Winter 2009 Schedule of Presentations
January 15, 2009: Organizational Meeting
January 22, 2009: Michael Maroun "Computational Quantum Field Theory"
January 29, 2009: Scot Childress "On the Ambiguity of Nomenclature"
February 5, 2009: John Huerta "Algebra of Grand Unified Theories"
February 12, 2009: No Seminar - UCLA IPAM Workshop on Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of the LaplacianFebruary 19, 2009: Vicente Alvarez "Sierpinski Gasket"
*February 26, 2009: Professor Robert Devaney "Cantor and Sierpinski, Julia and Fatou: Crazy Topology in Complex Dynamics"
*March 5, 2009: Professor Gerald Johnson "Feynman's Operational Calculus for Noncommuting Operators"
March 12, 2009: Professor Lance Nielsen "Feynman's Operational Calculus: A Survey of Results Beyond an Introduction"
Fall 2008 Schedule of Presentations
October 2, 2008: Scot Childress: "Quantum Measures - An Approach to Generalizing Dirichlet Series."
October 9, 2008: No Seminar - Holiday.
October 16, 2008: Mike Maroun: "The Modified Feynman-Kac Formula and Convolution as Dynamics - I."
October 23, 2008: Professor Harold Widom: "Formulas and Asymptotics in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process."
October 30, 2008: Jonathan Sarhad: "Measurable Riemannian Geometry."
November 6, 2008: Elie Atalla: TBA
November 13, 2008: John Huerta: "Grand Unified Theories."
November 20, 2008: Elie Atalla: TBA.
December 4 , 2008: Scot Childress: TBA
*This will be a colloquium, joint with the MPDS Seminar; hence, it will be lasting from 4:10pm to 5:00pm, with refreshments and tea/coffee starting at about 3:40pm.
Spring 2008 Schedule of Presentations.
Apr 3 Organizational Mtg.
Apr 10 John Huerta: The Octonions
*Apr 17 Dr. Henrique Bursztyn: Generalized Complex/Kahler Geometry
Apr 24 Robert G. Niemeyer: A Countable Class of Periodic Orbits of the Koch Snowflake
May 1 Michael Maroun: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Action.
May 8 Scot Childress: Fractal Geometry, Number Theory, and Physics II
May 15 Alex Hoffnung: Categorifying Hamiltonian Mechanics: Motivation and Theory
May 22 Chris Rogers: Categorifying Hamiltonian Mechanics: Applications to String Theory
May 29 Vicente Alvarez: Finite Element Method on the Sierpinski Gasket
Jun 5 John Huerta: Quantum Mechanics and Representation Theory
*This will be a colloquium, joint with the MPDS Seminar; hence, it will be lasting from 4:10pm to 5:00pm, with refreshments and tea/coffee starting at about 3:40pm.