Author: Deana Beek

Please join us for a public lecture by Dr. Ronan Conlon, assistant professor of mathematical sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas. The lecture, “On Finite-Time Singularities of the Ricci Flow on Compact Kähler Surfaces,” will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in 335 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. room 371 Jabara Hall.

Join a public lecture by Dr. Qi Zhang, professor from the University of California, Riverside. The lecture, titled “A rigidity result for ancient Ricci flows,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, March 28 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join a public lecture by Dr. Chunmei Wang, University of Florida, titled, “The Finite Expression Method as a Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning” at 3 p.m. Friday, March 14 in room 372 Jabara Hall.

Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in room 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Yanxiang Zhao from George Washington University. The lecture, titled “Synchronized Optimal Transport,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

*This event has been cancelled. Please stay tuned for future lectures from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Jiahui Chen from University of Arkansas at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 in 372 Jabara Hall.

The lecture is titled “Differential Operators and Topological Data Analysis in Biomolecular Applications.” Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join mathematics and statistics for a public lecture by Distinguished Professor Michael Stein from Rutgers University. The lecture, titled “Spatial Interpolation with Estimated Covariance Functions” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Please join mathematics and statistics for a public lecture by Brett Kotschwar from Arizona State University. The lecture, titled “Noncompact shrinking Ricci solitons and their asymptotic geometry” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 in 372 Jabara Hall.

Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Mark Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland, titled “Isotopy, Concordance and Intermediate Curvatures” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12 in 372 Jabara Hall.  Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Dr. Walsh is a geometer who studies the relationship between topology and curvature. His early work concerned the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature (psc) on a smooth compact manifold. There he made a significant contribution to a famous problem: whether concordant psc-metrics are isotopic. He also exhibited certain loop space structures on this space in the case when the underlying manifold is a sphere. More recently, his work has involved other curvature conditions, in particular Ricci curvature as well as intermediate Ricci and scalar curvatures.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Lei Ni, University of California, San Diego, titled “Two Ambrose-Singer theorems and the Chern connection” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 19 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Lei Ni is a professor of mathematics at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 at UC Irvine and was a research assistant professor at Purdue University and then a Szego assistant professor at Stanford University, before joining UC San Diego in 2002. His research interests lie in the areas of differential geometry, complex geometry and partial differential equations. His scholarly contributions are extensive, comprising over 60 published articles and co-authorship of five books on Ricci flow. He is a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship and a member of the 2018 class of AMS Fellows. In addition, he served as the chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego from 2016 to 2020 and has mentored 20 students and postdocs.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

Join the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Statistics for a public lecture by Lihan Wang, California State University, Long Beach, at 3 p.m. Friday, March 29 in 372 Jabara Hall.

The lecture is titled “Hear the shape at infinity.” Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.