SEMINARS IN THE FIRST TERM

• Monday, October 20, 2008
  Alexei Poltoratski (Texas A&M University)
  Boundary behavior of Cauchy transforms     Abstract     
  2:00  – 3:00 pm  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  Maurice Duits (Caltech)    
  Powers of large random unitary matrices and Toeplitz determinants     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, November 5, 2008
  Roberto Costas (UC Santa Barbara)
  Extensions of discrete classical orthogonal polynomials beyond the orthogonality     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, November 12, 2008
  Christian Remling (University of Oklahoma)
  Toda flows     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge) 

• Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  Manwah Lilian Wong (Caltech)
  Kooman's theorem and point perturbation     Abstract   
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  Fokko van de Bult (Caltech)    
  Hyperbolic hypergeometric functions     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge) 

• Wednesday, December 3, 2008
  Matilde Marcolli (Caltech)    Abstract
  Quantum statistical mechanics and number theory
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

SEMINARS IN THE SECOND TERM

• Wednesday, January 7, 2009
  Anna Skripka (Texas A&M University)
  Higher order spectral shift functions    Abstract
  4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  //  159 Sloan  - Note time and room change for this week

• Wednesday, January 14, 2009
  Nikolai Makarov (Caltech)  
  Random normal matrices
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge) 

• Wednesday, January 21, 2009
  Mihai Stoiciu (Williams College, visiting UC Irvine)  
  Eigenvalue statistics for random CMV matrices     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, January 28, 2009
  Alexander Aptekarev (Russian Academy of Sciences, visiting Caltech)
  On rational approximants for the Euler constant
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, February 4, 2009
  Maxim Zinchenko (Caltech)
  A criterion for purely absolutely continuous measures
  on homogeneous sets    Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, February 11, 2009
  Fritz Gesztesy (University of Missouri)
  An index formula in terms of the Lifshits-Krein spectral shift function     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Monday & Tuesday, February 16 & 17, 2009
  27th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting  
  9:00 – 5:30 p.m.  //  151 Sloan

• Wednesday, February 25, 2009
  Jonathan Breuer (Caltech) 
  Singular spectrum for radial trees     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, March 4, 2009
  Rostyslav Kozhan (Caltech) 
  Szegö asymptotics for matrix-valued measures with countably many bound states     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  Maria Jose Cantero (Universidad de Zaragoza, visiting Caltech)
  Quantum random walk and CMV matrices     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - No meeting

• Monday, April 13, 2009 - Note day change
  Peter Stollmann (TU Chemnitz)
  A dual characterization of length spaces with applications to Dirichlet metrics      Abstract   
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, April 22, 2009
  Alexei Borodin (Caltech)     Abstract 
  Interlacing particle systems
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, April 29, 2009
  Wei-Min Wang (Université Paris-Sud) 
  Eigenfunction localization for the 2D periodic Schrödinger operator    Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, May 6, 2009
  Artur Avila (CNRS)
  Stratified analyticity of the Lyapunov exponent and the global theory of one-frequency Schrödinger operators     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - note time change
  Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Universidad de Almeria, visiting Caltech)
  Asymptotics of OPRL for a weight with a jump: (lack of) universality and clock behavior     Abstract
  12:15 – 1:15 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)  

• Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  Jacob Christiansen (University of Copenhagen, visiting Caltech)
  On the infinite gap case     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, May 27, 2009
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine) 
  Statistics of quasiperiodic eigenvalues     Abstract
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)

• Wednesday, June 3, 2009
  Barry Simon (Caltech) 
  12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  //  351 Sloan (Lounge)
  Natural boundaries and spectral theory     Abstract