University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 25, 2000


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Jiaping Wang
will speak on
"Polynomial growth harmonic functions on manifolds"

Monday

Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Professor Professor Sanjeev Khudanpur from Johns Hopkins University will speak on "Information theoretic methods in probability and statistics"
Cohomology of Groups: at 2:30 in VinH 364
Professor Peter Webb will speak on "Shellable complexes and the bar resolution"
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.
Seminar on Stacks: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
Professor W. Messing will speak on "Grothendieck topologies, Sheaves and Stacks"
Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in AmundsonH 104
... Will not meet this week.
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 1:25 in LindH 216
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
Number Theory: at 3:30 in VinH 313
... Will not meet this week.
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
Kuo-chang Chen will speak on "Variational methods on periodic solutions for the N-body problem. II "
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
Mr. Gabriel Soto will speak on "Got calcium?"

Wednesday

Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Professor Sanjeev Khudanpur from Johns Hopkins University will speak on "Informaiton theoretic methods in probability and statistics (continued)"
Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
Mr. Nathan Wodarz will speak on "Will continue on Chalchowski's work"
PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 209
Professor Linghai Zhang will speak on "Evans functions and asymptotic stability of traveling wave solutions of biological systems of integral differential equations"

Thursday

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Jay Gopalakrishnan from IMA will speak on "Efficient iterative techniques for time harmonic Maxwell equations"
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
Dr. John Rinzel from Center for Neural Science and Courant I will speak on "Rhythms and waves in a sleeping thalamic slice model"
Geometric Analysis: at 1:25 in FordH 155
... No information by time of publication

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. Datta Godbole from Honeywell Technology will speak on "Title: to be announced"
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"
ATaC Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 6
... Will meet on Tuesday this week
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Sergei Bezrukov from University of Wisconsin, Superior will speak on "Some new results on Macaulay posets"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Naresh Jain will speak on "Nondegeneracy in a central limit theorem for stationary processes"

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.


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