Karcher Colloquium


The Karcher Colloquium normally meets in PHSC 1105 on Thursdays at 4:00pm. It is normally preceded by tea at 3:30pm in PHSC 424. For more information about the colloquium, contact Justin Malestein.

Spring 2025

February 20
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Spencer Dowdall
Vanderbilt University
Geometric finiteness in mapping class groups: examples and perspectives
February 27
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Chenxi Wu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dynamical Zeta functions for polynomials and rational maps
March 27
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Chris Heil
Georgia Institute of Technology
Music, Time-Frequency Shifts, and Linear Independence
March 27
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Christopher Heil
Georgia Institute of Technology
Music, Time-Frequency Shifts, and Linear Independence
March 28
3:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
David Rowe
University of Mainz
Emmy Noether (1882-1935): Mathematician Extraordinaire
April 3
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Deguang Han
University of Central Florida
TBA
April 17
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Eduardo Reyes
Yale University
TBA
April 24
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Dick Canary
University of Michigan
TBA

Fall 2024

September 5
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Hiroaki Narita
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Automorphic forms generating quaternionic discrete series representations
September 19
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Brett Kotschwar
Arizona State University
Noncompact shrinking Ricci solitons and their asymptotic geometry
October 3
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Ara Basmajian
CUNY Graduate Center
Geometry and topology of big surfaces
October 10
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Ken Richardson
TCU
Submanifolds and heat flow
October 31
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Denis Osin
Vanderbilt
Generic Cayley graphs of countable groups
November 8
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Roland Roeder
IUI
Natural group action dynamics on a family of cubic surfaces: real and complex
November 14
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Christopher Henderson
University of Arizona
Understanding long-time behavior: new approaches to understanding stability
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