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Seminars for the week of August 12, 2010
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:35, in VinH 16Professor Robert Gompf
of University of Texas, Austin
will speak on
"The 4-dimensional smooth Poincare conjecture" The generalized Poincare' conjecture has now been settled in all dimensions, except for
dimension 4 in the smooth category, where it remains as perhaps the last of the great classical problems of manifold
topology. We will discuss the history of the problem, and recent developments that may call for reevaluating the
likelihood that the conjecture is true.
Monday, 12 Aug 2010
Working Seminar on Representations of p-adic Groups:
at 1.25 in VinH 311
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Professor Dihua Jiang
will speak on "L-functions for orthogonal groups -- global theory"
Jr. Colloquium:
at 12:20 in VinH 364
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Hui Li
will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Special Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Yng-Ing Lee
from Taiwan University
will speak on "Special solutions to Lagrangian mean curvature flow"
Dynamical Systems Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Professor Nathan Kutz
from University of Washington
will speak on "Models for high-power pulsed lasers"
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2010
IMA Postdoc:
at 11:15 am in LindH 305
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... Will not meet this week
Student Combinatorics Seminar:
at 11:15 in VinH 203B
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Kevin Dilks
will speak on "Kazhdan-Lusztig representations"
Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Robert Gompf
from University of Texas
will speak on "Locally holomorphic maps yield symplectic structures"
Special Ordway Lecture:
at 2:30 in VinH 570
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Professor Gus Lehrer
from University of Sydney
will speak on "Applications to toric varieties"
Topology Seminar:
at 3:30 in VinH 301
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... Will not meet this week
Wednesday, 14 Aug 2010
Climate Change:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Esther Widiasih and Xiao Xiao
will speak on "David vs Goliath: Curve fitting vs Global circulation model predictions of Minnesota climate trend"
Working Seminar on Representations of p-adic Groups:
at 1.25 in VinH 311
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Mr. Lei Zhang
will speak on "Distinguished supercuspidal representations -- a continuation"
Student Seminar on Symplectic Geometry:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Joint Real Analysis PDE Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Sanghyuk Lee
from University of Wisconsin and Seoul National University
will speak on "Restriction estimates for some surfaces with vanishing curvatures"
Student Geometric Analysis Seminar:
at 4:30 in VinH 206
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... Will not meet this week
Thursday, 15 Aug 2010
Mathematical Physics Seminar:
at 11:15 in Vincent Hall 570
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Walter Rusin
will speak on "PDE aspects of the Navier-Stokes equations"
Student Combinatorics Seminar:
at 11:15 in VinH 203B
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... To be announced
Math Club Seminar:
at 12:10 in VinH 120
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... Information not available at time of publication -- Please check the department website for
further information
IMA Seminar on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows:
at 3:30 in Lind Hall 305
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... Will not meet this week
Colloquium:
at 3:30 in VinH 16
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Professor Robert Gompf
from University of Texas, Austin
will speak on "The 4-dimensional smooth Poincare conjecture"
Friday, 16 Aug 2010
Special Applied Mathematics:
at 11:15 in VinH 20
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Dr. Rachel Ward
from Courant Institute
will speak on "Robust and efficient recovery of sparse Legendre polynomials via 11 minimization -- (Note special
day, location and time)"
Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Genetha Anne Gray
from Sandia National Laboratories
will speak on "Identifying and quantifying uncertainty in computational models"
Lie Theory Seminar:
at 1:25 in VinH 311
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Mr. Xin Shen
will speak on "L-functions for orthogonal groups -- local theory"
Algebraic Representation Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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Professor Peter Webb
will speak on "Tilting modules and highest weight categories"
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory:
at 2:45 in VinH 364
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Trivial short-interval bounds in general"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Professor Gus Lehrer
from University of Sydney
will speak on "Reflection subgroups of affine Weyl groups"
Probability Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 213
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... To be announced
Practitioners' Financial Mathematics Seminar:
at 5:30 in VinH 16
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Sandra Paterlini
from University of Modena
will speak on "Efficient and robust estimation for financial returns: an approach based on q-entropy"
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