Seminar Schedule (fall 2005, spring 2006)

Standard meeting period: Tuesdays, 4pm-5pm, MSC E408.

Day	Date	Speaker	Title
Tue	Sep 20	David Borthwick	Geometry of the hyperbolic plane
Tue	Oct 18	Gideon Maschler	Kahler facts
Thu	Oct 20, 3 p.m.	Vladimir Oliker	Stability of the solution to the reflector problem
Tue	Oct 25	Vestislav Apostolov Université du Québec à Montréal	Extremal Kahler metrics on ruled surfaces -- 20 years after Calabi
Tue	Nov 8	David Borthwick	Fuchsian groups
Tue	Nov 15	David Borthwick	Classification of hyperbolic surfaces
Tue	Nov 22	Gideon Maschler	Kahler examples
Tue	Nov 29	Gideon Maschler	Complex surface classification
Tue	Dec 6	Jason Parsley University of Georgia	The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics
Day	Date	Speaker	Title
Tue	Feb 28	Jason Cantarella University of Georgia	Tight Knots in Theory and Computation
Tue	Mar 7	No Seminar
Tue	Mar 14	No Seminar -- spring break
Tue	Mar 21	Chaohui Zhang Morehouse College	Mapping class groups and Teichmuller spaces (1)
Tue	Mar 28	Chaohui Zhang Morehouse College	Mapping class groups and Teichmuller spaces (2)
Tue	Apr 4
Thu	Apr 6, 4 p.m. Colloquium	Maxim Braverman Northeastern University	A refinement of the Ray-Singer Analytic torsion
Tue	Apr 11	Imre Patyi Georgia State University	Dolbeault cohomology and almost complex structures in a Banach space
Tue	Apr 18	Adrian Tudorascu Georgia Institute of Technology	Remarks on the JKO variational scheme and constrained optimization in the Wasserstein metric
Tue	Apr 25	Truyen Nguyen Georgia Institute of Technology	On Monge-Ampère type equations arising in optimal transportation problems
Tue	May 2	Andrzej Swiech Georgia Institute of Technology	Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations and applications.
Thu	May 25, 4 p.m.	Nina Uraltseva Saint Petersburg University, Russia	Free boundary problems of obstacle type.