DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
FALL 2010
WEDNESDAY 4:30-5:30 pm
Tea served at 4:00
Fine Hall 314


DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Sept. 22

Felix Otto,
Max-Planck Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Optimal bounds on the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
Oct. 6
Simon Brendle,
Stanford University
Blow-up phenomena for the Yamabe equation
Oct. 13 Peter Constantin,
University of Chicago
Incompressible Fluids: Simple Models, Complex Fluids
Oct. 20 Yann Brenier,
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Rearrangement and convection
Nov. 10 Larry Guth,
University of Toronto
Metaphors in systolic geometry
Nov. 17 Demetri Christodoulou,
ETH
Acoustical Geometry and Shock Formation
Dec. 1 Gerard Besson,
Grenoble
Natural maps old and new