University of Minnesota
Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars for the week of February 17, 2003


Colloquium

Thursday, 3:30, in VinH 16

Professor 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
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
... Will not meet this week

Tuesday

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
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
Mr. Leonard Blackburn will speak on "Transfinite ordinal numbers and their applications"

Wednesday

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: at 12:00 in LindH 409
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
... Working Seminar - Professor Leung for further information
Special Ordway Lecture Series: at 3:30 in VinH 6
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
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
... To be announced
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Dr. Marshall Slemrod from University of Wisconsin, Madison will speak on "Dynamics of plasma ion-sheaths"
Differential Geometry: at 2:20 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory: at 2:30 in VinH 313
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
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
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
... Will not meet this week
Probability: at 2:30 in VinH 211
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
Professor Ken Bogart from Dartmouth University will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Automorphic Forms and L-Functions: at 4:30 in VinH 364
... 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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