Department of Mathematics, < Fall 2013 >  

• Monday, August 26, 2013, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Bo Li (University of California, San Diego), Dielectric Boundary Force in Biomolecular Solvation   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, August 26, 2013, 4:30pm,
  Harold Layton (), 2013 Department of Mathematics Annual Introduction Meeting

• Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jonathan Hanselman (Columbia University), Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and graph manifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 11:00am, Probability Seminar
  Shankar Bhamidi (UNC), Some statistical problems in models for complex networks   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 5, 2013, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Marc Ryser et al. (), A modeling study of sex-specific immunization for HPV   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 6, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Gregory Herschlag (Duke University), A mechanochemical model for auto-regulation of lung airway surface liquid volume   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 6, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Robert Bryant (), Convex billiards and non-holonomic systems   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 11:30am, Probability Seminar
  Jean Jacod (), Testing the minimal number of Brownian motion needed for driving a multidimensional Ito semimartingale

• Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Holger Stark (Technical University of Berlin), Active motion: Understanding the nonequilibrium   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Jim Brown (Clemson), Congruence primes for Ikeda lifts and the Ikeda ideal   [abstract]

• Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Robert Bryant (Duke), The affine Bonnet problem   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, September 12, 2013, 3:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Jean Jacod (), Integrated volatility: efficient estimation in the presence of jumps with high activity index.

• Friday, September 13, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  James Keener (University of Utah), Flexing your Protein muscles: How to Pull with a "Burning Rope"   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 13, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Sean Lawley (), Stochastic Switching with both Mathematical and Biological Surprises   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 16, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  George Hagedorn (Virginia Tech), Some Theory and Numerics for Semiclassical Quantum Mechanics   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Anita Layton (Dept of Math, Duke University), Modeling renal hemodynamics: oscillators and feedback control [video]

• Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Matthew Stover (Temple University), Positive combinations of negative curves on surfaces.   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Christy Vaughn (), Distribution of Rare Events

• Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Michael Lipnowski (Duke), Torsion in the cohomology of arithmetic groups   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, September 19, 2013, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Jan Rychtar (UNC Greensboro), The evolution of cooperation – kin selection and greenbeard genes   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 20, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin (University of Maryland), Selection-Mutation models   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, September 20, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Various speakers (), Math Slam   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 23, 2013, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Rowena Gan (), Mathematical Ideas in Impressionist Music

• Monday, September 23, 2013, 4:55pm, PRUV Talks
  Alex Wertheim (), Complex Multiplication on Elliptic Curves

• Monday, September 23, 2013, 5:20pm, PRUV Talks
  Eugene Rabinovich (), Localization in String Theory

• Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Eric Urban (Columbia), Nearly overconvergent modular forms and p-adic L-functions (note special time)   [abstract]

• Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Leslie Lei (), Adaptive Sampling

• Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 4:55pm, PRUV Talks
  David Liu (), Multiscale SVD

• Thursday, September 26, 2013, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Jan Ding (Chicago), Maximum independent sets in random d-regular graphs   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 26, 2013, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  David Liu (), TBD

• Thursday, September 26, 2013, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  David Hemminger (), knot invariants   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 26, 2013, 4:55pm, PRUV Talks
  Josh Izzard (), irreducible representation of A_2

• Thursday, September 26, 2013, 5:20pm, PRUV Talks
  Brett Schnobrich (), groups, geometry and sensing matrices

• Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  L. Mahadevan (Harvard University), Mechanochemistry and motility: individual and collective behavior   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, September 30, 2013, 4:00pm, Probability Seminar
  Wojber Woyczynski (Case Western), TBA

• Monday, September 30, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz (Virginia Tech), Invisicid Limits for the Stochastic Navier Stokes Equations and Related Systems   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Josh Sabloff (Haverford College), Topologically Distinct Lagrangian Fillings and the Generating Family Homology Number   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 3, 2013, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Subhamay Saha (UNC), Risk-sensitive control of continuous-time Markov chains.   [abstract]

• Friday, October 4, 2013, 4:30pm, Math Research/Proposal Writing Workshop
  Tom Witelski (), Math Research/Proposal Writing Workshop   [abstract]

• Monday, October 7, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Benedikt Wirth (New York University), Optimal fine-scale structures in elastic shape optimization   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Melanie Matchett Wood (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Cohen-Lenstra moments and local conditions   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Goncalo Oliveira (Imperial College), Monopoles in Higher Dimensions   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 10, 2013, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Ivana Bozic (Harvard, Program on Evolutionary Dynamics), Dynamics of cancer in response to targeted combination therapy   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 11, 2013, 10:15am, String Theory Seminar
  Sergei Gukov (Caltech), Fivebranes and 4-manifolds

• Friday, October 11, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Yuan Lou (Ohio State University), Finding Evolutionarily Stable Strategies   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 11, 2013, 1:00pm, String Theory Seminar
  Eirik Svanes (Oxford), Heterotic Supergravity, SU(3)-structures, and the alpha'-Expansion

• Friday, October 11, 2013, 2:15pm, String Theory Seminar
  Emanuel Scheidegger (Freiburg), Topological Strings and Quasimodular Forms

• Friday, October 11, 2013, 3:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Mauricio Romo (IPMU), Exact Results In Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories With Boundary

• Saturday, October 12, 2013, 8:30pm, Flows and Patterns conference
  Flows and Patterns Conference (Dept of Physics, Duke University), Flows and Patterns conference, Day 1   [abstract]

• Sunday, October 13, 2013, 8:30pm, Flows and Patterns conference
  Flows and Patterns Conference (Dept of Physics, Duke University), Flows and Patterns conference, Day 2   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Frank Thorne (University of South Carolina), Secondary Terms in Counting Functions for Cubic Fields   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute of Science and Courant Institute), Slowdown in Branching random walks and the inhomogeneous KPP equation   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 18, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Avner Friedman (Ohio State University), Conservation laws in mathematical biology   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, October 18, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Rick Durrett (), Random graphs as models of social networks.   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Paul Johnson (Colorado State University), Topology and combinatorics of Hilbert schemes of points on orbifolds   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 24, 2013, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  David Kelly (UNC), Homogenisation for multi-dimensional maps and flows   [abstract]

• Friday, October 25, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  John Lowengrub (UC Irvine), Multimodal feedback in lineage control and morphogenesis [video]

• Friday, October 25, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Hwayeon Ryu (), Time-Delayed PDEs with Stochastic Boundary in Mathematical Modeling of Kidney   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, October 28, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland), A tale of three scales in modeling crystal surface relaxation   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Lawrence Virgin (Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Duke University), Identifying chaos using spectral content   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Rob Harron (), L-invariants of symmetric powers of modular forms   [abstract]

• Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Adam Levine (Princeton University), Non-orientable surfaces in homology cobordisms   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 11:15am, Probability Seminar
  Erol Pekoz (Boston U), Generalized gamma approximation with rates for urns, walk, and trees   [abstract]

• Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Sylvie Méléard (Ecole Polytechnique), Stochastic dynamics of adaptive trait and neutral marker driven by eco-evolutionary feedbacks   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, October 31, 2013, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Gerard Letac (U. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (visiting SAMSI)), Dirichlet curve of a probability in \(R^d\)   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Sharon Lubkin (NC State University), Model perspectives on self-organizing tissues   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 1, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Ioannis Sgouralis (), Renal autoregulation in a dynamic nephrovascular model   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Kris Klosin (), Congruences and R=T theorems   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 11:00am, Probability Seminar
  David Goldberg (Georgia Tech), Asymptotic Optimality of Constant-Order Policies for Lost Sales Inventory Models with Large Lead Times   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Will Donovan (Edinburgh), Noncommutative deformations and the birational geometry of 3-folds   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 7, 2013, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Olav Kallenberg (), Stationary densities and disintegration kernels   [abstract]

• Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley), The mathematics of comparative transcriptomics   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 11, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jon Wilkening (University of California Berkely), Traveling-Standing Water Waves and Microseisms   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Michelle Manes (University of Hawaii), Galois theory of quadratic rational functions   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Wei Ho (Columbia), Families of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Parker Lowrey (UW-Madison), Virtual Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch via derived schemes   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 14, 2013, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Mustafa Khandelwala (a postdoc with SAMSI and UNC), Belief propagation for optimal edge-cover in the random complete graph   [abstract]

• Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Rick Durrett (Duke University), Spatial evolutionary games with small selection coefficients   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Paul Aspinwall (), Exoflops and Noncommutative Resolutions

• Friday, November 15, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Junchi Li (Duke University), New stochastic voting systems on fixed and random graphs   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 18, 2013, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Keith Promislow (Michigan State University), Network formation in Ionomer Membranes   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Ali Altug (Columbia), Beyond Endoscopy via the Trace Formula   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, November 21, 2013, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Sayan Mukherjee (), Random walks on simplicial complexes   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 22, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara), CANCELED: The Emerging Roles and Computational Challenges of Stochasticity in Biological Systems   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, November 22, 2013, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Paul Aspinwall (Duke), Exoflops and Noncommutative Resolutions

• Friday, November 22, 2013, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Andrew Thompson (Duke University), Constructing optimal subspace packings   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, November 25, 2013, 3:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Stephen Miller (Rutgers), Automorphic forms, graviton scattering, and Arthur's unitarity conjectures   [abstract]

• Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Steven Sivek (Princeton University), Sutured embedded contact homology is an invariant   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Robert Rhoades (Center for Communications Research), The story of a “strange” function   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, December 5, 2013, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Sean Lawley (), Stochastic switching: mathematical surprises and biological insight   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, December 6, 2013, 11:00am, Probability Seminar
  David Gamarnik (MIT), TBA

• Friday, December 6, 2013, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Benoit Perthame (Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Universite, Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Adaptive evolution and concentrations in parabolic PDEs   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, December 6, 2013, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Nick Addington (Duke), The Pfaffian-Grassmannian Derived Equivalence