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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of January 26, 2004

Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Martin Olsson
of MIT
will speak on
"Monodromy and algebraic stacks"

The theory of algebraic stacks has in recent years found new applications in the study of certian singular varieties. This includes work of Lafforgue and others on compactifications of moduli spaces, the study of moduli spaces of stable maps, and recent work in the theory of log geometry. In this talk, I will give an introduction to the notion of stack and this circle of ideas by applying them to study the monodromy operator on de Rham cohomology (in either the analytic or arithmetic setting). I will also briefly discuss applications to p-adic Hodge theory.

Monday, 26 Jan 2004

Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry: at 3:30 in VinH 6
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Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]: at 3:35 in VinH 113
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Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Tuesday, 27 Jan 2004

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LinH 409
Olga Brezhneva from IMA will speak on "Modified methods for nonlinear optimization and complementarity problems in the absence of strict complementarity"
Student Topology: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
Mr. Fei Xu will speak on "Cohomology of small categories"
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Melvin Leok from Caltech will speak on "Foundations of computational geometric mechanics"
Random Matrix Seminar: at 12:45 in VinH 203B
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Number Theory: at 1:25 in VinH 1
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Topology: at 1:25 in FordH 170
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Special Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16
Professor Peter Schneider from University of Muenster will speak on "Is there a p-adic local Langlands correspondence?"
Jr. Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "Origins of topology: vector calculus, graphs, and physics"
Student Combinatorics Seminar: at 4:40 in VinH 203B
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Wednesday, 28 Jan 2004

Brown Bag Seminar: at 12:00 in LindH 409
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P.D.E.: at 3:35 in VinH 113
Huiquiang Jiang will speak on "Free boundary problems with volume constraint"

Thursday, 29 Jan 2004

Lie Theory: at 1:25 in VinH 301
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Complex Systems Seminar: at 1:30 in LindH 409
Professor Maury Bramson will speak on "Application of fluid models to recurrence and central limit theorems of queueing networks"
Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis: at 2:30 in VinH 570
Mr. Jaehyouk Lee will speak on "Instantons and branes for manifolds with vector cross product"
Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16
Professor Martin Olsson from MIT will speak on "Monodromy and algebraic stacks"

Friday, 30 Jan 2004

Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 570
Dr. Dan Wack from KLA-Tencor will speak on "Application of inverse electromagnetic scattering to critical dimension measurement and control in semiconductor production"
Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 570
Professor Anja Sturm from University of British Columbia will speak on "The stochastic heat equation with colored noise and some connections to population models"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 311
Professor Jeremy Martin will speak on "Cyclotomic and simplicial matroids"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Continuation principles"
Symplectic Topology and Symplectic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 207
Professor Junho Lee will speak on "Yau-Zaslow formula on K3 surfaces for non-primitive classes"
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