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Mathematics

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"

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