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.

Fall 2025

October 2
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105

Luca Di Cerbo
University of Florida

Curvature, Macroscopic Dimensions, and Symmetric Products of Curves

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	Gabor Analysis and Duality of Group Representations
April 10 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Stephen Terry Department of Economics, University of Michigan	Krusell-Smith Problems
April 17 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Eduardo Reyes Yale University	Deformation spaces of isometric group actions
April 24 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dick Canary University of Michigan	An invitation to Anosov representations
May 1 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Lorena Bociu North Carolina State University	Multiscale Interface Couplings of PDEs and ODEs for Tissue Perfusion
May 8 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Hung Yean loke National University of Singapore	Exceptional Complex Dual Pair Correspondences

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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

January 25 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	John Bergdall University of Arkansas	Some distributions arising in algebra and number theory
February 1 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Mara Pompili University of Gratz	Factorizations of elements of upper cluster algebras
February 8 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Fabrizio Bianchi University of Pisa	A Spectral Gap for the Transfer Operator on Complex Projective Spaces
February 15 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Jeremy Miller Purdue University	Uniform twisted homological stability and moments of quadratic L-functions
February 23 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Rosa Orellana Dartmouth College	Encoding graphs with the chromatic symmetric function
February 29 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Mike Davis The Ohio State University	Coxeter groups, Artin groups and buildings
March 14 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Damian Osajda University of Copenhagen	Locally elliptic actions on nonpositively curved space
April 4 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ronghua Pan Georgia Institute of Technology	Rayleigh-Taylor instability and beyond
April 11 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Andrew Knightly University of Maine	Statistical properties of elliptic curves and modular forms
April 18 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ilya Krishtal Northern Illinois University	Prony’s method meets spectral theory
April 23 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Alex Powell Vanderbilt University	Iteratively consistent quantized phase retrieval
April 25 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Bhargav Karamched Florida State University	Stochastic switching of delayed feedback suppresses oscillations in genetic regulatory systems
May 2 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Jerzy Weyman Jagiellonian University	The structure of finite free resolutions

October 2 4:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Joachim Hilgert University Paderborn	Spectral correspondences for graphs
October 13 3:30pm (CDT) PHSC 108	Ellen Eischen University of Oregon	Creating Clarity from Confusion: Three Lessons from Number Theory
November 2 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale University of Lorraine, France	Symmetry breaking operators and reductive dual pairs with one compact member
November 8 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Sarah Koch University of Michigan	Dynamical data: from algebra to topology
November 16 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Jiahong Wu University of Notre Dame	Stabilizing phenomenon for incompressible fluids
December 7 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Junfang Li University of Alabama at Birmingham	Sharp geometric inequalities and their applications

March 2 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Aaron Brown Northwestern University	Lattice actions on manifolds
March 9 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Tullia Dymarz University of Wisconsin, Madison	A matrix model for random nilpotent groups
March 23 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Keith Burns Northwestern University	Uniqueness of the measure of maximal entropy for geodesic flows on surfaces with caps
April 13 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Qing Han University of Notre Dame	Regularity of singular solutions of differential equations

September 29 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Christina Frederick New Jersey Institute of Technology	An invitation to Gabor Analysis and the frame set problem
October 5 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Fabrizio Bianchi CNRS - University of Lille	Holomorphic motions of Julia sets: dynamical stability from one to several complex variables
October 6 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Andrew Snowden University of Michigan	Representations of oligomorphic groups
October 27 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Jean-Francois Lafont Ohio State University	Strict hyperbolizations produce linear groups
November 3 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale University of Lorraine, Metz, France	The resonances of the Capelli operators for small split orthosymplectic dual pairs
November 8 5:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Cecilia Mateu Universidad de la República, Uruguay	Galactic vibrations and waves: Tracing the Milky Way disc’s warp at differnet ages with variable stars
November 9 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	David Plaxco Clayton State University	A Case for Explicitly Supporting Playful Dispositions in Upper-Level Mathematics
November 17 4:00pm (CST) Zoom	Michael Lesnick SUNY Albany	Stability of 2-Parameter Persistent Homology

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March 10 4:00pm (CST) Zoom	Der-Chen Chang Georgetown University	∂̅-Neumann Problem
April 7 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Yilun (Allen) Wu University of Oklahoma	Existence of Rotating Star Solutions with Variable Entropy
April 28 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Andrew Putman University of Notre Dame	The Steinberg representation

April 15 5:00pm (CDT) Zoom	Kimball Martin University of Oklahoma	Quadratic forms and quaternions
April 22 5:00pm (CDT) Zoom	Justin Malestein University of Oklahoma	Bars and Joints
April 29 5:00pm (CDT) Zoom	Ameya Pitale University of Oklahoma	L-functions and applications

February 20 3:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Emily Stark University of Utah	The Geometry of Hyperbolic Groups
February 27 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale University of Lorraine, France	Howe correspondence and orbital integrals on a symplectic space.
March 10 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Luis Carlos García Lirola Kent State University	Stability of Lipschitz-type functions under pointwise product and reciprocation

September 5 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Jacob Matherne IAS and University of Oregon	Two problems about hyperplane arrangements
September 9 4:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	David Rowe University of Mainz	Emmy Noether: Theorems on Conservation Laws
September 26 4:00pm (CDT) PHSC 1105	Christopher Cashen University of Vienna	'Paging Dr. Frankenstein’; or, how to build monsters
November 8 4:00pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Diana Davis Swarthmore University	Periodic paths on the pentagon
December 6 3:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105	Louis Theran University of St. Andrews	Global rigidity of graphs, with and without graphs

January 17 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Hongkun Zhang University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA	Abnormal diffusions of various configurations of gas molecules
March 7 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Ryan Vinroot College of William and Mary	Some results and a conjecture on finite simple groups
April 11 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Liming Sun Johns Hopkins	Yamabe problem on compact manifolds with boundary
May 5 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Allan Merino National University of Singapore	Duality for the Pin Representation
May 9 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Allan Merino National University of Singapore	Duality for the Pin Representation

October 11 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Anne-Marie Aubert Directrice de Recherches au CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu , Paris, France	Cuspidality and beyond
November 8 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Mei Yin University of Denver	A gentle introduction to exponential random graphs
December 13 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Ronnie Sebastian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India	Voevodsky's smash nilpotence conjecture

January 19 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	John Harvey	Equivariant Alexandrov geometry via Palais's classification of group actions.
February 15 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Mark Embree Virginia Tech	Spectral Calculations for Schroedinger Operators with Quasiperiodic Potentials
March 8 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Alexander Alldridge UC Berkeley	Supersymmetry and Harmonic Analysis
March 15 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Abhishek Saha Queen Mary University of London	Analytic aspects of automorphic forms
April 9 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Wenxiong Chen Yeshiva University	CLASSIFICATION OF SOLUTIONS FOR A CRITICAL ORDER EQUATION AND ITS GEOMETRIC APPLICATIONS
April 12 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Wenxiong Chen Yeshiva University	CLASSIFICATION OF SOLUTIONS FOR A CRITICAL ORDER EQUATION AND ITS GEOMETRIC APPLICATIONS
April 19 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Eugenia Rosu University of Arizona	Integers that can be written as the sum of two cubes
April 26 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale	A look at some aspects of Harmonic analysis on semisimple symmetric spaces.

August 24 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ricardo Mendes Cologne	Invariant Theory without groups
September 28 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Troy Schaudt Wolfram Research, Inc.	Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research
October 12 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Tommaso de Fernex University of Utah	The link of an isolated singularity: characterizing smoothness.
October 19 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Zhihong Jeff Xia Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University	Dynamics and Invariant Foliations
November 2 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Keaton Hamm Vanderbilt University	Data Clustering Algorithms
November 9 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Baskar Balasubramanyam IISER, Pune, India/UCLA	Special values of L-functions
November 14 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Monica VanDieren Robert Morris University	Model Theory of Abstract Elementary Classes
November 21 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Professor Yuxin Dong Fudan University, China	On Eells-Sampson type theorems for subelliptic harmonic maps.
November 30 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Bharath Sriraman University of Montana – Missoula	Imre Lakatos and Mathematical Pathologies

February 23 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Hung Yean Loke	Local Theta Correspondences Of Supercuspidal Representations
March 2 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Fang Wang Capital Normal University, China	The Lagrangian systems on compact manifolds with complicated topological structure
March 9 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Ken Bromberg University of Utah	Renormalized volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
April 11 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 809	Marco Radeschi University of Notre Dame	Minimal hypersurfaces in symmetric spaces.
April 13 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Professor Xiaochun Rong Rutgers University	Quantitative maximal local rewinding volume rigidity with Ricci curvature bounded below
April 27 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Claus Sorensen UCSD	New avenues for the Langlands program
May 4 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Kim Ruane Tufts University	A Convex “Un-Combination” Theorem with Applications

September 22 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dave Auckly Kansas State University	Seeing the difference between the topological and smooth worlds
October 27 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Wolfgang Ziller University of Pennsylvania	What do manifolds look like
November 3 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Robert Muth Tarleton State University	Imaginary Schur-Weyl Duality
November 10 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Marc Hoffmann CEREMADE, University of Paris-Dauphine	A tentative definition of statistical inference across scales.
November 15 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Jordan Schettler San José State University	Elliptic Curves and Rational Hyperbolic Triangles
November 17 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Oleg R. Musin Univ of Texas Rio Grande Valley	The kissing number and related problems

January 22 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Nahid Walji University of Zurich	Large positive and negative Hecke eigenvalues for Maass forms
February 18 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Professor Bing-Ye Wu Washington University, St Louis and Minjiang University, China	Finsler Submanifolds: From Viewpoint of Chern Connection
February 23 3:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Jitka Stehnova University of Chicago	University of Chicago Undergraduate Mathematics Program: Structure and Leadership
February 25 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Andrew Putman Rice University	The topology of lattices
March 24 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ed Dubinsky	APOS THEORY AND ISETL: Teaching and Learning Abstract Algebra
March 31 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Gunter Stolz University of Alabama at Birmingham	Can we (mathematicians) understand quantum many-body transport?
April 7 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Efton Park Texas Christian University	Unitary Equivalence of Normal Matrices over Topological Spaces
April 14 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dan Freeman St Louis University	Coordinate systems formed by translations of a single function in L_p(R)
April 26 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dr. Nathan Wakefield University of Nebraska, Lincoln	The Role of Faculty in Introductory Mathematics Course Redesign at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

September 24 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Keith Weber Rutgers University	Some reasons that students do not learn from lectures in advanced mathematics
October 1 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 809	Camille Horbez University of Utah	Growth under random products of automorphisms
October 22 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Jonny Comes College of Idaho	Brauer diagrams and representation theory in complex rank
October 29 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale Universite' de Lorraine	Differential operators, radial components and homogeneous vector bundles
November 12 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Andrey Vesnin Russian Acad. Sci. and Univ. of Indiana	On complexity and Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds
November 19 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Marilyn Carlson Arizona State University	A Research-Based Approach for Improving Precalculus Teaching and Learning
November 20 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Colm Mulcahy Spelman College, Atlanta, GA	Martin Gardner, The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had
December 10 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Catherine Searle Wichita State University	Lower curvature bounds and symmetries

January 30 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Igor Rapinchuk Harvard University	Abstract homomorphisms of algebraic groups
March 12 3:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Maxim Zinchenko University of New Mexico	Chebyshev Polynomials on Subsets of the Real Line
March 27 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Jennifer Johnson-Leung University of Idaho	Modularity of Abelian Surfaces
April 2 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Thomas Koberda Yale	RAAGs, diffeomorphisms, and geometry
April 9 4:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Susan Espinoza and Gary Whalen Cengage Learning	Features and options available with the Stewart calculus textbook
April 16 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Yulong Xing University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab	Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the shallow water equations
April 21 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Benjamin Linowitz University of Michigan	You cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
April 30 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ralph Showalter Oregon State University	Variational Problems and Mixed Formulations

September 18 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Stacy Brown California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	When Thought Takes Wings: A Study of Students’ Hypothetico-Deductive Thought
September 25 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Ryan Vinroot College of William and Mary	The Combinatorics of Character Degrees
October 23 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Carolyn Gordon Dartmouth College	Hearing the Shapes of Manifolds: a Partial Survey
October 30 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale Universite de Lorraine - Metz, France	Poisson transforms, symmetric spaces, and applications
November 13 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Scott Kaschner University of Arizona	Rational Map of CP² with equal dynamical degrees and no invariant foliation
November 21 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Henry Segerman Oklahoma State University	Design of 3D printed mathematical art
December 11 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	A. Raghuram IISER Pune, India	From Calculus to Number Theory via Cohomology

January 23 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Kasra Rafi University of Oklahoma/Toronto	Counting Problems and Teichmueller geodesic flow
February 13 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Mark Feighn Rutgers-Newark	The geometry of Out(F_n)
February 27 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Mark Hagen University of Michigan	Walls
March 6 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Yifeng Liu MIT	Heegner points and arithmetic of elliptic curves
March 13 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Rudy Horne Morehouse College	Parity-Time (PT) Symmetric Systems: An analysis of dimer and trimer models
April 3 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Chi-Wang Shu Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University	High order numerical methods for convection dominated problems
April 10 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Yang Wang Michigan State University	A Mathematical Study of Authorship Attribution
May 1 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Radhika Ganapathy University of British Columbia	On the local Langlands correspondence

September 5 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Christopher Drupieski DePaul University	What is a cohomology ring, and why should I care if it is finitely-generated?
September 12 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Michele Mulazzani Univ. of Bologna/Italy	Compact 3-manifolds via 4-colored graphs
September 19 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Annie Selden New Mexico State University	Helping Students with Proving: A Tale of Two Whole Class Teaching Experiments
September 26 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 809	Danny Calegari University of Chicago	Most groups contain surface subgroups
October 3 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Sug Woo Shin MIT	Families of automorphic representations and families of algebraic varieties
October 18 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Mei-Chi Shaw University of Notre Dame	LEVI-FLAT HYPERSURFACES IN COMPLEX MANIFOLDS
October 24 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale Universite de Lorraine - Metz	Meromorphic continuation of the resolvent of the Laplace operator on Riemannian symmetric spaces
October 31 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Shuichiro Takeda University of Missouri	Construction of automorphic representations
December 5 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Raul Gomez Cornell University	On a conjecture of Sakellaridis-Venkatesh on the unitary spectrum of spherical varieties

February 28 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Martin Kerin University of Muenster	The Gromoll--Meyer exotic 7-sphere
February 28 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 809	Martin Kerin University of Muenster	The Gromoll-Meyer exotic 7-sphere
March 7 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Andrew Knightly University of Maine	Trace formula 101
March 14 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Garrett Alston Kansas State University	"Lagrangian Floer Theory"
March 28 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Longzhi Lin Rutgers University	Uniformity of harmonic map heat flow at infinite time
April 4 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Sean Paul University of Wisconsin	From Semi Stable Pairs to Canonical Kahler Metrics on Algebraic Manifolds
April 11 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dr. Aaron Smith University of Waterloo	Multiholomorphic Mappings: a higher geometric framework for generalizing the theory of pseudoholomorphic curves.
April 18 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Joachim Hilgert University of Padeborn, Germany	Fock spaces and small representations
April 25 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 809	Mladen Bestvina University of Utah	Hyperbolicity in mapping class groups
May 2 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale Universite de Lorraine - Metz	Uncertainty principles for the Schroedinger equation on Riemannian symmetric spaces of the noncompact type

August 30 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Dr. Siraj Uddin University of Malaya, Malaysia	Geometry of warped product semi-slant submanifolds of a nearly cosymplectic manifold
September 13 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Lee Kennard UC Santa Barbara	Applications of the Steenrod algebra to positive curvature.
September 27 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Winnie Li Penn State University	Zeta functions in combinatorics and number theory
October 18 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Muge Kanuni Er Bogazici University	An overview of some algebras over discrete structures
November 1 4:00 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105	Angela Pasquale Universite de Lorraine - Metz, France	Analytic and Group - Theoretic Aspects of the Cosine Transform
November 8 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Ravi Kulkarni Indian Inst. of Technology Bombay	Algorithmic construction of representations of finite solvable groups
November 12 4:30 PM (CST) Nielsen Hall 270	Professor Wu-Yi Hsiang University of California at Berkeley	Symmetry and Least Action Principle (i.e. Optimality)
November 29 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Yelin Ou Texas A & M University-Commerce	Some recent work on biharmonic maps and biharmonic submanifolds
December 6 4:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105	Ray Yang	Higher order extensions for the fractional Laplacian