

Mathematics Seminars for the week of April 28, 2003
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor V. Srinivas
of Tata Institute, Bombay
will speak on
"Zero cycles on surfaces"
The Chow group of 0-cycles on an algebra variety is one possible generalization of the divisor class group of an algebraic curve. I'll first review the theory of the class group of a curve, then discuss similarities and differences in the theory for surfaces, including the infinite dimensionality theorem of Mumford, and the torsion theorem of Roitman. I'll also discuss conjectures of Bloch, and of Bloch and Beilinson, which are the major open questions in the area. Finally I'll discuss some recent joint work with A. Krishna, giving some progress towards these conjectures for normal surfaces
Monday, 28 Apr 2003
Optimization Seminar:
at 11:00 in LindH 409
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... Will not meet this week
Student Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 113
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... Will not meet for the rest of the semester
Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:30 in VinH 364
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... Will not meet this week
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Joint IMA and DTC Talk:
at 3:30 in Walter Library 402
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Herve Kerivin
from IMA
will speak on "Partition inequalities and the network design problem with connectivity requirement"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 207
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Professor Andrej Zlatos
from Caltech
will speak on "Sum rules for Jacobi matrices"
Tuesday, 29 Apr 2003
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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... Will not meet this week
Special Ordway Lecture:
at 2:30 in VinH 313
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Professor Roger Howe
from Yale University
will speak on "Reciprocity algebras in invariant theory, VII"
Junior Colloquium:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Roger Howe
from Yale University
will speak on "What algebras can we understand?"
Wednesday, 30 Apr 2003
BROWN BAG SEMINAR:
at 12:00 in LindH 409
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Professor Gianpaolo Oriolo
from Roma `Tor Vergata' - Italy
will speak on "Vertex packing on a superclass of interval graphs"
Algebra, Geometry, and Physics:
at 3:30 in VinH 209
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Professor Martin Markl
from Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague
will speak on "Strongly homotopy bialgebras"
P.D.E.:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Nicholae Tarfulea
will speak on "Boundary conditions for constrained first order symmetric hyperbolic systems"
Thursday, 1 May 2003
Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations:
at 10:10 in VinH 203B
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Professor Andy McLennan
from Dept. of Economics
will speak on "Games and polynomial systems II: Sparse systems and extensive games"
Differential Geometry:
at 2:20 in VinH 570
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Professor Scot Adams
will speak on "The Lax conjecture is true (after A. Lewis, P. Parrila and M. Ramana)"
Special Ordway Lecture:
at 2:30 in VinH 313
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Professor Roger Howe
from Yale University
will speak on "Reciprocity algebras in invariant theory, VIII"
Math Biology:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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Professor Satish Kumar
from Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
will speak on "Some flow and transport problems in microfluidic systems"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:
at 2:30 in 402 Walter Library
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Fundamentals of public-key crypto and related algorithms"
Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
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Professor V. Srinivas
from Tata Instiutte, Bombay
will speak on "Zero cycles on surfaces"
Friday, 2 May 2003
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
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Dr. Daniel R. Baker
from General Motors R&D Center
will speak on "Impedance as a diagnostic tool for studying fuel cells"
Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 207
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Professor Jon F. Carlson
from University of Georgia
will speak on "Group cohomology and the torsion free rank of the group of endotrivial modules"
Probability:
at 2:30 in VinH 211
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Professor Eddy Mayer-Wolf
from Technion
will speak on "A Markov model for coagulation and fragmentation in partitions of [0,1]: uniqueness of the limiting law"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Jeremy Martin
will speak on "Poincare meets Tutte"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 4:30 in VinH 364
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... Will not meet this week
Professor Victor Pliss, St. Petersburg University, will visit the Mathematics Department for one month beginning April 1, 2003. His visit will be partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his stay, Professor Pliss' office will be Vincent 235; you can reach him by phone at 625-1858. Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University, will be visiting the Mathematics Department April 24-May 7, 2003. His visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. Professor Sogge's office will be Vincent Hall 260 and you can reach him by phone at 625-2036. Professor Roger Howe, Yale University, will visit the Mathematics Department April 21-May 2, 2003. His visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit his office will be Vincent Hall 512; you can reach him by phone at 626-9137. Dr. Eddy Mayer-Wolf from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa will visit the Matheamtics Department April 27-May 3, 2003. Dr. Mayer-Wolf's visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. During his stay his office will be Vincent Hall 220; you can reach him by phone at 625-4557. Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague, is visiting the School of Mathematics April 30 - May 28, 2003. His visit is partially sponsored by the Visitors Program. Professor Markl's office is VinH 235, and you can reach him by phone at 625-1858.
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