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Colloquium Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: Chris Laskowski/Niranjan Ramachandran



Schedule for Academic Year 2000-2001

September 8: Fluid Dynamical Limits for the Boltzmann Equation
C. David Levermore (UMCP)
September 15: On two-sided bounds for eigenvalues
Hans Weinberger (University of Minnesota)
September 22: The structure of surface diffeomorphisms
Sheldon Newhouse (Michigan State University)
September 27: Topology and gravity in dimensions two and four Note change in time and date: Wednesday, September 27th at 4pm in Room 3206
Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins University), Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, jack@math.jhu.edu
October 13: Modular generating functions and arithmetic geometry
Stephen Kudla (UMCP)
October 20: Eigenvalue Approximations from Subspaces
Henk van der Vorst (Utrecht University), The Netherlands
October 27: Poincare-Pontrjagin Duality for Differential Characters Detailed abstract PS

H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. (State University of New York, Stony Brook), blaine@math.sunysb.edu
November 03: Collapsing 4-manifolds and a moduli space
Takao Yamaguchi (University of Kyushu), takao@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp
November 06: Bezout-type theorems for solutions of polynomial differential equations. Special time and date: 4:15pm in 3206 on Monday 6th November
Sergei Yakovenko (Weizmann Institute)
November 17: Locally analytic p-adic representation theory
Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Illinois at Chicago), SEO 322, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607, jeremy@uic.edu
December 01: Universality, conformal invariance, and the dimension of the Brownian frontier
G. Lawler (Duke University), Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320 , jose@math.duke.edu
December 08: Mathematical Formulations of Some Time-Dependent Problems in Materials Science
John W. Cahn (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, john.cahn@nist.gov
February 09: Dynamics: Beyond uniform hyperbolicity
Marcelo Viana (IMPA, Brasil), viana@impa.br
February 16: no colloquium this week
February 23: Einstein Metrics, Minimal Volumes, and Diffeomorphism Types.
Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook), Department of Mathematics SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3651, claude@math.sunysb.edu
February 28: Vector field methods and regularity properties of non-linear wave equations. ***On Wednesday at 3:00****
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University)
March 2: Exact Solutions to the Transportation Problem on the Line ***At 11:00am***Monroe H. Martin Prize Lecture***
Robert J. McCann (University of Toronto)
March 02: The general theory of exact relations for effective moduli of polycrystals ***Monroe H. Martin Prize Lecture
Yuri Grabovsky (Temple University)
March 09: Statement and proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
Paul Baum (Pennsylvania State University), baum@math.psu.edu
March 16: Group actions on one-manifolds ***This is part of the Maryland Dynamics Conference***
John Franks (Northwestern University)
March 23: No Colloquium (Spring Break)
March 30: The differentiable structure for the space of probability measures and the realization of Markov processes as integral curves
Daniel Stroock (MIT), dws@math.mit.edu
April 06: Recent progress on high dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations
Fanghua Lin (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), 251 Mercer St. New York, NY 10012, U.S.A, lin@cims.nyu.edu
April 13: ***No colloquium this week***
April 20: Shock wave theory  ***6th Annual Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture***
Tai-Ping Liu (Stanford Univ.), liu@math.stanford.edu
April 23: Recent approaches in the treatment of subgrid scales ***Special Math Colloquium: Aziz Lecture***
Franco Brezzi (Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR and Dipartimento di Matematica), Universita di Pavia, Italy
April 27: Topology of complex surface singularities.
Walter Neumann (Columbia University)
May 04: *** No colloquium this week ***
May 11: Dynamics on K3 surfaces
Curt McMullen (Harvard University)