Departmental Colloquium:  List of upcoming colloquium talks


Title: Special values of zeta-functions

Speaker: Manfred Kolster, McMaster University
Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Decentralized Control in mean Field Stochastic Systems

Speaker: Minyi Huang, Carleton University
Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: A Communications Engineer Looks at Climate Data

Speaker: David Thomson, Queen's University
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: New Convex Parametrizations for the Design of Sparsity Constrained Controllers

Speaker: Nuno Martins, University of Maryland
Date: Friday, March 9, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: The Impact of String Theory on Mathematics

Speaker: Philip Candelas, Oxford
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Classification problems in mathematics

Speaker: Ilijas Farah, York University
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Spectral Theory and Number theory of the Twisted Bi-Laplacian

Speaker: Man Wah Wong, York University
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Bifurcations in nonsmooth dynamical systems

Speaker: Oleg Makarenkov, Imperial College London
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: (Non)commutative probability through an analyst's lens

Speaker: Serban Belinschi, University of Saskatchewan
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: What is wrong with evolutionary theory and how might it be fixed?

Speaker: Troy Day, Queen's University
Date: Friday, January 13, 2012
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: On the Geometry of Tensors

Speaker: Luca Chinatini, University of Siena, Italy
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Non-Commutative Functions and Some of Their Applications in Free Probability

Speaker: Mihai Popa, Queen's University
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: An application of the proportional odds model to genetic association studies

Speaker: Kai Wang, University of Iowa
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Speaker: M. Ram Murty, Queen's University
Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Diagonalization of Weyl Transforms and heat Equations for time-Dependent Hermite Operators

Speaker: Shahla Molahajloo, Queen's University
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: What is a homomorphism duality?

Speaker: Jan Foniok
Date: Friday, October 28, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Faking an IID Gaussian process with Coin Flips

Speaker: Robert M. Gray, Stanford University
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Using the method of characteristics in nonzero-sum differential games

Speaker: Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov, McMaster University
Date: Friday, October 7, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Random continued Fractions and new attacks on small exponent RSA

Speaker: Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft
Date: Friday, September 30, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Conjectures on the ranks of elliptic curves

Speaker: Jung-Jo Lee, Yonsei University
Date: Friday, September 23, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Challenges and Opportunities in a Hyper-connected Universe

Speaker: Zouheir Mansourati, TELUS
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Artin prime producing polynomials

Speaker: Amir Akbary, University of Lethbridge
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Characterization of information channels for stochastic stabilizability of unstable systems

Speaker: Serdar Yüksel, Queen's University
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Crystal bases for the quantum queer superalgebra

Speaker: Dimitar Grantcharov, University of Texas, Arlington
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Polymers in Probability: Bridges, Brownian Motion, and Disorder on an Intermediate Scale

Speaker: Tom Alberts, University of Toronto
Date: Friday, March 18, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Accounting for Individual and Community Interests in the Public-Health Management of Infectious Diseases

Speaker: Tim Reluga, Penn State
Date: Friday, March 11, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Euler's Idoneal Numbers and Some Generalizations

Speaker: Ernst Kani, Queen's University
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: A Variational Theory of Lagrangian Coherent Structures

Speaker: George Haller, McGill University
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: New and old perspectives on Hilbert functions

Speaker: Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University
Date: Friday, February 11, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Counting Subrepresentations of Quivers

Speaker: Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: The Circle Method

Speaker: Ram Murty, Queen's University
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Analyzing failure time data when some subjects are not doomed to failure

Speaker: Paul Y. Peng, Queen's University
Date: Friday, January 21, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Sums of Squares: Evolution of an Idea

Speaker: Anthony Vito Geramita, Queen's University
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Fundamental problems for analytic control systems

Speaker: Andrew Lewis, Queen's University
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Minimal graded free resolution

Speaker: Tai Huy Ha, Tulane University
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Supergroups, their unitary representations, and quantization

Speaker: Hadi Salmasian, University of Ottawa
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Estimation and Classification in the Learning-Limited Regime

Speaker: Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Nonparametric estimation in the white Gaussian noise: some new results and open questions

Speaker: Boris Levit, Queen's University
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Neighbouring powers

Speaker: Cameron Stewart, University of Waterloo
Date: Friday, October 22, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Simulation of a Kidney Paired Donation Program

Speaker: Jack Kalbfleisch, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: The modularity (automorphy) of Calabi-Yau varieties over the rationals

Speaker: Noriko Yui, Queen's University
Date: Friday, October 8, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Combinatorics via modular forms

Speaker: Michael Dewar, Queen's University
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Quantum groups made easy

Speaker: Roland Speicher, Queen's University
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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Title: Recent developments in number theory

Speaker: Ram Murty, Queen's University
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time:  2:30 p.m.
Place:  Jeffery 234

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