Mathematics Department
Last updated: 2017/09/26 - 8:39am
CNCS Seminar
Brenton D. Hoffman (Duke University, Biomedical Engineering)
Tuesday, September 26 - 3:00 pm
119 Physics
Cells exist in a complex mechanical environment that is both a source of applied forces and a means of mechanical support. An incomplete understanding of the mechanisms cells use to detect mechanical...
Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
Sung Ha Kang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Wednesday, September 27 - 12:00 pm
119 Physics
Starting with an introduction to multiphase image segmentation, this talk will focus on inpainting and illusory contour using variational models with curvature terms. Recent developments of fast...
Number Theory Seminar
Abhishek Parab (Purdue University)
Wednesday, September 27 - 3:15 pm
119 Physics
We show that the distributions occurring in the geometric and spectral side of the twisted Arthur-Selberg trace formula extend to non-compactly supported test functions. The geometric assertion is...
Data Dialogue
Nishant Shukla (UCLA)
Thursday, September 28 - 11:45 am
Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall (Gross 330)
Running nightly experiments is prohibitive when you're just getting started with TensorFlow or any other machine learning platform. There are some first-principles we should all internalize before...
Probability Seminar
Matthias Sachs (SAMSI/Duke)
Thursday, September 28 - 3:15 pm
119 Physics
Graduate/faculty Seminar
Alexander Watson (Duke University)
Monday, October 2 - 12:00 pm
119 Physics
Triangle Topology Seminar
Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia)
Monday, October 2 - 4:00 pm
at NCSU
In the 1960s Tutte observed that the value of the chromatic polynomial of planar triangulations at (golden ratio +1) obeys a number of remarkable properties. In this talk I will explain how TQFT gives...
CNCS Seminar
Stephen Teitel (University of Rochester)
Tuesday, October 3 - 3:00 pm
119 Physics
Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
Zongming Ma (University of Pennsylvania)
Wednesday, October 4 - 12:00 pm
119 Physics
Number Theory Seminar
Stephen Kudla (University of Toronto)
Wednesday, October 4 - 3:15 pm
119 Physics
Recently Alexandrov, Banerjee, Manschot and Pioline constructed generalizations of Zwegers theta functions for lattices of signature (n-2,2). Their functions, which depend on two pairs of time...