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Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of September 16, 2002


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
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
Professor Guido Kanschat from University of Heidelberg will speak on "Multilevel-Preconditioning for discontinuous Galerkin methods"
Junior Colloquium: at 4:00 in VinH 570
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
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
Professor V. Protsak will speak on "Standard monomials and representations of gl(n), Part I"
Colloquium: at 3:35 in VinH 16
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
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
Professor Ruchira Datta from University of California - Berkeley will speak on "Universality of Nash equilibria"
Probability: at 4:15 in VinH 206
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
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


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