Vigre: Lecture Series

Lecture Series

Departmental lecture series introduce the broad spectrum of research to students:

Faculty Research Seminars introduce students to the research fields of the faculty and helps them choose thesis advisors. In these seminars, senior faculty describe their research interests in terms comprehensible to beginning graduate students. All of the main research areas represented in the department are covered within a two-year period.
Weekly Departmental Colloquium provides a forum for outstanding mathematicians from all over the world to present the latest results at the forefront of research.
Distinguished Lecture Series features famous mathematicians such as I.M Singer, Jean-Pierre Serre, Raoul Bott, and Sir Michael Atiyah.
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) offers various lectures, tutorials, and programs. IPAM provides an environment where new cross-disciplinary collaborations can be formed to broaden the range of mathematical ideas employed by scientists. One of the recent events sponsored by IPAM and the Department of Mathematics was the International Conference on Scientific Computing, Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing.
The Perspectives in Mathematics seminars are organized by our graduate student societies, Graduate Student Outreach (GSO) and the UCLA chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (UCLA SIAM). These seminars provide faculty members the opportunity to speak to graduate students on current research in mathematics. SIAM has recently broadened this to include speakers from other departments at UCLA and industry.
- (SIAM) Jeff Eldredge (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) - An Exploration of Fundamental Mechanisms of Swimming and Flying in Nature using High-Fidelity Numerical Simulation
- (SIAM) Brendan Sheehan - Introduction to Multigrid
  Spring 2007
- Andrea Bertozzi - Career advice for PhD students and Postdocs:
  Part I: How to get a top postdoc position.
  Part II: How to get a tenure track job.
- Tom Chou - One-dimensional statistical mechanics in biology
- David Levermore (University of Maryland) - A Simple Model for Managing an Investment Portfolio
  Winter 2007
- Chris Anderson - Interdisciplinary Projects: What's in them for me?
- Guy Gilboa - Image processing by PDE's
- Inwon Kim - Issues on analysis of free boundary problems
- Ben Miller - Descriptive Set Theory and Ergodic Theory
  Fall 2006
- Russel Caflisch - Talk on current research projects
- Alexander Merkurjev - Essential Dimension
  Spring 2006
- James Ralston - On hearing the shape of a drum
- Ciprian Demeter - Ergodic theory and its connnections with harmonic analysis
  Winter 2006
- Rowan Killip - Why I'm interested in $\beta$ ensembles.
- James Spencer - Introduction to quotients
  Fall 2005
- Michael Hitrik - An introduction to quantum resonances
- Ben Miller - Descriptive Dynamics
  Spring 2005
- Kefeng Liu - Interactions of Mathematics and Physics
- Xiaowei Wang - The moment map and geometry
- Marek Biskup - Chasing a blind snail through a random maze: random walk on random graphs
- Meera Thillainatesan - Classical Automorphic Forms
  Winter 2005
- Paul Roberts - Modeling Mushes
- Dimitri Shlyakhtenko - Random Matrices and Free Probability Theory
- Jianliang Qian - A spectral-discontinuous finite element formulation of a Liouville-equation-based level set approach to geometrical optics
- Haruzo Hida - Nonvanishing modulo p of values of L-functions
- Narutaka Ozawa - Amenable Discrete Groups
  Fall 2004
- Don Blasius - Primality Testing
  Spring 2004
- Gang Liu - Introduction to Symplectic Geometry
- Greg Hjorth - Smooth, hyperfinite, and non-hyperfinite equivalence relations
- Tony Chan - Mathematical and Computational Research in Image Processing, Computer Vision and VLSI Design
- Matt Kerr - Two Theorems on Conics in the Plane
  Winter 2004
- Rowan Killip - The Toda Lattice
- Michael Hitrik - Classical-quantum correspondence: semiclassical analysis for the Schrödinger operator
- Gregory Eskin - Inverse Problems and Complex Analysis
  Fall 2003
- M. Biskup - Acquaintance chains, sandpiles and percolation: Probabilistic models of ``real-world'' phenomena
- V. Varadarajan - Symmetry and supersymmetry
- Richard Vance - Plants, Fish, and the Dynamics of Ecological Systems
- Chris Anderson - Interdisciplinary projects: Whats in them for me?
  Spring 2003
- Jorge Balbas - Central Schemes for Multi Dimensional MHD
- Roberto Schonmann - Percolation theory out of the box
- Terence Tao - The Kakeya conjecture
- Paul Jung - Random Walks and Bounded Harmonic Functions
- Yiannis Moschovakis - Arithmetic complexity, or: Is the Euclidean algorithm optimal among its peers?
  Winter 2003
- Zhen-Su She - Some theoretical problems related to DNA sequences
- D. Blasius - A Very Brief Introduction to the Langlands Program
- Masamichi Takesaki - Where are operator algebras, in heaven or on the earth?
- Patrick Brosnan - Matroids, motives and a conjecture of Kontsevich

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