Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium

Mathematics department colloquia take place on Friday afternoons 4:00-5:00PM in Hill Center 705 , Busch Campus. Also, due to recent construction on Route 18, most on-line maps and driving instructions are out of date. Here are updated driving directions. If you need information on public transportation , you may want to check the New Jersey Transit page for information on fares and schedules for the Northeast Corridor Line. Taxis are available at the New Brunswick train station (fare about $7) and can take you to and from the Hill Center (Victory Cabs, (732) 545-6666). The Rutgers Campus Bus System provides free inter-campus transportation, with the A and H buses taking passengers between Busch Campus and College Avenue, with the A providing a faster ride from College Avenue and the H providing a faster ride from the Hill Center : please visit their website for bus schedules and maps, including real-time tracking of campus buses.

Unfortunately, colloquium cancellations do occur from time to time. Please feel free to call our department (732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.

Spring 2008 Schedule

Colloquium participants and hosts may wish to also consult the Rutgers University academic calendar , as well as its calendars of religious holidays and of weather emergencies and university closings.

Date Speaker; Affiliation Rutgers Faculty Hosts Colloquium Lecture Title

January 25 Sebastian Casalaina-Martin; Harvard University Curves, abelian varieties, and the moduli of cubic threefolds

February 1 Basak Gurel
Centre de Recherches Math., Universite de Montreal Periodic Orbits of Twisted Geodesic Flows and Floer Homology

February 8 Dmitri Burago
Penn State Xiaochun Rong From Asymptotic Geometry of Tori to Boundary Rigidity: A Survey

February 15 Charles Weibel
Rutgers University The Norm Residue is an Isomorphism, but is it a Theorem?

February 29 Endre Szemeredi
Rutgers University On 3-Term Arithmatic Progressions - Why is it so difficult?

March 7 Noga Alon
Tel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton The complexity of properties of large graphs

March 14
Note: Different venue than usual (Lewis Lectures)
Terry Tao
UCLA Szemerédi's regularity lemma revisited

March 21 Spring Break

March 28 Michael Loss
Georgia Institue of Technology A review about Lieb-Thirring inequalities

March 28
2:40pm-3:40pm
Hill 705 Daniel Allcock
University of Texas at Austin and IAS Infinitely many hyperbolic Coxeter groups through dimension 19

April 4 David Saltman
CCR and University of Texas Earl Taft Division Algebras over Surfaces

April 11 Chaojiang Xu
Université de Rouen Xiaojun Huang Instability of the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya solution
for a class of nonlinear systems

April 18 Joel Smoller
University of Michigan Y-Y. Li Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of Rotating
White Dwarfs and Supermassive Stars

April 25 Zhongmin Shen
Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis Xiaochun Rong Flag curvature and Ricci curvature in Finsler geometry

May 2 Reserved for: Konstantin Mischaikow

Note to Rutgers mathematics faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Spring 2008 colloquium series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Colloquium organizer: Lisa Carbone ( carbonel at math dot rutgers dot edu) Please contact her with suggestions and inquiries.

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