

Mathematics Seminars for the week of February 17, 2003
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16Professor Mitchell Luskin
will speak on
"Mathematical and Computational MOdels for Microstructure, Phase Transformation, and Metastability"
Monday
Optimization Seminar:
at 11:00 in LindH 409
-
... Will not meet this week
Student Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 113
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Mr. Eric Harrelson
will speak on "String topology"
Joint AGP & Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
-
Professor E. Getzler
from Northwestern University
will speak on "Relations in the homology of Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces of stable curves and homology of nilpotent Lie algebras"
Real Analysis [Gene Fabes 1937--1997]:
at 4:30 in VinH 207
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... Will not meet this week
Tuesday
IMA Postdoc Seminar:
at 11:15 in LindH 409
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Professor Moritz Diehl
from University of Heidelberg, Germany, IMA
will speak on "Nominal stability for nonlinear model predictive control"
Junior Colloquium:
at 3:30 in VinH 570
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Mr. Leonard Blackburn
will speak on "Transfinite ordinal numbers and their applications"
Wednesday
BROWN BAG SEMINAR:
at 12:00 in LindH 409
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Ms. Lisa Evans
from IMA
will speak on "Master cyclic group problems with applications to cutting planes for integer programming"
Differential Geometry:
at 1:25 in VinH 209
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... Working Seminar - Professor Leung for further information
Special Ordway Lecture Series:
at 3:30 in VinH 6
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Professor Luc Illusie
from Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
will speak on "On the l-adic cohomology of schemes over local fields"
Algebra, Geometry, and Physics:
at 3:30 in VinH 209
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Professor Alexander Turbiner
from University of Mexico and ITEP, Moscow
will speak on "Exact-solvability of rational-trigonometric Olshanetsky-Perelomov Hamiltonians"
P.D.E.:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
-
Kyeong-Hun Kim
will speak on "On the Sobolev space theory of parabolic equations in $C'$ domains"
Thursday
Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations:
at 10:10 in VinH 203B
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... To be announced
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Dr. Marshall Slemrod
from University of Wisconsin, Madison
will speak on "Dynamics of plasma ion-sheaths"
Differential Geometry:
at 2:20 in VinH 570
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... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory:
at 2:30 in VinH 313
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Professor Paul Garrett
will speak on "The Borel-Matsumoto theorem: admissible representations of p-adic reductive groups with Iwahori-fixed vectors"
Colloquium:
at 3:35 in VinH 16
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Professor Mitchell Luskin
will speak on "Mathematical and computational models for microstructure, phase transformation, and metastability"
Friday
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar:
at 10:10 in VinH 570
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Ms Lili Ju
from IMA
will speak on "Cortical surface flattening using discrete conformal mapping with minimal metric distortion"
Topology:
at 2:30 in VinH 207
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... Will not meet this week
Probability:
at 2:30 in VinH 211
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Professor Bert Fristedt
will speak on "Limiting shapes of random Young diagrams generated by random partitions of large integers, I"
Combinatorics:
at 3:35 in VinH 207
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Professor Ken Bogart
from Dartmouth University
will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions:
at 4:30 in VinH 364
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... Will not meet this week
Professoe Luc Illusie from the Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay will visit the School of Mathematics, January 18-February 22, 2003. Professor Illusie's visit is sponsored by the Ordway Endowment. During his visit, Professor Illusie's office will be Vincent Hall 327; you can reach him by phone at 625-2587.\hfill\break\vskip .2cm Professor Ernie Kalnins, University of Waikato, New Zealand, will be visiting the Department during the period February 1-22, 2003. His visit is partially supported by the Visitors Program. During his stay, Professor Kalnin's office will be Vincent Hall 238; you can reach him by phone at 625-1390.
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