| September 5: |
No colloquium today. |
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| September 12: |
Introduction to the academic year NOTE: There is no colloquium this week. |
| P. M. Fitzpatrick (UMCP) |
| September 19: |
Professor Rao cancelled due to Hurrican Isabel. Rescheduled for
April 23. |
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| September 26: |
No colloquium today. |
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| October 3: |
Yang-Mills flows on Kaehler manifolds |
| Professor Richard Wentworth (Johns Hopkins University), Department of Mathematics |
| October 10: |
Phenomena of Large Dimension |
| Professor Vitali Milman (University of Tel Aviv) |
| October 17: |
Cancelled |
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| October 24: |
Stability and Nonstandard Reduction of Noisy Mechanical Systems |
| Dr. N. Sri Namachchivaya (Director of Non-linear Systems Group, Dept of Aeronautical and Astromantical Engineering), University of Illinois, Urbana |
| October 31: |
Locally convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature with boundary |
| Professor Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins University), Department of Mathematics |
| November 7: |
Is Mathematics the Key to the Universe? Variations on a Theme of
Eugene Wigner This talk is part of the Math Department's Distinguished University Professor series. |
| Professor Stephen Brush (UMCP), Department of History and Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology |
| November 14: |
Multiscale Modeling and Computation of Flow in Heterogeneous Media This is the Fall Aziz Lecture. |
| Professor Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology) |
| November 21: |
Large deviations and wavefronts in reaction-diffusion equations:
some work of Tzong -Yow Lee in this area. This colloquium is in honor of our colleague, Prof. T. Y. Lee |
| Professor Mark Freidlin (UMCP), Department of Mathematics |
| December 5: |
On the Mathematical Legacy of Leon Greenberg This colloquium is in honor of our colleague, Prof. Leon Greenberg |
| Professor Albert Marden (University of Minnesota), Department of Mathematics |
| December 12: |
No colloquium today due to department holiday party. |
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| February 6: |
Geometric Galois Modules |
| Professor Georgios Pappas (Michigan State University), Department of Mathematics |
| February 13: |
Chaos and Atmospheric Predictability This talk is part of the Math Department's Distinguished University Professor series. |
| Professor Eugenia Kalnay (UMCP), Department of Meteorology |
| February 20: |
Adventures in Magnetic Resonance |
| Charles Epstein (University of Pennsylvania) |
| February 27: |
The stochastic dynamics of molecular motors This talk is part of the Math Department's Distinguished University Professor series. |
| Professor Michael Fisher (UMCP), Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology |
| March 5: |
Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Dissipation This is the annual Douglis Lecture |
| Professor Constantine Dafermos (Brown University), Division of Applied Mathematics |
| March 12: |
Incentives and Internet Computation Part the Association for Women in Mathematics Leadership Workshop |
| Professor Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Computer Science Department |
| March 19: |
Monotonicity in Voting Systems This is part of the annual Dynamics Conference. |
| Professor Anthony Quas (University of Memphis), Mathematics Department |
| April 2: |
Fluctuations in Nanoscale Structures This talk is part of the Math Department's Distinguished University Professor Series. |
| Professor Ellen Williams (UMCP), Department of Physics and Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology |
| April 9: |
Diophantine equations and modular forms. |
| Professor Henri Darmon (McGill University), Mathematics Department |
| April 16: |
The crystallographic phase problem This is the annual special Emeriti Colloquium. |
| Professor Herbert Hauptman (Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1985 |
| April 23: |
Anti-eigen and anti-singular values of a matrix
and applications to problems in statistics |
| Professor C. R. Rao (Pennsylvania State University), Department of Statistics |
| May 7: |
Mathematical models for cell motion Aziz Lecture |
| Professor Benoît Perthame (University of Paris VI) |
