Recent Faculty and Student Presentations

Gerardo Mendoza at VI Workshop on Partial Differential Equations and Several Complex Variables

August 2011

Professor Gerardo Mendoza was an invited speaker at the VI Workshop on Partial Differential Equations and Several Complex Variables held in Serra Negra, Brazil, August 1-5. His lecture was titled Embedding theorems of manifolds with R-action.

Vasily Dolgushev at XXX Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics

June and July 2011

Associate Professor Vasily Dolgushev gave a plenary lecture, Stable formality quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild cochains, in the XXX Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, Warsaw, Poland, June 26-July 7. His talk was part of the special two-day session dedicated to the memory of the late eminent mathematical physicist Felix Berezin on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his birth.

Gerardo Mendoza at Microlocal Methods in Mathematical Physics and Global Analysis

June 2011

Professor Gerardo Mendoza gave an invited lecture, Topological implications of global hypoellipticity, at the International Conference on Microlocal Methods in Mathematical Physics and Global Analysis, Tübingen, Germany, June 14-18.

Kirk Soodhalter, Daniel Szyld, and Fei Xue at Householder Symposium

June 2011

The Temple mathematics department was well represented at the recent Householder Symposium XVIII on Numerical Linear Algebra, in Tahoe City, CA, June 14-17. Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor Fei Xue and graduate student Kirk Soodhalter both presented talks on their research. Professor Daniel Szyld gave a plenary lecture, Petrov Galerkin View of IDR (and BiCGStab). The Householder Symposium, a premier conference series in Numerical Linear algebra, is held every three years.

Cristian Gutierrez at Mini-courses in Mathematical Analysis

June 2011

Professor Cristian Gutierrez gave an invited series of lectures, Monge-Ampere equations and applications, at Mini-Courses in Mathematical Analysis, at the Matematica Pura ed Applicata and at the Metodi e Modelli Matematici per le Scienze Applicate, June 13-17.

Vasily Dolgushev at Notre Dame Summer School

May and June 2011

Associate Professor Vasily Dolgushev presented an invited series of lectures, Graph Complexes, Grothendieck-Teichmuller Lie algebra, and Wilwacher's construction, at the Graduate and Posdoc Summer School at the Center for Mathematics at Notre Dame, May 31 to June 4. Temple mathematics graduate student Rebeca Lufi participated in the program.

Cristian Gutierrez at Fabes Lectures

May 2011

Professor Cristian Gutierrez gave an invited lecture, Harnack inequality for a degenerate elliptic equation, at the Fabes Lectures 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 30 and 31, 2011. He was also a co-organizer of this conference, dedicated to the memory of leading mathematical analyst Eugene Fabes.

David Futer and Temple mathematics students at national graduate student topology and geometry conference

April 2011

The Temple mathematics department and graduate program were well represented at the recent Ninth Annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference. Temple mathematics graduate students Jessica Hamm, Rebeca Lufi, Christian Millchap, and Brian Paljug attended. Assistant Professor David Futer gave an invited 50 minute lecture, Effective hyperbolic geometry.

Benjamin Seibold at International Conference on Mathematical Modeling

March 2011

Assistant Professor Benjamin Seibold was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Applications to Industrial Problems, at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, March 28-31, 2011.

Gerardo Mendoza at Workshop on Geometric and Singular Analysis

March 2010

Professor Gerardo Mendoza gave an invited lecture, Symbol calculus for operator associated with symplectic conic manifolds, at the Workshop on Geometric and Singular Analysis at the University of Potsdam, Germany, March 7-11.

Department of Mathematics at annual joint meetings of the AMS and MAA

January 2011

Temple's Department of Mathematics was well represented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and Mathematical Association of America (MAA), held this year January 6-9 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Yury Grabovsky, Igor Rivin, and Daniel Szyld gave invited thirty-minutes presentations in AMS Special Sessions. The titles of their respective talks (and the name of the special sessions) were: Why does nature go multiscale? (The Mathematics of Modeling Multiscale Heterogeneous Media), Asymptotic phenomena in geometric group theory (Expander Graphs in Pure and Applied Mathematics), Superlinear convergence of MINRES (Mathematics of Computation: Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications). Also, David Zitarelli was invited to participate in the panel Writing the History of the MAA's First 100 Years.

Several colleagues are members of national societies committees which meet at the JMM. Among them was David Hill, who chairs the MAA short course committee. Edward Letzter attended the annual AMS workshop for department chairs. Furthermore, two Temple alumni were organizers of AMS special sessions: Tewordros Amdeberhan and Tadele Menegshe.

Strong Departmental Presence at SIAM Meeting

July 2010

The Department of Mathematics was well represented this year at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), held in Pittsburgh, July 11-16. Talks were presented by one graduate student (Kirk Soodhalter), two postdoctoral research assistant professors (Marlliny Monsalve, Fei Xue), two faculty members (Benjamin Seibold, Daniel Szyld), a Fulbright scholar visiting the department (Lahcen Laayouni), and two graduates of our Ph.D. program (Cheng Wang, Hans Johnston).