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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of January 31, 2000 - Changed Version


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Bjorn Sandsteder
of Ohio State University
will speak on
"Stability and instability of spiral waves"

Monday

Euler Systems and Cohomology: at 2:30 in VinH 311
Yi Ouyang will speak on "Introduction to Iwasawa theory IV - continued"
Schubert Variety Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week
Special Lecture: at 3:35 in VinH 2
Professor Harryson Tsai from University of California - Berkeley will speak on "Algorithms for algebraic analysis"
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 Industrial Postdoc Seminar: at 9:00 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.
IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Dr. Jean Roberts from INRIA-Rocquencourt will speak on "Domain decomposition for modeling some transmission problems arising in the calculation of flow in porous media"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences: at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
... Will not meet this week
Number Theory: at 1:25 in VinH 209
... Will not meet this week
Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in VinH 203b
Professor Scot Adams will speak on "Ricci flow on surfaces - a continuation"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 3:35 in VinH 313
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 213
... Will not meet this week

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
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 3:25 in VinH 301
... Will not meet this week
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 211
Professor Walter Littman will speak on "From strings to spagetti - from local to global uniqueness theorems"
Complex Analysis: at 3:35 in VinH 113
Professor Vlad Markovic will speak on "Uniquely extremal affine mappings and the integer lattice in the complex plane - a continuation"

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Julia Liakhova will speak on "A theory of megnetostrictive thin films with applications"
Special Lecture: at 11:15 in VinH 2
Professor Shlomo Gelaki from MSRI will speak on "New results on semisimple Hopf algebras"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 203b
... Will not meet this week
Multimedia Seminar: at 1:25 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Tryphon T. Georgiou will speak on "High resolution spectral analysis via analytic interpolation"

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. Peter Oswald from Bell Laboratories-Lucent will speak on "Nonlinear m-term approximation"
Special Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 209
Professor Guillermo Goldzstein from Caltech will speak on "Shape deforming phase transitions in solids"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Existence of discrete series representations"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Mr. Nathan Reading will speak on "A different proof that Bruhat intervals are spheres"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Richard Tweedie from Department of biostatistics will speak on "Drift conditions and invariant measures for Markov chains"

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