Seminars

Previously Posted Seminars

Other UMN Seminars

Recent Seminar Series

Automorphic Forms and Number Theory

Climate Change

Colloquium

Combinatorics

Differential Geometry and Symplectic Topology

Financial Mathematics

IMA Postdoc Seminar

Industrial Problems Seminar

Jr. Colloquium

Lie Theory

Math Physics Seminar

Ordway Lectures

PDE

Probability

Student Combinatorics

Student Number Theory

Student Topology

Topology

Monday, 24 Apr 2006

Student Probability: at 12:20 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Topology: at 3:30 in VinH 203A

Mr. Javier Zuniga will speak on "Quantum master equaiton of open-closed string theory"

Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570

Professor Debra Lewis from IMA will speak on "Dynamics and control on Lie groups, with applications to falling mammals"

Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor William Messing will speak on "Zink's theory of displays and crystalline Dieudonne theory - a continuation"

Real Analysis: at 4:35 in VinH 301

Dr. Ghidei Zedingle from Normandale Community College will speak on "Review of fixed-point theorems"

Tuesday, 25 Apr 2006

Mathematical Problems in Materials Science: at 9:00 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409

Professor Steven Benjamin Damelin from Georgia Southern University will speak on "Some open problems in dimension reduction, inverse scattering and power systems"

Student Applied Math Group: at 1:25 in VinH 364

... Will not meet this week

Math Physics: at 1:25 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Jr. Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Mr. Juraj Huska will speak on "Extension of principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators to nonautonomous parabolic equations via Harnack inequalities"

Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006

Financial Mathematics: at 2:30 in VinH 570

Chris Bemis will speak on "Uses of mathematics in finance"

PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 2

Professor Jaeyoung Byeon from Pohang University of Science and Technology will speak on "Spike layer solutions of singularly perturbed nonlinear elliptic problems with a general nonlinearity"

Working Seminar on p-adic Groups: at 3:35 in VinH 301

... Will not meet this week

Thursday, 27 Apr 2006

IMA Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409

Professor Reccardo March from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche will speak on "Asymptotic reconstruction properties of the Nitzberg-Mumford-Shiota model for image segmentation with depth"

Full-Information Games; a learning seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 203B

... Will not meet this week

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

Professor Gilad Lerman will speak on "Exploring functional landscapes of proteins via manifold embedding of the gene ontology"

Algebraic Representation Theory: at 11:15-12:10 in VinH 313

Professor Peter Webb will speak on "Crystal operators - a continuation"

Differential Geometry and Symplectic Topology: at 1:25 in VinH 570

Professor Jose K. Martins from Brazil/U. of Minn will speak on "Harmonic maps into complex projective spaces"

Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Henri Berestycki from l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences will speak on "Can a species keep pace with a shifting climate?"

Informal Mathematical Biology: at 4:30 in VinH 313

Ms. Beth Masimore will speak on "Detecting transient oscillations in Noisy neurological data"

Student Algebraic Geometry, Geometry and Topology: at 4:40 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Friday, 28 Apr 2006

Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 20

Giovanni Di Crescenzo from Telcordia will speak on "An introductory survey to zero-knowledge proofs and their applications"

Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 206

Professor Larry Gray will speak on "Chipping models, traffic models, and clustering"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 570

Professor Professor Jim Haglund from Ohio State University will speak on "A combinatorial formula for nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials"

Automorphic Forms and Number Theory: at 4:40 in VinH 301

Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Compactness of natural operators and a missing lemma"

Professor Stefan Hildebrandt, University of Bonn, is visiting for one month begining March 27, 2006. His office will be Vincent Hall 239; phone number 624-4813. Professor Hildebrandt's visit is made possible through the Ordway Endowment.

Professor Henri Berestycki from the EHESS-CAMS, Paris, will visit April 16-May 1, 2006. During his residence, his office will be Vincent Hall 533; you can reach him by phone at 626-0528. Professor Berestycki's visit is made possible through the Ordway Endowment.

Professor David Fisher, University of Indiana, is visiting the department April 19-24, 2006. His visit is sponsored by the Visitors Program. During his stay, Professor Fisher's office will be Vincent Hall 355; you can reach him by phone at 624- 5224.