 6
November 13 Marta Asaeda (UC Riverside) TBA
November 20
November 27 No seminar, Thanksgiving
December 4 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia) TBA

Spring 2009

January 8
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12
Porter Lectures
February 16 - February 20
Dr. Yuval Peres of the Microsoft Theory Group
and adjunct affiliations with the University of
California, Berkeley and the University of Washington
February 26
March 5 No seminar (midterm recess)
March 12
March 19
March 26
April 2 No seminar (spring recess)
April 9
April 16

Rice Math Department homepage
Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Colloquium schedule