University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of March 25, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in Vincent Hall 16

Professor Victor Protsak
will speak on
"Primitive ideals and dual pairs"

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
... Will not meet this week
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 206
Professor Fedor Nazarov will speak on "The analytic capacity is an analytic capacity (an overview of Tolsa's theorem)"

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc: at 11:15 in Lind 409
Professor Robert O'Malley from U of Washington will speak on "Shock motion for certain advection-reaction-diffusion equations"
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. David Treumann will speak on "Cohomological properties of k-theory - a continuation"
Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
ATaC: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Alexander Voronov will speak on "Graph homology"

Wednesday

Algebra, Topology, and Physics: at 3:30 in VinH 364
Professor Conan Leung will speak on "An intersection theory of cycles in $G_2$ manifolds"
P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Eiji Yanagida from Tohoku University will speak on "Stability of stationary curves to the curvature-driven motion with triple junction"

Thursday

Combinatorial Kazhdan-Lusztig: at 11:15 in VinH 364
Mr. Tom Halverson from Macalester College will speak on "Left and right cells"
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 Baozhong Yang from Stanford University will speak on "Singularities and compactness for Yang-Mills connections in higher dimensions"
Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
Professor Wentang Kuo from Purdue University will speak on "Principal nilpotent orbits and reducible principal series"

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems: at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. Craig Poling from Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense System will speak on "Mathematical problems arising in multi-sensor multi-platform precision registration"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Geanina Tudose will speak on "Hall-Littlewood analogues in the q-function algebra"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Dr. Rassoul Agha from NYU will speak on "Multi-dimensional random walks in a mixing random environment"
Automorphic Forms and L-functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week

Professor Eiji Yanagida from the University of Tokyo will be visiting the Mathematics Department March 7 - April 5, 2002. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his visit, Professor Yanagida's office will be Vincent Hall 540; you can reach him by phone at 624- 5534


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