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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 4, 1999 - 2nd Revised Version


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Naichung Conan Leung
will speak on
"Rational curves in geometry and string theory"

Monday

Combustion Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Dr. Howard R. Baum from NIST will speak on "Fire Plume Modeling"
Euler Systems and Cohomology: at 11:15 in VinH 203b
Dr. Soogil Seo will speak on "Euler systems and Coleman's conjecture, II"
Multimedia Seminar: at 2:30 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Stanley Osher from Mathematics Dept., UCLA will speak on "Fast algorithms for etching, image restoration and surface interpolation"
MCIM Vertical Integration Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Mr. Grant Erdmann will speak on "Invariant measures of stochastic processes: implications for vector optimization"
Joint Probability and Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Professor Rafail Khasminskii from Wayne State University will speak on "Asymptotic problems in statistical estimation"
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room - 120 Vincent Hall

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Dr. Howard R. Baum from NIST will speak on "Fire Plume Modeling (continued)"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences: at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
... Will not meet this week.
Number Theory: at 2:30 in Lind Hall 320
... Will not meet this week.
Dynamical Systems: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Henri Schurz will speak on "Characteristic exponents of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems"
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in Smith Hall 111
Ms. Irina Mitrea will speak on "TBA"

Wednesday

Combustion Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Dr. Howard R. Baum from NIST will speak on "Fire Plume Modeling (continued)"
Algebraic Geometry: at 3:25 in VinH 213
Mr. Alejandro Lopez will speak on "Non-commutative Noetherian rings: a continuation."
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Dr. Nilima Nigam from IMA will speak on "Variational methods for a class of problems exterior to a thin domain"

Thursday

Topology: at 11:15 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week.
IMA Industrial Postdoc: at 1:00-3:00 in VinH 570
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 213
Professor Ben Chow will speak on "Survey of Hamilton's work on singularity formation for the Ricci flow in dimension 3, part II"
Special Ordway Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 203b
Professor L. Breen from Institut Gallilee, Universite de Paris XIII will speak on "Group structures in categories - this is the first part of a series of lectures"

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in Vincent Hall 570
... Will not meet this week.
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Julee Kim from University of Michigan will speak on "Quadratic base change of $\theta_{10}$"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 213
Professor Mike Albertson from Smith College will speak on "Extending graph colorings"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Roger L. Jones from DePaul University will speak on "Variation inequalities in ergodic theory"

Professor Lawrence Breen, Institute Galilee, Univ. of Paris 13, will be visiting the Mathematics Department Fall Semester. His visit is partially sponsored through the Ordway Endowment. Professor Breen's office during his visit here will be Vincent 452; you can reach him by phone at 625- 1560. Professor Rafail Khasminskii from Wayne State University will be visiting the School of Mathematics September 25-October 9, 1999. His visit is sponsored through the Ordway Endowment. Professor Khasminskii's office during his visit here will be Vincent Hall 324; you can reach him by phone at 625-0072.


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