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