Colloquia Schedule: Spring 2000


 
Talks will be delivered on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. usually in 245 Altgeld Hall
or occasionally in 314 Altgeld Hall when indicated.

Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, January 10 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Chongchun Zeng
Title: Homoclinic Orbits and Chaos for Dissipative Near Integrable PDEs

Tuesday, January 11 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Konstantina Travisa
Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Wednesday, January 12 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Doron Levy, Department of Mathematics, UC-Berkeley and LBNL
Title: Optimal Prediction Methods for Nonlinear PDEs

Thursday, January 13 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Lev Rozansky
Title: Beyond the Alexander Polynomial

Friday, January 14 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Leonid Ryzhik
Title: Advection Enhanced Reaction-Diffusion

Monday, January 24 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Grinberg
Title: Gradient-Like Flows and Self-Indexing in Stratified Morse Theory

Tuesday, January 25 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Erik Guentner, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Title: Non-Commutative Geometry, the Novikov and Exactness Conjectures

Wednesday, January 26 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Rezk
Title: Modular Forms and Homotopy Groups

Thursday, January 27 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Gabor Francsics, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York
Title: Spectrum of the automorphic Laplace-Beltrami Operator on Complex Hyperbolic Spaces

Wednesday, February 2 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Roland Speicher
Title: Free Propability Theory and Free Diffusion

Friday, February 4 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Isaev, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Title: Characterization of Complex Manifolds by the Groups of their Holomorphic Automorphisms

Monday, February 7 (Special Seminar)
155 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ms. Anna Mazzucato, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: The Navier-Stokes Equations in New Distribution Spaces
Abstract.

Monday, February 7 (Special Seminar)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph Rojas, City University of Hong Kong
Title: Points, Curves, Surfaces, and the Frontier to Tractability
Abstract.

Thursday, February 10
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: John E. Conway, Princeton University (visiting Northwestern University spring semester)
Title: The Fifteen Theorem
Abstract.

Thursday, February 24
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Mario Bonk, University of Michigan
Title: Negative Curvature in Analysis
Abstract.

Thursday, March 2
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Loui, Graduate College and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
Title: Ethics in Scientific Research: Plagiarism Issues
Abstract.

Tues-Thurs, March 7-9: Coble Memorial Lectures
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: George E. Andrews, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Title: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Tues., March 7
The Rogers-Ramanujan Identities: Some History and Recent Developments, Wed., March 8
Partitions and Positivity, Thurs., March 9
Abstracts.

Tuesday, March 21
143 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
Title: Analytical Properties of Brownian Sheet

Thursday, March 23
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Manfred Denker, University of Goettingen, Germany
Title: Exact Group Extensions
Abstract.

Thursday, March 30
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Theme and Variations: New Variations on the Old Theme of Classifying Self-Dual Codes
Abstract.

Wed-Fri, April 5-7: Trjitzinsky Lectures
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Elliott Lieb, Princeton University
Title: Wed., April 5: The Quantum Mechanical World View: A Highly Successful but Still Incomplete Theory
Thurs., April 6: The Mathematics and Physics of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Fri., April 7: The Bose Gas: A Subtle Many-Body Problem
Abstracts.

Thursday, April 13
no lecture today

Thursday, April 20
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vera Serganova
Title: A Generalization of Harish-Chandra Modules for Lie Algebras
Abstract.

Thursday, April 27
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Benson Farb
Title: tba

Friday, May 12
165 Everitt Lab, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Karen K. Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Integrable Systems in Geometry: The Geometric Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation
Abstract.

Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can be submitted using the new submission form, or send complete information to Hilda Britt. Deadline for inclusion in the weekly calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts. Please send items for inclusion in "Announcements" and "Conferences" to the webmaster.

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