Geometry-Analysis Seminars
2014 - 2015



Fall 2014

  • Wednesday, August 27, 2014
    Daniel Berend (Ben-Gurion University)
    Reconstruction of Domino Tilings
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, September 3, 2014
    Kyle Kinneberg (Rice University)
    Rigidity in Coarse Hyperbolic Geometry
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, September 10, 2014
    Colin Carroll (Spiceworks)
    A Bayesian Approach to L1 and L2 Regularization in Machine Learning
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2014
    Zhenghe Zhang (Rice University)
    Cantor vs Non-Cantor Spectrum for One-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Schrφdinger Operators
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    Sinan Ariturk (Rice University)
    Maximizing Laplace Eigenvalues Among Isoperimetric Surfaces of Revolution
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, October 1, 2014
    Jake Fillman (Rice University)
    Spectral Homogeneity of Limit-Periodic Jacobi and CMV Operators
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, October 22, 2014
    Eunjoo Lee (Korean Institute for Advanced Study (visiting Rice University))
    New Characterizations of Helicoid in a Cylinder
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, October 29, 2014
    Barry Simon (Caltech)
    Asymptotics of Chebyshev Polynomials for General Subsets of the Real Line
    12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  HB 427  

  • Wednesday, October 29, 2014
    John Loftin (Rutgers University)
    Cubic Differentials and Limits of Convex $RP^2$ Structures under Neck Pinches
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, November 5, 2014
    Yunhui Wu (Rice University)
    Spectra of the Weil-Petersson Curvature Operator on Moduli Spaces of Curves
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Tuesday, November 11, 2014
    Yunping Jiang (CUNY)
    Teichmuller Theory and Characterization of Holomorphic Maps
    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  //  HB TBA  

  • Wednesday, November 12, 2014
    Yaar Solomon (Stony Brook University)
    The Danzer Problem
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, November 19, 2014
    Andy Sanders (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Minimal Surfaces and Entropy of Hitchin Representations
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  

  • Wednesday, December 3, 2014
    Andy Neitzke (University of Texas, Austin)
    Harmonic Maps and Spectral Networks
    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  HB 227  



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