| September 6: |
Welcome to the Academic Year Celebration |
| Prof. Michael Fitzpatrick (Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park) |
| September 13: |
Factorization of Matrix Functions and Applications |
| Professor Israel Gohberg (Tel Aviv University), icg@math.umd.edu |
| September 20: |
The Colloquium will not meet on this day becaue of the of the Wednesday, September 18 lecture by Dr. Stephen Wolfram. Title: A New Kind of Science; Time: 4:30pm; Place: Stamp Student Union, Grand Ballroom. |
| Dr. Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research, Inc.) |
| September 27: |
The Poisson random set and its applications to wireless
telephony and cosmology |
| Professor Larry Shepp (Rutgers University Statistics Department) |
| October 4: |
Complex Hyperbolic Triangle Groups This is the first in the department's ICM Lecture Series |
| Professor Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland College Park), res@math.umd.edu |
| October 11: |
Some personal thoughts about pure and applied mathematics and science and
mathematical education. |
| Professor Guido Weiss (Washington University in Saint Louis) |
| October 25: |
Applications of Orbit Equivalence to Actions of Discrete
Amenable Groups This is the second in the department's ICM Lecture Series |
| Professor Daniel Rudolph (University of Maryland College Park) |
| October 28: |
Topology and Sobolev Spaces This is the annual Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture. Note the special day and time: Monday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. |
| Professor Haim Brezis (Universite de Paris VI, Insitiut Universitaire de France, and Rutgers University) |
| November 1: |
Thurston's ending lamination conjecture and the classification of
hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| Yair Minsky (State University of New York, Stony Brook) |
| November 8: |
Asymptotic Geometry of Polynomials |
| Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins University) |
| November 15: |
On the Problems of Atiyah About L^2 Betti Numbers |
| Andrzej Zuk (University of Chicago) |
| November 22: |
High Resolution Methods for Time Dependent Problems
with Piecewise Smooth Solutions This is the third in the department's ICM Lecture Series |
| Professor Eitan Tadmor (Department of Mathematics, Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), and Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM), University of Maryland, College Park), tadmor@math.umd.edu |
| December 6: |
Aziz Lecture: The Regularity of Minimizers in Elasticity |
| Professor John Ball (Oxford University), ball@maths.ox.ac.uk |
| December 13: |
The Mathematics of Analogue to Digital Encoding |
| Professor Ron DeVore (University of South Carolina), devore@math.sc.edu |
| January 31: |
Faculty Meeting on the VIGRE Proposal. |
| Dr. P.M. Fitzpatrik (Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland , College Park), pmf@math.umd.edu |
| February 7: |
Nonlinear Dynamics in the Wake of Solid Objects
This Colloquium was cancelled because the Campus was closed due to snow. |
| Dr. Katepalli Sreenivasan (Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park), sreeni@ipst.umd.edu |
| February 14: |
Nonlinear Rescaling in Constrained Optimization. (Primal,
Dual and Primal-Dual aspects). |
| Prof. Roman A. Polyak (SEOR & Mathematical Sciences Department, George Mason University), rpolyak@gmu.edu |
| February 21: |
Representations of matroids |
| Prof. Edward Swartz (Cornell University), edward_swartz@yahoo.com |
| February 28: |
Billiards, Riemann Surfaces and Number Theory |
| Professor Alex Eskin (Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago), eskin@math.uchicago.edu |
| March 7: |
Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System
This is the Spring '03 Aziz Lecture. Professor Quarteroni will also be speaking on Mathematics Goes Sailing to the America's Cup in the Applied Math Colloquium, 3:30pm on March 6. |
| Professor Alfio Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy) and EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)), Alfio.Quarteroni@epfl.ch |
| March 14: |
Recent Progress in the Mathematical Analysis of Vortex Sheets This is the fourth in the Department's ICM Series |
| Professor Sijue Wu (University of Maryland College Park), sijue@math.umd.edu |
| March 21: |
On Spontaneous Emergence of Opinions
Dynamics Conference Lecture |
| Professor Michael Keane (Department of Mathematics, Wesleyan University), mkeane@wesleyan.edu |
| April 4: |
Invariant Theory and Quantum Computation |
| Professor Roger E. Howe (Department of Mathematics, Yale University), howe@math.yale.edu |
| April 11: |
Deriatives of Eisenstein Series and Arithmetic Geometry This is the fifth in the Department's ICM Lecture Series |
| Professor Steve Kudla (University of Maryland College Park), ssk@math.umd.edu |
| April 11: |
The Phase Problem in X-ray Crystalography Special Colloquium. Note the day and time: Friday, April 11, 11:00am. |
| Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (President, The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute), hauptman@psc.edu |
| April 18: |
The Vlasov-Maxwell System
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| Professor Robert Glassey (Indiana University), glassey@indiana.edu |
| April 25: |
The Evolution of Biocomplexity and Biocomplexity Research This colloquium is part of the Mathematics Department's Annual Celebration of Retired Colleagues. |
| Dr. Simon Levin (Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University), slevin@princeton.edu |
| April 30: |
First and Second Order Perturbation Calculations in Smooth Ergodic
Theory
Special Colloquium. Note the day: Wednesday, April 30. |
| Professor David Ruelle (IHES, Paris), ruelle@ihes.fr |
| May 02: |
TBA There will be no Colloquium on this day because of the Annual CMPS Academic Festival. |
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| May 09: |
The Ground State of String Theory |
| Professor Katrin Becker (Physics Department, University of Utah), katrin@physics.utah.edu |
