Mathematics Seminars for the week of February 24, 2003
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16
Professor Richard Crew of University of Florida will speak on
"Rigid cohomology"
Monday
Optimization Seminar:
at 11:00 in LindH 409
... Will not meet this week
Student Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 113
Mr. Eric Harrelson
will speak on "String topology (continued)"
Dynamical Systems:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
Professor Arnd Scheel
will speak on "Stability of stationary light transmission in nonlinear photonic structures"
Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
will speak on "Gromov-Witten invariants of GIT quotients"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 207
... Will not meet this week
Tuesday
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
Professor Luis N. Vicente
from U. Coimbra, Portugal, Watson Res. Ctr.
will speak on "Space mapping: models, algorithms and applications"
Special Lecture:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
Professor Weiqing Ren
from Princeton University
will speak on "String method for the study of rare events"
Junior Colloquium:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
Professor Scot Adams
will speak on "Groebner bases and integer programming"
Wednesday
BROWN BAG SEMINAR:
at 12:00 in LindH 409
Professor John Dennis
from Rice University, IMA Visitor
will speak on "Early career issues for mathematicians"
Differential Geometry:
at 1:25 in VinH 209
... Working Seminar - Professor Leung for further information
Algebra, Geometry, and Physics:
at 3:30 in VinH 209
... Will not meet this week
P.D.E.:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Mikhail Safonov
will speak on "Boundary regularity of solutions to second order parabolic equations"
Thursday
Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations:
at 10:10 in VinH 203B
Professor Vic Reiner
will speak on "Proof of Puiseux's theorem"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor John Dennis
from Rice University and IMA
will speak on "An algorithm for nonlinear programming with mixed variables"
Differential Geometry:
at 2:20 in VinH 570
Professor Scot Adams
will speak on "Kazhdan groups acting on Lorentz manifolds (after R. Zimmer)"
Lie Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 313
Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "The Borel-Matsumoto theorem: admissible representations of p-adic reductive groups with Iwahori-fixed vectors (continued)"
Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
Professor Richard Crew
from University of Florida
will speak on "Rigid cohomology"
Friday
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
... To be announced
Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 207
... Will not meet this week
Probability:
at 2:30 in VinH 211
Professor Bert Fristedt
will speak on "Limiting shapes of random Young diagrams generated by random partitions of large integers, II"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Brian Jacobson
will speak on "Critical groups of graphs, and a conjecture of Kuperberg"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 4:30 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Bruhat cell multiplication rules: some things that are nasty to prove without buildings"