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ACTIVITIES Professor Sergey Bobkov was an invited speaker at the Conference in Functional Analysis in Honor of 70th Birthday of Professor A. Pelczynski. The conference was held September 22-29, 2002 in Bedlewo (near Poznan, Poland) and was organized by the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Dihua Jiang was an invited speaker at a number of events: The Midwest workshop in Lie theory, representation theory and automorphic forms, University of Notre Dame, April, 2002; a conference in honor of Professor J. Shalika, on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, the Johns Hopkins University, May, 2002; a conference on Recent Progress in the Langlands Program, Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques (Marseille, France), June, 2002; A Satellite Conference on Number Theory, International Congress of Mathematicians 2002, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, August, 2002; and A Satellite Conference on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, ICM 2002,Weihai, China, August, 2002. He serves on the scientific committees of: a conference in honor of Professor S. Rallis, on Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications, March 27-30, 2003, Univ. of Ohio, Columbus; and the First Summer Graduate School, the Center of Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou, China, July 2003. The famous mathematician S.-T. Yau is the Center’s director. Professor Jiang will give an invited lecture at the first of the two events, and he will give a series of lectures on automorphic forms at the second. Professor Mark Keel gave an invited lecture at the meeting, “Equations aux Derivees Partielles”, in Forges-les-Eaux, France. June 3-7, 2002. Ordway Professor Nicolai Krylov was a co-organizer, with Professor Guiseppe DaPrato (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), of the session on Kolmogorov equations, at the first joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Union of Italian Mathematicians, Pisa, June 12-16, 2002. The speakers were Professors: Marc Freidlin (University of Maryland), Alessandra Lunardi (Universita' di Parma), Boris Rozovskii (University of Southern California at Los Angeles), Franco Flandoli (Universita' di Pisa), Sandra Cerrai (Universita' di Firenze), Sergey Lototsky (University of Southern California at Los Angeles), and Lorenzo Zambotti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). Professor Peter Olver was a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (January-June, 2002). He was a plenary Speaker at the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), Lille, France, July, 2002. ISSAC is the foremost computer algebra conference in the world. He was an invited course lecturer twice during the summer of 2002, giving a series of lectures for graduate students, postdocs and researchers on applications of moving frames, at Fields Institute Special Meeting on Symbolic and Numeric Computation in Geometry, Algebra and Analysis, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, July, 2002 as well as at Summer School in Geometric Numerical Integration, Fevik, Norway, August, 2002. He co-chaired, with Professor Willard Miller, the Local Organizing Committee for the Conference on Foundations of Computational Mathematics which was held here August 5-14, 2002; a note about this conference authored by Professors Miller and Olver appears above in this Newsletter. He was also a member of organizing committees for a workshop on Under- and Overdetermined Systems of Algebraic or Differential Equations, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 18-19, 2002. Furthermore, with Professor Gloria Mari-Beffa (a 1990’s Ph.D. graduate of our department), he organized a Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations at the Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Madison, October 12-13, 2002. Currently he serves on the organizing committees for the following two conferences: Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine, June 23-29, 2003; and Differential Invariants and Invariant Differential Equations, Banff International Research Station, Canada, July 19-24, 2003. Professor Mikhail Safonov gave an invited plenary address “General Properties of Solutions to Second Order Elliptic and Parabolic Equations” at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 12-13, 2002. Professor Sell was a co-organizer for a Workshop on Computational Dynamics, which was held in conjunction with the Conference on Foundations of Computational Mathematics described above. Regents’ Professor Emeritus James Serrin is co-editor, along with Cathleen S. Morawetz and Yakov G. Sinai, of a new book “Selected Works of Eberhard Hopf, with Commentaries”. In June he will also give the Lezione Leonardesca in analysis, sponsored by the Departments of Mathematics of the Universities and Politecnico of Milan. Professor Alexander Voronov served on the Organizing Committee for a “Ramanujan Mathematical Society” conference, held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, June 10-13, 2002. He will be the main lecturer at the workshop on “Geometric Methods in Physics” June 29 - July 6, 2003, in Bialowieza, Poland, and will deliver a mini-course of five lectures on “String Topology” at a school on “Algebraic Topology” at the University of Almeria, Spain, in September, 2003. At the department, he developed a one-semester graduate course “Topics in Mathematical Physics” (Math 8390) and taught this course for the first time in the Fall 2001. The goal is to present recent developments in mathematics related to quantum field theory. The lectures are posted at http://www.math.umn.edu/~voronov/8390/index.html An informal description, by Professor Voronov, of this very interesting course, appears in the Graduate Program section of this newsletter. |