Mathematics
Department Colloquium
1997-1998
Time: Fridays, 3:00 pm
Location: 3206MTH, 3rd floor auditorium
Organizers: H. Glaz
hmg@math.umd.edu
and K. Grove
kng@math.umd.edu
Schedule of Talks
Sept. 5 Supersymmetry,
D. Kazhdan, Harvard University
Sept. 12 Intermittent Behavior of the Heat Equation
with Random Potential,
Jurgen Gartner, Technical University Berlin
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Sept. 19 A brief history of the application of mathematics
to finance,
Dilip Madan, UMCP, College of Business and Management
Sept. 26 Huygens principle and Darboux
transformations: Hadamard's conjecture revisited,
A. P. Veselov, University of Loughboro, UK
Oct. 3 A new estimator with error bounds for
information dimension,
G. Keller, University of Erlangen
Oct. 10 Free boundary problems for the porous medium
equation,
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University and UC San Diego
Oct. 17 No Seminar
Oct. 24 CIRCLES IN THE SKY: FINDING TOPOLOGY WITH THE
MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION,
Neil Cornish, Relativity Group, DAMTP, Cambridge University
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Oct. 31 Degree Theory and Symmetries,
Jorge Ize, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Nov. 7 Boolean-theoretic methods in the
theory of quadratic forms,
Max Dickmann, University of Paris VII
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Nov. 14 No Seminar,
Nov. 21 Soliton Equations and Differential Geometry,
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern and IAS
Dec. 5 Matrix Theory and Nocommutative Geometry,
Albert Schwarz, UC Davis
Jan. 30 Whitehead theory of discrete subgroups of
Lie groups,
T. Farrell, SUNY \@ Binghamtom
Feb. 5 -- 3:30 PM ; SPECIAL (Thursday!) COLLOQUIUM
Stable and Metastable States,
Michael I. Weinstein, University of Michigan
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Feb. 6 Manifolds of positive scalar curvature and the
Baum-Connes conjecture,
S. Stolz, Notre Dame
Feb. 13 The solution of the equichordal point problem
and multi-valued algebraic dynamics,
Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona at Tuscon
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Feb. 20 The Invariant Subspace Problem for
Positive Operators,
Yuri Abramovich, IUPUI
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Feb. 27 What is a motive?,
Marc Levine, Northeastern University
March 6 GPS and the Kalman Filter,
G. Strang, MIT
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March 13 Compactifying infinite group actions,
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University
March 20 Statistical Hydrodynamics and Hyperbolic
Dynamics,
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
Spring Dynamics Conference
March 27 No Seminar, Spring Break,
April 3 Riemann Sums on Locally Compact Groups,
Kenneth Ross, University of Oregon
April 10 Random and Deterministic Perturbations of
Nonlinear Oscillators,
Mark Freidlin, UMCP
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April 17 Third Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture
An Example of Diffusion-Induced Blowup of a Parabolic System,
Hans Weinberger, University of Minnesota
April 24 Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems Arising in
Optics,
Charles Stuart, École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne
May 1 Adapted Wavelet Analysis from Theory to
Software,
Victor Wickerhausr, Washington University, St. Louis
May 8 Divisibility of Coefficients of Modular Forms
and Number Theoretic Applications,
Ken Ono, Penn State University
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