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Monday, November 2, 2009

Metric stacks and Gromov-Hausdorff distance, Part 2

Seminar: Quantum Geometry Sem. | November 2 | 2-3 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Calder Daenzer, UC Berkeley

Random Quantum Channels II

Seminar: Probabilistic Operator Algebra Sem. | November 2 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 959 Evans Hall

Stephen R. Curran, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

20 Questions Seminar

Seminar | September 15 – November 3, 2009 every Tuesday with exceptions | 1-2 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Everyone who wants to (hopefully from all disciplines), UC Berkeley

Derivation of evolution equations from many body quantum dynamics

Seminar: Student Harmonic Analysis & PDE Sem. | November 3 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Baoping Liu, UC Berkeley

Certified Numerical Algebraic Geometry

Seminar: Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 3 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Anton Leykin

Gauss-Bonnet theorem on moduli spaces

Seminar: Differential Geometry Sem. | November 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 961 Evans Hall

Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine

Affine Toric Equivalences Are Effective

Seminar: Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 3 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Claudiu Raicu

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Constant Variation Method for Schroedinger Systems with Antisymmetric Potentials.

Seminar: The Paris Nord-Berkeley-Bonn Analysis Sem. | November 4 | 9:10-10 a.m. | 127 Dwinelle Hall

Tristan Rivière, ETH,Zürich

Tensor approximation tools free of the curse of dimensionality

Seminar: Matrix Computations & Scientific Computing Sem. | November 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall

Eugene Tyrtyshnikov, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Effective Hamiltonians and averaging for Hamiltonian dynamics

Seminar: Student Probability/PDE Sem. | November 4 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Dave Kaspar, UC Berkeley

Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process and Askey-Wilson polynomials

Seminar: Discrete Mathematics Sem. | November 4 | 1-2 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Lauren Williams, MSRI / UC Berkeley

Techniques for inferring phylogenetic relationships of species from multi-locus data

Seminar: Mathematical & Computational Biology Sem. | November 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Luay Nakhleh, Rice University

Nonlinear dynamics and the turbulence transition in pipe flow

Seminar: Applied Mathematics Sem. | November 4 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Tobias Schneider, Harvard University

Explicit Computation with Kolyvagin's Heegner Point Euler System using Rational Quaternion Algebras

Seminar: Number Theory Sem. | November 4 | 3:10-4:05 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

William Stein, University of Washington

Gromov-Witten Gauge Theory

Seminar: Topology Sem. | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall

AJ Tolland, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNYSB

Representations of Quiver Hecke Algebras

Seminar: Representation Theory, Geometry & Combinatorics Sem. | November 4 | 4-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Damien Mondragon, UC Berkeley

Self-dual and conjugate-dual Galois representations

Seminar: Number Theory Sem. | November 4 | 4:15-5:15 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Benedict H. Gross, Harvard University

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The geometric Satake isomorphism

Seminar: Geometric Representation Theory Sem. | November 5 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Reimundo Heluani, UC Berkeley

2009 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture: The real and p-adic lives of n!

Lecture | November 5 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Benedict H. (Dick) Gross, Harvard University

Friday, November 6, 2009

Biochemical reaction networks: an algebraist’s point of view

Colloquium: Graduate Student Colloq. | November 6 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Anne Shiu, UC Berkeley

Bimodules and Higher Relative Commutants, Part V

Seminar: Student Subfactor Sem. | November 6 | 2-4 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Mike Hartglass, UC Berkeley

More on the Pontryagin maximum principle

Seminar: Student PDE Sem. | November 6 | 3-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Khalilah Beal, UC Berkeley

Fujiwara’s theorem II

Seminar: Student Arithmetic Geometry Sem. | November 6 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Yuhao Huang, UC Berkeley

Hamilton–Jacobi equations and convex optimization methods for data assimilation

Seminar: Student PDE Sem. | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Christian Claudel, UC Berkeley

Nagata's Counterexample to Hilbert's 14th Problem

Seminar: Student Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Morgan Brown, UC Berkeley

Reflections on Hilbert’s 10th Problem with a New Conjecture

Colloquium: Logic Colloq. | November 6 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Martin Davic, Courant Institute, New York University

Monday, November 9, 2009

Metric stacks and Gromov-Hausdorff distance, Part 3

Seminar: Quantum Geometry Sem. | November 9 | 2-3 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Calder Daenzer, UC Berkeley

Nonarchimedean algebraic geometry

Seminar: MSRI-Evans Talks | November 9 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Sam Payne, Stanford University

C*-algebras associated with global fields

Seminar: Probabilistic Operator Algebra Sem. | November 9 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall | Note change in location

Joachim Cuntz, University of Muenster

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Quantum decay rates for manifolds with hyperbolic ends

Seminar: Student Harmonic Analysis & PDE Sem. | November 10 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Kiril Datchev, UC Berkeley

The Size of Free Resolutions

Seminar: Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 10 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Daniel Erman, UC Berkeley

Gromov-Hausdorff collapse of Calabi-Yau manifolds

Seminar: Differential Geometry Sem. | November 10 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 961 Evans Hall

Mark Gross, UC San Diego

Galois Groups of Enumerative Problems

Seminar: Commutative Algebra & Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 10 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Morgan Brown, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Gauge-string duality and the structure of large rank Chern-Simons invariants

Seminar: Topology Sem. | November 11 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall

David Auckly, MSRI

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Filtrations on GL-representations and their interpretation in terms of the loop Grassmanian

Seminar: Geometric Representation Theory Sem. | November 12 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

William Slofstra, UC Berkeley

Friday, November 13, 2009

Quantum symmetries in free probability

Colloquium: Graduate Student Colloq. | November 13 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Stephen Curran, UC Berkeley

On weak KAM theory

Seminar: Student PDE Sem. | November 13 | 3-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Hung Vinh Tran, UC Berkeley

Duality and Frobenius compatible systems

Seminar: Student Arithmetic Geometry Sem. | November 13 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Matt Satriano, UC Berkeley

K-theory, condensed matter, and the ghosts of braid groups since departed.

Seminar: Keg Seminar | November 13 | 4-6 p.m. |  Keg Seminar Special Location

Michael Freedman, Microsoft Station Q

The Ma-Trudinger-Wang curvature for natural mechanical action

Seminar: Student PDE Sem. | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Paul Lee, UC Berkeley

Local Positivity and Asymptotic Regularity

Seminar: Student Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

David Berlekamp, UC Berkeley

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Dirac operator by example, Part 3

Seminar: Quantum Geometry Sem. | November 16 | 2-3 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Matthew Tucker-Simmons, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Spinning Heads and Spinning News

Seminar | November 17 | 1-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University

Careers at Bloomberg L.P.

Seminar | November 17 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Apollo Hogan, Bloomberg L.P.

2009 Bowen Lectures

Lecture | November 17 – 19, 2009 every day | 4-5 p.m. |  50 Birge Hall, Sibley Auditorium, F295 Haas

Christophe Soulé, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

ParNes: A new algorithm for compressed sensing problems

Seminar: Matrix Computations & Scientific Computing Sem. | November 18 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall

Cinna Wu, UC Berkeley

Smoluchowski's equation and Gelation

Seminar: Student Probability/PDE Sem. | November 18 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley

The continuous Tverberg conjecture

Seminar: Discrete Mathematics Sem. | November 18 | 1-2 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Alexander Papazoglou, UC Davis

Genome rearrangements: From models to predictions

Seminar: Mathematical & Computational Biology Sem. | November 18 | 2-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Max Alekseyev, University of South Carolina

Dynamics of Kinematic Aggregation Equations in Multiple Dimensions

Seminar: Applied Mathematics Sem. | November 18 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA

2009 Bowen Lectures

Lecture | November 17 – 19, 2009 every day | 4-5 p.m. |  50 Birge Hall, Sibley Auditorium, F295 Haas

Christophe Soulé, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)

Linear Systems on Tropical Curves

Seminar: Representation Theory, Geometry & Combinatorics Sem. | November 18 | 4-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Gregg Musiker, MIT

eichmueller space and topological field theory in two dimensions

Seminar: Topology Sem. | November 18 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall

Ezra Getzler, Northwestern

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Beilinson-Bernstein equivalences for loop groups

Seminar: Geometric Representation Theory Sem. | November 19 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 746 Evans Hall

Dario Beraldo, UC Berkeley

2009 Bowen Lectures

Lecture | November 17 – 19, 2009 every day | 4-5 p.m. |  50 Birge Hall, Sibley Auditorium, F295 Haas

Christophe Soulé, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)

Friday, November 20, 2009

Stacky Resolutionss

Colloquium: Graduate Student Colloq. | November 20 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Matthew Satriano, UC Berkeley

Deligne’s integrality theorem and q-divisibility

Seminar: Student Arithmetic Geometry Sem. | November 20 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Morgan Brown, UC Berkeley

Abelian Varieties and Seshardi Constants

Seminar: Student Algebraic Geometry Sem. | November 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Pablo Solis, UC Berkeley

Another Proof of the Embedding Theorem

Seminar: Subfactor Sem. | November 20 | 4-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Dave Penneys, UC Berkeley

A simple PDE proof of optimal synthesis with large discounting

Seminar: Student PDE Sem. | November 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

L C Evans, UC Berkeley

Lowness Properties and Cost Functions

Colloquium: Logic Colloq. | November 20 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago

Harmonic Diffeomorphisms into Conic Surfaces

Seminar: Student Harmonic Analysis & PDE Sem. | November 20 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 47 Evans Hall

Jesse Gell-Redman, Stanford University

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Bay Area Differential Geometry Symposium

Seminar | November 21 | 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Simons Auditorium

Jacob Bernstein, Stanford University; Clifford Taubes, Professor, Harvard University; Hyam Rubinstein, Professor, University of Melbourne and UC Davis

Monday, November 23, 2009

Bohrification

Seminar: Quantum Geometry Sem. | November 23 | 2-3 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Andre Kornell, UC Berkeley

A glimpse into the heart of mirror symmetry

Seminar: MSRI-Evans Talks | November 23 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Mark Gross, UC San Diego

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

A representation-theoretic approach to diagonalizing the Laplacian on S2

Seminar: Student Harmonic Analysis & PDE Sem. | November 24 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Matt Tucker-Simmons, UC Berkeley

The Kahler-Ricci flow through singularities

Seminar: Differential Geometry Sem. | November 24 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 961 Evans Hall

Jian Song, Rutgers

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Load-balancing Multiphysics Simulations

Seminar: Matrix Computations & Scientific Computing Sem. | November 25 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall

Tyler (T.J.) Alumbaugh, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Gelling Solutions to Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations

Seminar: Student Probability/PDE Sem. | November 25 | 1-2:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Douglas Rizzolo, UC Berkeley

Monday, November 30, 2009

Probabilistic Weyl laws for quantized tori

Seminar: Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar | November 30 | 2:15-3:15 p.m. | Stanford, Room 380D

Maciej Zworski, UC Berkeley

Pseudodifferential calculus for manifolds with multiply fibred cusps

Seminar: Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar | November 30 | 4-5 p.m. | Stanford, Room 383N

Daniel Grieser, University of Oldenburg