

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 30, 2002
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Ravi A. Rao
of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
will speak on
"The Vaserstein-Suslin theorems and Serre's program"
Monday
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 207
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Professor Peter Rejto
will speak on "Some Fredholm-Lippman-Schwinger operators"
Tuesday
Combinatorics Problem Session:
at 11:15 in VinH 203a
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... 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
-
Professor Ravi A. Rao
from Tata Institute
will speak on "A Witt group structure on orbit spaces of unimodular rows"
Student Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 113
-
Mr James Swenson
will speak on "Homology and cohomology of groups (continued)"
Differential Geometry:
at 2:30 in VinH 203b
-
... Working Seminar - Contact Professor Leung for further information
Number Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 213
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... Will not meet this week
Junior Colloquium:
at 4:00 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Wednesday
P.D.E.:
at 3:30 in VinH 207
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Professor Shu-yu Hsu
will speak on "Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a singular diffusion equation near the extinction time"
Thursday
Applications of Math and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:30 in VinH 570
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... To be announced
Topology:
at 1:00 in VinH 203B
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... Organizational meeting
Differential Geometry:
at 2:30 in VinH 6
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... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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... Will not meet this week
Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
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Professor Ravi Rao
from Tata Institute
will speak on "The Vaserstein-Suslin theorems and Serre's program"
Friday
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
-
Dr. Ron Mahler
from Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems
will speak on "Tracking in high target densities using a first-order multitarget moment density"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 2:30 in VinH 313
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Truncations of Eisenstein series, and Maass-Selberg relations"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Vic Reiner
will speak on "The Charney-Davis and Neggers-Stanley conjectures"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 206
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Professor Tiefeng Jiang
will speak on "`The height' of Haar measure on certain groups"
\indent Professor Dominik Schotzau, University of Basel, will be visiting the School of Mathematics September 14-October 2, 2002. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his visit here, Professor Schotzau's office will be Vincent Hall 235; you can reach him by phone at 625-1858
www@math.umn.edu
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