Colloquia Schedule: Spring 2001


 
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Orange & Blue Bar

Tuesday, January 16 (Special Lecture)
314 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Pilgrim, University of Missouri at Rolla
Title: Combinatorial Rigidity in Complex Dynamics
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Tuesday, January 16 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Bauer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Construction of Heat Flows via Random Holonomy and Applications
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Wednesday, January 17 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Eric Sommers, Harvard University
Title: Some Open Problems in Representation Theory
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Thursday, January 18 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yu Yuan, University of Texas at Austin
Title: A Priori Estimates for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
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Friday, January 19 (Special Lecture)
314 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Ford, University of South Carolina
Title: New Results on the Distribution of Prime Numbers
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Friday, January 19 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Denka Kutzarova-Ford, University of South Carolina
Title: On Tsirelson Type Spaces
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Monday, January 22 (Special Lecture)
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Maria Gordina, University of California at San Diego
Title: Diffusions and Heat Kernel Analysis in Infinite Dimensions
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Tuesday, January 23 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jim Bryan, Tulane University
Title: Counting Curves on K3 Surfaces and Modular Forms
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Thursday, January 25 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Alexander Teplyaev, University of California at Riverside
Title: Analysis on Fractals
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Friday, January 26 (Special Lecture)
314 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Florin Boca, Cardiff University
Title: Non-Commutative Tori - A Scenery for Non-Commutative Fourier Analysis
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Friday, January 26 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Rinat Kedem, University of California
Title: Algebraic Structures in Integrable Field Theories and Statistical Mechanics
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Monday, January 29 (Special Lecture)
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Peter Howard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Title: Stability Criteria for Viscous Shock Waves
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Tuesday, January 30 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Moxun Tang, University of Minnesota
Title: Turing Patterns in the CIMAS Reaction Diffusion System
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Wednesday, January 31 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ilia Binder, Harvard University
Title: Harmonic Measure and Polynomial Julia Sets
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Thursday, February 1 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Xuixong Chen, Princeton University
Title: Extremal Kaehler Metrics and Kaehler Ricci Flow
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Friday, February 2 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Van Ha Vu, Microsoft Research
Title: TBA
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Thursday, February 8 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Peter Kuchment, Wichita State University
Title: Differential Operators on Graphs as Models of Mesoscopic Systems
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Thursday, February 22, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Michal Karonski, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta.
Title: Perfect Matchings and Hamiltonian Cycles in Random Graphs
Abstract

Thursday, March 1, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor John H. Coates, Dept of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge
Title: Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves

Thursday, March 8, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kent Orr, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Title: Knots and Von Neumann Signatures
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Thursday, March 22, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bruce Palka, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Why Things Go Quasi in Higher Dimensions!
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March 26-28, Coble Lectures
Speaker: Michael Artin, MIT
Geometry of Noncommutative Algebraic Surfaces
Monday, March 26, 4:00 p.m., 314 Altgeld Hall: Noncommutative Algebra in Dimension 2
Tuesday, March 27, 4:00 p.m., 314 Altgeld Hall: Noncommutative Projective Surfaces
Wednesday, March 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall: Orders Over Surfaces

Thursday, April 5, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Albert Baernstein, Professor of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: The Stretch Conjecture for Lipschitz Functions in Rn
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Thursday, April 12, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Anthony G. O'Farrell, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Title: Some Problems Involving Dihedral Groups of Maps
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Thursday, April 19, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yongbin Ruan, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Stringy Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds
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Thursday, April 26, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Almut Burchard, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Title: Rearrangement inequalities for multiple integrals
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Thursday, May 3, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Erik Talvila, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Title: Survey of Nonabsolute Integration
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