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Colloquium

The Departmental Colloquium, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, meets weekly from 3:20--4:20pm at Vincent Hall 16. Refreshments are served from 3:05--3:20pm at Vincent Hall 120.

Professor Dihua Jiang is the Chair of the Departmental Colloquium for the year 2007--2008. Please contact him (dhjiang@math.umn.edu) if you have a good candidate of colloquium speakers.

Schedule of Fall, 2007

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title  
09/06/07   Nick Katz  
(Ordway Visitor/Princeton University) 		 Elementary-sounding Things We Still Don't Know  
09/13/07   Yi Ni  
(AIM/Columbia University) 		 Heegaard Floer homology and fibred three-manifolds 
09/20/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
09/27/07   Chongying Dong  
(University of California-SC) 		 On the uniqueness of the moonshine vertex operator algebra 
10/04/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium for Today 
10/11/07   Vitali Milman 
(Ordway visitor/Tel Aviv University) 		 Asymptotic Geometric Analysis: Geometrization of Probability  
10/18/07   Kathrin Bringmann  
(U. of MN) 		 Hypergeometric Series, Automorphic Forms, and Mock Theta Functions 
10/25/07   Jeb F. Willenbring  
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 		 The spherical principal series and related problems in classical invariant theory  
11/01/07   Andrew Stuart  
(Ordway visitor/University of Warwick)  		 Sampling Function Space: Applications and Algorithms 
11/08/07   Pierre Berthelot  
(Ordway Visitor/U. de Rennes 1 ) 		 Congruences mod q for the number of rational points of an algebraic variety over a field with q elements  
11/15/07   Arun Ram  
(University of Wisconsin--Madison) 		 Combinatorial Representation Theory 2008-2018 
11/22/07   Thanksgiving 
(U. of MN) 		 Happy Holidays 
11/29/07   Dan Barbasch 
(Cornell University) 		 Unipotent Representations and Unitarity 
12/06/07    
(U. of ) 		 No Colloquium For Today 
12/13/07   Natasa Sesum  
(Columbia University ) 		 title 

Schedule of Spring, 2008

Date: Mo/Day/Year   Colloquium Speaker  Title  
01/24/08   Patrick Shipman  
(University of Maryland-College Park ) 		 Growth and Symmetry: pattern formation on plants 
01/31/08   Nicholas Katz  
(Princeton University) 		 Weiferich Past and Future; A General Conjecture 
02/07/08   Per-Olof Persson  
(MIT) 		 High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics 
02/14/08   Panos Stinis  
(Stanford University) 		 Problem reduction, renormalization and memory 
02/21/08   Atsushi Ichino  
(IAS-Princeton/Osaka City University) 		 Periods of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions 
02/28/08   Sergei Kuksin  
(Ordway visitor/Heriot-Watt University) 		 KAM theory for space-multidimensional Hamiltonian PDE 
03/06/08   Eiji Yanagida  
(Ordway visitor/Tohoku University)  		 Dynamics of global solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation 
03/13/08    
(U. of) 		 No Lecture for Today 
03/20/08   Spring Break  
(U. of MN) 		 Happy Spring Break 
03/27/08   Daniel Spirn 
(U. of MN ) 		 Jacobians and Convergence of Energies 
04/03/08   Ralph Cohen  
(Stanford University) 		 Flat Connections on Riemann surfaces (revisited) 
04/10/08   Leila Schneps  
(University of Paris 6/University of Pennsylvania) 		 Multiple Zeta Values  
04/17/08   Christopher Sogge  
(Johns Hopkins University) 		 How focusing and dispersion influence the solution of certain linear and nonlinear equations 
04/24/08   Chris Leininger  
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 		 Algebra and Dynamics of Surface Homeomorphisms 
05/01/08   Guoliang Yu  
(Vanderbilt University) 		 Metric geometry and rigidity of manifolds 
05/08/08   Irene Fonseca  
(Carnegie Mellon University ) 		 Variational Methods in Materials and Imaging