Colloquia
COMING COLLOQUIA

Fanghua LinMonday, February 22, 2010: Colloquium
Domain Walls and Junction Sets
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Shing-Tung YauFriday, February 26, 2010: Lecture
From Riemannian Geometry to Modern Computer Graphics
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
3:30 PM, JAB 474

Bernd KawohlMonday, March 08, 2010: Colloquium
Convex sets of constant width, or why geometry can be of vital importance
Bernd Kawohl, Universität Köln
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Monday, March 15, 2010: Spring Break
Spring Break from 03/15 to 03/19
Van VuMonday, March 22, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Van Vu, Rutgers University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Franz SchusterFriday, April 02, 2010: Colloquium
Affine Analytic Inequalities
Franz Schuster, Technische Universität Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, TBA

Jon WolfsonMonday, April 05, 2010: Colloquium
Manifolds with k-positive Ricci curvature
Jon Wolfson, Michigan State University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Günter M. ZieglerMonday, April 05, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Günter M. Ziegler, Technische Universität Berlin
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Joel SpruckMonday, April 19, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Helmut GroemerMonday, May 03, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Dan KlainMonday, May 03, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Dan Klain, UMass-Lowell
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Assaf NaorMonday, September 27, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Gil KalaiMonday, October 04, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
Gil Kalai, Yale University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

YanYan LiThursday, October 21, 2010: Colloquium
Title to be anounced
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302


PAST COLLOQUIA

Joseph KungMonday, February 08, 2010: Colloquium
Counting parking functions and connected graphs
Joseph Kung, University of North Texas
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Gideon SchechtmanMonday, December 14, 2009: Colloquium
The dimension of almost spherical sections of symmetric convex bodies
Gideon Schechtman, Weizmann Institute of Science
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Ricky PollackMonday, December 07, 2009: Colloquium
Double Permutation Sequences and Arrangements of Planar Families of Convex Sets
Ricky Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/NYU
5:05-5:50 PM, RH202

Louis BilleraMonday, December 07, 2009: Colloquium
Counting flags in polytopes, posets and Coxeter groups
Louis Billera, Cornell University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Valeriu SoltanMonday, November 16, 2009: Colloquium
Special classes of convex sets
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Pierre ValloisMonday, November 09, 2009: Colloquium
From persistent random walk to the telegraph noise
Pierre Vallois, Universite de Nancy I
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Egon SchulteMonday, November 02, 2009: Colloquium
The Skeletal Approach to Polyhedra and Symmetry
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Maia MartchevaMonday, October 26, 2009: Colloquium
Avian Influenza: Modeling, Analysis, and Data Fitting
Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

YanYan LiMonday, October 19, 2009: Colloquium
Some remarks on singular solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Peter M. GruberMonday, October 12, 2009: Colloquium
A survey of the geometry of numbers
Peter M. Gruber, Technische Universität Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Franz SchusterMonday, October 05, 2009: Colloquium
Fourier transform of the projection operator
Franz Schuster, Technische Universität Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Assaf NaorMonday, September 28, 2009: Colloquium
L1 embeddings of the Heisenberg group and the Sparsest Cut problem.
Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH202

Helmut GroemerThursday, May 07, 2009: Colloquium
Measuring Convex Bodies with a Carpenter Square.
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Dan KlainThursday, May 07, 2009: Colloquium
Containment and inscribed simplices.
Dan Klain, UMass-Lowell
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Christina SormaniThursday, April 23, 2009: Colloquium
On the Hamilton-Perelman proof of the Poincare conjecture.
Christina Sormani, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Joel SpruckThursday, April 16, 2009: Colloquium
Level set mean curvature flow.
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Jie XiaoThursday, April 16, 2009: Colloquium
The $p$-Faber-Krahn inequality.
Jie Xiao, Memorial University
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Guiyun ChenThursday, April 09, 2009: Colloquium
Thompson's conjecture and related topics.
Guiyun Chen, Southwest University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Xinan MaThursday, March 26, 2009: Colloquium
Sharp curvature estimates for the level sets of Green's function on a 3-dimensional convex domain.
Xinan Ma, Institute for Advanced Study
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Grigoris PaourisThursday, March 12, 2009: Colloquium
Super-Gaussian directions on convex bodies.
Grigoris Paouris, Texas A&M University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Fedor PetrovThursday, March 12, 2009: Colloquium
How does a typical convex lattice polygon look like?
Fedor Petrov, Steklov Mathematical Institute
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Marisa ZymonopoulouThursday, March 05, 2009: Colloquium
Sections of complex convex bodies and the complex Busemann-Petty problem.
Marisa Zymonopoulou, Case Western Reserve University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Alina StancuThursday, February 26, 2009: Colloquium
On a geometric construction and some of its analytic implications.
Alina Stancu, Concordia University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Vitali MilmanThursday, January 22, 2009: Colloquium
How little Information is enough to Determine Some Classical Transforms?
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Emanuel MilmanThursday, December 11, 2008: Colloquium
Some Spectral Properties of Convex Domains.
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Sylvia SilbergerThursday, December 04, 2008: Colloquium
Automorphism Groups of Finite Groupoids.
Sylvia Silberger, Hofstra University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Dan KlainThursday, November 20, 2008: Colloquium
If you can hide behind it, can you hide inside it?
Dan Klain, UMass-Lowell
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Carl TropperThursday, November 13, 2008: Colloquium
What is computational science?
Carl Tropper, McGill University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Chang-Shou LinThursday, November 06, 2008: Colloquium
The degree-counting formulas for the mean field equations.
Chang-Shou Lin, National Taiwan University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Christian GutierrezThursday, October 30, 2008: Colloquium
The near field refractor problem.
Christian Gutierrez, Temple University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Deping YEThursday, October 30, 2008: Colloquium
Mixed p-affine surface area and isoperimetric inequalities.
Deping YE, Case Western Reserve University
5:05-5:50 PM, RH503

Igor RivinThursday, October 23, 2008: Colloquium
Geometry (and algebra and combinatorics) of simplices.
Igor Rivin, Temple University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Martin HenkThursday, October 16, 2008: Colloquium
Roots of Ehrhart Polynomials.
Martin Henk, University of Magdeburg
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Assaf NaorThursday, October 02, 2008: Colloquium
Embeddings of discrete groups and the speed of random walks.
Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Elijah LiflyandThursday, September 25, 2008: Colloquium
The Fourier transform of a general monotone function.
Elijah Liflyand, Bar Ilan University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH503

Ted BisztriczkyThursday, May 08, 2008: Colloquium
Polytopes, Lattices and the Euclidean Algorithm
Ted Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Helmut GroemerThursday, May 01, 2008: Colloquium
How Jakob Steiner made his point.
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Vitali MilmanThursday, April 24, 2008: Colloquium
The abstract concept of Duality and some examples
Vitali Milman, Tel-Aviv University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Semyon AleskerThursday, April 24, 2008: Colloquium
A Fourier type transform on translation invariant valuations on convex sets
Semyon Alesker, Tel-Aviv University
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Zhongmin ShenWednesday, April 23, 2008: SpecialColloquium
Some Global Rigidity Theorems in Finsler Geometry
Zhongmin Shen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
5:05-5:50 PM, RH304

Joel SpruckThursday, April 17, 2008: Colloquium
Locally convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature with boundary
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
4:10-4:55 PM, RH302

Vladyslav YaskinThursday, April 10, 2008: Colloquium
Fourier transforms and determination of convex bodies.
Vladyslav Yaskin, University of Oklahoma
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Maryna YaskinaThursday, April 10, 2008: Colloquium
Christoffel's problem and the Fourier transform.
Maryna Yaskina, University of Oklahoma
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Vladimir OlikerThursday, April 03, 2008: Colloquium
The Aleksandrov problem of existence of hypersurfaces with given integral Gauss curvature and optimal mass transport on Sn
Vladimir Oliker, Emory University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Christoph HaberlThursday, March 20, 2008: Colloquium
Valuations and volume inequalities
Christoph Haberl, Technische Universitaet Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Friedemann SchurichtThursday, March 13, 2008: Colloquium
Contact Problems in nonlinear elasticity
Friedemann Schuricht, TU Dresden
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Anatoly M. VershikThursday, March 06, 2008: Colloquium
Random series' --- what does it mean?
Anatoly M. Vershik, St. Petersburg Branch, Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Christian SteinederThursday, February 28, 2008: Colloquium
An introduction to coding sequences and a link to convex geometry
Christian Steineder, Technische Universitaet Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Carsten SchuttThursday, February 21, 2008: Colloquium
Simplices in the Euclidean ball
Carsten Schutt, University of Kiel
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Elizabeth WernerThursday, February 21, 2008: Colloquium
On Lp affine surface area
Elizabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
5:05-5:50 PM, RH302

Franz SchusterThursday, February 14, 2008: Colloquium
Crofton Measures and Minkowski Valuations
Franz Schuster, Technische Universität Wien
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Jon LenchnerThursday, February 07, 2008: Colloquium
Sylvester-Gallai Bounds for the Affine and Projective Planes.
Jon Lenchner, IBM Research
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Eric L GrinbergThursday, January 17, 2008: Colloquium
Tomography over maximally curved spheres.
Eric L Grinberg, University of New Hampshire
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Mikhail OstrovskiiThursday, December 06, 2007: Colloquium
Minimal-volume projections of cubes and minimal-volume sufficient enlargements for normed spaces
Mikhail Ostrovskii, St John's University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Emanuel MilmanThursday, November 29, 2007: Colloquium
The role of convexity in isoperimetry, spectral-gap and concentration.
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Fengbo HangThursday, November 15, 2007: Colloquium
On a conformally invariant integral equation.
Fengbo Hang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Alain PajorThursday, November 01, 2007: Colloquium
Sampling convex bodies and Random Matrix Theory
Alain Pajor, Universite Paris-Est
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Igor RivinThursday, October 18, 2007: Colloquium
Asymptotic geometry of convex sets
Igor Rivin, Temple University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Grigoris PaourisThursday, October 11, 2007: Colloquium
Distribution of volume on convex bodies and the Hyperplane Conjecture
Grigoris Paouris, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Janos PachThursday, October 04, 2007: Colloquium
Separator theorems and intersection patterns of convex sets
Janos Pach, City College
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Assaf NaorThursday, September 27, 2007: Colloquium
The Lipschitz extension problem
Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Pierre ValloisFriday, May 18, 2007: Colloquium
Approximation via regularization of the local time of semimartingales and Brownian motion
Pierre Vallois, Nance Universite
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Helmut GroemerThursday, May 03, 2007: Colloquium
On Sections of Star Bodies.
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
4:05-4:50 PM, RH302

Bo GuanThursday, April 19, 2007: Colloquium
Fully nonlinear elliptic equations in geometric problems.
Bo Guan, Ohio State University
4:05-4:50 PM, LC102

Nicole Tomczak-JaegermannThursday, April 19, 2007: Colloquium
Random nets and random embeddings of normed spaces l∞N
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta
5:05-5:50 PM, LC102

Rolf SchneiderThursday, April 12, 2007: Colloquium
Sums of congruent convex bodies.
Rolf Schneider, University of Freiburg
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

A. M. VershikThursday, March 08, 2007: Colloquium
Rigid metric spaces, universality, and randomness
A. M. Vershik, St. Petersburg Branch, Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Deane YangThursday, March 01, 2007: Colloquium
An Option-Theoretic Approach to the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities
Deane Yang, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
4:07-4:52 PM, JAB475

Maria AlfonsecaThursday, February 22, 2007: Colloquium
Some goemetric properties of intersection bodies.
Maria Alfonseca, North Dakota State University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Boris RubinThursday, January 25, 2007: Colloquium
The Busemann-Petty Problem with the Generalized Axial Symmetry
Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Tetsuo AsanoThursday, November 30, 2006: Colloquium
Distance Trisector Curves and Zone Diagram with Approximation Using Convex Distance Metrics
Tetsuo Asano, School of Information Science JAIST, Japan
4:07-4:52 PM, RH803

Franz SchusterThursday, November 09, 2006: Colloquium
Minkowski valuations and geometric inequalities
Franz Schuster, Technical University of Vienna
4:07-4:52 PM, RH803

Meijun ZhuThursday, November 02, 2006: Colloquium
Sharp Sobolev Inequalities from Historic and Geometric View Points
Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma, Norman
4:07-4:52 PM, RH803

Monika LudwigThursday, July 27, 2006: Colloquium
Affine Geometry of Convex Bodies
Monika Ludwig, Technical University of Vienna
4:07-4:52 PM, RH605

Franz SchusterThursday, May 18, 2006: Colloquium
Classification of Rotation Intertwining Additive Maps and Applications
Franz Schuster, Technical University of Vienna
4:07-4:52 PM, RH605

Stefano CampiThursday, May 11, 2006: Colloquium
Variational problems for volumes of convex bodies
Stefano Campi, Universitá di Siena
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Helmut GroemerThursday, May 04, 2006: Colloquium
Parallel Bodies and the Normal Bundle of Convex Bodies
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
4:07-4:52 PM, LC102

Rolf SchneiderThursday, May 04, 2006: Colloquium
Integral Geometry and Zonoids
Rolf Schneider, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
5:15-6:00 PM, LC102

Artem ZvavitchThursday, April 13, 2006: Colloquium
Gaussian Measure and Convex sets
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Carsten SchuettThursday, March 16, 2006: Colloquium
Minima of a Sequence of Gaussian Random Variables
Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel
3:07-3:52 PM, RH302

Elisabeth WernerThursday, March 16, 2006: Colloquium
Approximation of Convex Bodies by Polytopes
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Monika LudwigThursday, March 02, 2006: Colloquium
Valuations on Polytopes
Monika Ludwig, Technische Universität Wien
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Thursday, February 23, 2006: Colloquium
Polynomials, Matrices, and Other Things
Igor Rivin, Temple University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Thursday, February 16, 2006: Colloquium
Concave Functions and Convex Level Sets
Yakar Kannai, The Weizmann Institute
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Thursday, January 26, 2006: Colloquium
Mathematics, Finance and the Art of Pricing
Charles S. Tapiero, Polytechnic University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Paul GoodeyThursday, January 19, 2006: Colloquium
Area and Perimeter Bisectors of Convex Sets
Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma (Norman)
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Aljosa VolcicTuesday, January 03, 2006: Colloquium
Uniformly Distributed Sequences of Partitions
Aljosa Volcic, Universitá della Calabria
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, December 08, 2005: Colloquium
Mahler's inequality and conjecture
A. C. Thompson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Marianna BonanomeThursday, December 01, 2005: Colloquium
Quantum Computation - an introduction
Marianna Bonanome, CUNY
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Igor RivinThursday, November 17, 2005: Colloquium
Measuring ellipsoids
Igor Rivin, Temple University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, November 10, 2005: Colloquium
On the Optimal Control of Partially Observed Systems
Alain Bensoussan, University of Taxas at Dallas
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Bennett ChowWednesday, November 09, 2005: Colloquium
Some analytic aspects of Ricci flow: a mini-survey
Bennett Chow, University of California - San Diego
4:07-4:52 PM, JAB678

Shiri ArtsteinThursday, November 03, 2005: Colloquium
Reduction of randomness in some geometric constructions
Shiri Artstein, Princeton University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Leonid GurvitsThursday, October 27, 2005: Colloquium
Hyperbolic van der Waerden and Valiant-Schrijver Conjectures
Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratories
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Vitali MilmanMonday, October 24, 2005: Colloquium
Functional versions of some geometric inequalities
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH302

Thursday, April 14, 2005: Colloquium
Valuations on manifolds and their properties
Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, March 17, 2005: Colloquium
Double-Permutation Sequences and Pseudoline Transversals
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, CUNY
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, February 17, 2005: Colloquium
A characterization of Lp-affine surface area
Monika Ludwig, Technische Universität Wien
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, February 10, 2005: Colloquium
ZigZag approximation of the Euclidean ball
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, January 27, 2005: Colloquium
A Fourier transform approach to the integrability of trigonometric series
Elijah Liflyand, Bar-Ilan University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, December 16, 2004: Colloquium
On Willmore functional and Bonnesen-type inequalities
Jiazu Zhou, Guizhou Normal University and Wuhan University, China
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, November 18, 2004: Colloquium
Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Hyperbolic Polynomials
Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, November 11, 2004: Colloquium
The slicing problem and geometric symmetrization methods
Bo'az Klartag, Institute of Advanced Study
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, October 28, 2004: Colloquium
On duality of metric entropy
Shiri Artstein, Princeton University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, October 14, 2004: Colloquium
Simplicity vs Complexity in Convex geometry
Vital Milman, Tel Aiv
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, October 07, 2004: Colloquium
Directed Projection Functions of Convex Bodies
Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, September 30, 2004: Colloquium
Classification of Solutions of Integral Equations and Systems
Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva College
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, May 20, 2004: Colloquium
`Desperately Seeking' a Generic Quantum P3
Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington
4-5 PM, RH304

Wednesday, April 28, 2004: Colloquium
See Ya Later Surfaces
Robert Bryant, Duke University and Columbia University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, April 22, 2004: Colloquium
TBA
Dmitry Burago, Penn State University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, April 15, 2004: Colloquium
TBA
Stephanie Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, April 08, 2004: Colloquium
Affinely associated bodies
Monika Ludwig, Technische Universität Wien
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Wednesday, March 24, 2004: Colloquium
Convergence of algorithms for reconstructing convex bodies
Richard Gardner, Western Washington University
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, March 11, 2004: Colloquium
The algebraic approach to integral geometry
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Thursday, February 26, 2004: Colloquium
TBA
Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri-Columbia
4:07-4:52 PM, RH304

Department of Mathematics