FOR ITS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
NO. 8                                                         UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS                              JANUARY2002

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

 - Home
 - From the Department Head
 - Promotions
 - Award & Recognitions
 - Academic Visitors
 - President's Award
    for R. McGehee
 - Retirements
 - Conference for N. Krylov's
    60th Birthday
 - Symposium for J. Serrin's
    75th Birthday
 - 2002 Symposiums
       5th Annual Rivière-Fabes
       Conference
       1st Biennial Yamabe
       Symposium
       Conf. for A. Friedman's
       70th Birthday
 - Speaking Invitations &
    Other Notable Activities
 - Undergraduate Program
       Communication Skills
       Thoughts on Writing Skills
       Senior Project Goals
       Changing to Semesters
       NCS-MAA Math Contest
       REU Program
 - Graduate Program
 - MCIM
      Featuring Dr. John Hoffman
 - Mathematics Library
 - AWM Mentor Network
 - News from the Centers
       IMA
       Digital Technology Center
       ITCEP
 - Contacting Us

 

Academic Visitors


Continuing Postdocs and Visiting Faculty

Assistant Professors: Alexander Alekseenko (Novosibirsk State University, partial differential equations, general theory of relativity, inverse problems, optimization theory, numerical algorithms), Margherita Barile (University of Bari, commutative algebra), Mark de Longueville (Ph.D. Berlin Technical University, combinatorics), Douglas Hanes (Ph.D. University of Michigan, commutative algebra), Yong Jung Kim (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, hyperbolic conservation laws, convection-diffusion equations, numerical analysis), Arthur Lim (University of Utah, harmonic analysis and representation theory), Martin Lindquist (Rutgers University, magnetic resonance), Radu Popescu (Ph.D. Columbia University, low dimensional topology), Victor Protsak (Max-Planck Institute, representation theory of Lie groups), Piotr Rybka (Warsaw University, differential equations, calculus of variations and their applications to phase transitions, mathematical models of continua and biology), Dominik Schoetzau (Ph.D. ETH Zurich, finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods), Stephen Tanner (Ph.D. University of Washington, probability theory), Titus Teodorescu (Oklahoma State University, algebraic geometry, vector bundles), Carlos Tolmasky (probability, mathematical finance), Sheng Zhang (Penn State, mathematical modeling and numerical analysis), and Linghai Zhang (Ph.D. Ohio State University, partial differential equations).

Associate Professors: James Louisell (University of Southern Colorado, control theory, delay-differential equations)

Professors: Yakar Kannai (Weizmann Institute, partial differential equations), Elisabeth Logak (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, nonlinear partial differential equations, biomathematics), Fedor Nazarov (Michigan State University, harmonic analysis), Gregory Seregin (Steklov Institute St. Petersburg, applications of calculus of variations and general theory of nonlinear partial differential equations), Bevan Thompson (University of Queensland, applications of methods from nonlinear analysis), and Thomas Zink (University of Bielefeld, algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry).

Postdoctoral Associates, including IMA Postdoctoral Associates who participate in the teaching activities: Jamylle Carter (Ph.D. UCLA, image processing, computer graphics), Vittorio Cristini (Ph.D. Yale University, numerical analysis), Selim Esedoglu (Ph.D. Courant Institute, partial differential equations, computer vision), and Jianliang Qian (Ph.D. Rice University, numerical approximations to Hamilton-Jacobi equations, applied inverse problems).


Distinguished One-Month Ordway Visitors (2001-2002)

The following mathematicians accepted our invitations to visit the School during the current academic year for one-month or longer visits under the Distinguished Ordway Visitors Program.

Professors: Mikhail Kapranov (University of Toronto, algebraic geometry, number theory, representation theory, topology), Jean-Claude Nedelec (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, numerical methods for partial differential equations), Robert OÕMalley (University of Washington, multi-scale methods and singular perturbation analysis), and David Soudry (Tel Aviv University, automorphic forms and L-functions).


Other Visiting Scholars

Professors: Thomas Halverson (Macalester College, combinatorial representation theory), Jay Fillmore (Professor Emeritus, UCSD, geometry), Boris Levitan (Professor Emeritus, Moscow State University, functional analysis, differential equations), Hirokazu Ninomiya (Ryokoku University, differential equations, calculus of variations), Concepcion Muriel Patino (University of Cadiz, mathematical physics), Kurt Scholz (University of St. Thomas, applied mathematics), Thomas Schwartzbauer (Assoc. Professor Emeritus, OSU, probability), Jin-Keun Seo (Yonsei University, partial differential equations), and Geanina Tudose (York University, algebraic combinatorics).

 


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