University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of February 22, 1999


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Michael Vogelius
of Rutgers University
will speak on
"A study of the behaviour of the stresses in reinforced composites with closely spaces fibers."

Monday

MCIM Vertical Integration/Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 570
Professor Fadil Santosa from MCIM will speak on "Looking for corrosion damage in airplanes."
Applied Math Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Lev Truskinovsky from Aerospace Engineering will speak on "Mechanical behavior of discrete systems with bi-stable elements."
Logic: at 4:15 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week.
Real Analysis (joint with PDE) [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Professor Stefan M\"uller from Max Planck Institute, Leipzig will speak on "Elliptic systems that admit nowhere smooth solutions."
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room, Vincent 120

Tuesday

Topology: at 10:10 in Murphy Hall 230
Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "Quantum groups, Hopf algebras and knots - a continuation."
IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Dr. Bruce Ayati from IMA will speak on "A talk on numerical analysis and population dynamics."
Number Theory: at 1:25 in Vincent Hall 313
Professor William Messing will speak on "Torsion etale cohomology and semi-stable reduction - a continuation."

Wednesday

Group Representation Theory: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Radha Kessar will speak on "Will continue on Blocks of the finite classical groups."
Complex Analysis: at 3:35 in VinH 209
Professor V. Markovic will speak on "Professor Markovic will continue speaking about the interior of the Mandelbrot set."
PDE : at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Hi Jun Choe from Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology will speak on "Existence of solutions to slightly compressible Navier- Stokes equations in exterior domains."

Thursday

IMA Mathematical Biology Seminar: at 11:00 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Shay Gueron from Technion will speak on "Steady-state group size distributions of coagulation- fragmentation processes and their applications to animal grouping."
Joint Mathematics and Physiology: at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
Professor Harold Layton from Duke University will speak on "The dynamic kidney."
Algebra - Geometry Seminar: at 1:25 in MurH 130
Professor Sean Keel from University of Texas, Austin will speak on "Basepoint freeness in positive characteristic, with applications to $M_q$ and Mori's program."

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 a.m. in Vincent Hall 570
... Will not meet this week.
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 2:30 in VinH 364.
Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Distinguished residual represntations and the relative trace formula - a continuation."
ATaC Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 206
Mr. Marty O'Hely will speak on "Coalescents"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207.
Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "Discrete Morse Theory"
Geometric Analysis: at 3:35 in VinH 211
... Will not meet this week.
Number Theory History: at 3:35 in VinH 20
Mr. Alex Frentz will speak on "History 2. Up to Euler."
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Nick Krylov will speak on "Approximating value functions for controlled degenerate diffusion processes by using piece-wise constant policies."
Number Theory History: at 4:40 in MurH 130
Mr. Alex Frentz will speak on "Math TA and Tutoring Work; Discussion."

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