Seminars and Colloquiums
for 2010-2011
Week of August 23
Speaker:
Mr. Fei Xing, Wednesday
Algebra Seminar, Wednesday
Analysis Seminar, Wednesday
Professor Roland Glowinski, University of Houston, Thursday
Professor Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University), Friday
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. Fernando Schwartz.
Week of August 23
Monday, August 23
PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10-11:00 a.m.
ROOM: HBB 132
This is an Organizational Meeting.
Wednesday, August 25
ORAL SPECIAL EXAMINATION
TIME: 10:10 a.m.
ROOM: Temple Court 303
SPEAKER: Mr. Fei Xing
His committee consists of Professors: Chen (chair), Maroulas, Rajput, and Rosinski.
ALGEBRA SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: HBB 121
This is an Organizational Meeting.
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: AC 113
This is an Organizational Meeting.
Thursday, August 26
COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: HBB 102
SPEAKER: Professor Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
TITLE: "Looking For The Best Constant In A Sobolev Inequality: A Numerical Approach"
ABSTRACT: pdf file
Friday, August 27
COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: HBB 102
SPEAKER: Professor Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University)
TITLE: "Around the Novikov conjecture''
ABSTRACT: I will explain what is the Novikov conjecture and discuss several interesting analytic and geometric concepts arising from the study of the Novikov conjecture. I will make an effort for this talk to be accessible to graduate students and non experts.
Additional information:
The Novikov Conjecture is one of the most important unsolved problems in topology. It is named for Sergei Novikov who originally posed the conjecture in 1965.
The Novikov conjecture concerns the homotopy invariance of certain polynomials in the Pontryagin classes of a manifold, arising from the fundamental group. According to the Novikov conjecture, the higher signatures, which are certain numerical invariants of smooth manifolds, are homotopy invariants.
The conjecture has been proved for finitely generated groups of finite asymptotic dimension (G.Yu). It is not yet known whether the Novikov conjecture holds true for all finitely generated groups.
Novikov Conjecture can be formulated in analytical terms and, therefore, is one of a few problems of high importance in more than one areas of mathematics.
Professor Yu is one of the leaders of the research aimed at resolving of the Novikov Conjecture and he gave a talk at the International Mathematical Congress in Madrid (2006) entitled "Higher index theory of elliptic operators and geometry of groups" in the section of Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis.
Past notices:
Seminars from 2009-2010 academic year
Seminars from 2008-2009 academic year
Seminars from 2007-2008 academic year
Seminars from 2006-2007 academic year