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Seminars for the week of September 24, 2007
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:20, in VinH 16Chongying Dong
of University of California-SC
will speak on
"The uniqueness of the moonshine vertex operator algebra"
The Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman's construction of the moonshine vertex operator algebra is not only important in Borcherds' proof of the Mckay- Thompson-Conway-Norton's moonshine conjecture, but also fundamental in shaping the theory of vertex operator algebra. It was conjectured by FLM in 1988 that the moonshine vertex operator algebra can be characterized by certain canonical conditions. In this talk, I will present some basics on vertex oeprator algebras and the monstrous moonshine, and report recent progress on proofs of the conjecture. I will also discuss how this conjecture is related to the classification of holomorphic vertex operator algebras with central charge 24.
Monday, 24 Sep 2007
- Dr. Ming Chen will speak on "Existence and stability of solitary waves in an elastic plate"
- Professor Peter Oman will speak on "Goodwillie calculus and a geometric interpretation of homotopical categorfies"
- Professor Peter Rejto will speak on "A note on differentiation under the integral sign"
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Dynamical Systems Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Topology Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Fabes Seminar:
at 4:40 in VinH 570
Tuesday, 25 Sep 2007
- Professor De Witt Sumners from Florida State University will speak on "Random knotting and viral DNA packing: theory and experiments"
- Professor Peter Hinow from Vanderbilt University will speak on "Inverse problems in nanobiology and analysis of an age-structured population model"
- Dr. Kazuma Shimomoto will speak on "The localization problem in characteristic p>0"
- ... Will not meet this week
- ... Will not meet this week
- Professor Su Doree from Augsburg College will speak on "Counting on and coloring the Hanoi Graphs"
- Professor Raman Sanyal from TU Berlin will speak on "The $3^d$-conjecture in dimension 4"
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Applied Mathematics:
at 10:00 in VinH 570
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IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Commutative Algebra Seminar:
at 11:15 in VinH 203A
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Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Jr. Financial Mathematics:
at 2:30 in VinH 570
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Jr. Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 16
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Combinatorics:
at 4:30 in VinH 570
Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007
- Professor Richard McGehee will speak on "An introduction to climate change"
- ... Will not meet this week
- ... Will not meet this week
- Professor Nina Uraltseva from St. Petersburg State University, Russia will speak on "Two-phase parabolic free boundary value problem"
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The Mathematics of Climate Change:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Student Automorphic Forms:
at 1:25 in VinH 311
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PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
Thursday, 27 Sep 2007
- Professor Peter Bates from Michigan State University will speak on "Nonlocal evoluation equations arising in materials and biological sciences"
- Professor Richard McGehee will speak on "Considering graduate school?"
- ... Will not meet this week
- Professor Chongying Dong from University of California-SC will speak on "The uniqueness of the moonshine vertex operator algebra"
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Joint PDE and Applied Mathematics:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Math Club Seminar:
at 12:10 in VinH 120
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Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 16
Friday, 28 Sep 2007
- Professor E. Mckay Hyde from Goldman, Sachs & Co. will speak on "Goldman Sachs: Career opportunities for quantitative individuals"
- ... Will not meet this week because of a conflict meeting with Professor Peter March of the NSF.
- ... Will not meet this week
- Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Less trivial spectral decompositions"
- ... Will not meet this week
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Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Probability Seminar:
at 2:30 in VinH 213
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Computational Biology Seminar:
at 3:35 in EE/CS 3-180
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Automorphic Forms and Number Theory:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Practitioners' Financial Mathematics Seminar:
at 5:30 in VinH 16
