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, 25 Sep 2006

Algebraic Geometry and Applications: at 9:30 in Lind Hall 305

Professor Bernd Strumfels from University of California will speak on "Semigraphoids, permutohedra, and mice"

Algebraic Geometry and Applications: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 305

Professor David Eisenbud from Mathematical Sciences Research Institute will speak on "Asymptotic ideal theory and parametrized rational varieties"

Real Analysis [In memory of Gene Fabes]:: at 4:40 in VinH 301

Professor A. Olevskii from Tel Aviv University will speak on "Uniqueness in Fourier analysis: A new phenomenon"

Tuesday, 26 Sep 2006

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

... Will not meet this week

Applied Mathematics: at 11:15 in VinH 1

Professor Peter Lax (Ordway visitor) from Courant Institute will speak on "Positive schemes for solving hyperbolic equations"

Algebraic Geometry: at 1:25 in Vincent Hall 301

... Will not meet this week

Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology: at 1:30 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Jr. Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Professor Willard Miller will speak on "Truth and beauty in science: An orbital mechanics case study"

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

Guoyi Xu will speak on "Dirac operators on large Riemannian manifolds"

Wednesday, 27 Sep 2006

Algebraic Geometry and Applications: at 11:15 in Lind Hall 305

Mr. Anton Leykin will speak on "Approximating singular solutions of polynomial systems"

PDE: at 3:35 in VinH 570

... Will not meet this week

Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 4:35 in VinH 311

Professor Reiner Lauterbach from Universitat Hamburg will speak on "Absolutely irreducible group actions, the equivariant branching lemma and Hamiltonian systems. [Note special time, day and place!]"

Financial Mathematics: at 6:30 in Ford Hall 115

... Talk postponed, will not meet this week

Thursday, 28 Sep 2006

Topology: at 10:10 in 570 VinH

... Will not meet this week

Algebraic Representation Theory: at 11:15 in VinH 570

Professor Peter Webb will speak on "Relation modules and Schur multipliers for categories - a continuation"

Real algebraic geometry tutorial: at 11:15 in LindH 409

Professor Kenneth Driessel from Iowa State University will speak on "Ordered rings and fields (continued)"

Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16

Professor Mikio Furuta from University of Tokyo will speak on "What is gauge theory?"

Informal Mathematical Biology: at 5:30 in VinH 570

Dr. Huseyin Coskun will speak on "A mathematical framework for crawling cell motility"

Friday, 29 Sep 2006

Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 6

Charles W. Wampler from General Motors Corporation will speak on "Fiber products and exceptional sets"

Student Combinatorics: at 2:30 in VinH 570

Jessica Striker will speak on "Alternating sign matrices--permutation, poset (and perhaps polytope) perspectives"

Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 570

Stephen Griffeth will speak on "Rational Cherednik algebras and descent bases for coinvariant rings"

Probability: at 3:35 in VinH 206

Professor Sergey Bobkov will speak on "The maximum of linear Bernoulli processes"

Automorphic Forms and Number Theory: at 4:40 in VinH 364

Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Integral moments"

Professor Mikio Furuta, University of Tokyo, will visit the School of Mathematics for one month beginning September 3, 2006. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his residence, Professor Furuta's office will be Vincent Hall 451; you can reach him by phone at 624-4025.

Professor Peter Lax, Courant Institute, will visit the Mathematics Department for two weeks beginning September 18. His visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his residence, Professor Lax's office will be Vincent Hall 512; you can reach him by phone at 626- 9137.

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