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, 3 Apr 2006

IMA Seminar: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409

... Will not meet this week

Student Probability: at 12:20 in VinH 570

Ghaith Hiary will speak on "Connections between random matrix theory and number theory"

Topology: at 3:30 in VinH 203A

... Will not meet this week

Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570

Professor Markus Keel will speak on "Energy transfer in a nonlinear Hamiltonian PDE, Part II"

Algebraic Geometry: at 3:35 in VinH 207

Professor Laura Matusevich from Texas A&M will speak on "Hypergeometric Equations"

Joint Real Analysis and PDE: at 4:35 in VinH 301

... Will not meet this week

Tuesday, 4 Apr 2006

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

Mr. Jinhae Park will speak on "Periodic Solutions of the Extended Fisher-Kolmogorov Equations and Swift-Hohenberg Equations: applications to liquid crystals"

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409

... Will not meet this week

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

... Will not meet this week

Math Physics: at 1:25 in VinH 570

Professor Alexander Voronov will speak on "Morse Theoretic viewpoint on string topology"

Jr. Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Craig Huneke from University of Kansas will speak on "What is tight closure"

Wednesday, 5 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

... Will not meet this week

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

... Will not meet this week

Thursday, 6 Apr 2006

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

Robin Selinger from Kent State University will speak on "Rubber that moves: modeling shape evolution in liquid crystal elastomers"

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

... Will not meet this week

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

Doug Park from University of Waterloo will speak on "Non-isotopic symplectic surfaces in product 4-manifolds"

Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Stefan Hildebrandt from University of Bonn will speak on "Conformal representation of two-dimensional Riemannian metrics -- a variational approach to Lichtenstein's theorem and uniformization"

Informal Mathematical Biology: at 4:30 in VinH 313

Dr. Dmitri Chklovskii from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will speak on "Optimal information storage in noisy synapses"

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

Mr. Doug Park from University of Waterloo will speak on "Introduction to Seiberg-Witten Invariants"

Friday, 7 Apr 2006

Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 20

... Will not meet this week

Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 206

Professor Jinho Baik from University of Michigan will speak on "The bus system in Cuernevaca, Mexico and random matrix theory"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 570

Professor Jay Goldman will speak on "Combinatorics at Minnesota: the history as I remember it"

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

Professor Dihua Jiang from University of Minnesota will speak on "Bessel Models and $L$-function"

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 Craig Huneke from the university of Kansas, Lawrence is visiting March 27 - April 8, 2006. During his visit, his office is Vincent Hall 512; you can reach him by phone at 626-9137. Professor Huneke's visit is made possible through the Ordway Endowment.\noindent\vskip .1cm