

Mathematics Seminars for the week of March 6, 2000
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Peter Shalen
of University of Illinois, Chicago
will speak on
"Boundary slopes of knots"
Monday
Euler Systems and Cohomology:
at 2:30 in VinH 311
-
Dr Soogil Seo
will speak on "Introduction to Iwasawa theory - continued"
Schubert Variety Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 113
-
Mr. J-H. Lee
will speak on "Combinatorial Geometries and Schubert Cells - a continuation"
Topology:
at 3:35 in VinH 203a
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Professor Donald Kahn
will speak on "Monads, comonads, and lannes' t-technology - a continuation"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 570
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Professor N. Krylov
will speak on "$L_q(L_p)$ spaces and parabolic operators"
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
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... 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
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Dr. Henning Struchtrup
from IMA
will speak on "Surface tension in a reactive binary mixture of incompressible fluids"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences:
at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
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... Will not meet this week
Number Theory:
at 1:25 in VinH 209
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... Will not meet this week
Geometrica Eclectica:
at 1:25 in VinH 203b
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Professor Conan Leung
will speak on "Kahler metric with constant scalar curvature"
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Russell Johnson
from Universita di Firenze, Italy
will speak on "On incompressible fluid flow in thin 3D domains"
ATaC:
at 3:35 in VinH 213
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Xun Dong
will speak on "Spheres with few vertices"
Combinatorics Problem Session:
at 3:35 in VinH 313
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... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
Wednesday
Natural Resources and Environment:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 400
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Professor Hans van Duijn
from Centre for Math and Computer Sci
will speak on "Transitional shock waves in oil recovery by steamdrive"
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
PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 211
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Professor Jon Jacobsen
from Penn State University
will speak on "Critical exponents for the k-Hession equation"
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:35 in VinH 301
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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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Mr. Perry Leo
will speak on "The energy of semicoherent interfaces"
Geometric Analysis:
at 1:25 in VinH 203b
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Professor Peter Shalen
from University of Illinois - Chicago
will speak on "Patterson-Sullivan measures and the quantitative geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
Multimedia Seminar:
at 1:25 in Lind Hall 409
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... Will not meet this week
Friday
Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
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Dr. F. Javier Thayer
from Mitre Corporation
will speak on "Modeling security protocols"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Spectral decompositions"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Mourad Ismail
from University of South Florida
will speak on "Discriminants of orthogonal polynomials"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor William Sudderth
from Department of Statistics
will speak on "How to bid for a pizza II: A simple nonzero sum stochastic game"
\noindent Professor Stefan Mueller, Max-Planck Institute for Math in the Sciences will be visiting the Mathematics Department February 29-March 31, 2000. His visit is sponsored through the Ordway Endowment. Professor Mueller's office will be Vincent Hall 324; you can reach him by phone at 625- 0072.
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