University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 2, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
Professor Daniel Kersten from Psychology Dept. will speak on "Modeling human vision"
Cohomology of Groups: at 2:30 in VinH 364
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
Professor Max Jodeit will speak on "Work by Steve Hofmann and A. Mcintosh on Kato's problem: solved in two dimensions - a continuation"
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
Jiangliang Qian from IMA will speak on "Computing Eikonals and amplitudes for geometrical optics"
Seminar on Stacks: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
Professor W. Messing will speak on "Sheaves, stacks and the associated stack construction"
Multimedia Data Analysis: at 12:00 in SmithH 121
Professor Jackie Shen will speak on "Texture Metrics"
Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in AmundsonH 104
... Will not meet this week.
Number Theory: at 3:30 in VinH 313
... Will not meet this week.
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
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
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
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
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
Professor Peter Webb from will speak on "Weyl groups - continued"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "The definition of an automorphic form - a continuation"
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
Mr. Cristian Rios will speak on "The theory of weights and harmonic measure"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Jennifer Galovich from St. John's University will speak on "Mahonian statistics and pattern functions"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
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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