University of Minnesota
Mathematics

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
Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "Basic properties of algebraic shifting."
Applied Math Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
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
Professor Nicholas Coult from Research Associate at the IMA will speak on "Wavelet-based homogenization of PDE's and eigenvalue problems."
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120

Tuesday

Topology: at 10:10 in Murphy Hall 230
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
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
Samuel Peterson will speak on "Minimal and maximal triangulations of degenerate polytopes."
Group Representation Theory: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Markus Linckelmann will speak on "Will continue his talk."
PDE : at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Mikhail Safonov will speak on "Harnack inequalities: Some old and new applications."

Thursday

Joint Mathematics and Physiology: at 12:00 in VinH 570
Professor James Keener from University of Utah will speak on "Dynamics of defibrillation."

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 a.m. in VinH 570.
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.
Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "The Siegel-Weil Formula: generalizations and applications."
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 213.
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
Professor Peng Lu will speak on "Mirror symmetry on Calabi-Yau manifolds with bundle."
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
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
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
... Will not meet this week.

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