The talks for the Spring 2011 semester were on two different topics, namely, Free Boundary Problems (FBP) and Arithmetic Statistics (AS). The schedule of the talks were as follows:
Date | Topic | Speaker | Title |
Jan. 24 | FBP | Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin | Free Boundary Problems |
Feb. 7 | AS | Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers | Counting Integers |
Feb. 14 | AS | Jon Hanke, University of Georgia | The Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms |
Mar. 7 | FBP | Juan Luis Vazquez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | Nonlinear diffusion and free boundaries. From porous media to fractional diffusion |
Mar. 14 | AS | Barry Mazur, Harvard University | Elliptic curves, their companions, and their statistics |
Mar. 28 | FBP | John E. Andersson, University of Warwick | Linearization Techniques In Free Boundary Problems |
Apr. 18 | AS | Melanie Wood, Stanford University | Counting Points On Curves Over Finite Fields |
Apr. 25 | FBP | Susanna Terracini, Universite di Milano - Bicocca | Boundary singular solutions associated with connecting thin tubes |