Department of Mathematics, < Spring 2014 >  

• Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Ted Cox (Syracuse), Convergence of finite voter model densities [video]

• Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  John Cain (University of Richmond), Stabilization of Periodic Wavetrains in Excitable Media   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 23, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Yuan Zhnag (), Coexistence in the Staver-Levin forest model [video]

• Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Marty Golubitsky (Ohio State University), Patterns of Synchrony: From Animal Gaits to Binocular Rivalry   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Brian Fitzpatrick (Duke), What is a stack?

• Friday, January 24, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Leslie Saper (), Quadratic Reciprocity: from Gauss to Langlands [video]

• Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Deepam Patel (IHES), Motivic structures on higher homotopy of non-nilpotent spaces   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar Seminar
  Stas Minker (Duke), L_1 - Penalization in Functional Linear Regression with Gaussian Design   [abstract]

• Thursday, January 30, 2014, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Robert Adler (), The Gaussian Kinematic Formula, with some applications   [abstract]

• Friday, January 31, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara), The Emerging Roles and Computational Challenges of Stochasticity in Biological Systems   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, January 31, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Caitlin Leverson (), Legendrian Knots, Augmentations, and Rulings   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 3, 2014, 9:00am, Probability Seminar
  SAMSI workshop (), Topological data analysis

• Monday, February 3, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Christian Mendl (Technical University of Munich), Matrix-valued Boltzmann equation for the Hubbard model   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Jie Wang (University of Georgia), The primitive cohomology of the theta divisor of an abelian fivefold   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 6, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Ben Adcock (Purdue), Getting even more from less: A new framework for compressed sensing   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 6, 2014, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  No seminar? (), See Monday [video]

• Friday, February 7, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Scott McKinley (University of Florida), Characterizing Antibody-Mucin Interactions That Produce a Dynamic Molecular Shield Against Viral Invasion   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 7, 2014, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Brian Fitzpatrick (Duke), What is a stack?

• Friday, February 7, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Chris O'Neill (), An Introduction to Ehrhart Theory and Lattice Point Enumeration   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 10, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jameson Cahill (Duke University), Geometry of unit norm tight frames   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 13, 2014, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  No seminar (), Sow Day [video]

• Monday, February 17, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Jessica Conway (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Clearing and (Functionally) Curing HIV Infection   [abstract]

• Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Nicholas Ouellette (Yale University), Multiscale Dynamics and Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flow   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Lillian Pierce (Bonn and Duke), Burgess bounds for short mixed character sums   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 20, 2014, 1:00pm, Data Seminar
  Joshua Vogelstein (), Graph Classification via Signal Subgraphs: Applications in Statistical Connectomics   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 20, 2014, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Xuan Wang (), Dynamical random graph processes with bounded-size rules and the augmented multiplicative coalescent   [abstract]

• Friday, February 21, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Pedro Rangel (Georgia Tech), Learning Low-Rank Similarity Kernels on Graphs   [abstract]

• Friday, February 21, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  John Tyson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Irreversible Transitions, Bistability and Checkpoints in the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 21, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Phil Andreae (), An Introduction to Morse Theory   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 24, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Chris Bishop (Stony Brook University), Conformal maps and optimal meshes   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 3:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Yiannis Sakellaridis (Rutgers at Newark), Non-standard comparisons of trace formulas   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Robert Haslhofer (Courant Institute), Mean curvature flow with surgery   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Dan Yasaki (UNC-Greensboro), Modular forms and elliptic curves over the cubic field of discriminant -23   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 27, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Colin Rundel (), Using GPUs to improve the computational efficiency of Gaussian process models   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 27, 2014, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Tauhid Zaman (), The Dynamics of Retweeting on Twitter   [abstract]

• Friday, February 28, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Richard Bertram (Florida State University), GPUfit: A Tool for Real-Time Model Calibration and Prediction Testing   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 28, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Robert Bryant (), The Concept of Holonomy   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:00pm, Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
  Laszlo Lovasz (Eötvös Loránd University), Geometric representations of graphs   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 2:00pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin Madison), Critical metrics on connected sums of Einstein four-manifolds   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 4:30pm, Gergen Lectures Seminar
  Laszlo Lovasz (Eötvös Loránd University), Large networks, graph limits, and why are they useful   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 4:30pm, Gergen Lectures Seminar
  Laszlo Lovasz (Eötvös Loránd University), Graph limits and extremal graph theory   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 6, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Miles Crosskey (), Multiscale SDEs: Learning and Homogenization   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 6, 2014, 4:30pm, Gergen Lectures Seminar
  Laszlo Lovasz (Eötvös Loránd University), An informal conversation.   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 7, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Steven Baer (Arizona State University), Multiscale Modeling of Neural Subcircuits and Feedback Mechanisms in the Outer Plexiform Layer of the Retina   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 7, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Mark Stern (), In Search of the Second Derivative   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 13, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  No Talk (), Spring Break

• Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Yair Mau (Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University), Reversing desertification: a pattern formation approach   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Dihua Jiang (University of Minnesota), Fourier Coefficients and Endoscopy Correspondence for Automorphic Forms.   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 20, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Harish Chintakunta (N.C. State), Topological feature extraction in high dimensional data   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 20, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Omer Bobrowski (Duke), Phase transitions in random Cech complexes   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 21, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Victoria Booth (University of Michigan), Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 21, 2014, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Brian Fitzpatrick (Duke), What is a stack?

• Friday, March 21, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Math Slam! (), TBA [video]

• Monday, March 24, 2014, 4:00pm, Probability Seminar
  Richard Davis (Colorado), Hotelling lecture at UNC ( and a second talk on 3/26)

• Monday, March 24, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Rongjie Lai (University of California, Irvine), Compressed Modes and Compressed Plane Waves for Variational PDEs   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 1:50pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Tristan Collins (Columbia University), The boundary of the Kahler cone   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Winnie Li (Penn State), TBA

• Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois), Unifying theory for tuned-critical quake statistics: from compressed nanopillars to earthquakes   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 12:00pm, Probability Seminar
  Robin PEMANTLE (University of Pennsylvania), Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables Subtitle: estimating coefficients of multivariate rational power series   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Simon Marshall (Northwestern University), L^p norms of arithmetic eigenfunctions   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 27, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Brittany Terese Fasy (Tulane), Local Homology Based Distance Between Embedded Graphs   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 27, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Robin PEMANTLE (University of Pennsylvania), Zeros of random analytic functions and their derivatives   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 28, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Tim Elston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Models and methods for studying cell movement   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 28, 2014, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Paul Aspinwall (Duke), Rational Curves and Worldsheet Instantons

• Friday, March 28, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Paul Bendich (), Topological Data Analysis   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 31, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jeremy L. Marzuola (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), The relaxation of a family of broken bond crystal surface models   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Zhiwei Yun (Stanford University), Rigid local systems coming from automorphic forms   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 3, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Toby Berger (Virginia), How Much Does Making Hanoi Towers Move Randomly Extend the Lifetime of the Earth?

• Thursday, April 3, 2014, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Krishna Athreya (), Brownian crossings via regeneration and the past and future given the present.   [abstract]

• Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Rodica Curtu (University of Iowa), Mixed-Mode Activity Patterns in Neuronal Networks with Lateral Inhibition   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 4, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Wenjing Liao (), The MUSIC algorithm for line spectral estimation: stability and super-resolution   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 7, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Gregory Herschlag (Duke University), A hierarchy of approximations to the chemical master equation, developed for surface reactions   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Dave Penneys (University of Toronto.), Planar algebras and evaluation algorithms   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Angelo Vistoli (Scuola Normale Superiore), Fundamental gerbes   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 10, 2014, 9:00am, CNCS Seminar
  Matthieu Wyart (New York Universirty), Discontinuous shear thickening without inertia in dense non-Brownian suspensions   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 10, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Nate Strawn and Paul Bendich (Duke), Statistical Inference with Topological Features   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 10, 2014, 4:15pm, Probability Seminar
  Maury Bramson (Minnesota), Convergence of the Maximum of 2-Dimensional Gaussian Free Field and Connections with Branching Brownian Motion   [abstract]

• Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Lydia Bilinsky (Duke University), A Mathematical Model of Glutamate and Glutamine Metabolism in the Rat: Implications for Glutathione Production   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 11, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Greg Herschlag (), Fluid Flow Through Permeable Channels   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 14, 2014, 12:15pm, PRUV Talks
  Julia Ni (), A convex approach to tree-based wavelet compression   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 14, 2014, 12:45pm, PRUV Talks
  Daniel Stern (), (Low-order) Geometric Lagrangians with Matter Fields of Arbitrary Rank   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 14, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Zhouping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), On Gases Expanding into Vacuum with or without Self-Gravitations   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Radmila Sazdanovic (North Carolina State University), Chromatic homology and graph configuration spaces   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Alex Wertheim (), Complex Multipllication of Elliptic Curves   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 5:00pm, PRUV Talks
  Josh Izzard (), Rank p2 Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Jacob Tsimerman (Harvard University), Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Luxi Wei (), Modeling Credit Risk using Rating and Environmental Factors   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 5:00pm, PRUV Talks
  Aashiq Dheeraj (), A Stochastic Spatial Model for Tumor Growth   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 17, 2014, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Galen Reeves (), On the minimax mean-squared error of Compressed Sensing   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 17, 2014, 3:00pm, Probability Seminar
  Xue-Mei Li (Warwick University), Stirring the geodesics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 17, 2014, 4:20pm, Probability Seminar
  Martin Hairer (Warwick University), Weak universality of the KPZ equation [video]

• Friday, April 18, 2014, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Carla Staver (Columbia University), Positive Feedbacks and the Global Distribution of Biomes   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 18, 2014, 12:00pm, CGTP Group Meeting Seminar
  Paul Aspinwall (Duke), Rational Curves and Worldsheet Instantons

• Friday, April 18, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Mainak Patel (), The Essential Role of Phase Delayed Inhibition in Decoding Synchronized Oscillations within the Brain   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 18, 2014, 4:30pm, PRUV Talks
  Daniel Vitek (), Knot Contact Homology and the Augmentation Polynomial   [abstract]

• Friday, April 18, 2014, 5:00pm, PRUV Talks (TENTATIVE)
  Leslie Lei (), Infinite Swapping Simulated Tempering   [abstract]

• Monday, April 21, 2014, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar Seminar
  Brandon Levin NOTE SPECIAL TIME (IAS), Crystalline representations of minuscule type NOTE SPECIAL TIME   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 21, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Pierre Degond (Imperial College), Collective dynamics and self-organization   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  David Weitz (Harvard University), Controlling Cell Stiffness   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Colleen Robles (IAS/TAMU), Degeneration of Hodge structure   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Greg Pearlstein (TAMU), Boundary components of Mumford-Tate domains   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 25, 2014, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Hangjun Xu (), Inverse Mean Curvature Vector Flows in Spacetimes   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 28, 2014, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Mark Levi (Penn State), A connection between tire tracks, the stationary Schr\"odinger's equation and forced vibrations   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, May 1, 2014, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Xin Tong (Courant), Filtering with noisy Lagrangian tracers   [abstract]

• Monday, May 12, 2014, 9:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Four talks (), Southeastern Probability Conference   [abstract]

• Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 9:00am, Probability Seminar
  Three talks (), Southeastern Probability Conference   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, May 29, 2014, 10:00am, Mathematical Biology REU
  REU students (), student presentations [video]