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Week of 17 October, 2011 Mathematics Seminars

Seminars for the week of 17 October, 2011

Colloquium

Monday, 17 October 2011

Working Seminar on Automorphic Descents at 12:20 p.m. in VinH 20
Mr. Baiying Liu will speak on "Fourier-Jacobi periods of automorphic forms - a continuation"
Special Seminar on Numerical Analysis at 2:30 p.m. in VinH 313
Professor Adrian J. Lew of Stanford University will speak on "Discontinuous Galerkin methods in solid mechanics"

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

IMA Postdoc Seminar at 11:15 a.m. in Keller Hall 3-180
Divyanshu Vats will speak on "Necessary conditions for set-based graphical model selection"

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Math Club Seminar at 12:10 p.m. in VinH 570
Brittany Baker will speak on "Origami, trisecting an angle, and the origami box problem"

Friday, 21 October 2011

Probability Seminar: at 2:30 p.m. in VinH 209
Professor Wenbo Li of University of Delaware will speak on "Probabilities of all real zeros for random polynomials"
Differential Geometry & Symplectic Topology at 2:30 p.m. in VinH 207
Professor Brian White of Stanford University will speak on "Densities of minimal cones"