Spring 2004
Date	Speaker	Topic
January 20	Will not meet	First day of class
January 27	Dr. Don Kahn	Origins of topology: vector calculus, graphs, and physics (VinH 570)
February 3	Jonathan Rogness	Sphere packing and the kissing problem
February 10	Muge Taskin	The Ferrers shapes of finite posets and the Robinson-Schensted (RSK) correspondence
February 17	Dr. Scot Adams	Hillel Furstenberg's proof of the Szemeredi Theorem
February 24	Dr. Hillel Furstenberg (Ordway Lecturer)	Patterns in the stars, recurrence in dynamical systems, and the combinatorial background for non-conventional ergodic theorems
March 2	Special Jr. Colloquium:	VIGRE and the future of the graduate program in mathematics
March 9	Dr. Simon Morgan	Soap films, minimal surfaces and geometric measure theory
March 16	Will not meet	Spring break
March 23	Upali Karunathilake	A representation for certain solutions to Burger's equation
March 30	Patrick Stein	N-dimensional visualization through raytracing
April 6	Dr. Douglas Arnold	Stable and Unstable Discretization of Partial Differential Equations
April 13	Yang-Jin Kim	Angiogenesis and mathematical modeling
April 20	Prof. Maxim Kontsevich (Ordway Lecturer)	Affine Structures and Non-Archimedian Geometry
April 27	Yu-Wen Chiu	Modelling of Biological Networks
May 4	Radek Erban	Random Walks, Multiscale Modelling and Partial Differential Equations in Biology