Colloquium-February 10, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Subcritical transition and stability in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Speaker: Jacob Bedrossian (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) Abstract: We study small disturbances of the plane periodic Couette flow in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in the high Reynolds number limit....

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Colloquium-January 27, 2017

Friday, January 27, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Smoothness of heat kernel measures on abstract Wiener groups Speaker: Tai Melcher (Associate Professor, University of Virginia) Abstract: Smoothness is a fundamental principle in the study of measures on infinite-dimensional spaces. Smoothness properties on such measure spaces has allowed, for example, the development...

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