

Mathematics Seminars for the week of November 29, 1999 - Version III
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor John Dold
of UMIST
will speak on
"Non-monotonic curvature dependent propagation of flames and other interfaces"
Monday
Euler Systems and Cohomology:
at 11:15 in VinH 203b
-
Dr. Soogil Seo
will speak on "Introduction to Iwasawa theory II"
Multimedia Seminar:
at 2:30 in Lind Hall 409
-
Professor Nicolas Coult
from IMA
will speak on "Discontinuous multiwavelents and their use in fast numerical algorithms and image processing."
MCIM Vertical Integration Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Topology:
at 3:35 in VinH 203a
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... Will not meet this week
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week.
Tea:
-
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room - 120 Vincent Hall
Tuesday
IMA Postdoc:
at 11:00 in VinH 570
-
Professor Michael Booty
from New Jersey Institute of Technology
will speak on "Title: To be announced"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences:
at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
-
Dr. David Fell
from School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
will speak on "Functional analysis of metabolic networks using elementary modes"
Number Theory:
at 2:30 in Lind Hall 320
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Professor Tonghai Yang
from Harvard University
will speak on "Taylor expansion of Eisenstein series"
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
ATaC Seminar:
at 3:35 in Smith Hall 111
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Mr. Sam Peterson
will speak on "Geological implications of combinatorial geometry"
Wednesday
IMA Postdoc Lunch Seminar:
at 12:30 in LindH 401
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... An informal seminar run by and for the IMA postdocs for the discussion of current research problems. Each week somebody will give a brief presentation of their work, which will then be discussed by the group
Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:25 in VinH 213
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... Will not meet this week
PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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... Will not meet this week.
Thursday
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Professor Bruce Ayati
from IMA
will speak on "Galerkin methods for PDE models of age and space structured populations"
IMA Industrial Postdoc Seminar:
at 1:00 in VinH 570
-
... Progress reports by industrial postdocs on their projects followed by discussion among participants. The seminar is directed by Fadil Santosa. Those who wish to attend are asked to contact Professor Santosa.
Geometric Analysis:
at 1:25 in VinH 213
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Professor Richard Thomas
from Harvard University
will speak on "Mirror symmetry, braid groups and singularities"
Friday
Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
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Professor Vladimir Dreskin
from Schlumberger-Doll Research
will speak on "Gaussian spectral rules for second order finite-difference schemes"
Complex Analysis:
at 1:25 in VinH 213
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Professor Vladimir Markovic
will speak on "Quasiconformal mappings - a continuation"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Chris Jantzen
from Ohio State University
will speak on "Discrete series representations of p-adic classical groups"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 213
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Professor Momar Dieng
from Macalester College
will speak on "Characters of the Rook Monoid and the Iwahori-Solomon algebra"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Yuji Hamana
from Kyusha University & Cornell University
will speak on "Title: To be announced"
The Ordway Endowment and the Visitors Progam are sponsoring the following individuals: Professor Lawrence Breen (Ordway - for Fall Semester) Institute Galilee, Univ. of Paris 13. Vincent Hall 452; phone: 625-1560. Professor William Symes (Ordway - one month beginning Nov. 15) from Rice University. Vincent Hall 534; phone: 624-5541. Professor Markus Linckelmann (Visitors Program - Nov.21-Dec. 1) Universite Paris 7. Vincent Hall 220; phone: 625-4557.
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