Monday

Math Physics: at 2:30 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week.

Special Lecture: at 2:30 in VinH 570

Professor Nikolai Nadirashvili, from M.I.T., will speak on "Bounded and minimal immersions of surfaces."

Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:15 in VinH 6

Professor Jim Colliander, from University of Chicago, will speak on "Vortex dynamics for the Ginzburg-Landau-Schrodinger equation."

Tea:

... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120

Tuesday

Ordway Visitor Lectures: at 11:15 in VinH 2

Professor V.S. Varadarajan, from UCLA, Los Angeles, will speak on "Representation of Lie groups and their applications."

IMA Postdoc: at 2:30 in VinH 570

Professor Donald French, from University of Cincinnati, will speak on "A Posteriori error estimates for adaptive finite element approximations of the obstacle problem."

Special PDE Lecture: at 4:15 in VinH 570

Professor Songmu Zheng, from Fudan University, will speak on "Large-time behavior of solutions of a system of nonlinear PDEs arising in phase transition of shape-memory alloys."

Wednesday

ATaC: at 10:10 in MurH 130

... To be announced.

Evolutionary Equations: at 2:30 in VinH 570

Professor Ciprian Foias, from Indiana University, will speak on "The normal form of the Navier-Stokes equations and its applications and potential connections."

PDE : at 3:35 in Vincent Hall 213

Professor Hiroshi Matano, from University of Tokyo, Japan, will speak on "Order-preserving systems in the presence of symmetry."

Topology: at 3:40 in VinH 206

Professor Larry Smith, will speak on "A crash course in invariant theory."

Thursday

Dynamics and Mechanics: at 10:10 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week.

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week.

Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 2:30 in VinH 364

Professor Paul Garrett, will speak on "Classifying smooth representations."

Combinatorics: at 2:30 in VinH 6

Professor Jesus DeLoera, will speak on "Counterexamples to the Itenberg-Roy conjecture."

Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor Tim Zajic, will speak on "Rough asymptotics and law of the iterated logarithm for empirical processes."

Geometric Analysis: at 3:35 in VinH 211

Professor Gang Tian, from M.I.T., will speak on "Yang-Mills equation and minimal submanifolds, I."

Symmetry: at 3:35 in VinH 206

Dr. Radha Kessar, will speak on "Cellular algebras."

Logic: at 4:40 in VinH 206

... Will not meet this week.

ORDWAY VISITORS: Ciprian Foias (Indiana University) - 3/29-5/2 - VinH 507 - 624-5878, Jurgen Moser (ETH, Zurich) - 4/1-4/30 - VinH 508 -624-4564, Larry Smith (Gottingen University) - 3/19-midJune - VinH 226 -625-2352, Gang Tian (M.I.T.) - 4/5-5/5 - VinH 239 - 625-9365, V.S. Varadarajan (U.C.L.A.) - 3/30-4/30 - VinH 251 - 625-4065. Also, Dr. Liliana Forzani from INTEC, Sante Fe, Argentina, will be visiting the Mathematics Dept. April 2-17, 1998. Her visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. Dr. Forzani's office during her stay here will be Vincent Hall 233; you can reach her at 625-0582.