## Past Seminars- Colloquium

• Greg Lawler
Thu Feb 23, 2017
4:00 pm
The self-avoiding walk (SAW) is a model for polymers that assigns equal probability to all paths that do not return to places they have already been. The lattice version of this problem, while elementary to define, has proved to be notoriously difficult and is still open. It is initially more challenging to construct a...
• Andrew Stuart
Thu Feb 9, 2017
4:00 pm
A central research challenge for the mathematical sciences in the $21^{st}$ century is the development of principled methodologies for the seamless integration of (often vast) data sets with (often sophisticated) mathematical models. Such data sets are becoming routinely available in almost all areas of engineering, science and technology, whilst...
• Bin Yu
Fri Feb 3, 2017
2:00 pm
In this talk, I'd like to discuss the intertwining importance and connections of three principles of data science in the title in data-driven decisions. The ultimate importance of prediction lies in the fact that future holds the unique and possibly the only purpose of all human activities, in business, education, research, and government...
• Wilfrid Gangbo
Thu Jan 26, 2017
4:00 pm
We present some of the recent results in Mean Field Games theory, especially the so–called master equation, backbone of the MFG the- ory. Despite the fact that the master equation is a non–local first order equation, we show how it is linked to metric viscosity solutions of a local Hamilton–Jacobi equation on the set of...
• James Hyman
Thu Dec 1, 2016
4:00 pm
Public health workers are reaching out to mathematical scientists to use disease models to understand, and mitigate, the spread of emerging diseases. Mathematical and computational scientists are needed to create new tools that can anticipate the spread of new diseases and evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches for bringing epidemics...
• Peter Ebenfelt
Thu Nov 17, 2016
4:00 pm
The Bergman and Szeg\H o kernels in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb C^n$ are the reproducing kernels for the holomorphic functions in $L^2(\Omega,dV)$ and $L^2(\partial \Omega,d\sigma)$, respectively, where $dV$ denotes the standard Lebesgue measure in $\bC^n$ and $d\sigma$ a surface measure on the boundary $\partial\Omega$. Their...
• Thomas Sinclair
Fri Nov 4, 2016
4:00 pm
Given a locally compact second countable group G, the group von Neumann algebra L(G) is the algebra associated to the invariant subspace decomposition of the left regular representation. It is a natural, and quite difficult, question to address how much of the group structure is recoverable from L(G). That is if two groups have isomorphic group...