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Seminars for the week of April 7, 2008
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:20, in VinH 16Professor Leila Schneps
of Universite de Paris 6, University of Pennsylvania
will speak on
"Multiple zeta values"
Multiple zeta values are the real numbers given by the series $$\zeta(k_1,k_2,\ldots,k_r)=\sum_{n_1>n_2>\cdots >n_r} {{1}\over{n_1^{k_1}\cdots n_r^{k_r}}$$ where the $k_i$ are positive integers, and the convergence of the series is guaranteed by the condition that $k_1>1$. These values generalize the much-studied values of the Riemann zeta function of one variable. The multiple zeta values generate a Q-algebra. They satisfy remarkable combinatorial algebraic relations, which are conjectured to generate all relations between them, which would make them into a set of essentially combinatorial algebraic objects. However, at the same time, the structure of the collection of multiple zeta values seems to bear astonishing relationships with seemingly very different objects from number theory: the structure of the absolute Galois group of the rationals on the one hand, and spaces of modular forms on the other. We will explore the status of and the evidence for these conjectural relations, some of which are much more approachable than others.
Monday, 7 Apr 2008
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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, 8 Apr 2008
- Theoden Netof will speak on "Title: to be announced"
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- Tyler Whitehouse will speak on "High-dimensional sine functions"
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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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Financial Mathematics:
at 2:30 in VinH 570
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Jr. Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 570
Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008
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- Christodoulos A. Floudas from Princeton University will speak on "Recent advances and challenges in deterministic global optimization"
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- Professor M. Taniguchi from Tokyo Institute of Technology will speak on "Pyramidal traveling fronts in the Allen-Cahn equations"
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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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Lie Theory Seminar:
at 11:15 in VinH 301
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PDE:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
Thursday, 10 Apr 2008
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- Patrick Campbell will speak on "Title: to be announced"
- Professor Jongil Park from Seoul National University/MSRI will speak on "New algebraic surfaces with $p_g=0$ and $k^2>0$"
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- Professor Leila Schneps from Universite de Paris 6 will speak on "Multiple zeta values"
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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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Working Seminar:Stochastic techniques in microbiology:
at 2:00 in LindH 409
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Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 16
Friday, 11 Apr 2008
- Professor Professor Jason Morton from Stanford University will speak on "Relations among conditional probabilities"
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- Michael Schendel from Medtronic will speak on "Challenges for numerical analysis in medical device industries"
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- Professor Adrian Diaconu will speak on "Moments of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions over rational function fields"
- Professor Jason Morton from Stanford University will speak on "Algebraic methods for correlated assets"
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Combinatorics:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Student Combinatorics:
at 12:20 in VinH 570
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Student Automorphic Forms:
at 1:25 in VinH 313
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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
Professor Masaharu Taniguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, will visit the School of Mathematics for the month of April 2008. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his visit, his office will be VinH 355; you can reach him by phone at 624-5224.
