FOR ITS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
NO. 7                                                          UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS                              FEBRUARY 2000


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Home
-From the Department Head
-Promotions
-Award & Recognitions
-Academic Visitors
-Retirements & Resignations
-Symposium for Prof. Serrin's
  75th Birthday
-Speaking Invitations &
  Other Notable Activities
-Conference for Prof. Krylov's
  60th Birthday
-Conference for Prof.
  Aronson's 70th Birthday
-Riviere-Fabes Symposium
-Actuarial Program
-Research Experiences for
  Undergraduates
-School of Math Fall Picnic
-School of Math Holiday Party
-NCS-MAA Mathematics Contest
-Graduate Program
-MN Center for Industrial
  Mathematics
-IMA Math Modeling Wkshop
-IMA Update
-Contacting Us


ACADEMIC VISITORS

CONTINUING PROFESSORS AND VISITING FACULTY
Assistant Professors: Shaun Cooper (Massey University, New Zealand, combinatorics), Liliana Forzani (INTEC Guemes, Argentina, harmonic analysis), Douglas Hanes (Ph.D. University of Michigan, commutative algebra), Cynthia Kaus (Ph.D. Brandeis, education, applied mathematics), Vladimir Markovic (Ph.D. Belgrad University, complex analysis), David Nicholls (Ph.D. Brown University, fluid dynamics, numerical methods), Ilaria Perugia (University of Pavia, Italy, numerical analysis), Henri Schurz (Ph.D. Humboldt University, Berlin, stochastic analysis), Soogil Seo (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, number theory), Stephen Tanner (Ph.D. University of Washington, probability theory), and Linghai Zhang (Ph.D. Ohio State University, partial differential equations).

Associate Professors: Tatsuhiko Tabara (Golden Gate University, San Francisco, ordinary differential equations), Stephen Taylor (University of Auckland, New Zealand, partial differential equations and control theory), Grozdena Todorova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ordinary differential equations, hyperbolic partial differential equations).

Professors: Borys Bazalyi (Institute of Applied Mathematics, Donetsk, Ukraine, fluid dynamics), Shouchuan Hu (Southwestern Missouri State University, nonlinear functional analysis, multivalued analysis), Elisabeth Logak (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, nonlinear partial differential equations, bio mathematics)

Postdoctoral Associates, including IMA Postdoctoral Associates who participated in the teaching activities: Yalchin Efendiev (Ph.D. Caltech, numerical methods, scientific computation), Takumi Hawa (Ph.D. Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, theoretical and computational fluid dynamics), Yong Jung Kim (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, applied mathematics, partial differential equations), Alexei Novikov (Ph.D. Stanford, partial differential equations and numerical methods), Moxun Tang (Ph.D. University of Alberta, differential equations, dynamical systems, mathematical biology), and Nianqing Wang (Ph.D. University of Michigan, mathematical biology).

DISTINGUISHED ONE-MONTH ORDWAY VISITORS (2000-2001)
The following mathematicians accepted our invitations to visit the School during the current academic year for one-month visits under the Distinguished Ordway Visitors Program.

Professors: Mariano Giaquinta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, calculus of variations, nonlinear partial differential equations), Nicholas Katz (Princeton, number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry), John Mallet-Paret (Brown University, dynamical systems), Howard Masur (University of Illinois Chicago, geometry and dynamics), Michael Rapoport (University of Cologne, arithmetic algebraic geometry), James Sethian (UC Berkeley, applied mathematics, numerical analysis), and Neil Trudinger (Australian National University Canberra, analysis, partial differential equations).

OTHER VISITORS
Professors: Santiago Betelu (University of Buenos Aires, fluid dynamics, nonlinear diffusions), Jeongwook Chang (Seoul National University, differential geometry), Roger Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, geometric analysis), Tatsuo Itoh (Tokai University, Japan, partial differential equations), Yukio Kan-on (Ehime University, Japan, partial differential equations and applications), Hobum Kim (Yonsei University, S. Korea, differential geometry, foliations, dynamical systems), Yonghoi Koo (University of Connecticut, differential geometry, parabolic partial differential equations),Hyeong-Gi Lee (Ph.D. New York University, computational fluid dynamics), Boris Levitan (Minneapolis, functional analysis, differential equations), Robert Liptser (Tel-Aviv University, probability), and Thomas Schwartzbauer (Minneapolis, probability).

 


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