University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of May 1, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor John Stembridge
of University of Michigan
will speak on
"Minuscule Combinatorics"

Monday

Multiscal and Transition Regime Seminar Series: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
... Will not meet this week
Euler Systems and Cohomology: at 2:30 in VinH 311
Dr. Soogil Seo will speak on "Leopoldt's conjecture and the Poitou-Tate sequence III"
Schubert Variety Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 113
... Will not meet this week
Topology: at 3:35 in VinH 301
Professor Mark Feshbach will speak on "Continues on Kac-Moody algebras"
Joint PDE and Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Ms. Elisa Ferretti will speak on "Uniqueness in the Cauchy problem for parabolic equations"
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
... Will not meet this week
IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences: at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
Professor Darrin York from Dept. of Chemistry will speak on "Multi-scale quantum models for large biological systems"
Number Theory: at 1:25 in VinH 209
Professor W. Messing will speak on "Almost mathematics (according to Tate, Faltings, Gabber and Ramero)"
Special Geometric Analysis: at 2:30 in VinH 113
Professor Mu-Tao Wang from Stanford University will speak on "Calibrated geometry and mean curvature flow"
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 2:30 in VinH 311
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 213
Tamas Wiandt will speak on "Conley decomposition for closed relations"

Wednesday

Multiscal and Transition Regime Seminar Series: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
... Will not meet this week
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 David Levermore from University of Arizona will speak on "Stokes and acoustic limits for the Baltzmann equation"
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 301
... Will not meet this week

Thursday

Geometrica Eclectica: at 10:10 in Physics 143
... Will not meet this week
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Jay Gopalakrishnan will speak on "An introduction to multigrid methods"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 203b
Professor Richard Wentworth from Johns Hopkins University/UC, Irvine will speak on "Harmonic maps and mapping class groups"
Multimedia Seminar: at 1:25 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Patrick Van Fleet from University of St. Thomas will speak on "Positive scaling vectors on the interval"

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. John M. Ginder from Ford Motor Company will speak on "Magnetorheological fluids and elastomers"
MCIM Vertical Integration: at 10:10 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Special Lecture: at 2:30 in VinH 311
Professor Alejandro Adem from University of Wisconsin - Madison will speak on "Group cohomology and Galois groups"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Spectral theory on arithmetic quotients - a continuation"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Stefan Schmidt from MIT will speak on "Codes over Rings: Some constructions and combinatorics"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Claudia Neuhauser will speak on "Range-dependent succession"

Professor David Levermore from the University of Arizona, Tucson is currently visiting the School of Mathematics for the month of April. His visit is sponsored through the Ordway Endowment. Professor Levermore's office is Lind Hall 415; you can reach him by phone at 625-5352.


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