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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of November 16, 1998


Colloquium

Will not meet this week

Monday

Algebraic Shifting Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Mr. Xun Dong will speak on "Algebraic shifting preserves Cohen-Macaulayness."
Group Theory: at 3:35 in MurH 130
Professor Gerhard Michler from University of Essen will speak on "A new existence proof of Janko's simple group."
Applied Math Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Elemer Rosinger from Pretoria, S.A. will speak on "Global parametric Lie group actions, noninvertible Lie semigroup actions, nonlinear PDEs, and Hilbert's fifth problem."
Logic: at 4:15 in VinH 209
Professor Zika Perovic will speak on "Uniquely complemented lattices."
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Professor Pekka Koskela from University of Jyv\"askyl\"a will speak on "Sobolev spaces in the metric setting."
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120

Tuesday

Topology: at 10:10 in Murphy Hall 230
Professor Mark Feshbach will speak on "Title to be announced."
Special Lecture: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Lee Segel from Weizmann Institute will speak on "Modeling weed resistance to herbicide."
IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week.

Wednesday

ATaC: at 9:05 a.m. in Ford Hall 60
Mr. Luis Roman will speak on "Runge-Kutta type schemes for stochastic differential equations."
Group Representation Theory: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Peter Webb will speak on "Group actions on some CW-complexes."
PDE : at 3:35 in VinH 206
... Will not meet this week.

Thursday

Special Lecture: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Lee Segel from Weizmann Institute will speak on "Autometamorphic forms: a personal chronicle of shifting problem choice."

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 a.m. in VinH 570.
Dr. Vinay Vaishampayan from AT&T Labs-Research will speak on "Multiple description data compression and lattice labeling."
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 2:30 in VinH 364.
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Irreducibility of degenerate principal series."
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 213.
Mr. Xun Dong will speak on "The discrete Laplacian of matching complexes."
Geometric Analysis: at 3:35 in VinH 211
Professor Zhou Jian from Texas A&M University will speak on "Title to be announced."
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
... Will not meet this week.
Complex Analysis: at 4:30 in VinH 313
Professor Vladimir Markovic from The University of Belgrade will speak on "Harmonic mappings and their connection with quasiconformal mappings. This will be a continuation of last weeks lecture."

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