# Past Colloquia

2016-2017 Colloquium Series

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Time, Place
Thurs Apr 6, 2017 Boris Mordukhovich Wayne State University TBA 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Wed Apr 5, 2017 Thomas Schlumprecht Texas A&M University The algebra of bounded linear operators on $$\ell_p\oplus\ell_q$$ and $$\ell_p\oplus c_0$$, $$\ell_p\oplus c_0$$, $$1\le p< q\le\infty$$ has infinitely many closed subideals. 4:00-4:50, BAC 219
Thurs Mar 30, 2017 Scott Atkinson Vanderbilt University Minimal faces and Schur’s Lemma for embeddings into $$R^U$$ 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Mar 9, 2017 Florence Lancien Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon, France. Analyticity of semigroups and geometry of Banach spaces 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Tues Mar 7, 2017 Gilles Lancien Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon, France. A few questions in the metric analysis of Banach spaces 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Tues Feb 28, 2017 Mikhail Ostrovskii St. John's University Metric embeddings: embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach
spaces
3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Feb 23, 2017 Christopher Schafhauser University of Waterloo, Canada Quasidiagonal $$C^*$$-algebras 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Fri Feb 17, 2017 Ivan Sudakov University of Dayton The Mathematics of Arctic Tipping Points 4:00-4:50, BAC 219
Thurs Nov 10, 2016 L.C. Kappe Binghamton University
Thurs Oct 27, 2016 Tony Evans

Wright State University

The strong admissibility of finite groups 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Sep 29, 2016 Michał Wojciechowski

On the Pelczynski conjecture on Auerbach Bases 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Tues Sep 27, 2016 Maria de Lourdes Merlini Giuliani

General Linear Loop 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Sep 22, 2016 Chris Jones

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A Dynamicist's View of Stability in Multi-Dimensions 3:00-3:50, BAC 219

2015-2016 Colloquium Series

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Time, Place
Thurs Sep 17, 2015 Elizabeth Gillaspy

K-theory and twisted groupoid C*-algebras
3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Sep 24, 2015 Penny Haxell

University of Waterloo

Connectedness, Sperner's Lemma, and combinatorial problems

3:00-3:50, BAC 102
Thurs Nov 5, 2015 Vikram Kamat

Virginia Commonwealth University

The Erdos--Ko--Rado theorem: An introduction using Katona's method of cyclic permutations
3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Nov 12, 2015 Florent Baudier

Texas A&M

Faithful embeddability of metric spaces and applications 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Thurs Mar 10, 2016 Jozef Skokan

London School of Economics

The Multicolor Ramsey Numbers of Cycles 4:00-4:50, BAC 114
Thurs Mar 31, 2016 Stephane Lafurtune

College of Charleston

Linear and Orbital Stability of Solutions to the VFE and VFE Hierarchy 3:00-3:50 BAC 219
Thurs Apr 21, 2016 Claudia Miller

Syracuse University

TBA 3:00-3:50, BAC 219
Tues Apr 26, 2016 Shehzad Ahmed Ohio University TBA 3:00-3:50, BAC 219

2014-2015 Colloquium Series

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Thurs Apr 16, 2015 Gyula O. H. Katona

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Largest families of sets, under conditions defined by a given poset
Thurs Apr 9, 2015 Will Boney

University of Illinois at Chicago

Ultraproducts in Nonelementary Classes
Thurs Apr 2, 2015 Liuzhen Wu

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A Lindelof group with non-Lindelof square
Thurs Mar 19, 2015 Zoltán Füredi University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics Superimposed codes
Fri Mar 13, 2015 Hung Tran University of Chicago Selection problems for a discounted degenerate viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Fri Mar 6, 2015 Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Lehigh University The dynamics of malaria transmitting mosquitoes and their impact on the disease malaria-A mathematical study.
Thurs Feb 26, 2015 Jonathan Brown University of Dayton Injective homomorphisms from a graph C*-algebra
Thurs Dec. 4, 2014 Michael Brannan University of Illinois Connes' Embedding Property For Quantum Groups
Tues Nov 25, 2014 Stephane Lafortune College of Charleston Vortex Filaments and torus knots
Thurs Nov 20, 2014 Bhishan Jacelon Purdue University Self adjoint unitary orbits in pure C^*-algebras
Thurs Nov 13, 2014 Csaba Biro University of Louisville Stability questions on the dimension of posets
Thurs Nov 6, 2014 Landon Rabern LBD Data A common generalization of Hall's theorem and Vizing's edge-coloring theorem
Thurs Oct. 23, 2014 Theo Molla University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Equitable coloring and H-factors of graphs
Thurs Sep. 25, 2014 Allan Lo University of Birmingham (UK) Edge-decompositions of graphs with high minimum degree

2013-2014 Colloquium Series

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Thursday May 1, 2014 Steve Schecter North Carolina State University
Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014 Janet Striuli Fairfield University Finite invariants of infinite free resolutions
Thursday Dec. 12, 2013 Stratos Prassidis University of the Aegean/SUNY Binghamton The Isomorphism Conjecture for some subgroups of the automorphism group of the free group.
Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 Bernard Lidický University of Illinois Flag algebras and its application
Thursday Nov. 21, 2013 Patrick Reynolds University of Utah Recent progress on outer automorphism groups of free groups
Thursday Nov. 5, 2013 Kun Wang The Ohio State University On passage to over-groups of finite index of the Farrell-Jones isomorphism conjecture
Friday Nov. 1, 2013 Dan Freeman St. Louis University Moving redundant frames on manifolds
Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 Justin Moore Cornell University A geometric solution to the von Neumann-Day problem for finitely presented groups
Thursday Sep. 26, 2013 Jospeh Gallian University of Minnesota Duluth Using groups and graphs to create symmetry patterns
Thursday Sep. 26, 2013 David Sherman University of Virginia Model theory for functional analysis
Thursday Sep. 19, 2013 Julia F. Knight University of Notre Dame How hard is it to compute the floor function?
Thursday Sep. 5, 2013 Frank Connolly University of Notre Dame On the Classification of Pseudo-free Cocompact Group Actions on Contractible Manifolds
Thursday Aug. 29, 2013 Nam Trang Carnegie Mellon University Generalized Solovay Measures