

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 2, 2000
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Gennady Kasparov
of University of Marseille, France
will speak on
"Recent Progress on the Novikov Conjecture"
Monday
Multimedia Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Professor Daniel Kersten
from Psychology Dept.
will speak on "Modeling human vision"
Cohomology of Groups:
at 2:30 in VinH 364
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Professor Peter Webb
will speak on "Shellable complexes and the bar resolution - a continuation"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Max Jodeit
will speak on "Work by Steve Hofmann and A. Mcintosh on Kato's problem: solved in two dimensions - a continuation"
Tea:
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... 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
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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.
Combinatorics Problem Session:
at 11:00 in VinH 203A
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... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
-
Jiangliang Qian
from IMA
will speak on "Computing Eikonals and amplitudes for geometrical optics"
Seminar on Stacks:
at 11:15 in VinH 203B
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Professor W. Messing
will speak on "Sheaves, stacks and the associated stack construction"
Multimedia Data Analysis:
at 12:00 in SmithH 121
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Professor Jackie Shen
will speak on "Texture Metrics"
Geometrica Eclectica:
at 1:25 in AmundsonH 104
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... Will not meet this week.
Number Theory:
at 3:30 in VinH 313
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... Will not meet this week.
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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Professor J. Hulshof
from Free University of Amsterdam
will speak on "Traveling waves for 4th order bistable reaction-diffusion equations "
ATaC Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 6
-
... Will meet on Friday this week
Wednesday
Multimedia Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
-
Professor Daniel Kersten
from Psychology Dept.
will speak on "Modeling human vision"
Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 20
-
Professor Gennady Kasparov
from University of Marseille, France
PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 209
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Professor Joost Hulshof
from Free University of Amsterdam
will speak on "Similarity solutions of nonlinear diffusion equations"
Thursday
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
-
Professor Steve Baer
from Arizona State University
will speak on "Reaction-diffusion models of dendrites with activity-dependent spine densities and synapses"
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:
at 11:15 in VinH 207
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Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
will speak on "Derived moduli spaces - a continuation"
McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences:
at 12:00 in EE/CS 3-180
-
... Will not meet this week
Geometric Analysis:
at 1:25 in FordH 155
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Professor Jingyl Chen
from University of British Columbia
will speak on "Quaternionic maps between hyperkahler manifolds"
Friday
Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
-
Professor David Goldberg
from Xerox PARC
will speak on "The media of the last millenium"
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras:
at 2:30 in VinH 364
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Professor Peter Webb
from
will speak on "Weyl groups - continued"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "The definition of an automorphic form - a continuation"
ATaC Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 6
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Mr. Cristian Rios
will speak on "The theory of weights and harmonic measure"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Jennifer Galovich
from St. John's University
will speak on "Mahonian statistics and pattern functions"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Larry Gray
will speak on "A simplified version of Gacs's counterexample to the positive rates conjecture"
Professor Joost Hulshof from the Free University Amsterdam will be visiting the School of Mathematics September 23-October 7, 2000. His visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. Professor Hulshof's office will be Vincent Hall 233; you can reach him by phone at 625-0582. \vskip .2cm Professor Victor Pliss from St. Petersburg St. University, Russia will be visiting the Mathematics Dept. October 2-November 3, 2000. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. Professor Pliss' office will be Vincent Hall 233; you can reach him by phone at 625-0582.
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