Author: Deana Beek

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Mark Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland, titled “Isotopy, Concordance and Intermediate Curvatures” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12 in 372 Jabara Hall.  Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Dr. Walsh is a geometer who studies the relationship between topology and curvature. His early work concerned the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature (psc) on a smooth compact manifold. There he made a significant contribution to a famous problem: whether concordant psc-metrics are isotopic. He also exhibited certain loop space structures on this space in the case when the underlying manifold is a sphere. More recently, his work has involved other curvature conditions, in particular Ricci curvature as well as intermediate Ricci and scalar curvatures.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Lei Ni, University of California, San Diego, titled “Two Ambrose-Singer theorems and the Chern connection” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 19 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Lei Ni is a professor of mathematics at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 at UC Irvine and was a research assistant professor at Purdue University and then a Szego assistant professor at Stanford University, before joining UC San Diego in 2002. His research interests lie in the areas of differential geometry, complex geometry and partial differential equations. His scholarly contributions are extensive, comprising over 60 published articles and co-authorship of five books on Ricci flow. He is a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship and a member of the 2018 class of AMS Fellows. In addition, he served as the chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego from 2016 to 2020 and has mentored 20 students and postdocs.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

Join the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Statistics for a public lecture by Lihan Wang, California State University, Long Beach, at 3 p.m. Friday, March 29 in 372 Jabara Hall.

The lecture is titled “Hear the shape at infinity.” Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Jue Yan from Iowa State University.

The lecture, titled “Cell-average-based Neural Network Method for time-dependent Problems,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Yuanqi Wang from University of Kansas.

The lecture, titled “Some aspects of G₂-instantons,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Dmitri Pavlov from Texas Tech University.

The lecture, titled “Locality of quantum field theories and the Stolz-Teichner program,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Yen-Chang Huang from the National University of Tainan, Taiwan and visiting researcher from the University of Georgia.

The lecture, titled “Geometric integral formulas in the Heisenberg groups,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Jiaping Wang from the University of Minnesota.

The lecture, titled “Spectrum and Curvature,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Keiko Kawamuro from the University of Iowa.

The lecture, titled “Diagrammatic left canonical form of braids and applications,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Keiko Kawamuro from the University of Iowa.

The lecture, titled “Diagrammatic left canonical form of braids and applications,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 28 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.