University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 29, 2001


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
... Will not meet this week
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 2
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
... Will not meet this week
Tea:
... Tea will be served at 3:10 in the Commons Room - 120 Vincent Hall

Tuesday

Combinatorial Problem Session: at 10:10 in VinH 213
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
... Will not meet this week
Special Ordway Lecture: at 1:25 in VinH 16
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
... Will not meet this week
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 1
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
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
... Will not meet this week
Derived Categories: at 4:35 in VinH 207
Professor Bernard Badzioch will speak on "Derived functors, Quillen equivalences and homotopy pushouts"

Thursday

Topology: at 9:05 in VinH 203A
Mr. Nathan Wodarz will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:30 in VinH 570
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
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
Professor Victor Protsak will speak on "More examples of primitive ideals in enveloping algebras"
Geometric Analysis: at 2:00 in VinH 570
Professor Scot Adams will speak on "Simple lie groups acting on Lorentz manifolds"

Friday

IMA Industrial Problems Seminar: at 10:10 in VinH 570
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
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Maass-Selberg relations - a continuation"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Mike Zabrocki from York University will speak on "A quantization of non-commutative symmetric functions"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
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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