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Colloquium Schedule 2011-2012

The colloquium takes place on Thursdays from 15:30 to 16:30, in room 611 of the Hans Freudenthal building, formerly known as the Wiskunde/Maths building, (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30, in the same room.


If you will be giving a talk in the colloquium, please take some time to read the guidelines for speakers.





 

September 2011

 
Sep   22, 2011 Albert-Jan Yzelman (UU)Matrix reordering & parallelism

 
Sep   29, 2011 Vadim Gorin (IPPI Moscow/UU)Block characters of the symmetric groups

 

 

October 2011

 
Oct   06, 2011 No staffcolloquium!
 
Oct   13, 2011 Jan Willem de Jong (UU)Zeta function rigidity - A view from noncommutative geometry

 
Oct   20, 2011 Gerard Barkema (UU)(Un)anomalous Dynamics

 
Oct   27, 2011 Chris Budd (University of Bath)Discrete variational derivative methods for PDEs

 

 

November 2011

 
Nov   03, 2011 Gil Cavalcanti (UU)Generalized geometry and T-duality

 
Nov   10, 2011 Wilberd van der Kallen (UU)Power reductivity

 
Nov   17, 2011 Tom Kempton (UU)Bernoulli convolutions and Beta expansions

 
Nov   24, 2011 Patrick De Leenheer
(University of Florida, Gainesville)
Optimal placement of Marine Protected Areas

 

 

December 2011

 
Dec   01, 2011 Who is Who?5-minute self-presentations of new PhD-students (with a borrel from 16:30-18:00)

 
Dec   08, 2011 Peter Arbenz (ETH Zuerich)A geometric multigrid preconditioner for microFE analysis for bone structures

 
Dec   15, 2011 Jaap Eldering (UU)Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds the noncompact way

 

 

January 2012

 
Jan   19, 2012 Benno van den Berg (UU)Nonstandard analysis and proof theory

 
Jan   26, 2012 Martin Bootsma (UU)The spreading capacity of MRSA

 

 

February 2012

 
Feb   02, 2012 Laurent Desvillettes (CMLA, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)

Location: 611AB; 13:45-14:45 (coffea & tea from 13:15-13:45)
Evolution of populations structured with respect to a trait: a nonlinear integro-PDE approach

 
Feb   09, 2012 Don Zagier (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn)

Location: MINNAERT 211 (drinks and snacks from 17:30 in the Math library)
Multiple zeta numbers


2 x 45 minutes -- MONNA LECTURE
 
Feb   16, 2012 SPECIAL

Location: Room 611 wiskundegebouw
"Late Style" - film documentary about Yuri Manin

 
Feb   23, 2012 Konrad Waldorf (Regensburg)Geometry for B-Fields

 

 

March 2012

 
Mar   01, 2012 Bart van den Dries (UU)Cubic fourfolds and their varieties of lines: deformations and degenerations

 
Mar   08, 2012 Hélène Eynard (Lyon)Homotopy of codimension one foliations on 3-manifolds

 
Mar   15, 2012 Tanja Eisner (UvA)Arithmetic progressions and ergodic theory

 
Mar   22, 2012 Siamak Yassemi (University of Tehran, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, IPM)Combinatorial aspects of Commutative algebra

 
Mar   29, 2012 Bob Rink (VU)Ferromagnetic crystals and the destruction of minimal foliations

 

 

April 2012

 
Apr   05, 2012 Michael Mueger (Nijmegen)On a new Witt group

 
Apr   12, 2012 No staffcolloquium (ivm Mathematisch Congres)
 
Apr   19, 2012 Rob Bisseling (UU)Self-avoiding walks

 
Apr   26, 2012 Tobias Müller (UU)First order logic and random geometric graphs

 

 

May 2012

 
May   03, 2012 Michiel Hochstenbach (TUE)Some topics and open problems in matrix eigenvalue problems

 
May   10, 2012 Liesbeth de Wreede (LUMC)Prognostic modeling and dynamic prediction by means of multi-state models - with an application from hematology

 
May   17, 2012 No staffcolloquium (ivm Hemelvaartsdag)
 
May   24, 2012 Laura MatusevichHypergeometric functions and Algebraic Geometry

 
May   31, 2012 Steven Wepster (UU)Transits of Venus

 

 

June 2012

 
Jun   07, 2012 Jan-Jitse Venselaar (UU)Equivalences in Noncommutative Geometry

 
Jun   14, 2012 Ben Moonen (UvA)TBA
 
Jun   21, 2012 Sander Dahmen (UU)Solving Diophantine equations: the modular method

 
Jun   28, 2012 Ognyan Christov (Sofia)Non-integrability of first order resonances in Hamiltonian systems in three degrees of freedom