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."