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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of November 29, 1999 - Version III


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
... Will not meet this week
Topology: at 3:35 in VinH 203a
... Will not meet this week
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
... 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
Professor Tonghai Yang from Harvard University will speak on "Taylor expansion of Eisenstein series"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:35 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in Smith Hall 111
Mr. Sam Peterson will speak on "Geological implications of combinatorial geometry"

Wednesday

IMA Postdoc Lunch Seminar: at 12:30 in LindH 401
... 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
... Will not meet this week
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 206
... Will not meet this week.

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
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
Professor Richard Thomas from Harvard University will speak on "Mirror symmetry, braid groups and singularities"

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
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
Professor Vladimir Markovic will speak on "Quasiconformal mappings - a continuation"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
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
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
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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