

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 16, 2002
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Peter Li
of University of California - Irvine
will speak on
"Function theory on manifolds and some recent applications to geometry and topology"
Monday
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 207
-
Professor Sergey Bobkov
will speak on "Sobolev isoperimetric constants for convex bodies"
Tuesday
Optimization Seminar:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
-
... To be announced
Commutative Algebra-Algebraic Geometry:
at 12:20 in VinH 207
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Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
will speak on "Virtual fundamental classes via dg-manifolds"
Student Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 113
-
Mr. Kuerak Chung
will speak on "n-fold symmetric product spaces (continued)"
Differential Geometry:
at 3:00 in VinH 203B
-
... Working Seminar - Contact Professor Leung for further information
Applications of Math and Numerical Analysis:
at 3:00 in VinH 570
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Professor Guido Kanschat
from University of Heidelberg
will speak on "Multilevel-Preconditioning for discontinuous Galerkin methods"
Junior Colloquium:
at 4:00 in VinH 570
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Professor Scot Adams
will speak on "The Banach-Tarski paradox"
Wednesday
P.D.E.:
at 3:30 in VinH 207
-
Professor Christof Melcher
will speak on "Singular perturbation and logarithmic domain wall structures"
Thursday
Differential Geometry:
at 2:30 in LindH 216
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Professor John McCuan
from Georgia Tech
will speak on "Pseudo-regularity for convex subsolutions in two dimensions"
Lie Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 203B
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Professor V. Protsak
will speak on "Standard monomials and representations of gl(n), Part I"
Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
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Professor Peter Li
from University of California - Irvine
will speak on "Function theory on manifolds and some recent applications to geometry and topology"
Friday
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
-
... Will not meet this week
Special Lecture:
at 11:15 in VinH 301
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Professor Tom Ilmanen
from ETH Zurich
will speak on "Harnack inequality and higher regularity of inverse mean curvature flow"
Yamabe Memorial Symposium - 3:00 Friday - 12:00 Sunday:
at 3:30 in VinH 16
-
... Speakers will be Rick Schoen (Stanford University), Hubert Bray (MIT), Fang-Hua Lin (Courant Institute), Brian White (Stanford University), Peter Li (Univ. of California - Irvine), Gang Tian (MIT), Ben Chow (Univ. of California - San Diego) and Richard Hamilton (Columbia University). See http://www.math.umn.edu/~gulliver/confs/yamabe.html
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Ruchira Datta
from University of California - Berkeley
will speak on "Universality of Nash equilibria"
Probability:
at 4:15 in VinH 206
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Professor Richard Sowers
from University of Illinois
will speak on "Stochastic averaging and stratified spaces"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 4:35 in VinH 364
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "Spectral properties of automorphic forms (continued)"
Professor Peter Li is presently visiting the School of Mathematics from the University of California, Irvine for the period September 3-26, 2002. Professor Li's visit is made possible by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, his office is Vincent Hall 535.\hfill\break\indent Professor Dominik Schotzau, University of Basel, will be visiting the School of Mathematics September 14-October 2, 2002. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his visit here, Professor Schotzau's office will be Vincent Hall 235; you can reach him by phone at 625-1858
www@math.umn.edu
Updated Mon Sep 16 16:00:31 CDT 2002
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