Inside UT Math
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship at UT Math
For Fall 2010 the Department of Mathematics will offer one 3-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Simons Foundation. This position carries a stipend of $70,000 plus travel, et al for three years with a requirement to teach three classes, including one at graduate level. The main constraint is that the successful candidate should have received their Ph.D. within 12 months proceeding his/her appointment.
For Fall 2010 the Department of Mathematics will offer one 3-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Simons Foundation. This position carries a stipend of $70,000 plus travel, et al for three years with a requirement to teach three classes, including one at graduate level. The main constraint is that the successful candidate should have received their Ph.D. within 12 months proceeding his/her appointment.Math Dept Fall 2009 Awards
Prof. Mike Starbird and James Vick won Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. Natasa Pavlovic won the first John R. Durbin Teaching Excellence Award in Mathematics. Zachary Miner won Math Dept Outstanding Teaching Award. John Meth, Allison Moore and Rory Rother won Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Awards. Hector Chang, Keenan Kidwell and Travis Mandel won Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Awards. Congratulations to all!
Prof. Mike Starbird and James Vick won Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. Natasa Pavlovic won the first John R. Durbin Teaching Excellence Award in Mathematics. Zachary Miner won Math Dept Outstanding Teaching Award. John Meth, Allison Moore and Rory Rother won Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Awards. Hector Chang, Keenan Kidwell and Travis Mandel won Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Awards. Congratulations to all!Prof I. Gamba Receives NFS awards
Professor Irene M. Gamba, together with chemical engineering Professor Charles Mullins and chemistry Professor Allen Bard have received about $2.5 million grants to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into clean hydrogen fuel, which could power cars and be used to generate electricity.
Professor Irene M. Gamba, together with chemical engineering Professor Charles Mullins and chemistry Professor Allen Bard have received about $2.5 million grants to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into clean hydrogen fuel, which could power cars and be used to generate electricity.
Community Outreach
About every fourth Saturday, high school students from across the
state meet to get down with Mathematics. The Saturday
Morning Math Group was begun by Mathematics Professor Karen
Uhlenbeck and Dan Freed in fall 1993, and is now a popular outreach program
bringing extra-curricular education to students across the
state.
About every fourth Saturday, high school students from across the
state meet to get down with Mathematics. The Saturday
Morning Math Group was begun by Mathematics Professor Karen
Uhlenbeck and Dan Freed in fall 1993, and is now a popular outreach program
bringing extra-curricular education to students across the
state.
Emerging Scholars
The Emerging Scholars Program is a nationally known program
for furthering the education of students from
non-traditional backgrounds. Students from high schools with
a weak mathematics program find themselves challenged by the
demands of an honors environment. And, they succeed in
Mathematics as well as in the University.
The Emerging Scholars Program is a nationally known program
for furthering the education of students from
non-traditional backgrounds. Students from high schools with
a weak mathematics program find themselves challenged by the
demands of an honors environment. And, they succeed in
Mathematics as well as in the University.
Education In Texas
UT Austin provides leadership for educators in Texas,
assisting communities with primary, middle school and
secondary education.
Under the direction of nationally
recognized Mathematics Professor Uri Treisman, the Dana
Center for Education Research has led the state in reforming
school curriculum.
UT Austin provides leadership for educators in Texas,
assisting communities with primary, middle school and
secondary education.
Under the direction of nationally
recognized Mathematics Professor Uri Treisman, the Dana
Center for Education Research has led the state in reforming
school curriculum.
Around UT Austin
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- University gets $56 million in fundingResearchers have received 123 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants.
- Prof gets $1.5 million for fertility researchJohn Richburg studies how exposure to phthalates may cause testicular cancer.
- Morley Safer gives papers to Briscoe CenterLegendary broadcast journalist's career archive adds to center's news media holdings.
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H. Lomeli: Symmetries and Integrability of Exact Volume Preserving Flows and Maps 11:00a RLM 9.166 Math Finance/Probability Nick Constanzino: Heat kernel asymptotics and closed form expansions of securities derivatives 1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis Ovidiu Savin: Existence of extremal waves with vorticity 2:00p RLM 12.166 Topology Hossein Namazi: Ending Laminations and the Density Conjecture, II 3:00p RLM 10.176 Jr Analysis Will Carlson: Introduction to the Obstacle Problem 4:00p RLM 6.104 Horton-Jacobs Lecture Dusa McDuff: Symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids and continued fractions | 3
12:30p RLM 9.166 GADGET
TBA 2:00p RLM 9.166 Jr Number Theory Chia-Liang Sun: Derivation in the world of positive characteristic 2:30p RLM 12.166 Geometry - Special Session Dusa McDuff: "Symplectic embedding of ellipsoids and continued fractions." 3:30p RLM 10.176 Jr Geometry Mohammad Moinul Haque: Schubert Calculus, An Introduction | 4
1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis
Yoshikazu Giga: On the Navier-Stokes flow with infinite energy and its applications 4:00p ACES 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium) Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis : Olivier Pinaud: On the moment problem for Quantum Hydrodynamics 5:00p RLM 12.104 umrg: Math Club REU information session | 5
2:00p RLM 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, & Combinatorics
John Jones: Simple groups which are not Galois groups for extensions of Q unramified away from 2 3:30p RLM 9.166 Geometry Jonathan Bloom: Link surgery, monopole Floer homology, and odd Khovanov homology | 6
11:00a RLM 12.166 Math Physics
Ravi Srinivasan: Kinetic theory and Lax equations for shock clustering and Burgers turbulence 1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis Mi-Ho Giga: Motion by crystalline curvature with non-admissible data | 7 |
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2:00p RLM 12.166 Topology
Ken Bromberg: The asymptotic dimension of the mapping class group 3:00p RLM 10.176 Jr Analysis Hector Chang: A minimum problem with free boundary | 10
12:30p RLM 9.166 GADGET
TBA: TBA 2:00p RLM 9.166 Jr Number Theory Chia-Liang Tony Sun: Derivation in the world of positive characteristic 3:30p RLM 10.176 Jr Geometry Davi Maximo Alexandrino Nogueira: Curvature conditions that are preserved under Ricci flow or not | 11
11:00a RLM 12.166 Math Physics
Miguel Ballesteros : Aharonov-Bohm ansatz, the experiments of Tonomura et al., and high energy scattering theory 12:00p RLM 9.166 String Theory Jacques Distler: K-theory and topological insulators 2:00p RLM 12.166 Jr Topology Sam Ballas: Conditions for the equivalence of largeness and positive 
2:00p RLM 11.176 Workshop on Rigurous Computations in Mechanics J.P. Lessard: Chaotic braided solutions via rigorous numerics: chaos in the Swift-Hohenberg equation 3:00p RLM 10.176 Workshop on Rigorous Computations in Mechanics Alejandro Luque: Averaging-extrapolation methods for the study of one dimensional quasi-periodic dynamics 4:00p ACES 6.304 Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Junping Wang: A maximum value principle for finite element approximations 4:00p RLM 10.176 Working Dynamical Systems Jay Mireles James: Reliable Computation of Invariant Objects for Conservative Maps 5:00p RLM 12.104 umrg: Math Club Emily Landes: Knot Theory -- The Algebro-Geometric Way 5:00p RLM 12.104 umrg: Math Club Emily Landes: Knot Theory -- The Algebro-Geometric Way | 12
2:00p RLM 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, & Combinatorics
Alina Cojocaru: Twin primes for elliptic curves 3:30p RLM 9.166 Geometry Mike Mandell: Cochains and Homotopy Type | 13
11:00a RLM 12.166 Workshop on Rigorous Computations in Mechanics
Piotr Zgliczynski: Heteroclinic connections between fixed points of Kuramoto-Shivashinsky PDE. A computer assisted proof 2:00p ACES 6.304 Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Hongyu Liu: Acoustic and Electromagnetic Cloaking 3:00p RLM 10.176 Sophex Karin Knudson: Unknotting tunnels in hyperbolic knot complements | 14 |
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3:00p RLM 6.104 Workshop on Rigorous Computations in Mechanics
H. Koch: Shadowing orbits for dissipative PDEs 4:00p RLM 6.104 Workshop on Rigorous Computations in Mechanics Joseph Galante: Destruction of Invariant Curves using Comparison of Action 5:00p RLM 6.104 Workshop on Rigorous Computations in Mechanics R. de la Llave: A-posteriori estimates for quasi-periodic solutions | 16
2:00p RLM 12.166 Topology
Bob Gompf: Is the 4D smooth Poincare Conjecture true? 3:00p RLM 10.176 Jr Analysis Verónica Quítalo: Regularity of solutions of second order elliptic equations 4:00p RLM 6.104 Colloquium Leslie Greengard: A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry | 17
12:30p RLM 9.166 GADGET
Mike Mandell: Introduction to E-infinity Algebras 2:00p RLM 9.166 Jr Number Theory Kimberly Hopkins: Higher weight Heegner points and the Riemann Hypothesis 3:30p ACE 6.304 Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Kenneth M. Golden : Climate Change and the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Ice 3:30p RLM 10.176 Jr Geometry Michael Williams: A simple algebraic criterion for preservation of curvature conditions under Ricci flow | 18
11:00a RLM 12.166 Math Physics
Richard Sharp: Coarsening Models for Polycrystalline Materials 1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis Eric Baer: Models of Compressible Fluids 2:00p RLM 12.166 Jr Topology Sam Ballas: Conditions for the equivalence of largeness and positive
4:00p RLM 11.176 Working Numerical Analysis TBD: To Be Announced 4:00p RLM 10.176 Working Dynamical Systems Chimaobi Onwuchekwa: Boundary control of buck converters subject to constant power loads | 19
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Kosuke Homma: To be announced 3:30p RLM 9.166 Geometry Mike Mandell: Towards Formality | 20
10:00a RLM 9.166 Jr Math Finance/ Probability
Jesse Windle: Truth and Mathematical Finance 1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis s Monica Visan: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations at critical regularity 2:00p ACES 6.304 Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Wolfgang Bangerth : Numerics for Inverse Problems in Biomedical Imaging 2:00p RLM 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, & Combinatorics Dimitar Jetchev: Global divisibility of Heegner points and Tamagawa numbers 3:00p RLM 10.176 Sophex Chris White: The classification of real division algebras 3:00p ACES, 6.304, Math/ICES Center of Numerical Analysis Harald van Brummelen : Goal-oriented adaptivity for a 1D prototype of the Boltzmann equation | 21 |
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1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis
Luis Silvestre : Smooth solutions for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with critical fractional diffusion 2:00p RLM 12.166 Topology Marion Moore: High Distance Knots in any 3-manifold 3:00p RLM 10.176 Jr Analysis Mark Lewko: The restriction phenomena in Fourier analysis | 24
12:30p RLM 9.166 GADGET
Alessio Figalli: "Optimal transport, synthetic Ricci curvature, and the MTW tensor" 2:00p RLM 9.166 Jr Number Theory Silvia Adduci: On real and p-adic Bezoutians | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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Ricardo Nochetto: A posteriori error analysis of fractional diffusion | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Events Today
12:30p 9.166 GADGET
Alessio Figalli: "Optimal transport, synthetic Ricci curvature, and the MTW tensor" 12:30 pm in RLM 9.166 GADGET
"Optimal transport, synthetic Ricci curvature, and the MTW tensor"
Alessio Figalli (UT Austin - Mathematics)
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Submitted by lizbeth@math.utexas.edu
Alessio Figalli: "Optimal transport, synthetic Ricci curvature, and the MTW tensor" 12:30 pm in RLM 9.166 GADGET
"Optimal transport, synthetic Ricci curvature, and the MTW tensor"
Alessio Figalli (UT Austin - Mathematics)
There is no detailed description for this event.
Submitted by lizbeth@math.utexas.edu
2:00p 9.166 Jr Number Theory
Silvia Adduci: On real and p-adic Bezoutians 2:00 pm in RLM 9.166 Junior Number Theory
On real and p-adic Bezoutians
Silvia Adduci
We present a survey of results on the quadratic forms induced by the Bezoutians of two polynomials over the real and p-adic fields, with emphasis on invariants. On $\R$, we generalize a classical result on interlacing of roots and study the cases of other patterns over the real line.
Submitted by kkidwell@math.utexas.edu
Silvia Adduci: On real and p-adic Bezoutians 2:00 pm in RLM 9.166 Junior Number Theory
On real and p-adic Bezoutians
Silvia Adduci
We present a survey of results on the quadratic forms induced by the Bezoutians of two polynomials over the real and p-adic fields, with emphasis on invariants. On $\R$, we generalize a classical result on interlacing of roots and study the cases of other patterns over the real line.
Submitted by kkidwell@math.utexas.edu