Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week of September 24, 2012
Speakers:
Mr. Vajira Manathunga, Monday
Dr. Olga L. Iziumtseva, Monday
Mr. Steve Fassino, Wednesday
Prof. Ken Stephenson, Wednesday
Dr. Vitaly Ganusov, Wednesday
Prof. Nikolay Brodskiy, Friday
Monday, September 24
ALGEBRA SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres B004
SPEAKER: Mr. Vajira Manathunga
TITLE: Arithmetic progressions in a UFD
PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 112
SPEAKER: Dr. Olga L. Iziumtseva
TITLE: Geometry of increments of Gaussian process in construction of its self-intersection local time
ABSTRACT: This talk is based on a joint work with A.A. Dorogovtsev. The main object of our investigation is the self-intersection local times for planar Gaussian processes. The new class of compactly perturbed Wiener processes is introduced. It appears that this class of processes satisfies the condition of strong local nondeterminism which is much stronger then the Berman local nondeterminism. For the class of compactly perturbed Wiener processes we prove the existence of regularized Fourier-Wiener transform of self-intersection local time.
Wednesday, September 26
MATH BIOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Dabney 488
SPEAKER: Mr. Steve Fassino
TITLE: Introduction to R and data (second half of chapter 3 of Bolker's book)
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 - 4:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 112
SPEAKER: Prof. Ken Stephenson
TITLE: Yes, I am still doing circle packing!
ABSTRACT: Circle packings are configurations of circles with specified patterns of tangency. In this talk I will review the fundamentals of the topic by creating, manipulating, and displaying examples concretely using my software, CirclePack. This is appropriate for the analysis seminar because packings are a basis for discrete analytic function theory. Moreover, my talk will lay some of the background for a
subsequent talk by visitor Frank Martin.
COMP/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35-4:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 110
SPEAKER: Dr. Vitaly Ganusov, Microbiology and Math
TITLE: Mathematical modeling reveals the kinetics of lymphocyte recirculation in the whole organism.
Friday, September 28
COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:35 - 4:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 405
SPEAKER: Prof. Nikolay Brodskiy
TITLE: Creating and topologizing universal covering spaces
ABSTRACT: Classical theory of covering spaces works well for spaces with small loops being homotopically trivial (e.g. manifolds). With increasing interest in spaces with rich local structure (e.g. fractals), there have been various attempts of creating a more general theory of covering spaces. I will outline recent progress in the area. The talk is designed to be accessible to graduate students familiar with the classical concept of a covering map.
Refreshments will be available at 3:15 p.m.
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 colloquium@math.utk.edu.
Past notices:
Seminars from 2011-2012 academic year
Seminars from 2010-2011 academic year
Seminars from 2009-2010 academic year
Seminars from 2008-2009 academic year
Seminars from 2007-2008 academic year
Seminars from 2006-2007 academic year