University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of April 8, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in Vincent Hall 16

Professor James Stasheff
of University of North Carolina
will speak on
"Cohomological physics: E. Noether and Batalin-Vilkovisky"

Monday

IMA Geoscience Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind 409
... Will not meet this week
Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash from Princeton University will speak on "Automorphic forms and rational points"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 206
Professor David Preiss from University College, London will speak on "Title: to be announced"

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in Lind 409
Professor John Lowengrub will speak on "Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of microstructured materials"
Combinatorics Problem Session: at 11:15 in VinH 203a
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
Topology: at 1:25 in FordH 130
Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "Dugger's universal model categories - a continuation"
Number Theory: at 2:30 in FordH 127
Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Converse theorems in the theory of automorphic forms - a continuation"
Student Topology: at 2:30 in SmithH 111
Mr. James Swenson will speak on "The Hopf invariant one theorem - a continuation"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Mr. Ryan Berndt will speak on "The Hilbert transform and singular integrals"

Wednesday

P.D.E.: at 3:30 in VinH 207
Professor Fedor Nazarov will speak on "Some stupid questions about differential equations"
Algebra, Topology, and Physics: at 3:30 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week

Thursday

Combinatorial Kazhdan-Lusztig: at 11:15 in VinH 364
Mr. Tom Halverson from Macalester College will speak on "Left and right cells - a continuation"
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:30 in VinH 570
Mr. Vittorio Cristini from IMA will speak on "Cancer growth in silico and its experimental validation"
Geometric Analysis: at 2:00 in VinH 570
Professor Conan Leung will speak on "Geometry of $G_2$ manifolds"
Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
Professor David Goldberg from Purdue University will speak on "The endoscopic norm map, and consequences for induced representations and $L$-functions"

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Brad Kahlbaugh from Donaldson Company will speak on "Penalty function formulation for product design with mixed integer models"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Tricia Hersh from University of Michigan will speak on "Optimizing discrete Morse functions"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
... Will not meet this week
Automorphic Forms and L-functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week

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