Tapas Seminar

Tuesday, Thursday 10:15 - 12:30 in 509 Lake Hall

The Tapas seminar has two related purposes. The first purpose is to provide a forum where faculty can present an overview of their research activity. This is intended to assist new PhD students with the process of finding an adviser and choosing an area of research. The second purpose is to provide an opportunity for graduate students to prepare and present a research-style seminar on an area of current interest.


Schedule for Spring 2009

Date Speaker Title Note-taker
Tuesday May 5 David Massey
Why use perverse sheaves to study hypersurface singularities? Parts I and II Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Gabriel Cunningham
Thursday May 7 Peter Topalov
On the Integral Geometry of Liouville Billiard Tables Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Ilanit Helfand
Thursday May 7 Grzegorz Banaszac
A Hasse principle for Mordell-Weill groups Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Rajaa Altalli
Tuesday May 12 Anthony Iarrobino
Central simple modules of a Gorenstein Artin algebra Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Anthony Iarrobino
Tuesday May 12 Vladimir Ufimtsev
DNA Coding Theory, DNA Library Design, and Group Testing Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Vladimir Ufimtsev
Thursday May 14 Alvise Trevisan
Introduction to Toric Topology (I)
Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Gabriel Cunningham
Thursday May 14 Alex Suciu
Introduction to Toric Topology (II)
Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Limin Wang
Tuesday, May 19 Ilanit Helfand
Convex Polytopes -- An Introduction Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Ilanit Helfand
Tuesday, May 19 Mark Mixer
Abstract Polytopes -- An Introduction Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Gabriel Cunningham
Thursday, May 21 Gabriel Cunningham
Chiral Polytopes Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Gabriel Cunningham
Thursday, May 21 Egon Schulte
Polyhedra, Complexes, and Symmetry Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Ilanit Helfand
Tuesday, May 26 John Gonzalez
Unbounded Solutions of the Modified Korteweg-De Vries Equation Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: John Gonzalez
Thursday May 28 Jerzy Weyman
Varieties related to algebraic group actions Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Ilanit Helfand
Thursday May 28 Federico Galetto
An introduction to Hodge algebras Abstract, Notes,
Note-taker: Federico Galetto
WEDNESDAY June 3 Mikhail Malyutov
The MDL-Principle in Attributing Authorship of Texts Abstract, Notes ,
Note-taker: Mikhail Malyutov
WEDNESDAY June 3 Rajaa Altalli
Topology and Curvature (Myers Theorem) Abstract, Notes ,
Note-taker: Rajaa Altalli
Thursday June 4 Christoper King
Extending non-commutative Schatten norms to product spaces, Part I Abstract, Notes,
Note-taker: Federico Galetto
Thursday June 4 Nilufer Koldan
Extending non-commutative Schatten norms to product spaces, Part II Abstract, Notes,
Note-taker: Federico Galetto
Tuesday June 9
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Tuesday June 9
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Note-taker:
Thursday June 11 Don King
Nilpotent orbits, representation theory and the Kostant-Sekiguchi correspondence (Parts I and II) Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Jason Ribeiro
Tuesday June 16 Thao Tran
F-polynomials in quantum cluster algebras Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Limin Wang
Tuesday June 16 Shih-Wei Yang
Total Positivity and Cluster Algebras Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Limin Wang
Thursday June 18
Jayant Shah
Hamiltonian Dynamics and Computer Vision Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Gabe Cunningham
Thursday June 18
Stan Dubrovskiy
Cohomology with non-smooth forms Abstract, Notes
Note-taker: Federico Galetto

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