Monday

Optimization Seminar: at 11:00 in LindH 409

Dr. Vera Kovacevic-Vujcic from University of Belgrade will speak on "Stabilization of interior-point methods for linear and semidefinite programming"

Student Topology: at 2:30 in VinH 113

Mr. Kuerak Chung will speak on "Simplician and cosimplicial objects"

Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry: at 3:30 in VinH 364

Professor Ravi Vakil from Stanford University will speak on "A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule"

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

... Will not meet this week

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409

Professor C. Roos from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands will speak on "What is special withthe logarithmic barrier function in optimization?"

Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry: at 12:20 in VinH 213

Professor Ricardo Garcia Lopez from University of Barcelona will speak on "The formal stationary phase formula"

Junior Colloquium: at 3:30 in VinH 570

Mr. Ryan Gantner will speak on "What is the best way to bet on the roulette wheel?"

Wednesday

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: at 12:00 in LindH 409

Professor Etienne de Klerk from Delft University of Technology will speak on "Global optimization of rational functions using semidefinite programming"

Algebra, Geometry, and Physics: at 3:30 in VinH 209

Mr. Wee Liang Gan from University of Chicago will speak on "Koszul duality for dioperads"

P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 207

... Will not meet this week

Thursday

Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations: at 10:10 in VinH 203B

Professor Jeremy Martin will speak on "Using Groebner bases to solve systems of equations, II"

Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570

Dr. Paul Martin from Colorado School of Mines will speak on "Title: to be announced"

Differential Geometry: at 2:20 in VinH 570

Professor Jaigyoung Choe from Seoul National University will speak on "Relative isoperimetric inequality: an extension of the classical isoperimetric inequality"

Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 313

... Will not meet this week

Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Sergey Bobkov will speak on "An elementary proof of the Guassian isoperimetric inequality"

Friday

IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: at 10:10 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Joint Topology and Differential Geometry: at 2:30 in VinH 207

Professor Conan Leung ... To be announced

Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 211

Professor Maury Bramson will speak on "Tightness for the minimum displacement of branching random walk and some other old problems"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor Jay Goldman will speak on "Chromatic polynomials, acyclic orientations, and involutions"

Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 4:30 in VinH 364

... Will not meet this week due to the conference in honor of Steve Rallis' 60th birthday, in Columbus, Ohio

Professor John Dennis, Rice University, will be visiting the School of Mathematics for the month of March, 2003. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his stay here, Professor Dennis's office will be Lind Hall 415; you can reach him by phone at 625-5532.\hfill\break\vskip .2cm \noindent The following visitors will be sponsored by the Visitors Program:\hfill\break\noindent Lawrence Breen (Universite de Paris 13) will visit March 21-April 5, 2003. During his stay, Professor Breen's office will be Vincent Hall 238, phone number 625-1390.\hfill\break\vskip .2cm\noindent Jaigyoung Choe (Seoul National University, Korea, currently visiting Stanford University) will visit March 23-30, 2003. Professor Choe's office will be Vincent hall 235, phone number 625-1858.\hfill\break\vskip .2cm\noindent Professor Ricardo Garcia Lopez (University of Barcelona, Spain) will visit March 23-30, 2003. During his stay, Professor Lopez's office will be Vincent Hall 512; phone number 626-9137.