Department of Mathematics, < Spring 2015 >  

• Thursday, January 8, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Edward Patz (), Development of Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection and Characterization   [abstract]

• Monday, January 12, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Mark Iwen (Michigan State University), Fast Phase Retrieval for High-Dimensions   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Mary Cummings (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University), Modeling humans in complex sociotechnical systems   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 1:30pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Hunter Brooks (EPFL), Special Value Formulas for Rankin-Selberg p-adic L-Functions   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 15, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Shankar Bhamidi (UNC), Scaling limits of random graph models at criticality: Universality and the basin of attraction of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Lorenzo Foscolo (Stony Brook University), New G2-holonomy cones and exotic nearly Kähler structures on the 6-sphere and the product of two 3-spheres.   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 1:30pm, Number Theory Seminar
  Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh (North Dakota State University), The Distribution of the Primes and Moments of Products of Automorphic $L$-functions   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Michael Griffin (Emory), On the distribution of Moonshine and the Umbral Moonshine conjectures.   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 22, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Tom Beale (Duke University), Computing Integrals on Surfaces   [abstract]

• Friday, January 23, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Mauro Maggioni (Department of Mathematics, Duke University), Geometric Methods for the Approximation of High-dimensional Dynamical Systems   [abstract]

• Monday, January 26, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Jinhuan Wang (Duke University), Sharp conditions for global existence to some PDEs and functional inequalities   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Patrick Charbonneau (Duke University, Dept of Chemistry), From glass to jamming via a Gardner transition   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Mark Stern (Duke University), Introduction to nonlinear harmonic forms.   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Tatsunari Watanabe (Duke), Weighted completion and Generic curves in positive characteristics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, January 29, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Dena Asta (Carnegie Mellon), Geometric methods for the statistical analysis of non-Euclidean data and networks   [abstract]

• Thursday, January 29, 2015, 4:00pm, String Theory
  Albion Lawrence (Brandeis), Coarse grained quantum dynamics

• Thursday, January 29, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan), Non-asymptotic approach in random matrix theory   [abstract]

• Friday, January 30, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Ezra Miller (Department of Mathematics, Duke University), Applying persistent homology to brain artery and vein imaging   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 2, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Volker Blum (Duke University), Accurate, Scalable, All-Electron Density Functional Theory for Materials Science in the FHI-aims Code   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Ashay Burungale (UCLA), \mathfrak{p}-rigidity and Iwasawa \mu-invariants   [abstract]

• Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Chad Schoen (Duke), Chow groups, an introduction   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 5, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Malbert Smith, Steve Lattanzio, and Jerry Reiter (MetaMetrics and Duke), Data Analytics in Business and Social Sciences seminar: Dawn of the Age of "Quantity" in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Data Integration from a Missing Data Perspective   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 5, 2015, 3:00pm, String Theory
  Scott Watson (Syracuse), How well can we really know the scale of inflation?

• Thursday, February 5, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Hoi Nguyen (Ohio State University), On roots repulsion of some random systems   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 6, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Colleen Mitchell (Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa), Models of cardiac caveolae reveal a novel mechanism for delayed repolarization and arrhythmia.   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 9, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Selim Esedoglu (University of Michigan), Algorithms for anisotropic mean curvature flow of networks, with applications to materials science   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  James Moody (Duke University Department of Sociology), Epidemic potential on networks, effects of degree variability and concurrency   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Baiying Liu (University of Utah), On Fourier coefficients and Arthur parameters for classical groups   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Charles Vial (University of Cambridge), On the motive of some hyperKaehler varieties   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 12, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Angela Zoss (), Visualization for Exploration, Communication, and Inspiration   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 12, 2015, 4:00pm, String Theory
  Daniel S. Park (Simons Center), TBA

• Thursday, February 12, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Dmytro Bilyk (University of Minnesota), Discrepancy Theory and Analysis   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 13, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Dave McClay (Department of Biology, Duke University), Gene regulatory networks as tools for understanding embryonic development   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 13, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Greg Herschlag (), Material transport and pumping across channels at low Reynolds number, in the context of a model for insect respiration   [abstract]

• Monday, February 16, 2015, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Ben Murphy (University of California, Irvine), Random Matrices, Spectral Measures, and Transport in Composite Media   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 12:00pm, Anita Layton Recruitment Interviews Meeting
  Anita Layton (), Recruitment visitors meeting

• Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Shrenik Shah (Columbia), Some strong twisted base changes for unitary similitude groups   [abstract]

• Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  V. Srinivas (IAS, TIFR), Etale motivic cohomology and algebraic cycles   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 19, 2015, 3:00pm, String Theory
  Ilarion Melnikov (Harvard), TBA

• Thursday, February 19, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Lingjiong Zhu (University of Minnesota), Self-Exciting Point Processes   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 20, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Christopher Remien (University of Idaho), Mathematical Models of Biological Markers   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 20, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Matthew Baker (Georgia Tech), Riemann-Roch for Graphs and Applications   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 20, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Henry Adams (), Evasion Paths in Mobile Sensor Networks   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, February 23, 2015, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Ben Krause (University of California, Los Angeles), Dimension independent bounds for the spherical maximal function on products of finite groups   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Robert Ziff (University of Michigan), Thresholds and correlations in percolation processes [video]

• Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Sol Friedberg (Boston College), Higher theta functions   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, February 26, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Nikos Papanikolopoulos (University of Minnesota), Vision-based Monitoring of Behavioral Disorders   [abstract]

• Thursday, February 26, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Gautam Iyer (Carnegie Mellon), Anomalous diffusion in fast cellular flows   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 27, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Jim Nolen (Department of Mathematics, Duke University), Sticky limit theorems for statistics in singular spaces.   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, February 27, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Dmitry Vagner (), Higher Dimensional Algebra in Topology   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 2, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Bruce Pitman (SUNY Buffalo), CANCELLED   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue), Local Langlands correspondence and the exterior and symmetric square root numbers for GL(n)   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, March 5, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Josh Howes and David Banks (), Topic Modelling in Programmatic Advertising, and Mining Text Networks   [abstract]

• Friday, March 6, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Jeremy Gunawardena (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School), The Hopfield Barrier in eukaryotic gene regulation   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 13, 2015, 12:00pm, Data Science Seminar
  Alyson Fletcher (), Inferring Structure in Large Neural Systems   [abstract]

• Monday, March 16, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Diogo Oliveira e Silva (University of Bonn), Towards a sharp restriction inequality on the circle   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Adam Jacob (Harvard University), A special Lagrangian type equation for holomorphic line bundles   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 4:30pm, CTMS Adventures In Theory Lectures
  Michael I. Weinstein (Columbia University), Energy on the edge - a mathematical view   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  David Hansen (Columbia University), Galois deformations over eigenvarieties and the Venkatesh conjecture   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 3:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Larry Rolen (Universitat Koeln), Mock theta functions and quantum modular forms   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 19, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Allen Tannenbaum (), Controlled Active Vision/Image Processing with Applications to Medical Image Computing   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:00pm, Department of Mathematics Faculty Meeting
  Jack Bookman (), Departmental (Faculty Mtg).

• Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:00pm, String Theory
  Justin Khoury (Penn), New Framework for Dark Matter

• Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  James Gleeson (Limerick), Determinants of meme popularity   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 20, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  TBA (), Math Slam!

• Monday, March 23, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Manuel Gnann (University of Michigan), Well-posedness and self-similar asymptotics for a thin-film equation   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Daphne Klotsa (University of Cambridge), Pattern formation in oscillatory fluid flows and swimming   [abstract]

• Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Winnie Li (Penn State), Recent developments in noncongruence modular forms   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 26, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Xuemei Chen (Missouri), Some row action methods and their applications   [abstract]

• Thursday, March 26, 2015, 3:00pm, String Theory
  Masahito Yamazaki (IPMU), TBA

• Thursday, March 26, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Yu Gu (Stanford University), Scaling limits of random fluctuations in homogenization of divergence form operators   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 27, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Nicolas Buchler (Duke University), Coupling of redox rhythms to the plant circadian clock and the yeast cell division cycle .   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, March 27, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Austin Baird (), MOVING FLUID IN TUBES: HOW DO WE USE MATHEMATICS TO HELP UNDERSTAND CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS IN SMALL ORGANISMS?   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 30, 2015, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Tom Beale (Duke University), Uniform error estimates for fluid flow with moving boundaries using finite difference methods   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, March 30, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Ramesh Sreekantan (Indian Statistical Institute), Cycles on Abelian surfaces   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Philippe H. Trinh (Mathematical Institute, Oxford University), The role of exponentially small effects in the physical sciences   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Thomas Walpuski (MIT), G2–instantons over twisted connected sums   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 12:00pm, Department of Mathematics Faculty Meeting
  Harold Layton (), Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Shuyang Cheng (University of Chicago), Poisson summation for the Harish-Chandra transform   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 2, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  DABSS (), TBA

• Thursday, April 2, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Daniel Jerison (Cornell University), Random walks on sandpile groups   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 3, 2015, 1:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  David Zureick-Brown (Emory), Diophantine and tropical geometry   [abstract]

• Friday, April 3, 2015, 3:00pm, Other Meetings And Events Seminar
  M. Lipnowski (), M. Lipnowski (Room Reservation) [video]

• Friday, April 3, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Francis Motta (), A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Complex Hadamard Matrices   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 6, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Zhennan Zhou (Duke University), On the classical limit of a time-dependent self-consistent field system: analysis and computation   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 2:50pm, CNCS Seminar
  Farhang Radjai (LMGC, CNRS-University of Montpellier), Fabric and force anisotropy in cohesive granular materials   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  David Rose (USC), Quantum knot invariants and Howe dualities   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 2:00pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  Farshid Hajir (), Non-Abelian Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics Over Imaginary Quadratic Fields   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 9, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  John Robinson (Wellzesta), Coming soon: multi-center data on social engagement among Seniors - opportunities for modeling wellness   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 9, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  Arnab Sen (University of Minnesota), Double Roots of Random Littlewood Polynomials   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 10, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Helen Moore (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology Group), Optimal Control Applied to Drug Development.   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 10, 2015, 4:15pm, DUMU Talk
  Anne Talkington (), DUMU Talk

• Friday, April 10, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Andrew Goetz (), The Einstein-Klein-Gordon Equations, Wave Dark Matter, and the Tully-Fisher Relation   [abstract] [video]

• Saturday, April 11, 2015, 9:30am, String Theory Seminar
  Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati), Geometric constraints on the space of N=2 SCFTs

• Saturday, April 11, 2015, 10:40am, String Theory Seminar
  Sheldon Katz (UIUC), TBA

• Saturday, April 11, 2015, 1:00pm, String Theory Seminar
  Diana Vaman (UVA), Entanglement Hamiltonians for chiral fermions

• Saturday, April 11, 2015, 2:10pm, String Theory Seminar
  Seung-Joo Lee (Virginia Tech), BPS states, quiver invariants and mutations

• Saturday, April 11, 2015, 3:20pm, String Theory Seminar
  Jirui Guo (Virginia Tech), Triality of two-dimensional (0,2) theories

• Monday, April 13, 2015, 12:00pm, Other Meetings And Events Seminar
  Jonathan Mattingly (), Faculty Meeting

• Monday, April 13, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Lek-Heng Lim (University of Chicago), Fast(est) Algorithms for Structured Matrices via Tensor Decompositions   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 3:00pm, DUMU Talks
  David Hemminger (), DUMU Talk - David Hemminger   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 4:30pm, UNC-Duke Students Math Colloquium
  John Voight (Dartmouth), Triangles, permutations, and (covers of) surfaces   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  John Pardon (Stanford University), Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein/Weinstein domains   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 12:00pm, Dept. Mathematics Meeting
  Anita Layton (), Anita Layton/Dan Kiehart Meeting

• Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 1:30pm, UNC-Duke Number Theory Seminar
  John Voight (Dartmouth), Presentations for rings of modular forms   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:15pm, DUMU Talk
  Christy Vaughn (), DUMU Talks

• Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  John Calabrese (Rice), Gabriel's theorem and points   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 16, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Tingran Gao (), The Diffusion Geometry of Shape Spaces   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 16, 2015, 1:15pm, Other Meetings And Events Seminar
  Marshall Ratliff (), DUMU Talk   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4:00pm, String Theory
  Michele Del Zotto (Harvard), TBA

• Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4:30pm, Probability Seminar
  David Andeerson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stochastic models of biochemical reaction systems   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 17, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  David Anderson (Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Madison), Stochastic models of biochemical reaction systems: network structure and qualitative dynamics   [abstract] [video]

• Friday, April 17, 2015, 4:15pm, DUMU Talk
  Rowena Gan (), DUMU Talks   [abstract]

• Friday, April 17, 2015, 4:30pm, Graduate/faculty Seminar
  Humberto Diaz (), A Tour of Heights & Rational Points   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 20, 2015, 12:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Asymptotic-preseving schemes for the Boltzmann equation and relative problems with multiple scales   [abstract] [video]

• Monday, April 20, 2015, 4:30pm, Department of Mathematics Faculty Meeting
  J. Mattingly (), Faculty Meeting

• Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Jacek Brodzki (Southampton University), A generalised Julg-Valette complex for CAT(0)-cube complexes.   [abstract] [video]

• Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 4:30pm, CTMS Adventures In Theory Lectures
  Eric Cances (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech), Numerical methods for first-principle molecular simulation   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Eric Cances (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech), Perturbation of nonlinear self-adjoint operators - Theory and applications   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 4:30pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Nicolas Addington (), On Lehn's hyperkaehler 8-fold   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 23, 2015, 9:30am, Data Seminar
  Andrew Gelfand (Yahoo), Personalization at Yahoo: From Mobile Data to User Preferences   [abstract]

• Thursday, April 23, 2015, 11:45am, Data Seminar
  Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Sandra van Ginhoven (), Data Expedition - Exploring, Modeling, Predicting, Understanding Paintings in Paris   [abstract]

• Friday, April 24, 2015, 12:00pm, Mathematical Biology Colloquium
  Carina Curto (The Pennsylvania State University ), Convex neural codes   [abstract] [video]

• Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 4:00pm, Data Seminar
  Steve Nowicki (), Birdsong as a model for processing speech-like variation in acoustic signals   [abstract]

• Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 4:30pm, Geometry/topology Seminar
  Michael Singer (UCL (London)), A new approach to monopole metrics   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 30, 2015, 3:00pm, Algebraic Geometry Seminar
  Jeffrey Giansiracusa (Swansea), Equations of tropical varieties   [abstract] [video]

• Thursday, April 30, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Frederic Coquel (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique), Jin and Xin's Relaxation Solvers with Defect Measure Corrections   [abstract]

• Monday, May 4, 2015, 4:30pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Bruce Pitman (SUNY Buffalo), Where Are You Going To Go When The Volcano Blows?   [abstract] [video]