Mathematics Seminars for the week of October 4, 2004
Colloquium
Tuesday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Roger Penrose
of Oxford University
will speak on
"The use of twistor cohomology in solving equations of physics"
Monday, 4 Oct 2004
Materials seminar: multiscale focus group:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Professor Ellad Tadmor
from Technion
will speak on "Quasicontinuum challenges: finite temperature and dynamics"
Dynamical Systems Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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... Contact Professor George Sell for information on this
seminar
Tuesday, 5 Oct 2004
Special Ordway Lectures:
at 10:10 in Physics 170
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Professor Louis Billera
from Cornell University
will speak on "Flag Enumeration in Posets, Polytopes and Spheres"
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LinH 409
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Professor Stephen Watson
from Northwestern University
will speak on "Coursening dynamics of the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation"
Student Topology:
at 11:15 in VinH 203B
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... Will not meet this week
Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory:
at 1:25 in LindH 409
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Speaker: to be announced
will speak on "Introductory survey"
Math Physics:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Professor Willard Miller
will speak on "The Cheshire cat effect in Lie theory: superintegrability"
Colloquium:
at 3:30 in VinH 16
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Professor Roger Penrose
from Oxford University
will speak on "The use of twistor cohomology in solving equations of physics"
Jr. Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
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... Will not meet this week
Math Matters:
at 7:00p.m. in 150 Physics
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Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS OM
from Oxford
will speak on "Does mathematics rule the world?"
Wednesday, 6 Oct 2004
Materials Seminar: Singularities Focus Group:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Professor Patricia Bauman
from Purdue University
will speak on "Analysis of superconductivity with inhomogeneities"
P.D.E.:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Hongjie Dong
will speak on "About an example suggested by H. Weinberger"
Thursday, 7 Oct 2004
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Professor John Steinhoff
from University of Tennessee Space Institute
will speak on "Wave confinement: modeling short acoustic pulses as nonlinear solitary
waves"
Image Processing and Analysis Working:
at 12:00 in LindH 409
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Dr. Steen Moeller
from Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
will speak on "Parallel imaging methods for brain imaging at 7 Tesla." Lunch will be
catered by Quiznos Subs
Differential Geometry and Sympletic Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 364
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Professor Yongbin Ruan
from University of Wisconsin
will speak on "Introduction to orbifolds"
Friday, 8 Oct 2004
Materials Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Professor Eugene M. Terentjev
from Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
will speak on "Stereo-selective swelling of gels with imprinted phase
chirality"
Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Dr. Pam Binns
from Honeywell
will speak on "A statistical verification methodology and its applications"
Student Combinatorics:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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Ning Jia
will speak on "Ribbon tableaux"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 209
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Professor Louis Billera
from Cornell University
will speak on "Decomposable compositions and ribbon Schur functions"
Working Seminar on Ricci Flow:
at 3:35 in VinH 213
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Professor Vladimir Sverak
will discuss chapters of Grisha Perelman's paper "The entropy formula
for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications"
Probability:
at 3:35 in VinH 311
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Professor Tepper Gill
from Howard University
will speak on "Infinite tensor products, Kakutani's theorem and partial differential
equations in infinite many variables"
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory:
at 4:40 in VinH 364
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Professor Dihua Jiang
will speak on "Automorphic descent method, examples"
Professor Jack Hale, Georgia Institute of Technology, will visit
the Math Department for one-month beginning September 9, 2004. His visit is
sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit Professor Hale's office
will be Vincent Hall 450: you can reach him by phone at 625-7801.
Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, will
visit the department for one month beginning October 3, 2004. His visit is
made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit Professor Ruan's
office will be Vincent Hall 512; you can reach him by phone at 626-
9137.
