University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 30, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor G. Todorova
will speak on
"Strong instability for higher modes"

Monday

Cohomology of Groups: at 2:30 in VinH 364
Professor Peter Webb will speak on "The Cohen-Macaulay property and essential elements in group cohomology"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Professor James Olsen from North Dakota State University will speak on "Besicovitch functions, return times sequences, their connections and application to convergence of pointwise ergodic averages along sequences of density zero"
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
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
... Will not meet this week
Seminar on Stacks: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
Professor W. Messing will speak on "Algebraic stacks"
Multimedia Data Analysis: at 1:25 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
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
... Will not meet this week
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6

Wednesday

Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
... Will not meet this week
Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 203b
... Will not meet this week
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 209
Professor Dariush Ehsani from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor will speak on "Singularities in the $\bar\partial$-Neumann problem on corner domains"

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor David Nichols will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 11:15 in VinH 207
Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine will speak on "Introduction to quantum cohomology I"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in FordH 155
... Will not meet this week

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
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 Vic Reiner from will speak on "Will be continued"
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
Jun Seok Kim will speak on "Lattice Boltzmann method with Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional for spinodal decomposition simulation - new numerical method for computational fluid dynamics"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Dennis White will speak on "A symmetric function identity of Shimozono"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Stephen Tanner will speak on "Long term behavior of a Brownian flow with jumps"

Professor Neil Trudinger from the Austrialian National University, Canberra will be visiting the Mathematics Department for one month beginning October 5, 2000. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Professor Trudinger's office will be Vincent Hall 227; you can reach him by phone at 625-6522. \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. \vskip .2cm Professor James Olsen, North Dakota State University, will be visiting the Mathematics Department October 29-November 4, 2000. His visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. During his visit, Professor Olsen's office will be Vincent Hall 302; you can reach him by phone at 625-9817. \vskip .3cm The IMA will be holding a workshop on ``Mathematical Foundations of Natural Language Modeling'' Monday, October 30-Friday, November 3, 2000. All talks will be in EE/CSci 3-180, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m3.html for the schedule and other details.


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