Winter 2011 Schedule of Presentations
Fractal and Mathematical Physics Research Group Talks for the Winter 2011.
January 13th, 2011: Organizational meeting
January 20th, 2011: Scot Childress, Fractal strings and nature
January 27th, 2011: Robert Niemeyer, Stabilizing orbits of the Koch snowflake billiard
February 3rd, 2011: Robert Niemeyer, Fractal enrichment
February 10th, 2011: Nishu Lal, Blow-up of the Sierpinski gasket (part I)
February 17th, 2011: Nishu Lal, Blow-up of the Sierpinski gasket (part II)
February 24th, 2011: Scot Childress, The Feynmann integral and fractal strings
March 3rd, 2011: Sean Towsend, Fractal cryptography
March 3rd, 2011: Jonathan Sarhad, Reaction diffusion and transport in quantum star graphs
Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems Winter 2011
January 13th, 2011: Organizational meeting
January 20th, 2011 Dominick Scaletta, Principal ber bundles and the Hopffibration in quantum theory: connections on principal bundles
January 27th, 2011: Hafedh Herichi, On the convergence of the Euler product of the spectral operator in the critical strip
February 3rd, 2011: Dominick Scaletta, Principal ber bundles and the Hopf bration in quantum theory: applications of connections
February 10th, 2011: Juhi Jang, Stability theory of polytropic gaseous stars
February 17th, 2011: John Quinn, Fractal measures
February 24th, 2011: Richard Niemeyer, Toward a heuristic framework for understanding the relationship between graphs and dynamical systems in several applied contexts
March 3rd, 2011: Mike Maroon, Generalized functions, Gelfand triples and the imaginary resolvent theorem
March 3rd, 2011: Robert Niemeyer, The flat surface of the pre-fractal snowflake
Fall 2010 Schedule of Presentations
Fractal and Mathematical Physics Research Group Talks for the Fall 2010.
September 30th, 2010: Mike Maroun, Number theoretic connections to the solution of a certain delay differential equation
October 7th, 2010: Robert G. Niemeyer, Billiards on Other Fractal Tables
October 14th, 2010: Jonathan Sarhad, The Heat Kernel on a Compact Interval via the Method of Images
October 21st, 2010: Hafedh Herichi, On the invertibility of the spectral operator
October 28th, 2010: Professor Zair Ibragimov, Canonical decompositions of ultrametric spaces. Speaker visiting from the California State University, Fullerton.
November 4th, 2010: Robert G. Niemeyer Flat surfaces II – an introduction to the subject
November 11th, 2010: Holiday - No seminar
November 18th, 2010: Nishu Lal The Shubin invariant for the Sturm‐Liouville operator on [0,1]
November 24th, 2010: Holiday - No seminar
December 2nd, 2010: Dr. Dana Clahane Zeta Functions and Riemann Hypotheses on multicomplex spaces, toward complex Clifford algebras
Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems Fall 2010
September 30, John Quinn: Fourier transforms in Lp spaces
October 7, Johnathan Sarhad: Evolution equations in metric graphs: Quantum graphs and contraction semigroups
October 14, Robert G. Niemeyer: Flat Surfaces I - an introduction to the subject
October 21, Nishu Lal: Product structure of the spectral zeta function of the Sturm-Liouville operator on fractals
October 28, Professor Zair Ibragimov: Hyperbolization of hyperspaces
Speaker visiting from the California State University, Fullerton.
November 4, Hafedh Herichi: On the inveritibility of the spectral operator Part2
November 11, Holiday - No seminar
November 18, Michael Maroun: The Feynman Integral
November 24th, 2010: Holiday - No seminar
December 2nd, Dominick Scaleta: Applications of the Hopf fibration in quantum physics
Spring 2010 Schedule of Presentations
Fractal and Mathematical Physics Research Group Talks for the Spring 2010.
April 1st, 2010: Jonathan Sarhad, Spectral Geometries on the Sierpinski Gasket
April 8th, 2010: Kate Ellis, Zeta functions of a measure on a cantor string, Shane Gibson, The Minkowski and Hausdorff dimensions of related fractal strings, Mike McKenzie, Partition zeta functions of a multinomial measure
April 15th, 2010: Jason Payne The Prime Number Theorem
April 22nd, 2010: Robert Niemeyer A characterization of pi/3 orbits in Omega(KS)
April 29th, 2010: Jonathan Sarhad TBA
May 6th, 2010: Robert Niemeyer Holomorphic 1-forms on flat surfaces
May 13th, 2010: Nishu Lal, The Spectrum of the Sturm‐Liouville Operator and the Renormalization Map
May 20th, 2010: Michael Maroun TBA
May 27th, 2010: Dr. Clahane Composition operators on the Hilbert space adelic product in prime or Fibonacci membranes
June 3rd, 2010: Dr. Scot Childress TBA
Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems Spring 2010
April 1st, 2010: Dr. Carfi. (University of Messina, Sicily, Italy; visiting UCR) Talk Title Quantum Mechanics in the spaces of tempered distributions
April 8th, 2010: Hafedh Herichi. The spectral operator and some conditions on its invertibility.
April 15th, 2010: Hafedh Herichi. On the Appolonian integral packing, fractal sprays and their complex dimensions.
April 22nd, 2010: Nishu Lal. Self-similar Sturm-Liouville operator and complex dynamics in higher dimension.
April 29th, 2010: No seminar.
May 6th, 2010: Dr. Censor. How to measure a groupoid.
May 13th, 2010: Jonathan Sarhad. Spectral geometries of the Sierpinski gasket.
May 20th, 2010: Dr. Carfi. (University of Messina, Sicily, Italy; visiting UCR) Talk Title TBA.
May 27th, 2010: Michael Maroun. The three-dimensional Feynman integral.
June 3rd, 2010: Jason Payne. Multivariate Eulerian products.
Winter 2010 Schedule of Presentations
Fractal and Mathematical Physics Research Group Talks for the Winter 2010 quarter.
January 7, 2010: Organizational meeting
January 14, 2010: JMM
January 21, 2010: Hafedh Herichi. On some properties of the spectral operator.
January 28, 2010: Nishu Lal. Complex dynamics in higher dimensions: Part I.
February 4, 2010: Robert Niemeyer. Periodic orbits of the Koch snowflake billiard.
February 11, 2010: Jason Payne. The theorem of Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin.
February 18, 2010: AAAS Annual Meeting; Elie Atalla. TBA; Michael Maroun. Introduction to spontaneous symmetry breaking.
February 25, 2010: Scot Childress. On the foundations of classical electrodynamics.
March 4, 2010: Dr. Dana Clahane. Fractal membranes.
March 11, 2010: Hafedh Herichi. On the Appolonian integral packing.
Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems Winter 2010
January 7, 2010: Planning meeting.
January 14, 2010: No seminar. AMS Annual Meeting.
January 21, 2010: Michael Maroun. Computation of the divergent integrals arising in the Feynman functional integral for the Schrödinger dynamics.January 28, 2010: Dr. Aviv Censor. Topological degroupoidification.
February 4, 2010*: Professor Eugene Gutkin (Copernicus University, Torun & Polish Inst. Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland). Security and flatness for Riemannian manifolds, especially for surfaces.
February 11, 2010: Professor Gerald Johnson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln; visiting UCR). Feynman's operational calculi
February 18, 2010: Robert Niemeyer. Veech groups and flat surfaces.
February 25, 2010*: Professor Daniel Sternheimer (Keio University, Japan & University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France). Deformations, quantizations, and the geometry of space-time: an introductory overview.
March 4, 2010: Nishu Lal. Complex dynamics in higher dimensions: Part II.
March 11, 2010: Dr. Scot Childress. On the subject of mathematical physics.
*This will be a colloquium, joint with the MPDS seminar; hence, it will be lasting from 4:10pm to 5:00pm, with refreshments and tea/coffee starting at about 3:40pm.
Fall 2009 Schedule of Presentations
October 1, 2009: Planning meeting.
October 8, 2009: Jonathan Sarhad. A solution to the nonlinear Poisson equation via a Newton embedding method.
October 15, 2009: Professor Jim Kelliher. Prandtl's 1904 paper on boundary layers and a few things learned since then, I.
October 22, 2009: Professor Jim Kelliher. Prandtl's 1904 paper on boundary layers and a few things learned since then, II.
October 29, 2009: October 29 Michael Maroun. The challenges presented by the 2-body and 3-body Schrodinger problems in the Feynman integral formalism.November 5, 2009*: Professor Jun Kigami (Kyoto Univ., Japan; visiting UCR). Transient random walk on a tree, its trace on the Cantor set as the Martin boundary and associated heat kernel.
November 12, 2009*: Professor Driss Essouabri (Univ. de St. Etienne, France; visiting UCR). Multivariable zeta functions: analytic continuation, natural boundary, special values and applications.
November 19, 2009: Hafed Herichi. Properties of the prime factor operator for generalized fractal strings.
November 26, 2009: Holiday - Thanksgiving.
December 3, 2009: No talk.
Spring 2009 Schedule of Presentations
April 2, 2009: Jonathan Sarhad. TBA.
April 9, 2009: Nishu Lal. Decimation method on the Sierpinski gasket.
April 16, 2009: Hafedh Herichi. Properties of the p-factors operator associated to generalized fractal strings (Part I).
April 23, 2009: Nishu Lal. The spectral zeta function for fractals & its connection with the zeta function of a polynomial
April 30, 2009: Robert Niemeyer. Mathematical billiards and fractal geometry.
May 7, 2009: Scot Childress. Cylinders: because why not?
May 14, 2009: Vicente Alvarez. A numerical computation of eigenfunctions for the Kusuoka Laplacian on the Sierpinski gasket.
May 21, 2009: Nishu Lal. Spectral analysis on self-similar sets and spectral zeta function.
May 28, 2009: Mike Maroun. 2-dimensional conformal quantum field theory.
June 4, 2009: No talk.
June 11, 2009: No talk.
Winter 2009 Schedule of Presentations
January 15, 2009: Organizational meeting
January 22, 2009: Michael Maroun. Computational quantum field theory.
January 29, 2009: Scot Childress. On the ambiguity of nomenclature.
February 5, 2009: John Huerta. The algebra of grand unified theories.
February 12, 2009: No seminar - UCLA IPAM Workshop on Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
February 19, 2009: Vicente Alvarez. Sierpinski gasket.
*February 26, 2009: Professor Robert Devaney. Cantor and Sierpinski, Julia and Fatou: Crazy topology in complex dynamics.
*March 5, 2009: Professor Gerald Johnson. Feynman's operational calculus for noncommuting operators.
March 12, 2009: Professor Lance Nielsen. Feynman's operational calculus: A survey of results beyond an introduction.
Fall 2008 Schedule of Presentations
October 2, 2008: Scot Childress. Quantum measures - An approach to generalizing Dirichlet series.
October 9, 2008: No seminar - Holiday.
October 16, 2008: Mike Maroun. The modified Feynman-Kac formula and convolution as dynamics, I.
October 23, 2008: Professor Harold Widom. Formulas and asymptotics in the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
October 30, 2008: Jonathan Sarhad. Measurable Riemannian geometry.
November 6, 2008: Elie Atalla. TBA
November 13, 2008: John Huerta. Grand unified theories.
November 20, 2008: Elie Atalla. TBA.
December 4 , 2008: Scot Childress. TBA
*This will be a colloquium, joint with the MPDS seminar; hence, it will be lasting from 4:10pm to 5:00pm, with refreshments and tea/coffee starting at about 3:40pm.
Spring 2008 Schedule of Presentations.
Apr 3 Organizational meeting..
Apr 10 John Huerta. The Octonions.
*Apr 17 Dr. Henrique Bursztyn. Generalized complex/Kähler geometry.
Apr 24 Robert G. Niemeyer. A countable class of periodic orbits of the koch snowflake.
May 1 Michael Maroun. Entropy, classical and quantum action.
May 8 Scot Childress. Fractal geometry, number theory, and physics, II.
May 15 Alex Hoffnung. Categorifying Hamiltonian mechanics: motivation and theory.
May 22 Chris Rogers. Categorifying Hamiltonian mechanics: applications to string theory.
May 29 Vicente Alvarez. Finite element method on the Sierpinski gasket.
Jun 5 John Huerta: Quantum mechanics and representation theory.
*This will be a colloquium, joint with the MPDS seminar; hence, it will be lasting from 4:10pm to 5:00pm, with refreshments and tea/coffee starting at about 3:40pm.