University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of February 25, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in Vincent Hall 16

Professor Michelle Wachs
of University of Miami
will speak on
"Homology of the matching complex and chessboard complex"

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 Mihnea Popa from Harvard University will speak on "Regularity on Abelian varieties"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 206
Professor Nikolai Krylov will speak on "Parabolic equations in $L_p$-spaces with mixed norms"

Tuesday

Joint IMA Computational Geosciences and IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in Lind 409
Dr. Peter Lynch from Met Eireann will speak on "Resonant triads and swinging springs"
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 VinH 203A
Mr. Nathan Wodarz will speak on "Exact functors and quadratic homology"
Number Theory: at 2:30 in FordH 127
Professor David Soudry - Ordway Visitor from Tel Aviv University will speak on "Langlands, functorial lift from classical groups to GL(n) - a continuation"
Student Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 203A
Mr. Jonathan Rogness will speak on "Introduction to vector bundles and K-theory - a continuation"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Ms. Miriam Freedman will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Algebra, Topology, and Physics: at 4:30 in VinH 211
Professor Michael Penkava from University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire will speak on "Ribbon graphs and Riemann surfaces defined over Q-bar"

Wednesday

Special Lie Theory Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 6
Professor David Soudry - Ordway Visitor from Tel Aviv University will speak on "Langlands' functoriality lift from classical groups to GL(n) - continued"
P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Chun Liu from Penn State University will speak on "Variational methods in elastic fluids"

Thursday

Combinatorial Kazhdan-Lusztig: at 11:15 in VinH 364
Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "Kazhdan-Lusztig R-polynomials"
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:30 in LindH 400
... Will not meet this week
Geometric Analysis: at 2:00 in VinH 570
Professor Conan Leung will speak on "Special Lagrangian submanifolds, I"

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Mr. Jing Wang will speak on "Design of Progressive Lenses - Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods" ... Will not meet this week
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Michelle Wachs from University of Miami will speak on "On the property M conjecture for the Heisenberg Lie"
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

Professor David Soudry from Tel Aviv University will visit the School of Mathematics for one month beginning February 3, 2002. His visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Professor Soudry's office will be Vincent Hall 540; you can reach him by phone at 624- 5534


www@math.umn.edu
Updated Sat Feb 23 03:00:01 CST 2002
URL http://www.math.umn.edu/arb/seminar.html
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
© 1997, The Regents of the University of Minnesota