Un of Tenn | Math Department

Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week of October 27, 2008

Speakers:

Mr. Fei Xing, Monday
Dr. Heather Finotti, Monday
Professor Xiaobing Feng, Monday
Ms. Rachel Leander, Tuesday
Dr. Michael Saum and Mr. Nick Gewecke, Wednesday
Associate Professor James Conant, Wednesday
Mr. Gerardo Chacon, Wednesday
Professor Yanfei Gao, Friday

Monday, October 27

PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres 209A

SPEAKER: Mr. Fei Xing
TITLE: “Basic properties of SLE”

SIAM STUDENT CHAPTER SEMINAR
TIME: 12:20 – 1:10 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 309B

SPEAKER: Dr. Heather Finotti
TITLE: “Fragmentation of Resources and Invasive Species”

Pizza will be served!

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 309A

SPEAKER: Professor Xiaobing Feng
TITLE: “A Fully Nonlinear PDE Approach for Semigeostrophic Flows"
ABSTRACT: In this talk I shall first introduce B. J. Hoskin's semigeostrophic flow equations,
which has been widely used in meteorology and oceanography to model slowly varying flows
constrained by rotation and stratification, I shall then describe a fully nonlinear reformulation
of the model due to Benamou and Brenier and briefly overview recent PDE results for the model.
Finally. I shall discuss some latest developments in numerical methods for computing solutions of the model.

Tuesday, October 28

MATH ECOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:00 – 10:50 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres 205

SPEAKER: Ms. Rachel Leander
TITLE: “Disease Models with Multiple Hosts”

Wednesday, October 29

MATH GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM SERIES
TIME: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 214

SPEAKERS: Dr. Michael Saum and Mr. Nick Gewecke
TITLE: “A Seminar on LaTeX”
ABSTRACT: What Is LaTeX? and How Can I Use It To Write My Thesis/Dissertation? Wondering the answers to these questions? Come to the Seminar on LaTeX and find out. Seminar is on Wednesday, October 29 from 3:30 – 4:30 in Ayres 214. Pizza will be served!!

This seminar will be broken down into two parts:

PART 1 (3:30 – 4:00) – The Basics of LaTeX … this portion of the seminar will go over what you need to know how to get started typing up some documents in LaTeX. No prior knowledge of LaTeX will be assumed.

PART 2 (4:00 – 4:30) – Using LaTeX to Write Your Thesis or Dissertation … this portion of the seminar will go over how to use the LaTeX thesis/dissertation template developed my our own Mike Saum.

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 209A

SPEAKERS: Associate Professor James Conant
TITLE: “A gentle introduction to the homology of Out(F_n) Part II”
ABSTRACT: We aim to give the necessary background to understand the current state of knowledge of the rational homology of Out(F_n).

ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:35 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 309B

SPEAKER: Mr. Gerardo Chacon
TITLE: “Carleson Measures for Besov Spaces, 2"

Friday, October 31

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:35 – 4:35 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 214

SPEAKER: Professor Yanfei Gao, Materials Science Dept., The University of Tennessee
TITLE: “Spatial Ordering and Anisotropy in Surface Stress Domains and Nanostructural Evolution”
ABSTRACT: The role of elastic interaction has been well recognized for various growth modes and nanostructural self-organization on solid surfaces. Examples include spontaneous formation of stress domains in reconstructed surfaces or in-phase-separating monolayers, meandering and bunching of surface steps, and quantum dot formation in heteroepitaxial thin film growth. The long-range spatial ordering in these strain-mediated nanostructural evolution phenomena on solid surfaces is critically dependent on the anisotropy. A universal formulation has been developed to examine the energetically favored orientation with respect to parameters that represent theanisotropy in elasticity and applied stress.

HOST: Steve Wise

If you are interested in giving or arranging a talk for one of our seminars or colloquiums, please review our calendar.

If you have questions, or a date you would like to confirm, please contact Dr. Steve Wise.

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