University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of March 6, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
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
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
... 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. 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
... 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 Conan Leung will speak on "Kahler metric with constant scalar curvature"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
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
Xun Dong will speak on "Spheres with few vertices"
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 3:35 in VinH 313
... 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
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
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
... Will not meet this week

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Mr. Perry Leo will speak on "The energy of semicoherent interfaces"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 203b
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
... Will not meet this week

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. F. Javier Thayer from Mitre Corporation will speak on "Modeling security protocols"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Spectral decompositions"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Mourad Ismail from University of South Florida will speak on "Discriminants of orthogonal polynomials"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
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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