NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Tapas Seminar
Monday, Wednesday 10:00 - 1:00 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 2006

 
Date Speaker Title Note-taker, Notes, Abstracts, Lecture slides, Papers, etc ...
Wednesday May 3   Terence Gaffney
  An Introduction to Singularities of Mappings  Abstract.     Notes  (by Sachin Gautam-coming soon)
M May 8   Marcus Fries
  Hypersurface singularities and vanishing cycles   Notes   (by Sachin Gautam-coming soon)
M May 8   David Massey
  Hypersurface singularities and vanishing cycles   Notes   (by Sachin Gautam-coming soon)
Wednesday May 10   Adam Ding, (Guangkai Shi)
Semi-competing risk data analysis  Notes   (by Mark Mixer - coming soon)
Monday, May 15   Egon Schulte
  Polytopes and Symmetry  Abstract.   Notes   (by Arshak Grigorian)
Monday, May 15   Anthony Cutler
  Polytopes and Symmetry  Notes   (by Arshak Grigorian)
May 15   Daniel Pellicer-Covarrubias
  Polytopes and Symmetry   Paper.pdf   and   Lecture Slides  
Wednesday May 17   Gilead Tadmor
  Enablers for control oriented Galerkin Models in Fluid Dynamic Systems  Abstract and Lecture Slides
Wednesday May 17   John Gonzalez
  Effects of control on low-order galerkin models of fluid flow   Lecture Notes
Wednesday May 17   Peter Topalov
  Nonlinear evolution equations and integrable systems   Notes   (coming soon)
M May 22   Marc Levine
  Algebraic cycles and cohomology of varieties   Abstract 1
M May 22   Jose Pablo Pelaez-Menaldo
  Decompositions of the diagonal   Notes   (coming soon)
M May 22   Anandam Banarjee
  Hypersurfaces of low degree   Lecture Notes
Wednesday May 24   Marc Levine
  An introduction to algebraic cobordism  Abstract 2
Wednesday May 24   Shouxin Dai
  K-theory, G-theory and the multiplicative group law   Notes   (coming soon)
Wednesday May 24   Jose de Jesus Malagon-Lopez
  Riemann-Roch theorems and Adams operations   Notes   (coming soon)
Tuesday May 30, UNUSUAL DAY!
  Anthony Iarrobino
  Parametrizing level Artin algebras  Lecture Slides
Tuesday May 30, , UNUSUAL DAY!
  Art Weiss
  Some non-unimodal level algebras   Notes   (coming soon)
Wednesday May 31, 10:00-11:30   Alex Martsinkovsky
  Homological algebra, module theory, and isolated singularities.   Notes   (prepared by Sachin Gautam)
Wednesday May 31, 11:30-12:30   Mark Mixer
  Conditional Probability of Non-fixed Points in a Random Permutation  Paper by Sam Gutman
Monday, June 5, 10:00-10:50   Shih-Wei Yang, with comments by Andrei Zelevinsky
 Double Bruhat cells and cluster algebras  Lecture slides (coming soon)
Monday, June 5, 11:00-11:50   Thao Tran, comments by A.Z.
 Quantum cluster algebras  Lecture slides
Monday, June 5, 12:00-12:50   Sachin Gautam, comments by A.Z.
 Quantum double Bruhat cells  Lecture notes
Wednesday June 7, 10:15-10:55   Justin Brown
 Toric varieties & Schubert varieties  Lecture notes
Wednesday June 7, 11:10-11:50   Himadri Mukherjee
 Singular loci of certain toric varieties  Abstract and  Lecture notes (coming soon)
Wednesday June 7, 12-1pm   Lakshmibai
 Toric degenerations of toric varieties.  Abstract and  Lecture notes (coming soon)
Monday, June 12   Jerzy Weyman
 Semi-invariants - general overview  Notes
Monday, June 12   Kristin Webster
  Rings of semi-invariants for finite and tame representation type algebras  Lecture Notes
Monday, June 12   Gordana Todorov
  Generalized semi-invariants and the cluster complex  Lecture Notes (coming soon)
Wednesday, June 14   Maxim Bravermann
  Refined analytic torsion
Wednesday, June 14   Rung-Tsung Huang
  Refined analytic torsion of lens spaces
Wednesday, June 14   Nilufer Koldan and Mikhail Shubin
 Semiclassical asymptotics and Witten's deformation on manifolds with boundary  Abstract
Thursday, June 15, 10:00 - 11:00, UNUSUAL DAY!   Kenneth Straus
 A Probabilistic Model for Language Acquisition in Children

Seminar Organizers

Gordana Todorov
Robert McOwen

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