Mathematics Seminars for the week of November 2, 1998
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16
Professor Lee Segel of Chaim Weizmann Institute will speak on
"Singular perturbation modeling of how ion interchange speeds neurotransmitter release."
Monday
Algebraic Shifting Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Vic Reiner
will speak on "Basic properties of algebraic shifting."
Applied Math Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Richard D. James
from Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
will speak on "A constrained theory of magnetostriction and its role in the search for new magnetostrictive materials."
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 206
Ms. Irina Mitrea
will speak on "Spectral radius properties for layer potentials associated with the elastostatics and hydrostatic equations in nonsmooth domains."
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120
Tuesday
Topology:
at 10:10 in Murphy Hall 230
... Will not meet this week.
IMA Postdoc:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
... In lieu of the IMA Postdoc Seminar, Patrick Nelson will speak at the Tutorial: "Mathematical Modeling of AIDS" on Friday November 6 at 11:30 in Lind Hall 409.
Wednesday
ATaC:
at 9:05 a.m. in Ford Hall 60
Samuel Peterson
will speak on "Minimal and maximal triangulations of degenerate polytopes."
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
Dr. Maria Perel
from St. Petersburg University, Russia
will speak on "Gaussian light bullets."
Thursday
IMA Mathematical Biology:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Dr. John Mittler
from Los Alamos National Laboratory
will speak on "Predator-Prey Dynamics of Bacterial Viruses: Mathematical Models and Experimental Tests."
Joint Mathematics and Physiology:
at 12:00 in Millard Hall 5-276
Professor Philip Maini
from University of Oxford
will speak on "Some mathematical models in wound healing."
Friday
Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 a.m. in VinH 570.
... Will not meet this week.
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 2:30 in VinH 364.
Professor Dihua Jiang
will speak on "The Siegel-Weil Formula: generalizations and applications."
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 213.
Mr. Nathan Reading
will speak on "Nim-regularity of graphs."
Geometric Analysis:
at 3:35 in VinH 211
Professor Conan Leung
will speak on "Some mathematical aspects of string theory."
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Maury Bramson
will speak on "A spatial model for the abundance of species."
