Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
02
2008

Geometric PDE Seminar

Blow-Up Phenomena for the Yamabe Problem
1:30pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

In this talk I will discuss the construction of blowing up solutions to the Yamabe Problem in high dimensions. I will show how one can use the methods of S. Brendle to produce smooth counterexamples to the Weyl Vanishing Conjecture also.

Oct
01
2008

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Computing Polynomials
4:00pm|S-101

The topic of this short talk is based on the following natural question: Given a polynomial f (for example, f is the Determinant of a matrix), what is the best way to compute this polynomial? We will start by the very basic definitions: what does it...

Sep
30
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A Survey of Time Lower Bounds by Algorithmic Arguments
10:30am|S-101

One natural strategy for proving a time lower bound for a problem is proof-by-contradiction: assume that there is a great algorithm for the problem, and apply this algorithm as a subroutine to solve other problems until the algorithms get so great...