Active Seminars and Colloquia

We will meet weekly on the summer to discuss Hartshorne's book Algebraic Geometry

This seminar is intended for talks that will be of interest to a broad range of analysts.

Annual Mathematics Awards Ceremony

A forum for expository talks of broad interest

Topics include, but not limited to: Riemannian, complex, and symplectic geometry; dynamics on manifolds; metric spaces; curvature controlled topology; minimal submanifolds; PDEs on manifolds.

We consider the Navier-Stokes, Kuramoto-Sivashinksy, Camassa-Holm, Lorenz, and other similar equations which possess absorbing balls in phase space. This is the minimal ingredient for the existence of a global attractor, and perhaps an inertial manifold. The focus is on dynamic behavior, though at times fundamental issues such as regularity are discussed.

Complex and smooth dynamics and ergodic theory.

This seminar will cover topics in functional analysis, operator theory, free probability, and related topics.

geometry, very broadly construed

Time / Location to be determined at a later date.

This seminar will serve as a forum for graduate students to present material from differential equations and related areas; that is to say, there will be a focus on topics from PDE and ODE theory with perhaps some topics coming from related areas such as numerical analysis or other applicable mathematics. Students will give talks that may cover both classical developments as well as more recent breakthroughs.

Graduate Student Geometry Seminar

Graduate students give talks to other graduate students!

Wavelet Applications: FBI Fingerpriinting Image Compression Standard, and MRA.

Organized by Roger Temam and Shouhong Wang.

Topics include PDE's, ODE's, applied mathematics, and intersections of PDE's and ODE's with analysis, geometry and topology.

Mark Williams Title: Stability and instability of multiD fluid structures. The goal of the talk is to give an elementary description of some tools, both classical and recent, that have been useful in studying stability questions for structures like shocks, detonation fronts, and boundary layers. Results will be described informally, since the emphasis will be on understanding methods.

The Teichmueller space of a differentiable surface S is the space of conformal classes of metrics on S. The study of Teichmueller spaces has applications to geometry, topology, and dynamical systems.

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This seminar is about connections among quantum topology, quantum physics and quantum computing. It is related to the topological quantum computing project (see URL: www.tqc.iu.edu). The topics will be on various topics relating to topological quantum field theories on both Tuesdays and Thursdays.

research seminar in algebraic and geometric topology

This seminar, organized by the topology group, meets on Tuesday and Thursday. Each semester a topic is selected for concentrated study. Past seminars have included gauge theory, the Index Theorem, bordism theory, and surface theory. In recent years Tuesdays have been used for lectures, and Thursdays have been "recitations" at which the lecturer can go over finer details of the work in a question-answer format. For the fall semester, 2006, we are conducting a survey of the work of John Stallings. Topics will include his work on 3-manifolds, the interplay between 3-manifolds and group theory, homological algebra, and high-dimensional manifolds.

A seminar where everyone is invited and encouraged to participate, including faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. Professors in a field are invited to talk about why they became interested in their research area, the types of research problems they work on, courses in that area, and whatever else that might be of help to students who may want to enter their field. (Think of it as a good way learn about different research fields!) For example, a topology professor might give a lecture on simple knot invariants and talk about the graduate level topology sequence.