Mathematics Colloquium - Spring 2011 Schedule

Date and Time	Location	Presenter	Title
Feb 09, 2011 2:45pm - 3:45pm	McCormack 2-116	Katrin Wehrheim MIT	How to construct topological invariants via decompositions and the symplectic category
Feb 15, 2011 11:00am - 12:00pm	TBD -	Linan Chen MIT
Feb 16, 2011 2:30pm - 4:00pm	McCormack 2-116	Amir Aczel University of New Hampshire	Looking at the Large Hadron Collider
Feb 17, 2011 10:00am - 11:00am	Campus Center 2-2540	Pierluigi Falco	Renormalization Group Approach to 2D Probabilistic Models
Feb 23, 2011 2:30pm - 4:00pm	McCormack 2-116	Daniel Klain UMass Lowell	If you can hide behind it, can you hide inside it?
Feb 24, 2011 2:30pm - 3:30pm	Science 2-SSC SSC Conference Room	Nevena Maric University of Missouri in St. Louis	TBA
Feb 25, 2011 2:30pm - 3:30pm	Science 2-SSC SSC Conference Room	Codina Cotar Technical University Munchen
Mar 21, 2011 10:00am - 11:00am	McCormack 2-208	Elif Acar McGill University, Montreal, Canada	Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for the Copula Parameter in Conditional Copulas
Mar 22, 2011 3:30pm - 4:30pm	Science 2-SSC SSC Conference Room	David Feldman University of New Hampshire	Dickson's conjecture and infinite multidimensional sum-sets within the primes
Mar 30, 2011 2:30pm - 4:00pm	McCormack 2-116	Alexandru Suciu Northeastern University	On the Johnson filtration of the automorphism group of a free group
Apr 06, 2011 2:30pm - 4:00pm	McCormack 2-116	James Propp UMass Lowell	How well can you see the slope of a digital line? (and other applications of non-uniform averaging)
Apr 13, 2011 2:45pm - 3:45pm	McCormack 2-116	Kourosh Zarringhalam Boston College	MicroRNA classification and integration of chemical footprinting data into RNA secondary structure prediction
Apr 19, 2011 4:00pm - 5:15pm	TBD -	Salil Vadhan Harvard University	The Unified Theory of Pseudorandomness
Apr 21, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm	Science 2-066	Thomas Zaslavsky Binghamton University	Nonattacking Chess Pieces: The Bishops' Dance
Apr 27, 2011 2:45pm - 3:45pm	McCormack 2-116	Aaron McMillan UC Berkeley/UMass Boston	Embedding Singular Poisson Varieties
May 04, 2011 10:00am - 11:00am	McCormack 2-209	Louis Theran Temple University


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