Monday

Multimedia Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409

... Will not meet this week

Topology: at 3:35 in VinH 203A

Professor H. Gershenson will speak on "Elliptic Genera - a continuation"

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

... Will not meet this week

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.

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Special Lecture: at 11:15 in VinH 203B

Professor Michael Rapoport from University of Cologne will speak on "The Newton Stratification of Shimura Varieties"

Combinatorics Problems Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 203A

... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome

Number Theory: at 1:25 in VinH 203b

Professor Fei Xu from Harvard University and Institute of Math. Chinese Academy of Science will speak on "Siegel mass formula with quadratic characters"

Geometrica Eclectica: at 1:25 in S133 Kolthoff

Professor Bo Guan from University of Tennessee, Knoxville will speak on "Existence of hypersurfaces of constant Gauss curvature with prescribed boundary"

Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Wednesday

PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 211

Professor Xuefeng Wang from Tulane University will speak on "Qualitative behavior of solutions to a chemotatic diffusion system"

Kac-Moody Algebra: at 3:35 in VinH 203B

Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "Real and imaginary roots"

Thursday

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

... Will not meet this week

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

Nilima Nigam will speak on "The overlapping method for exterior electromagnetic scattering problems"

Multimedia Data Analysis Seminar: at 1:00 in LindH 401

Professor Selim Esedoglu from IMA will speak on "Gamma convergence and the Mumford-Shah segmentation model"

Ordway Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 203A

Professor Michael Rapoport from University of Cologne will speak on "The Newton Stratification of Shimura Varieties"

Differential Geometry: at 1:25 in S133 Kolthoff

... Will not meet this week

Friday

Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570

Dr. David Scholl from Ford Motor Company will speak on "A look at transient sound and vibration problems in the automotive industry"

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

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

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 211

Professor Sergei Bezrukov from University of Wisconsin, Superior will speak on "Trees as subgraphs of the n-cube"

Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 207

... Will not meet this week

Professor David Epstein, Warwick University, will be visiting the Mathematics Department March 1-13, 2001. His visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. Professor Epstein's office will be Vincent Hall 355; you can reach him by phone at 624-5224. \vskip .2cm \noindent Professor Michael Rapoport, University of Cologne, will be visiting the Mathematics Department for one month beginning March 1, 2001. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. Professor Rapoport's office, during his stay, will be Vincent Hall 227; you can reach him by phone at 625-6522. \vskip .2cm \noindent The IMA will be holding a workshop on ``Frontiers of Mathematics in Geosciences'' Monday, March 5 - Wednesday, March 7, 2001. See http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/winter/frontier.html for the schedule, room assignments and other details.