2007-2008 Academic Year
All talks are in Thackeray 704 at 4 pm unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are usually served at 3:30 pm in Thackeray 705. If you have any questions about a particular colloquium, please contact the person hosting the speaker. For general questions about colloquium schedule, please contact Piotr Haj³asz (hajlasz@pitt.edu).
Fall 2007
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Some Two-Phase Problems of Nonlinear Elasticity via Bifurcation Methods (abstract) |
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Sufficient conditions for strong local minima in vectorial variational problems (abstract) |
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Development of mathematical model for successful horse race wagering (abstract) |
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Analyzing Dimension-Adaptive Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Techniques for Partial Differential Equations with High-Dimensional Random Input Data (abstract) |
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Blow-up and Fujita Exponent (abstract) |
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Gromov-Witten Invariants and Birational Geometry (abstract) |
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The twistor perspective on space-time, string theory and quantum mechanics (abstract) |
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Hilbert space compression of groups and graphs (abstract) |
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Global Regularity for Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations and Other Relevant Geophysical Models (abstract) |
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Art, Mathematics, and Puzzles (abstract) |
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The 290-Theorem and Representing Numbers by Quadratic Forms (abstract) |
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It's all in your head: the generation of respiratory rhythms (abstract) |
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Euler Equations: Shock Waves and Transonic Flows (abstract) |
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TBA (abstract) |
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Spring 2008
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Homogenization of the Levy operator and the stochastic volatility model (abstract) |
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Introduction to G-stable pieces (abstract) |
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Jump diffusion processes in financial modeling (abstract) |
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Utility-based valuation of employee stock options (abstract) |
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Schubert combinatorics and geometry (abstract) |
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"Say $X\times A^1=A^n$. Please solve for $X$"... and related questions. (abstract) |
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The tautological classes of the moduli spaces of stable maps (abstract) |
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TBA (abstract) |
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Component potentials and Kirchhoff graphs (abstract) |
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Interplay between geometry and smoothness in the 3D viscous fluid flows (abstract) |
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The Sobolev inequality in quantitative form (abstract) |
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TBA (abstract) |
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Stability of vortex sheets (abstract) |
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Singularities in fluid dynamics equations (abstract) |
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Mean curvature flows for isoparametric submanifolds (abstract) |
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Multivariate first-passage models for credit risk (abstract) |
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Gaussian measures and Riemannian geometry in infinite dimensions (abstract) |
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Singular limits in the thermodynamics of viscous fluids (abstract) |
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Neil J. A. Sloane, AT&T Shannon Labs The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: Solved and Unsolved Problems (poster) |
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Global bifurcation of quasilinear elliptic systems on bounded domains (abstract) |
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The refractor problem in reshaping light beams (abstract) |
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Progression in hyperbolic conservation laws (abstract) |
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