Monday

Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]: at 4:30 in VH 570

Professor Fedor Nazarov from Michigan State University will speak on "Kick stability of parabolic subgroups in SL(2,R). (How to catch the White Rabbit)"

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.

Special Lectures in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: at 1:25 in VinH 203B

Professor Nicholas Katz from Princeton University will speak on "Something $\ell$-adic, something about monodromy"

Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in S133 Kolthoff

... Will not meet this week

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Special Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 16

Professor Douglas Arnold from Pennsylvania State University will speak on "Colliding Black Holes and Gravity Waves: A New Computational Challenge"

Number Theory: at 3:30 in Ackerman 317

... Will not meet this week.

Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Wednesday

PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 211

Professor James Serrin will speak on "An elliptic problem with disappearing solution"

Thursday

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 10:10 in VinH 570

Professor Ionet Ciocan-Fontanine will speak on "Introduction to quantum cohomology III"

Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570

Professor Michael Shelley from Courant Institute will speak on "Flags in the wind - Why do they flap?"

Differential Geometry: at 1:25 in S133 Kolthoff

... Will not meet this week

Special Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 203b

Professor Nicholas Katz from Princeton University will speak on "Something $\ell$-adic, something about monodromy - continued"

Special Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 570

Dr. Mu-Tao Wang* from Stanford University will speak on "Mean curvature flow in higher codimension"

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570

Dr. John R. Hoffman from Lockheed Martin will speak on "How to find surface ship and small go-fast craft wakes in the ocean"

Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364

Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Remarks on cuspidal representations - a continuation"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 211

Professor Dennis Stanton will speak on "q-orthogonal polynomials as moments"

Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor Maury Bramson will speak on "Nontranslation invariant equilibria for one-dimensional exclusion processes, Part I"

Professor Nicholas Katz, Princeton University, will visit the School of Mathematics January 22-February 4, 2001. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Professor Katz's office will be Vincent Hall 355; you can reach him by phone at 624-5224. \vskip .3cm Professor John Mallet-Paret, Brown University, will be visiting the Mathematics Department January 31 - March 1, 2001. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. Professor Mallet-Paret's office during his visit will be Vincent Hall 227; you can reach him by phone at 625-6522. \vskip .3cm The IMA will be holding a workshop on "Digital Libraries: Data Modeling and Representation" Monday, January 29-Friday, February 2, 2001. All talks will be in EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m5.html for the schedule and other details.