Department of Mathematics, < Spring 2009 >  

• Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Andrew Putman (MIT), The second rational homology group of the moduli space of curves with level structures   [abstract]

• Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Richard Hain (), Elliptic Curves and Multiple Zeta Numbers   [abstract]

• Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Aleksey Zinger (Stony Brook), The Geometry of Genus-One Gromov-Witten Invariants and Mirror Symmetry   [abstract]

• Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Richard Hain (Duke), Three-variable modular symbols for classical modular forms   [abstract]

• Monday, January 26, 2009, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Dapeng Zhan (Yale University), Reversibility and duality of SLE   [abstract]

• Monday, January 26, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Govind Menon (Brown University), Burgers turbulence, Chernoff's distribution, complete integrability and stochastic coalescence   [abstract]

• Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Fernando Marques (IMPA), The space of positive scalar curvature metrics on the three-sphere   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4:30pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Thomas Lam (Harvard University), Total positivity, Toeplitz matrices, and loop groups   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Harold Layton (), "Getting the Most out of Graduate School: A Conversation with the DGS"   [abstract]

• Monday, February 2, 2009, 4:30pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  David Speyer (MIT), Matroids and Grassmannians   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke), Union of geometric objects, epsilon-nets, and hitting sets   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:30pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Allan Sly (University of California Berkeley), Mixing in Time and Space   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Matt Bowen (), Spectral Deferred Correction on a Reaction-Diffusion Problem   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Patrick Brosnan (University of British Columbia), Essential dimension and algebraic stacks   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Jacqueline Krim (Dept of Physics, North Carolina State University), Does Friction depend on Magnetism or Superconductivity? [video]

• Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Justin Sawon (Colorado State University), Holomorphic coisotropic reduction   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 12, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Firas Rassoul-Agha (University of Utah), On the almost-sure invariance principle for random walk in random environment   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:00am, Mathematical Biology (including CMCLM) Seminar
  Cliff Cunningham (), Modeling ecological niches of cod at the last glacial maximum

• Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Graham Cox (), Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Hex, and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem   [abstract]

• Monday, February 16, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Michael Minion (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Mathematics), Parallel in time integration: parareal and deferred corrections   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 4:30pm, Department of Mathematics Seminar
  Margaret Beck (Brown University), Using global invariant manifolds to understand metastability in Burgers equation with small viscosity.   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  John McSweeney (The Ohio State University), A Nonuniform Stochastic Coalescent Process with applications to Biology and Computer Science   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 20, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Lenhard Ng (), Symplectic Techniques in Topology: An Informal Introduction   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 23, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Yoichiro Mori (University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics), Convergence Proof of a Stokes Flow Immersed Boundary Method   [abstract]

• Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Benoit Charbonneau (Duke), Singular monopoles on the product of a circle and a surface   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 26, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar (Joint UNC/DUKE)
  Christian Houdre (), On the Limiting Shape of Random Young Tableaux for Markovian Words   [abstract]

• Friday, February 27, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Oliver Gjoneski (), Eichler-Shimura vs. Harish-Chandra   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Katrin Wehrheim (MIT), The symplectic category: correspondences, quilts, and topological applications   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 5, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Jan Wehr (University of Arizona), Entanglement percolation in quantum networks   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 6, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Andrea Watkins (), TBD   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jean-Philippe Thiran (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Multimodal signal analysis for audio-visual speech recognition   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 13, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  N/A (), Spring Break   [abstract]

• Monday, March 16, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Guillaume Bal (Columbia University, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics), Some convergence results in equations with random coefficients   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Moduli and principal parts of a map into the flag manifold of a loop group   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 4:30pm, CNCS/CTMS Joint Seminar
  Mason A. Porter (University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Communities in Networks   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:00pm, Geometry Forum
  Mark Stern (Duke University), Spectral asymmetry and special holonomy   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 19, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Lea Popovic (Concordia), Genealogy of Catalytic Populations   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 20, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Sarah Schott (), Computational Complexity   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 23, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  John Stockie (Simon Fraser University, Department of Mathematics), Porous immersed boundaries   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Julio Rebelo (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse), On closed currents invariant by holomorphic foliations   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 10:00am, Janice McCarthy *PhD Defense*
  Janice McCarthy (Duke Mathematics), "L2 Index Theory and D-particle Binding"

• Thursday, March 26, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Asaf Nachmias (Microsoft), The Alexander-Orbach Conjecture Holds in High Dimensions   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 27, 2009, 2:30pm, Abraham Smith *PhD Defense*
  Abraham Smith (Duke Mathematics), “Integrability of Second-Order Partial Differential Equations and the Geometry of GL (2)-Structures”

• Friday, March 27, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Mike Jenista (), Not Your Average Exact Sequence   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:00am, Geometry Forum
  Jer-Chin Chuang (Duke University), Combinatorial Realization of the Thom-Smale Complex via Discrete Morse Theory (1)   [abstract]

• Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math and Analysis
  Dmitry Shepelsky (), Long time asymptotics for the Camassa-Holm equation, on the line and on the half-line   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Irina Kogan (North Carolina State University), Geometry of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 2, 2009, 2:45pm, String Theory Seminar
  Robert Karp (Virginia Tech), A convex optimization problem in string theory   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Alexandr Labovschii (University of Missouri, Department of Mathematics), High accuracy numerical methods for fluid flow problems and turbulence modeling   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 3, 2009, 9:30am, Mihaela Froehlich *PhD Defense*
  Mihaela Froehlich (Duke Mathematics), "Two Coating Problems: Thin Film Rupture and Spin Coating"

• Friday, April 3, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Tiffany Kolba (), Stochastic Differential Equations with Periodicity Induced by Randomness [video]

• Monday, April 6, 2009, 10:00am, Geometry Forum
  Jer-Chin Chuang (Duke University), Combinatorial Realization of the Thom-Smale Complex via Discrete Morse Theory (2)   [abstract]

• Monday, April 6, 2009, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Pete Casazza (University of Missouri, Department of Mathematics), Applications of Hilbert space frames   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:00pm, Sponser lecture today has been cancelled! The Gergen lectures will still take place.
  Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Mathematics Department), "Applications woven into the mathematical fabric"   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:30am, Geometry Forum (special edition)
  Jeff Jauregui (Duke University), Four-manifolds without Einstein metrics   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 2:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Robert Lipshitz (Columbia), Planar grid diagrams and bordered Floer homology   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 4:30pm, John J. Gergen Memorial Lectures
  Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Mathematics Department), Wavelets and Applications   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 12:00pm, John J. Gergen Memorial Lectures
  Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Mathematics Department), A case story: using wavelets to 'certify' paintings ...   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 9, 2009, 8:30am, Geometry Forum (special edition)
  George Lam (Duke University), Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 9, 2009, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Pete Clark (University of Georgia), (Postponed to a later date) Algebraic Curves Violating the Hasse Principle   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:00am, Jenny Law *PhD Defense*
  Jenny Law (Duke Mathematics), Approximately Counting Perfect and General Matchings in Bipartite and General Graphs

• Friday, April 10, 2009, 4:00pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Andy Ng (), Retinoid Transport in the Vision cycle

• Friday, April 10, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Alberto Teguia (), TBA [video]

• Friday, April 10, 2009, 4:30pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Mark Hallen (Duke University), Improving accuracy and scope of quantitative FRAP analysis

• Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:00pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Brian Choi (), Modeling Axonal transport system

• Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jim Nolen (Duke University, Department of Mathematics), Bumps in the road: stability and fluctuations for traveling waves in an inhomogeneous medium   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:30pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Jason Ferguson (), Factorization of Primes in Biquadratic Extensions of Q

• Monday, April 13, 2009, 5:00pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Aaron Pollack (), Relations between special derivations on the free Lie Algebra on two generators arising from modular forms.

• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 8:30am, Geometry Forum (special edition)
  Graham Cox (Duke University), The Yang--Mills equations over Riemann surfaces   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Thomas Ward (Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NCSU), Electrohydrodynamically driven chaotic advection in a translating drop   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jeff Streets (Princeton), A parabolic flow of Hermitian metrics   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:30pm, Adventures in Theory : A Lecture Series in Theoretical and Mathematical Science
  Emmanuel J. Candes (California Institute of Technology), Exact Matrix Completion by Convex Optimization Theory and Algorithms   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 12:00pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Aaron Pollack (Duke University), Modular forms and relations between special derivations   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 1:00pm, Geometry Forum
  Lenhard Ng (Duke University), Categorification and Khovanov homology   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 16, 2009, 8:30am, Geometry Forum (special edition)
  Aaron Pollack (Duke University), An instanton invariant for 3-manifolds   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:30pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Jared Haftel (), A Closer Look at ADC multivariate GARACH [video]

• Thursday, April 16, 2009, 5:00pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Barry Wright (), Objective measures of preferential ballot voting systems [video]

• Thursday, April 16, 2009, 5:30pm, Undergraduate Seminar
  Jesse Thorner (), Simplicial homology and DeRham's theorem [video]

• Friday, April 17, 2009, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  N/A (), N/A

• Monday, April 20, 2009, 12:00pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Dick Hain (Duke University), Elliptic Motives   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 8:30am, Geometry Forum (special edition)
  Alan Parry (Duke University), The genus of embedded surfaces in the projective plane   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Brian Mann (Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke University), Nonlinear Energy Harvesting [video]

• Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Mauro Maggioni (Duke), Parametrizations of manifolds via Laplacian eigenfunctions and heat kernels   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:00pm, Geometry Forum
  Lenhard Ng (Duke University), Categorification and Khovanov homology (2)   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Arend Bayer (University of Utah), Stability conditions on the local P2 revisited   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:45pm, String Theory Seminar
  Mark Jackson (Leiden University), Superstring Cosmology: New Physics in the Sky   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Daniella E. Raveh (Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel), Nonlinear Dynamics of Aeroelastic Airfoil Systems in Buffeting Flows   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 30, 2009, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar (Joint with UNC)
  Xia Chen (University of Tennessee - Knoxville), From random walk in random scenery to charged polymer and L^2 modulus of continuity of brownian local time   [abstract]

• Friday, May 1, 2009, 10:30am, Duke/UNC Graduate student probability conference
  David Aldous (UC Berkeley), Spatial Random Networks   [abstract]

• Friday, May 1, 2009, 4:30pm, Duke/UNC Graduate student probability conference
  Russ Lyons (University of Indiana), Asymptotic Enumeration of Spanning Trees via Traces and Random Walks   [abstract]

• Saturday, May 2, 2009, 10:30am, Duke/UNC Graduate student probability conference
  Dan Stroock (MIT), Gaussian measures in infinite dimensions   [abstract]

• Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Richard McLaughlin (Dept of Mathematics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Falling Spheres in Stratified fluids: Experiments and Theory [video]

• Thursday, May 28, 2009, 1:00pm, Geometry Forum
  Dan Rutherford (Duke University), Open book decompositions and contact structures   [abstract]