SPRING 2012 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. Mon Jan 23: Thomas Truskett (UT Chem Eng) Reversible self-assembly of protein nanoclusters Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar 1:00pm in RLM 11.204 Tue Jan 24: Lewis Bowen (Texas A&M) Entropy in measurable dynamics Special Dynamics and Group Theory Seminar 3:00pm in RLM 12.166 Wed Jan 25: Oscar Gonzalez On the hydrodynamic diffusion of rigid particles Wed Feb 22: Mei Yin Understanding exponential random graph models Wed Feb 29: Ronny Hadani (Postponed) tba Wed Mar 7 : Hamid Hezari (MIT) Spectral rigidity of the ellipse Wed Mar 21: Antoine Mellet (Maryland) Liquid drops sliding down an inclined plane Wed Mar 28: Olena Blumberg Using spectral information to bound mixing times Wed Apr 4 : Deanna Needell (Claremont McKenna) Randomized projection method for linear inverse problems Fri Apr 13: Mihai Bostan (Aix-Marseille University) Averaged collision mechanisms for magnetic confinement Wed Apr 18: Ravi Srinivasan Exact solutions in Burgers turbulence: a survey Wed Apr 25: Kui Ren Recent results on inverse transport problems with interior data Wed May 2: Rafael de la Llave Quasi-periodic equilibria for discounted variational problems; KAM theory for conformally symplectic systems