Mathematics Seminars for the week of March 4, 2002
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in Vincent Hall 16
Professor Matthew Emerton of Northwestern University will speak on
"Cohomology of varieties in characteristic p"
Monday
IMA Geoscience Seminar:
at 11:15 in Lind 409
... Will not meet this week
IMA Winter Lectures:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Robert Burridge
from MIT
will speak on "Ray theory for the elastic wave equation, I"
Special Lecture:
at 2:30 in VinH 570
Dr. Eunok Jung
from Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
will speak on "Simulations of valveless pumping using the immersed boundary method"
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
... Will not meet this week
Tuesday
IMA Postdoc:
at 11:15 in Lind 409
Dr. Toshio Yoshikawa
from IMA
will speak on "Transition from mechanical equilibrium to thermal equilibrium of a chain with non-monotone stress-strain relation"
Combinatorics Problem Session:
at 11:15 in VinH 203a
... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome
IMA Winter Lectures:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Robert Burridge
from MIT
will speak on "Ray theory for the elastic wave equation, II"
Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 203A
Professor Donald Kahn
will speak on "Dugger's universal model categories"
Student Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 203A
Mr. Jonathan Rogness
will speak on "Introduction to vector bundles and K-theory - a continuation"
Number Theory:
at 2:30 in FordH 127
... Will not meet this week
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
Professor Peter Polacik
will speak on "Nonconvergent bounded solutions of parabolic, hyperbolic, and elliptic PDE's: Center manifold techniques"
ATaC:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
will speak on "Classical and quantum Schubert calculus"
Wednesday
IMA Winter Lectures:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
Professor Robert Burridge
from MIT
will speak on "Ray theory for the elastic wave equation, III"
Algebra, Topology, and Physics:
at 3:30 in VinH 364
Professor Nicole Snashall
from University of Leicester
will speak on "Hochschild cohomology of finite dimensional algebras"
P.D.E.:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Roger Lui
from Worcester Institute of Technology
will speak on "Mathematical issues arising from an electrochemistry model"
Thursday
Combinatorial Kazhdan-Lusztig:
at 11:15 in VinH 364
Mr. Nathan Reading
will speak on "The Kazhdan-Lusztig P-polynomials"
Applied Math and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:30 in LindH 400
Professor Bernardo Cockburn
will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Geometric Analysis:
at 2:00 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
Professor A. Varonov
will speak on "Orbifold conformal algebras and completely reducible modules"
Friday
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
Dr. Michael Weinstein
from Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, Nj
will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Joint Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Anders Buch
from MIT
will speak on "Quantum cohomology of Grassmannians"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
... Will not meet this week
Automorphic Forms and L-functions:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
