# Week beginning May 1, 2016 Mathematics Seminars

## Colloquium

### Monday, 2 May 2016

#### IMA Postdoc Seminar

IMA Postdoc Seminar -- TBA at 2:25p.m. in Lind Hall 305

#### Topology Seminar

Topology Seminar - TBA at 2:30p.m. in VinH 364

#### Automorphic Forms and Number Theory

Extensions of restrictions of unbounded operators at 3:35p.m. in VinH 301
Paul Garrett

### Tuesday, 3 May 2016

#### Climate Seminar

Climate Seminar - TBA at 11:15a.m. in VinH 570

#### Differential Geometry / Symplectic Topology Seminar

Differential Geometry and Symp. Topology at 1:25p.m. in VinH 570

#### IMA Data Science Lab Seminar

Shuzhong Zhang: New Variants and Convergence Properties of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) at 1:25p.m. in Lind 305
Shuzhong Zhang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been a very popular choice for solving large scale constrained ... ( more )

#### Math Bio Work-in-progress

Math Bio Work-in-progress--A Computational Study of Cortical Spreading Depression at 2:30p.m. in VinH 203A
Rosemary O'Connell  (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Spreading depression (SD) is a pathological phenomenon of the central nervous system in which normal cellular function is disrupted by a prolonged depolarization, which spreads ... ( more )

### Wednesday, 4 May 2016

#### AMS Student Chapter Seminar

AMS Student Seminar - TBA at 12:20p.m. in VinH 313

#### Student Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology Seminar

Student Symplectic and Low Dimensional topology - TBA at 1:25p.m. in VinH 206

#### Applied and Computational Math Colloquium

Applied and Computational Math Colloquium -- TBA at 2:30p.m. in VinH 2

#### PDE Seminar

Liouville theorems for superlinear parabolic problems at 3:35p.m. in VinH 213
Pavol Quittner  (Comenius University)
Liouville theorems for scaling-invariant nonlinear parabolic problems (guaranteeing nonexistence of positive bounded entire solutions) imply universal estimates for solutions in general domains. We prove such ... ( more )

### Thursday, 5 May 2016

#### IMA Annual Program

Anders Rantzer: On Analysis and Control of Monotone Systems at 11:00a.m. in Lind 305
Anders Rantzer (Lund Institute of Technology) Monotone systems are receiving growing attention in the control community for their superior properties when it comes to analysis ... ( more )

#### Commutative Algebra Seminar

Commutative Algebra -- TBA at 11:15a.m. in VinH 203A

#### Math Club Seminar

Math club - TBA at 12:20p.m. in VinH 570

#### Student Number Theory Seminar

Student Number Theory Seminar at 12:20p.m. in VinH 203A

#### Differential Geometry / Symplectic Topology Seminar

The convexity of the level set of the solution for heat equation at 1:25p.m. in VinH 570
Professor Xinan Ma  (Univ.Sci.Tech.China)
In this talk we first review some methods to get the convexity of the solution for the elliptic partial differential equations. For example we shall ... ( more )

#### Student Combinatorics Seminar

Student Combinatorics Seminar -- TBA at 2:30p.m. in MurH 214

#### Geometric Analysis Learning Seminar

Short-time existence of the Ricci flow on noncollapsed 3-dimensional manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below at 2:30p.m. in Ford Hall 170
Fei He  (U of M Mathematics Department)

#### Colloquium

Colloquium -- Will not meet at 3:30p.m. in VinH 16

### Friday, 6 May 2016

#### IMA Annual Program

Arthur Krener: Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control at 11:00a.m. in Lind 409
Arthur Krener (Naval Postgraduate School) Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control (AHMPC) is a scheme for varying as needed the horizon length of Model Predictive Control ... ( more )

#### Math Physics Seminar

Lie algebroids and their representations at 11:15a.m. in VinH 570
Denis Bashkirov  (University of Minnesota)
We will review the basic facts about Lie (bi)algebroids, related structures (homological vector fields and their Hamiltonians), some classical examples coming from Poisson geometry and ... ( more )

#### Extended Lie Theory Seminar

Extended Lie Theory Seminar -- TBA at 1:25p.m. in VinH 206

#### Lie Theory Seminar

Lie Theory Seminar - TBA at 3:30p.m. in VinH 206

We formalize the layer-stripping approach to the electrical inverse problem used by Curtis-Ingerman-Morrow, de-Verdiere-Gitler-Vertigan, and others. We define a class of solvable'' $\partial$-graphs for which ... ( more )