Monday

Optimization Seminar: at 10:30 in LindH 409

... Will not meet this week

Dynamical Systems: at 3:30 in VinH 570

Professor Hans Weinberger will speak on "Inward linear perturbation of a system with a global attractor at the origin can produce blowup"

Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 207

Professor Edgar Reich will speak on "Finding the capacity of the circular plate condenser with the help of elementary calculus, or trusting mathematica can be fatal"

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409

Daniel Kern from IMA Postdoctoral Associate will speak on "Multispecies competition and traveling waves"

Combinatorics Problem Session: at 11:15 in VinH 203a

... Bring your own problems, or listen to ours. Entire math community (undergrad, grad, faculty) welcome

Commutative Algebra-Algebraic Geometry: at 12:20 in VinH 207

... Will not meet this week

Student Topology: at 1:25 in VinH 113

Mr. Javier Zuniga will speak on "Knots in the torus"

Number Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 213

... Will not meet this week

Junior Colloquium: at 4:00 in VinH 570

Professor Peter Olver will speak on "How to recognize objects"

Wednesday

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: at 12:00 in LindH 409

Balaji Gopalakrishnan from IMA will speak on "An active set non-negative least-squares algorithm"

P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 207

... Will not meet this week

Thursday

Stanley-Reisner Theory: at 11:15 in LindH 315

Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "Introduction and motivation for Stanley-Reisner rings, III"

Applications of Math and Numerical Analysis: at 11:30 in VinH 570

Professor John Lowengrub will speak on "Numerical simulation of drop coalescence with surfactant in 3D"

Topology: at 1:00 in VinH 203B

Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "A categorical approach to brown representability"

Differential Geometry: at 2:20 in VinH 6

Dr. Simon Morgan will speak on "Bubbling and dimension collapsing phenomena in harmonic maps and varifolds"

Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 203B

Professor Peter Olver will speak on "Lie Pseudogroups and Moving Frames"

Math Biology: at 2:30 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Norrie Everett from Birmingham University

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: at 10:10 in VinH 570

Oleg Aleksandrov will speak on "Title: to be announced"

Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 2:30 in VinH 313

Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Automorphic Forms on Sp(4) (continued)"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "The Pfaffian matrix-tree theorem"

Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206

Professor Bert Fristedt will speak on "Some games having probabilistic aspects"

\indent Professor Giuseppe Da Prato from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa is visiting the School Of Mathematics for the month of October, 2002. His visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Professor Da Prato's office is Vincent Hall 327; you can reach him by phone at 625-2587.\hfill\break\indent\indent The Markus Conference will begin on Thursday at 3:00 p.m. with opening remarks. Tea in the commons room at 3:30 will follow the opening remarks