FALL 2009 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. Wed Sept 2: A. Gogolev (U.T. Austin) Smooth conjugacy of Anosov systems on higher dimensional tori Wed Sept 16: Lincoln Chayes (UCLA) The McKean-Vlasov Equation in Finite Volume Wed Sept 23: Thomas Chen Some recent results on the Cauchy problem for focusing and defocusing Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchies Wed Oct 1: David Aristoff Order-Disorder Transition in a Granular Model Wed Oct 7: Natasa Pavlovic A new approach to local well-posedness of the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy Wed Oct 14: Ronny Hadani Representation theoretic patterns in three dimensional cryo-electron macroscopy Thurs Oct 15: Jeremy Marzuola (Columbia U) Eigenfunction concentration for polygonal billiards joint with Analysis, 2pm, room RLM 10.176 Fri Oct 16: Alexander Bobylev (Karlstad University, Sweden) tba CANCELLED Mon Nov 2: H. Lomeli (ITAM ) Generating forms, integrability and symmetries for maps (joint with Working Dynamical Systems) Fri Nov 6: Ravi Srinivasan (Duke) Kinetic theory and Lax equations for shock clustering and Burgers turbulence Wed Nov 11: Miguel Ballesteros (UNAM) Aharonov-Bohm ansatz, the experiments of Tonomura et al., and high energy scattering theory Wed Nov 18: Richard Sharp (Carnegie Mellon) Coarsening Models for Polycrystalline Materials Mon Nov 23: Kevin Zumbrun (CANCELLED) tba Wed Dec 2: Hans Koch tba Fri Dec 4: Stephane Mischler (CANCELLED) tba