London Analysis and Probability Seminar

The joint London Analysis/Probability seminar is alternately held in one of the following colleges: Imperial College, King's College (London) ,Queen Mary and Westfield College, and University College.

The seminar meets during a term on Thursdays from 3:00pm-5:30pm. All are welcome to attend the meetings.

For further information contact:

 

Summer Term Program, 2005

 

Fridays, 3:00-4:30, Imperial College, Math, Huxley Building

PDE Study Group

All are welcome!   Room 408: More details to be announced.

 

 

  • Thursday, 5 May, 3:00-5:30, CANCELLED

 

Friday, 6 May, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 408

            Piotr Lugiewicz (Imperial): Introduction to hypoellipticity and Hormander regularity.

 

10-11 May, 10:00-19:10, Imperial College, Math, Clore Lecture Theatre, website is here

Conference on “Fourier Analysis and Hyperbolic PDEs”

 

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 4:00-5:00, UCL, Math, Room 500

A.Helemskii (Moscow): Some questions of quantum functional analysis approached without matrices.

 

            3pm: Serge Alinhac (Paris): Semilinear hyperbolic systems with blow up at infinity. (MR)

            4:30: Leonid Volevich (Moscow): A new class of parabolic problems connected with Newton’s polygon. (MR)

 

 Friday, 13 May, 3:00-5:00, Imperial College, Math, room 408

            Piotr Lugiewicz (Imperial): Hypoellipticity and Hormander regularity.

 

 

  • Thursday, 19 May, 3:00-5:30, King’s College, Math, room 2C **NOTE unusual room**

      This is in the main building (not the Strand building) on the floor above the ground floor if one arrives using the usual Strand entrance.

3pm: Barry Simon (Caltech): Orthogonal Polynomials with Exponentially Decaying Recursion Coefficients. (EBD)

            4:30: Alexander Sobolev (Sussex): Eigenvalue distribution for the perturbed Laplace operator on the torus. (EBD)

 

 Friday, 20 May, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 408

            Xu Lihu (Imperial College): On nonlinear Semigroups.

 

            Monday 23 May, 4:00 pm, Special Colloquium, King’s College, room 2C

            Barry Simon (Caltech): The lost proof of Loewner’s theorem. Abstract

 

3pm: James Smith (Imperial): Global Time Estimates for Solutions to Constant Coefficient Strictly Hyperbolic PDEs. (MR)

 

 Friday, 27 May, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 408

            Antonella Bucciaglia (Imperial College): Review of Sobolev inequalities on Riemannian  Manifolds.

 

 Tuesday, 31 May, 4:00 pm, Imperial College, Math, room 130

Tom Kurtz (Wisconsin-Madison): Particle representations and uniqueness for SPDEs. (DC)

 

  • Thursday, 2 June, 3:00-5:30, UCL, Math, Room 500

            3pm: Edward Fraenkel (Bath): The diffusing vortex circle: a singular initial-value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations. (LP)

            4:30: Michael Rudnev (Bristol): Some problems about distance measures. (LP)

 

            3pm: Alexander G. Ramm (Kansas State): Dynamical systems method for for solving operator equations. Abstract  (YS)

            4:30: A. Karlovich (Braga): Asymptotics of Toeplitz determinants with symbols of nonstandard smoothness. Abstract (ES)

 

  • Thursday, 23 June, 3:00-5:30, UCL, Math, Room 500

      3pm: Estelle Basor (California Polytechnic State University): Wiener-Hopf Determinants with Fisher-Hartwig Symbols. (ES)

      4:30: Nina Snaith (Bristol): Applications of random matrix theory in number theory.  (ES)

 

 

 

Spring Term Program, 2005

 

 

All Fridays January 14-March 18, 3:00-4:30, Imperial College, Math, Huxley Building

PDE Study Group

All are welcome!   Room 642

 

            3pm: Karl-Theodor Sturm (Bonn): Geometry of metric measure spaces. Abstract (BZ)

            4:30: Greg Pavliotis (Imperial): Periodic Homogenization for hypoelliptic diffusions. Abstract (IC)

 

 Friday, January 14, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

            Introductory lecture: Karl-Theodor Sturm (Bonn).

 

            3pm: Todor Gramchev (Cagliari): Decay and global regularity of solutions to PDEs in R^n. Abstract (MR)

            4:30: Michael Ruzhansky (Imperial): Analysis of systems with multiplicities.

 

 Friday, February 4, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

            Introductory lecture: Todor Gramchev (Cagliari): On the solvability of PDEs in scales of functional spaces.

 

Wednesday, February 16, 3:00-5:00, Imperial College, Math, room 340

            Mark Hastings (Imperial): Introduction to Poincare problem in relation to work of G. Perelman on entropy formula for the Ricci flow.

 

            3pm: Zen Harper (Leeds): The Weiss Conjecture, Hankel operators, Carleson embeddings and other operators on Hilbert spaces. Abstract (IC)

            4:30: Ivan Gentil (Paris Dauphine):  Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and convergence in entropy to the equilibrium in the convex case. Abstract (BZ)

 

Friday, February 18, 3:00-5:00, PDE group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

            Ivan Gentil (Paris Dauphine): Some links between PDE, Hamilton-Jacobi Equation and Functional inequalities like Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality.

 

Wednesday, February 23, 3:00-4:00, Imperial College, Math, room 341

Wilhelm Stannat (Bielefeld): Stability of the optimal filter via pointwise gradient estimates. Abstract (DC)

                                                                              

      3pm: Wilhelm Stannat (Bielefeld): Stability of the pathwise filter equation a variational approach. Abstract (DC)

            4:30: M.W. Wong (Toronto): Weyl transforms, the heat kernel and Green function of a degenerate elliptic operator. Abstract (MR)

 

Friday, February 25, 3:00-5:00, PDE group at Imperial College, Math, room 342

            Cyril Imbert (Polytech Montpellier): A non-local vanishing viscosity method.

 

  • Thursday, March 3, 3:00-5:30, Imperial College, Math, room 140 **NOTE room change**

      3pm: Andrew Stuart (Warwick): Sampling in Infinite Dimensions Via The Langevin MCMC Method. Abstract  (DC)

      4:30: Dirk Bloemker (Aachen): Solving PDEs with trees. Abstract (DC)

 

Friday, March 4, 3:00-5:00, PDE group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

            Piotr Lugiewicz (Imperial): Introduction to Hormander regularity.

 

      3pm: Thomas Krainer (Potsdam): Resolvents of elliptic cone operators. Abstract (MR)

            4:30: Cyril Roberto (Paris Marne-la-Vallee): Some results on isoperimetric inequalities. (BZ)

 

 Friday, March 11, 3:00-5:00, PDE group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

      Thomas Krainer (Potsdam): Introduction to singular analysis. Abstract

 

            3pm: Nikolaos Bournaveas (Edinburgh): Velocity averaging for the kinetic transport equation in hyperbolic Sobolev spaces. (MR)

4:30: Gianluca Garello (Turin): Lp continuity for  pseudodifferential operators. (MR)

 

 Friday, March 18, 3:00-5:00, PDE group at Imperial College, Math, room 642

      Nikolaos Bournaveas (Edinburgh): Introduction to nonlinear wave equations.

 

 

Autumn Term Program, 2004

 

 

All Fridays October 22-December 17, 3:00-4:30, Imperial College, Math, Huxley Building

PDE Study Group

October 22: room 340

October 29 - December 17: room 642

All are welcome!

 

            3pm: Carmen Martinez (KCL): The spectrum of a non-self-adjoint operator. (King’s)

            4:30: Eugen Varvaruca (Bath): The behaviour near the crest for singular solutions of Bernoulli free-boundary problems. (King’s)

 

3:30: Yuri Suhov (University of Cambridge): Anderson localization for multi-particle systems. Abstract (IG).

5pm: Yan Fyodorov (Brunel): Complexity of Random Landscapes,

Glass Transition and Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices. Abstract (IG).

 

Friday, October 22, 3:00-4:30, Imperial College, Math, room 642, start of the PDE study group

 

            3pm: Leonid Friedlander (Tucson Arizona): Extremal properties of the spectrum of the metric graph. (LP)

            4:30: Laura Wisewell (UCL): Oscillatory integrals and curved Kakeya sets. (MR)

 

Friday, November 12, 3:00-4:00, King’s College in Room 423

Additional seminar: Maciej Zworski (Berkeley): Eigenfunctions for partially rectangular billiards.

 

Friday, November 19, 3:00-5:00, PDE study group at Imperial College, Math, room 642.

            Introductory lecture: Ville Turunen (Helsinki): Pseudodifferential operators on circle, torus and sphere.

 

  • Thursday, November 25, 3:30-6:00, Queen Mary College, Math, room 103 and MLT (Math Lecture Theatre)

3:30:  Ville Turunen (Helsinki): On differentiability in locally compact spaces. (MR)

            5pm: Boris Tsirelson (Tel Aviv University): Continuous products and their automorphisms. (IG)

 

            3pm: Anne Greenbaum (Washington): Alternatives to Eigenvalues -- Describing the Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Linear Operators. (EBD)

            4:30: Michael Levitin (Heriot-Watt): Spectral problems with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions: isospectrality and beyond. (LP)

 

Old 2003-2004 Autumn, Spring and Summer Term Programs

Old 2003 Spring and Summer Term Program

Old 2002 Autumn Term Program

Old 2002 Spring and Summer Term Program

Old 2001 Autumn Term Program

Old 2001 Summer Term Program

Old 2001 Spring Term Program

 

Maps and Instructions

London Underground map.
Getting to Imperial College. (do not go in the tunnel if you travel to South Kensington tube station.)

The simplest way to get here:

Travel to the tube station Gloucester Road  (District, Circle, and Piccadilly Lines).

When you exit the station, turn left along Gloucester Road, crossing Cromwell Road 50 meters from the exit.

After 4-5 minutes walk along Gloucester Road, turn right to Queen's Gate Terrace.

This is a short road leading directly to the entrance of the Huxley Building, at 180 Queen's Gate. We are on floor 6.
Getting to King's College.
Getting to QMW. From Stepney Green tube go left along Mile End Road for about 200 metres.

From Mile End tube go west along Mile End Road for about 300 metres.
Getting to UCL.  The nearest tube station is `Euston square', but `Warren Street' and `Euston' are also quite close to the college.

 

Seminar links

The London Mathematical Society.
Relevant seminars at Imperial, King's, Queen Mary.