University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 27, 2004


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor Pierre-Louis Lions
of Universite Paris-Dauphine
will speak on
"Convexity and Parabolic Equations"

Monday, 27 Sep 2004

Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor George R. Sell will speak on "Climate models and longtime dynamics"

Tuesday, 28 Sep 2004

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LinH 409
... Will not meet this week
Student Topology: at 11:15 in VinH 203B
... Will not meet this week
Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory: at 1:25 in LinH 409
... Will not meet this week: starts October 5
Math Physics: at 1:25 in VinH 570
Professor Ernie Kalnins from University of Waikato, New Zealand will speak on "Product formulas for special functions and infinite order differential operators"
Jr. Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16
Dr. Mihail Cocos will speak on "Hodge DeRham theory for compact and non-compact manifolds"
Special Ordway Lecture: at 4:30 in VinH 16
Professor Pierre-Louis Lions from Universite Paris-Dauphine will speak on "From molecules to nonlinear elasticity: a mathematical journey, (Ordway Lecture I)"

Wednesday, 29 Sep 2004

Special Ordway Lecture: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Erwin Bolthausen from University of Zurich will speak on "Mean field spin glass theory: recent developments"
Joint Ordway and P.D.E.: at 4:30 in VinH 16
Professor P.L. Lions from Universite Paris-Dauphine will speak on "New problems in control and differential games arising in finance (Ordway Lecture II)"

Thursday, 30 Sep 2004

Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week. (IMA Workshop on Modeling of Soft Matter)
Image Processing and Analysis Working: at 12:00 in LindH 409
Professor Baoquan Chen from Computer Science will speak on "Image processing and math are close allies of computer graphics - from 3D sketching to 3D digitizaiton to visualization." Participants are urged to bring a bag lunch
Differential Geometry and Sympletic Topology: at 1:25 in VinH 16
Professor Jianping Wang will speak on "Topology of manifolds with generalized Poincare inequality"
Colloquium: at 3:30 in VinH 16
Professor Pierre-Louis Lions from Universite Paris-Dauphine will speak on "Convexity and Parabolic Equations (Ordway Lecture III)"

Friday, 1 Oct 2004

Materials Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
... Contact the IMA for any information on this seminar
Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Student Combinatorics: at 2:30 in VinH 203B
Dan Drake will speak on "An introduction to combinatorial designs"
Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 311
Professor Erwin Bolthausen from University of Zurich will speak on "Mean field spin glass theory: Recent developments"
Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 209
Professor Cheryl Grood from Swarthmore College will speak on "The rook partition algebras"
Working Seminar on Ricci Flow: at 3:35 in VinH 213
... Will not meet this week
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory: at 4:40 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Verma modules and applications - a continuation"

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 251: you can reach him by phone at 625-4065.

Professor Erwin Bolthausen, University of Zurich, will visit the department for a two-week period beginning September 20, 2004. His visit is also made possible byt he Ordway Endowment. Professor Bolthausen will return for an additional two-week visit during the Spring 2005. During his visit, his office will be Vincent Hall 239 and he can be reached by phone at 624-4813.

Professor Pierre-Louis Lions, College de France, will visit the School of Mathematics September 26-October 1, 2004. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. Professor Lions' office will be Vincent Hall 512 and you can reach him by phone at 626-9137.

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