Welcome back!  And I hope everyone had a relaxing/peaceful/festive/productive holiday break.

I want to give everyone a quick preview of the Analysis and Probability seminar this semester and ask for volunteers to speak in February (but more on that later).  First off, Joe Chen and I are taking over organizer duties from Iddo, who is currently enjoying a much deserved sabbatical (ski vacation).  We will not have a talk the first or last week of classes or during spring break.  Here is the schedule so far (talks are still on Fridays):

     January 30
     February 6
    February 13
    February 20
    February 27
         March 6 - Sabine Jansen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
       March 13 - David Bate (University of Chicago)
       March 27 - Malik Younsi (Stony Brook University)
           April 3
          April 10
          April 17 - Tess Anderson (Brown University)
          April 24

   Unscheduled - Samuel Wilson (MIT) - sometime in April

As you can see, we have several open slots, especially earlier in the semester.  If anyone local would like to give a talk and can volunteer for a date in January or February, please let me know.  If you have suggestions for speakers, we would also like to hear them.

Finally, I would like to tentatively propose that we move the seminar starting time back to 3:00 pm from 3:30 pm.  Let me know if you have a conflict.

All the best,

Matthew

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Dr. Matthew Badger, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut

www.math.uconn.edu/~badger/