Department of Mathematics, HKU

2018

Date	24 Dec 2018 (Mon) 5:00 - 6:00pm
Title	Computational Science Seminar - The classification of finite dimensional estimation algebras
Speaker	Professor Stephen S.-T. Yau (Tsinghua U)

Date	18 Dec 2018 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00pm
Title	Geometry Seminar - On equivariant cohomology of Calogero-Moser spaces
Speaker	Professor Peng Shan (Tsinghua U)

Date	14 Dec 2018 (Fri) 10:00 - 11:00am
Title	Computational Science Seminar - A geometric Newton-CG method for constructing a nonnegative matrix with prescribed realizable spectrum
Speaker	Professor Zheng-Jian Bai (Xiamen U)

Date	12 Dec 2018 (Wed) 4:00 - 5:00pm
Title	Geometry Seminar - A tale of two congruences: Fermat-Wilson-Derivatives-Zeta connection
Speaker	Professor Dinesh Thakur (U of Rochester, USA)

Date	11 Dec 2018 (Tue) 11:00am - 12:00noon
Title	Generalized numerical ranges and quantum information science
Speaker	Professor Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary, USA)

Date	07 Dec 2018 (Fri) 5:30 - 6:30pm
Title	Rambling in Mathematics Lecture Series - How to Bake Pi: making abstract Mathematics tasty
Speaker	Dr. Eugenia Cheng 鄭樂雋博士 (Scientist in Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Honorary Fellow of Pure Mathematics, U of Sheffield)

Date	04 Dec 2018 (Tue) 11:00am - 12:00noon
Title	Colloquium - Understanding manifold-structure data via geometric modeling and learning
Speaker	Professor Rongjie Lai (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA)

Date	04 Dec 2018 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00pm
Title	Colloquium - Sparse NOMA: A Closed-Form Characterization
Speaker	Professor Shlomo Shamai (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Date	29 Nov 2018 (Thu) - 03 Dec 2018 (Mon)
Title	Workshop on Crystal Bases, Cluster Algebras, and Poisson Geometry on Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2018

Date	26 Nov 2018 (Mon) - 30 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Title	Big Data Challenges for Predictive Modeling of Complex Systems on Nov 26 - 30, 2018

Date	24 Nov 2018 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKU)
Speaker	Professor Mark G. Lawrence (Nazarbayev U, Republic of Kazakhstan) & Professor Rong Du (East China Normal U)

Date	23 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at HKUST)
Speaker	Rongfeng Sun (National U of Singapore) & Tomohiro Sasamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Date	22 Nov 2018 (Thu)
Title	Working Seminar - Maxwell's demons from old age to conception
Speaker	Professor Antoine Danchin (President, AMAbiotics SAS (a biotech company), France & Member of the French Academy of Sciences)

Date	21 Nov 2018 (Wed)
Title	Career Talk - Application of mathematics and computer technology in finance
Speaker	Mr. Fei Yang (Deputy General Manager & Head of Operations of WorldQuant China)

Date	20 Nov 2018 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - Regularized Weighted Least Squares by Orthogonal Polynomials
Speaker	Dr. Congpei An (Jinan U, China)

Date	19 Nov 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - On positive characteristic zeta values taken at integers
Speaker	Professor Jing Yu (National Taiwan U & CUHK)

Date	06 Nov 2018 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula via mould calculus
Speaker	Professor Shanzhong Sun (Capital Normal U, China)

Date	03 Nov 2018 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKUST)
Speaker	Professor Shanzhong Sun (Capital Normal U, Beijing, China) & Professor Francesco Sala (Kavli Institute for the Physics & the Mathematics of the Universe, U of Tokyo, Japan)

Date	02 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at CUHK)
Speaker	Jie Xiong (Southern U of Science and Technology) & Chen Wang (HKU)

Date	01 Nov 2018 (Thu)
Title	Postgraduate Number Theory Seminar - Distribution of signs and zeros of generalized Davenport-Heilbronn function
Speaker	Dr. Sudhir Pujahari (HKU)

Date	23 Oct 2018 (Tue)
Title	Frontiers of Mathematics Lecture: Potential Singularity Formation of the 3D Euler Equations and Related Models
Speaker	Professor Thomas Y. Hou (Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, USA)

Date	15 Oct 2018 (Mon) - 19 Oct 2018 (Fri)
Title	The 4th Sino-Russian Conference in Mathematics on October 15 - 19, 2018

Date	11 Oct 2018 (Thu)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Projective Modules and Algebraic K-Theory
Speaker	Mr. Antoine Lefebvre de Saint Germain (HKU)

Date	05 Oct 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at HKU)
Speaker	Dr. Phillip Yam (CUHK) & Professor Pierre Tarrès (NYU Shanghai)

Date	03 Oct 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - History-dependent variational-hemivariational inequalities in Contact Mechanics
Speaker	Professor Mircea Sofonea (U of Perpignan Via Domitia, France)

Date	28 Sep 2018 (Fri)
Title	Frontiers of Mathematics Lecture: Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Convection Dominated Partial Differential Equations
Speaker	Professor Chi-Wang Shu (Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown U, USA)

Date	12 Sep 2018 (Wed)
Title	Special Lecture - Curvature Properties of Hodge Bundles
Speaker	Professor Phillip A. Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, USA; Member, National Academy of Sciences of the United States)

Date	04 Sep 2018 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - Trigonometric Integrals and the Riemann Zeta Function II
Speaker	Professor Yitang Zhang (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

Date	03 Sep 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - Bounds for Fourier-Jacobi coefficients of Siegel modular forms
Speaker	Professor Winfried Kohnen (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Date	03 Sep 2018 (Mon)
Title	Frontiers of Mathematics Lecture: Trigonometric Integrals and the Riemann Zeta Function
Speaker	Professor Yitang Zhang (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

Date	27 Aug 2018 (Mon)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - On Waring-Goldbach Problems of Small Degrees
Speaker	Mr. Ching Tak Wing (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	23 Aug 2018 (Thu)
Title	Poisson geometry of non-simple Kashiwara operators
Speaker	Mr. Yu Li (University of Chicago)

Date	21 Aug 2018 (Tue)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Some Optimal Stopping Problems with Applications in Mathematical Finance
Speaker	Mr. Huang Dongchao (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	15 Aug 2018 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Cross curvature flow
Speaker	Professor Pak Tung Ho (Sogang U, Korea)

Date	15 Aug 2018 (Wed)
Title	Bounds on Autocorrelation Coefficients of Rudin-Shapiro Polynomials
Speaker	Professor Stephen K.K. Choi (Simon Fraser U, Canada)

Date	23 Jul 2018 (Mon)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - On Pricing, Hedging and Trading in Financial Management
Speaker	Miss Fenghui Yu (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	16 Jul 2018 (Mon) - 23 Jul 2018 (Mon)
Title	2018 HKU Number Theory Days on July 16 - 23, 2018

Date	19 Jul 2018 (Thu) - 20 Jul 2018 (Fri)
Title	Workshop on Complex Geometry on July 19 - 20, 2018

Date	20 Jul 2018 (Fri)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - A Regularization Parameter Selection Model for Total Variation Based Image Noise Removal
Speaker	Professor Youwei Wen (Hunan Normal U)

Date	18 Jul 2018 (Wed)
Title	Frontiers of Mathematics Lecture: Why does Ramanujan, "The Man Who Knew Infinity", matter?
Speaker	Professor Ken Ono (Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University; Vice President of the American Mathematical Society)

Date	13 Jul 2018 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Formal deformations: from modular to Jacobi through quasimodular forms
Speaker	Professor Emmanuel Royer (Université Clermont-Auvergne & CNRS Laboratoire de mathématiques Blaise Pascal)

Date	12 Jul 2018 (Thu)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Optimal Market Making and Liquidation Strategies in Quantitative Trading
Speaker	Miss Qingqing Yang (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	03 Jul 2018 (Tue) - 05 Jul 2018 (Thu)
Title	Workshop on Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics on July 3 - 5, 2018

Date	04 Jul 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - On the Muskat problem with viscosity jump: global in time results
Speaker	Professor Robert M. Strain (U of Pennsylvania, USA)

Date	29 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Title	IMR Lecture Series - Methods of Rational Curves and Pluricanonical Bundles in Complex Geometry (Lecture 2)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U)

Date	26 Jun 2018 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Stokes phenomenon, Yang-Baxter equations and Gromov-Witten theory
Speaker	Dr. Xiaomeng Xu (MIT, USA)

Date	22 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Title	IMR Lecture Series - Methods of Rational Curves and Pluricanonical Bundles in Complex Geometry (Lecture 1)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U)

Date	22 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - Using a Transactor/Revolver Scorecard to Make Credit and Pricing Decisions
Speaker	Dr. Mee Chi So (Southampton Business School, U of Southampton)

Date	21 Jun 2018 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Construction of acylindrical hyperbolic 3-manifolds with quasi-Fuchsian boundary
Speaker	Mr.Yongquan Zhang (Harvard U)

Date	20 Jun 2018 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Recent development in Nevanlinna theory
Speaker	Professor Min Ru (U of Houston, USA)

Date	15 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Title	Frontiers of Mathematics Lecture: Methods of Rational Curves and Pluricanonical Bundles in Complex Geometry
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard University, USA; Member, National Academy of Sciences of the United States; Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Date	04 Jun 2018 (Mon)
Title	Colloquium - Permanent function: an instrument to solve algebraic and combinatorial problems
Speaker	Professor A.E. Guterman (Lomonosov Moscow State U, Russia)

Date	28 May 2018 (Mon)
Title	Student Seminar - How to prepare for my graduate studies?
Speaker	Mr. Haotian Gu (HKU)

Date	23 May 2018 (Wed)
Title	Student Seminar
Speaker	Mr. Haotian Gu (HKU) & Mr. Lexiao Lai (HKU)

Date	11 May 2018 (Fri)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - Data-driven operator inference for learning physics-based low-dimensional models
Speaker	Professor Karen Willcox (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, USA)

Date	11 May 2018 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Well conditioned spherical t-design and its application in numerical integration
Speaker	Dr. Congpei An (Jinan U, China)

Date	11 May 2018 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Introduction to beta-divergence and related applications
Speaker	Dr. Hyenkyun Woo (Korean U of Technology and Education, Korea)

Date	07 May 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - On branching problems for classical p-adic groups
Speaker	Dr. Kei Yuen Chan (U of Georgia, USA)

Date	05 May 2018 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKU)
Speaker	Dr. Sachiko Hamano (Osaka City U, Japan) & Dr. Weiyu Colin Tan (National U of Singapore)

Date	03 May 2018 (Thu)
Title	Analysis Seminar - On long time dynamics of wave map equations
Speaker	Dr. Baoping Liu (Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking U)

Date	02 May 2018 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Proofs of Pólya’s Positivstellensatz
Speaker	Dr. Weiyu Colin Tan (National U of Singapore)

Date	30 Apr 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - On the Semisimplicity of Geometric Monodromy Action in F_ℓ Coefficients
Speaker	Professor Chun Yin Hui (Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua U)

Date	27 Apr 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at CUHK)
Speaker	Dr. Ke Wang (HKUST) and Dr. Lihu Xu (U of Macau)

Date	23 Apr 2018 (Mon)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Enumerating the fake projective planes (Joint work with Tim Steger)
Speaker	Professor Donald Cartwright (U of Sydney)

Date	19 Apr 2018 (Thu) - 21 Apr 2018 (Sat)
Title	Number Theory and its connections with Random Matrices and Extreme Values on April 19 - 21, 2018

Date	18 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Error estimates for diffusion equations on coated bodies and lifespan of effective boundary conditions
Speaker	Professor Xuefeng Wang (SUSTech)

Date	12 Apr 2018 (Thu)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Related Topics
Speaker	Professor Yu-Yu Liu (National Cheng Kung U, Taiwan)

Date	04 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - On the relativistic Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff
Speaker	Dr. Jin Woo Jang (IBS-Center for Geometry and Physics, Korea)

Date	04 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - Complete Solution to the Most General Nonlinear Filtering Problems and Its Implementation
Speaker	Professor Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (Tsinghua U)

Date	28 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - A Poisson-Nernst-Planck Model with Singular Permanent Charges
Speaker	Dr. Chia-Yu Hsieh (National Center for Theoretical Science, Taiwan)

Date	27 Mar 2018 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Noncommutative Mather-Yau theorem and its applications to Calabi-Yau algebras and homological minimal model program
Speaker	Dr. Gui-Song Zhou (Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang U & HKU)

Date	26 Mar 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - On the global sup-norm of GL(n) cusp forms
Speaker	Professor Gergely Harcos (Renyi Institute)

Date	24 Mar 2018 (Sat)
Title	《數趣漫話》──「數學：揭開密碼學奧秘之鑰」
Speaker	李溫福博士 (Dr. Benjamin Kane)

Date	23 Mar 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at HKUST)
Speaker	Professor Benoît Collins (Kyoto U) & Professor Laurent Ménard (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)

Date	15 Mar 2018 (Thu)
Title	Career Talk: Adventures in the FinTech Industry
Speaker	Dr. Yan Ting Lam (Strategic Business Innovator Group, Tokyo)

Date	14 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Title	Special Lecture - The Unchanged Changing World of Mathematical Publishing
Speaker	Dr. Joachim Heinze (Senior Advisor, Mathematical Sciences, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg)

Date	14 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Title	Computational Science Seminar - Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Applications Around Us
Speaker	Dr. Wai-Mo Suen (CEO, ClusterTech Ltd.; Professor, Washington U; Honorary Professor, CUHK) and Dr. Siu-Wai Yiu (Head, Advanced Computational Technology Team, ClusterTech Ltd.)

Date	13 Mar 2018 (Tue)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Quantization of Poisson CGL Extensions
Speaker	Mr. Yipeng Mi (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	12 Mar 2018 (Mon)
Title	Number Theory Seminar - On the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for modular forms of half-integral weight
Speaker	Professor Winfried Kohnen (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

Date	12 Mar 2018 (Mon)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - On the Knutson-Woo-Yong Maps and some Poisson Homogeneous Spaces
Speaker	Mr. Shizhuo Yu (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	08 Mar 2018 (Thu)
Title	Colloquium - Convergence of numerical solutions for stochastic partial integro-differential equations subject to space-time white noise
Speaker	Dr. Jilu Wang (Florida State U, USA )

Date	08 Mar 2018 (Thu)
Title	Colloquium - Fast Low Rank Reconstruction via Nonconvex Optimization: Algorithms, Theory and Applications
Speaker	Dr. Ke Wei (School of Data Science, Fudan U, Shanghai )

Date	07 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - Some new optimization theory for convergence analysis of fast first-order algorithms
Speaker	Dr. Jin Zhang (HKBU)

Date	07 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - Fundamental Group — the Intertwine of Arithmetic and Geometry
Speaker	Dr. Lei Zhang (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Date	06 Mar 2018 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - Thin groups and related topics
Speaker	Dr. Xin Zhang (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Date	06 Mar 2018 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - Automorphic forms and Voronoi formulas
Speaker	Dr. Fan Zhou (U of Maine, Orono, USA)

Date	05 Mar 2018 (Mon)
Title	Colloquium - The number of quartic D₄-fields with monogenic cubic resolvent ordered by conductor
Speaker	Dr. Sin Yi Tsang (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua U, Beijing)

Date	02 Mar 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at HKU)
Speaker	Professor Tze Leung Lai (Stanford U) & Dr. Chung Yin Amy Pang (HKBU)

Date	01 Mar 2018 (Thu)
Title	Colloquium - On the Capacity of 2-Dimensional Channels
Speaker	Dr. Yonglong Li (U of California, San Diego)

Date	28 Feb 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Mathematical theory of wave scattering by subwavelength resonators and applications
Speaker	Dr. Hai Zhang (HKUST)

Date	20 Feb 2018 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - An Introduction to Blockchain and Some Related Research Topics in Cryptography
Speaker	Professor Haibin Kan (Fudan U)

Date	14 Feb 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - Mathematical aspect of the combinatorial game "Mahjong"
Speaker	Professor Chi-Kwong Li (Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary)

Date	10 Feb 2018 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKUST)
Speaker	Professor Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton U & IAS of HKUST) & Professor Masaaki Yoshida (Kyushu U, Japan)

Date	08 Feb 2018 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Shifted Poisson geometry of Moduli spaces
Speaker	Dr. Zheng Hua (HKU)

Date	07 Feb 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - An Extension of the Bianchi-Egnell Stability Estimate to Bakry, Gentil, and Ledoux’s Generalization of the Sobolev Inequality to Continuous Dimensions and an Application
Speaker	Dr. Francis Seuffert (U of Pennsylvania)

Date	07 Feb 2018 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - Heights and L-functions
Speaker	Professor Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton U & IAS of HKUST)

Date	06 Feb 2018 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Cohomology of quiver varieties and other moduli spaces
Speaker	Professor Tom Nevins (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Date	05 Feb 2018 (Mon)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Applications of an annulus covering theorem in complex dynamics
Speaker	Professor Jianhua Zheng (Tsinghua U)

Date	02 Feb 2018 (Fri)
Title	Workshop on Computational Science and Optimization on February 2, 2018

Date	01 Feb 2018 (Thu)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Standard Poisson Structures on Bott-Samelson Varieties: Degenerations and Frobenius Splittings
Speaker	Mr. Jun Peng (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, HKU)

Date	31 Jan 2018 (Wed)
Title	Analysis Seminar - A survey on decoupling inequalities
Speaker	Dr. Po Lam Yung (CUHK)

Date	29 Jan 2018 (Mon)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Cohomology in the Batalin-Vilkovisky approach to field theories
Speaker	Professor Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U)

Date	26 Jan 2018 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Probability Seminar (at CityU)
Speaker	Dr. Xiao Fang (CUHK) & Professor Jianfeng Yao (HKU)

Date	16 Jan 2018 (Tue)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Beyond Classical Portfolio Selection
Speaker	Professor Sheung Chi Phillip Yam (CUHK)

Date	09 Jan 2018 (Tue)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Regularity and decay properties of the Navier-Stokes equations [CANCELLED]
Speaker	Dr. Hantaek Bae (UNIST, Korea)

Date	08 Jan 2018 (Mon)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Foliations in abelian schemes
Speaker	Dr. Ziyang Gao (CNRS (IMJ), France & Princeton U)

Date	08 Jan 2018 (Mon)
Title	Analysis Seminar - Finite-time blow-up of the n-harmonic map flow
Speaker	Mr. Leslie Cheung (U of Queensland, Australia)