Mathematics Colloquium 2007 - 2008
Programme
KAM method and spectral study of the limit-periodic Schroedinger operator
4 June 2008, 11am(M/0.40)
Speaker: Professor Y Karpeshina (Birmingham Alabama)
Schroedinger operators with pseudo-random potentials
4 June 2008, 12 noon(M/0.40)
Speaker: Professor G Stolz (Birmingham Alabama)
Field-theoretic approach to Quantum Graphs:
Universal Spectral Statistics and Quantum Ergodicity
28 May 2008, 3pm
Speaker: Professor S Gnutzmann (Nottingham)
Semi-classical theory for pedestrians
Tuesday 27 May, Wednesday 28 May, Tuesday 3 June, Wednesday 4 June and Tuesday 10 June 2008
10-12am - Access Grid room, Welsh e-Science centre
Speaker: Professor Uzy Smilanksy (Cardiff School of Mathematics, and Weizmann Institute of Sciences)
M-functions and resolvent formulas for closed extensions of an adjoint pair, and elliptic boundary problems
14 May 2008, 3pm
Speaker: Professor G Grubb (Copenhagen)
Boundary problems for axial-symmetric potential fields
7 May 2008, 3pm
Speaker: Professor S Plaksa (Kiev)
Roots of geometric polynomials
23 April 2008, 4:10pm
Speaker: Professor M Henk (Magdeburg)
Spectrum of positive type of operator functions
16 April 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr M Langer (Strathclyde)
Elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic in geometry, algebra and analysis
12 March 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Professor V Kisil (Leeds)
Application of an idea of Voronoi to analysis and geometry of numbers
12 March 2008, 4.10 pm
Speaker: Prof P Gruber (TU Wien)
Instability of supersonic flow over a compression ramp
11 March 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Professor Jitesh Gajjar (Manchester)
The surprising structure of Gaussian point clouds and its implications for signal processing
27 February 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr J Tanner (Edinburgh)
Effective wave propagation in pre-stressed composites
20 February 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr W J Parnell (Manchester)
Direct Optimal Growth Analysis for Timesteppers
19 February 2008, 3pm
Speaker: Professor Spencer Sherwin (Imperial College)
A non-homogeneous constitutive model for human blood
13 February 2008, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr M Moyers-Gonzalez (Durham)
Mathematical and computational methods in archeology
26 Nov 2007, 4 pm
Speaker: Prof U Smilansky (Weizmann Institute & Cardiff)
Teleparallelism: difficult word but simple way of reinterpreting the Dirac equation
21 November 2007, 3 pm
Speaker: Prof D Vassiliev (University College London)
Can one count the shape of a drum?
7 November 2007, 4:15 pm
Speaker: Prof U Smilansky (Weizmann Institute & Cardiff)
On the level sets of the resolvent norm of a linear operator
7 Nov 2007, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr E Shargorodsky (King's College London)
On the complexity index and approximations of spectra and pseudospectra
24 October 2007, 3 pm
Speaker: AC Hansen (Cambridge)
Barycentric coordinates, elliptic interpolation, and their applications in imaging and graphics
10 October 2007, 3 pm
Speaker: Dr A Belyaev (Heriot-Watt)