SPRING 2013 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 Jan 23: Ji Oon Lee (KAIST, S. Korea) Rate of Convergence in Hartree Dynamics Wed Feb 13: Maher Younan (Geneva) Topological glasses Wed Feb 20: Lorenzo Sadun The entropy of large dense graphs Wed Mar 6: Christian Hainzl (Tuebingen) From BCS to Ginzburg-Landau theory Fri Mar 8: Robert Seiringer (McGill) The Excitation Spectrum for Weakly Interacting Bosons Mon Mar 18: David Aristoff (Minnesota) Simulating Metastable Dynamics Wed Mar 27: Francois Baccelli On spatial birth and death processes with a shot-noise death rate Wed Apr 10: Sanjay Shakkottai (EE dept, UT) On Spreading and Detecting Infections Wed Apr 17: Sujay Sanghavi (EE dept, UT) Improved graph clustering Wed Apr 24: Gianni Arioli (Politecnico di Milano) A homoclinic solution for excitation waves on a contractile substratum Fri Apr 26: Gianni Arioli (Politecnico di Milano) A new mathematical explanation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse Wed May 1: Ari Arapostathis (EE dept, UT) tba