

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 26, 1998
Colloquium
Will not meet this week
Monday
Algebraic Shifting Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Vic Reiner
will speak on "Basic properties of algebraic shifting."
Applied Math Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Professor David Sattinger
will speak on "Soliton collisions in the ion acoustic plasma equations."
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]:
at 4:15 in VinH 206
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Professor Nicholas Coult
from Research Associate at the IMA
will speak on "Wavelet-based homogenization of PDE's and eigenvalue problems."
Tea:
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... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120
Tuesday
Topology:
at 10:10 in Murphy Hall 230
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Professor A. Dold
from Heidelberg
will speak on "Desuspending $T$ of a suspension, for symmetric powers and other functors $T$."
IMA Postdoc:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Professor Blaise Morton
will speak on "Mathematical challenges in the pricing of financial derivatives."
Wednesday
ATaC:
at 9:05 a.m. in Ford Hall 60
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Samuel Peterson
will speak on "Minimal and maximal triangulations of degenerate polytopes."
Group Representation Theory:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Markus Linckelmann
will speak on "Will continue his talk."
PDE :
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Mikhail Safonov
will speak on "Harnack inequalities: Some old and new applications."
Thursday
Joint Mathematics and Physiology:
at 12:00 in VinH 570
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Professor James Keener
from University of Utah
will speak on "Dynamics of defibrillation."
Friday
Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 a.m. in VinH 570.
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Professor Eric Voth
from Endocardial Solutions, Inc.
will speak on "Mathematical applications in cardiac electrophysiology."
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 2:30 in VinH 364.
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Professor Dihua Jiang
will speak on "The Siegel-Weil Formula: generalizations and applications."
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 213.
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Professor David Bressoud
from Macalester College
will speak on "Elementary proofs of identities for Schur functions and plane partitions."
Geometric Analysis:
at 3:35 in VinH 211
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Professor Peng Lu
will speak on "Mirror symmetry on Calabi-Yau manifolds with bundle."
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Bert Fristedt
will speak on "The height profile of a conditional Galton-Watson tree, a paper by G. Kersting."
Complex Analysis:
at 4:30 in VinH 2
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Professor Vladimir Markovic,
from The University of Belgrade
will speak on "Harmonic mappings and their connection with quasiconformal mappings. Please note room change."
Logic:
at 4:40 in VinH 207
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... Will not meet this week.
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