Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar

Fall 2006 Previous semesters Departmental calendar

Department of Mathematics
Milner Hall, Room 317
Fridays, 2-3pm (Spring 2007)

Spring 2007 schedule

• Friday, January 26th
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  Title: Stability and Oscillation of Solutions for Stochastic Difference Equation with Fading Perturbations
  
  
  Speaker: Alexandra Rodkina, University of the West Indies
  
  

• Friday, February 16th
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  Title: Global attraction to solitary waves for the Klein-Gordon field coupled to finitely many nonlinear oscillators
  
  Speaker: Andrew Comech, Texas A&M
  
  
• Friday, March 2nd
  
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  Title: Quantum Chaos in Quantum Graphs
  
  Speaker: Lev Kaplan, Tulane University
  
  
  
• Friday, March 23rd
  
• 
  
  Title: Uniqueness theorems for planar Cauchy transforms
  
  Speaker: Alexei Poltoratski, Texas A&M
  
  
  
  

• Friday, April 13th
• 
  Title: The subcritical almost Mathieu operator
  
  Speaker: David Domanik, Rice University
  

• Friday, April 20th
• 
  

  Title: Cyclicity of bicyclic operators and completeness of translates

  
  Speaker: Evgeny Abakumov, Universite de Marne la Valee
  

• Wednesday, April 25th
• 
  

Title: Sturm-Liouville operators in the half axis with local perturbations

Speaker: Rafael del Rio, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico

• Friday 1st September
  

• Title:

  Renormalization and universality for Siegel disks
  

  Speaker: Denis Gaydashev, Fields Institute, University of Toronto
  

  • Friday 8th September
    

  Title: A lower bound for nodal count on discrete and metric graphs
  

  Speaker: G. Berkolaiko, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 15th September
    

  Title: Heat kernels on Euclidean complexes
  

  Speaker: Melanie Pivarski, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 22nd September
    

  Title: Spherical mean transform: new results about an old operator
  

  Speaker: Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 29th September
    

  No Talk: you are encouraged to attend Steve Zelditch's frontiers lectures this week.
  

  • Friday 6th October
    

  Title: Spectral Edges for Periodic Operators - some quantum graph examples
  

  Speaker: B. Winn, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 13th October
    

  Title: Schreier spectra and self-similar groups
  

  Speaker: Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 27th October
    

  Title: Anomaly cancellation and smooth non-Kahler solutions in heterotic string theory
  

  Speaker: Melanie Becker, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 3rd November
    

  Title: Multiple operator integrals and higher operator derivatives
  

  Speaker: Vladimir Peller, MSU
  

  • Friday 10th November
    

  Title: Moduli Stabilization in Non-Geometric Backgrounds
  

  Speaker: Katrin Becker, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 17th November
    

  Title: Integrating Cavities and the Average Distance Traveled Between Intersections with the Wall of an Arbitrarily Shaped Cavity
  

  Speaker: Ed Fry, Texas A&M University
  

  • Friday 24th November
    

  No Talk: happy Thanksgiving
  

  • Friday 1st December
    

  Title: Scattering solutions in a network of thin fibers: small diameter asymptotics
  

  Speaker: Boris Vainberg, University North Carolina, Charlotte
  

The seminar covers a broad range of topics in Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis (e.g., many issues of spectral theory, complex analysis, analysis on graphs and groups, etc., fall within the seminar's scope). All interested parties are welcome to attend.

If you would like to present a talk, or be added to the mailing list, contact Alexei Poltoratski <alexei AT math.tamu.edu>.