University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of November 27, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Wojtek Chacholski
of Yale University
will speak on
"Localization Process in Homotopy Theory"

Monday

Special Lecture: at 11:15 in VinH 570
*Professor Jie Shen from Penn State will speak on "Some New Developments on Projection Methods for Incompressible Flows"
Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
... Will not meet this week
Cohomology of Groups: at 2:30 in VinH 364
Professor Mark Feshbach will speak on "The Evens norm map - a continuation"
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 9:00-11:00 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.
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 11:00 in VinH 203A
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Peter Olver will speak on "Symmetry methods for differential equations"
Seminar on Stacks: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
Professor I. Ciocan-Fontanine will speak on "The moduli stack of curves"
Multimedia Data Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 570
Dr. Mimi Boutin will speak on "Geometry in Vision Analysis"
Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in AmundsonH 104
Number Theory: at 3:30 in VinH 313
... Will not meet this week.
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
... Will meet on Friday this week

Wednesday

Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 203b
... Will not meet this week
Special Lecture: at 2:30 in VinH 16
Professor M. Katsoulakis from University of Massachusetts will speak on "Mesoscopic modeling of surface processes"
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 209
Professor Grazdena Todorova will speak on "Global existence of small amplitude solutions to a class of nonlinear evalution equations"

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Nathan Kutz from University of Washington will speak on "Stability of periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with elliptic function potential"
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 11:15 in VinH 207
Professor Sandra Di Rocco from Royal Instittue of Technology, Stockholm and Yale University will speak on "Generation of jets on toric varieties and duality"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in FordH 155
... Will not meet this week

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Kevin Kern from Avanti Corporation will speak on "Circuit modeling"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences: at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
... Will not meet this week
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras: at 2:30 in VinH 364
Professor Victor Reiner from will speak on "Affine Lie algebras"
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
Paul T. Macklin will speak on "Modeling optical fibers and fiber bragg gratings, a.k.a., Applied Orthogonality"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Victor Reiner will speak on "Title: To be announced"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein Series - a continuation"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Henri Schurz will speak on "Stability and contractivity of some Runge-Kutta Methods for (ordinary) stochastic differential equations"

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