University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of January 28, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in Vincent Hall 16

Professor Tian-Jun Li
of Princeton University
will speak on
"Moduli space of symplectic structures"

Monday

IMA Geoscience Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind 409
Hans Bruining from T.U. Delft will speak on "Steam distillation in porous media"
IMA Geoscience Seminar: at 2:00 in Lind 409
Dan Marchesin from IMPA, Rio will speak on "Permeability hysteresis in multiphase flow in porous media"
Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 207
... Will not meet this week
Joint P.D.E. and Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 206
Professor Steven Hofmann from University of Missouri - Columbia will speak on "Extrapolation of Carleson measures"

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in Lind 409
Professor Lev Truskinovsky from IMA will speak on "Dynamics of phase boundaries in discrete lattices"
IMA Geosciences Seminar: at 2:00 in Lind 409
Hans Van Duijn from T.U. Eindhoven will speak on "Oil trapping in heterogeneous porous media"
Number Theory: at 2:30 in FordH 127
... Will not meet this week
Student Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 203A
Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "Cartan-Leray spectral sequence"
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "The glorious q-binomial coefficient"

Wednesday

Algebra, Topology, and Physics: at 3:30 in VinH 364
Professor Alexander Voronov will speak on "Brane topology"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
Professor James Louisell will speak on "The effects of time dependence in linear delay differential equations: quenching and Markus-Yamabe instability"
Joint Real Analysis and P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Steven Hofmann from University of Missouri - Columbia will speak on "The solution of the square root problems of Kato"

Thursday

Topology: at 9:05 in VinH 203A
Nathan Wodarz will speak on "n-exact functors and quadratic homology theories"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:30 in VinH 570
... To be announced
Lie Theory Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
... Will not meet this week

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Benoit Couet from Schlumberger Doll Research, Ridgefield will speak on "How do we perform stochastic reservoir optimizaiton?"
Geometric Analysis: at 10:10 in VinH 311
Professor Tian-Jun Li from Princeton University will speak on "Symplectic 4-manifolds with Kodaira dimension zero"
Combinatorics : at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor David Wolfe from Gustavus Adolphus College will speak on "On the lattice structure of finite games"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor N. Krylov will speak on "Brownian trajectory is a regular boundary for the heat equation"
Special Lecture: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Thomas Haines from University of Toronto will speak on "Towards the local Hasse-Weil zeta function of some Shimura varieties at primes of bad reduction"

Professor Robert O'Malley, University of Washington, Seattle, will be visiting the School of Mathematics for the month of January. Professor O'Malley's visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his stay, his office will be Lind Hall 402; you can reach him by phone at 624- 0083.


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