TCU Mathematics Research Lectureship

This lectureship is sponsored in part by our friend
Frank W. Stones.

Lectureship Coordinators Igor Prokhorenkov, Scott Nollet

2009 Speakers

• Tuesday, November 17, 4 p.m.: Prudence Heck (Rice), Obstructing knot concordance in non-simply connected manifolds.
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• Tuesday, November 3, 4 p.m.: Anna Spice (TCU), On the local (non-)extendability of germs of holomorphic functions.
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• Tuesday, October 20, 4 p.m.: Frank Sottile (Texas A&M University), Orbitopes.
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• Tuesday, October 6, 4 p.m.: Gaik Ambartsoumian, Assistant Professor (The University of Texas at Arlington), The generalized Radon transforms and their applications in tomography.
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• Thursday, February 5, 2009: Prof. Douglas Haessig (University of Rochester), L-functions of Galois representations.
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• Thursday, January 29, 2009: Prof. Shea Vela-Vick (University of Pennsylvania), Transverse Invariants and Bindings of Open Books.
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• Thursday, January 22: Prof. Loren Spice (University of Michigan): Harmonic analysis on reductive p-adic groups.
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2008 Speakers

• Thursday, December 4: Prof. Qiao Zhang (TCU): Value Distribution of L-functions.
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• Tuesday, November 18: Prof. Tobias Hagge (UT Dallas): Fusion Categories and Topological Quantum Computation.
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• Tuesday November 4: Prof. Dawei Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago): Mori's theory for the Kontsevich space of twisted cubics
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• Tuesday October 28:
  Prof. Amine Fawaz (UT Permian Basin): Volume of meromorphic vector fields on Riemann surfaces
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2007 Speakers

• Tue Nov 13: cookies at 3:30 pm, talk at 4 pm, TTC 245:
  Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma: Siegel modular new- and oldforms
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• Tue Oct 30: cookies at 3:30 pm, talk at 4 pm, TTC 245:
  Eduardo Duenez, University of Texas, San Antonio: Automorphic L-functions, elliptic curves, and random matrix theory
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• Tue Oct 16: cookies at 3:30 pm, talk at 4 pm, TTC 245:
  Prof. Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University: Functional Determinants for separable partial differential operators
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To see the archive of talks from 2005-2006, click here.

To see the archive of talks from previous, click here.