University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 30, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
... Will not meet this week
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 4:30 in VinH 207
Professor Peter Rejto will speak on "Some Fredholm-Lippman-Schwinger operators"

Tuesday

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
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
... Will not meet this week
Junior Colloquium: at 4:00 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week

Wednesday

P.D.E.: at 3:30 in VinH 207
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
... To be announced
Topology: at 1:00 in VinH 203B
... Organizational meeting
Differential Geometry: at 2:30 in VinH 6
... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
... Will not meet this week
Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16
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
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Truncations of Eisenstein series, and Maass-Selberg relations"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Vic Reiner will speak on "The Charney-Davis and Neggers-Stanley conjectures"
Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206
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


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