

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 29, 2001
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Markus Keel
will speak on
"From black cats to black holes: A biased survey of nonlinear wave equations"
Monday
IMA Geosciences Seminar:
at 11:15 in Lind 409
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... Will not meet this week
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:35 in VinH 2
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Professor Naichung Conan Leung
will speak on "Lagrangian submanifolds of hyperkahler manifolds, Legendre transformation, and Plucker formula"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937---1997]:
at 4:30 in VH 207
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... Will not meet this week
Tea:
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... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room - 120 Vincent Hall
Tuesday
Combinatorial Problem Session:
at 10:10 in VinH 213
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... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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... Will not meet this week
Special Ordway Lecture:
at 1:25 in VinH 16
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Professor Nicholas Katz, Ordway Visitor
from Princeton University
will speak on "Irreducibility of L-functions: Results and conjectures"
Number Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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... Will not meet this week
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
ATaC:
at 3:35 in VinH 1
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Mr. Blake Boursaw
will speak on "Decisions! Decisions! Dehn presentations, isoperimetric inequalities, and `hyperbolic' groups"
Wednesday
Special Lecture:
at 2:00 in EE/CS 3-180
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Professor James Sethian
from Univ. of California, Berkeley
will speak on "Ordered upwind methods: Computing viscosity solutions to optimal control and non-viscosity solutions to wave propagation"
PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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... Will not meet this week
Derived Categories:
at 4:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Bernard Badzioch
will speak on "Derived functors, Quillen equivalences and homotopy pushouts"
Thursday
Topology:
at 9:05 in VinH 203A
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Mr. Nathan Wodarz
will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Jean-Claude Nedelec
from Ecole Polytechnique
will speak on "Resonances for Maxwell's equations in a periodic structure"
Special Ordway Lecture:
at 12:35 in VinH 16
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Professor Nicholas Katz, Ordway Visitor
from Princeton University
will speak on "Irreducibility of L-functions: Results and Conjectures"
Lie Theory Seminar:
at 2:00 in VinH 203B
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Professor Victor Protsak
will speak on "More examples of primitive ideals in enveloping algebras"
Geometric Analysis:
at 2:00 in VinH 570
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Professor Scot Adams
will speak on "Simple lie groups acting on Lorentz manifolds"
Friday
IMA Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
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Dr. Radu Balan
from Siemens Corporate Research
will speak on "A new class of speech signal stochastic models and applications to blind source separation problems"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Maass-Selberg relations - a continuation"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Mike Zabrocki
from York University
will speak on "A quantization of non-commutative symmetric functions"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Nicolai Krylov
will speak on "A supermartingale characterization of sets of stochastic integrals and applications"
Professor Jean-Claude Nedelec, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, will be visiting the Mathematics department for one month beginning October 3, 2001. Professor Nedelec's visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Prof. Nedelec's office will be Vincent Hall 538; you can reach him by phone at 624-4025.\vskip .3cm Professor Nicholas Katz, Princeton University, will visit the Mathematics Dept. October 29-November 3, 2001. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. Professor Katz's office will be Vincent Hall 323; you can reach him by phone at 625-6802
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