Spring term 2008 programme
Friday, 11 January
1:00pm : Cedric Villani (Lyon) : Minicourse on the Boltzmann equation (BZ)
Friday, 1 February
1:00pm : Nicholas Bingham (Imperial)
Friday, 8 February
1:00pm : Jens Wirth (Imperial) : Dispersive estimates for wave equations with time-periodic dissipation (abstract)
Friday, 15 February
1:00pm : Jiangang Ying (Fudan University) : On theory of Dirichlet forms
Friday, 22 February
1:00pm : Thomas Østergaard Sørensen (Aalborg, Denmark) : Mathematical problems in quantum mechanics
Friday, 29 February
1:00pm : Th. Hoffmann - Ostenhof (Vienna) : TBAWednesday , 5 March
Non - Commutative Day (programme)
Friday, 7 March
1:00pm : Ivan Gentil (Université Paris-Dauphine) : Functional inequalities and weighted porous media equations
Friday, 14 March
1:00pm : Vasilis Kontis (Imperial) : Isoperimetric functional inequalities under hypercontractivity
Friday, 2 May
1:00pm : R. Olkiewicz (Wrocław) : Quantum dynamical semigroups for finite and infinite Bose systems (abstract) (BZ)
Friday, 9 May
1:00pm : V. Kolokoltsov
Wednesday, 14 May (note the day change)
1:00pm : D. Bakry (Toulouse): Li-Yau estimates for the hypoelliptic evolution (BZ)
(Friday, 16 May - Paris seminar)
Friday, 23 May (note room change)
1:00pm in room 311: James Inglis : The Log Sobolev inequality in the Heisenberg Group
Friday, 30 May
1:00pm : Steve Buckley (NUI Maynooth): Nonpositive and negative curvature (abstract) (BZ)
2.30pm : Dinh Nho Hao (Hanoi Institute of Mathematics): A mollification method for ill-posed problems (MR)
Friday, 6 June
1:00pm : A. Es-Sarhir (Leiden): Transition semigroups for semilinear diffusions on Hilbert spaces. (BZ)
Friday, 13 June
1:00pm : Laura Cattaneo (Bonn): A rigorous approach to Caldeira-Leggett model based on Fresnel integrals. (BZ)
2.00pm : Misha Neklyudov (UNSW): Beale-Kato-Majda type condition for Burgers equation (joint work with Ben Goldys) (BZ)
Wednesday, 18 June
1:00pm : J.Inglis : Review of F.Y. Wang's lecture notes on "Defective Poincaré Inequalities and Applications to Spectral Theory"
Wednesday, 25 June in room 408 (note day and room change)
1:00pm : I.Papageorgiou, V.Kontis : Review of F.Y. Wang's lecture notes on "Defective Poincaré Inequalities and Applications to Spectral Theory"
Wednesday, 2 July (note time and day change)
4.30pm : Kay Jachmann (TU Freiberg, Germany) : Diagonalisation schemes and thermo-elasticity (abstract) (JW)
Friday, 25 June
1:00pm : Wladyslaw A. Majewski (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Gdansk University) : Measures of Entanglement - a Hilbert space approach (BZ)
Abstract: We present the description of positive partially transposed (PPT) states. Our approach is based on Tomita-Takesaki theory. The discussion about effectiveness of this approach is given. The notion degrees of entanglement are introduced.