FALL 2010 For the following seminars, unless otherwise stated the hour is 11:00, the room is RLM 12.166, and it is a Mathematical Physics Seminar. There is usually a brown bag lunch at noon on Wednesdays in RLM 12.104, joint with the Analysis Seminar. Wed Sept 8: Mei Yin Spectral Properties of the Renormalization Group Fri Oct 22: Jun Yin (Harvard) Random matrix theory: A short survey and recent results on universality Wed Nov 3: Ronny Hadani Representation theoretic patterns in three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy: generalized paradigm Fri Nov 12: Houman Owhadi (Caltech) Localized bases for finite dimensional homogenization approximations with non-separated scales and high-contrast Wed Nov 17: Nestor Guillen Regularization in phase transitions with Gibbs-Thomson law