Math Department Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2003


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Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host Abstract
Fri Aug 29th, 2003 A. Futaki Tokyo Institute of Technology Special time and location: 11:00am at 901. Strictly scalar-flat manifolds X. X. Chen abstract
Fri Sept. 5th, 2003 J. Rosenthal Notre Dame TBA N. Boston abstract
Fri Sept. 12, 2003 P. Li University of California at Irvine Structural theorems for complete manifolds X.X.Chen abstract
Fri Sept. 19, 2003 S. Fomin University of Michigan TBA Arun Ram abstract
Fri Oct. 3rd, 2003 R. Cohen Stanford University String theory and algebraic topology Alejandro Adem abstract
Fri Oct. 10, 2003 A. Kirillov University of Pennsylvania Analysis on fractals and non-commutative number systems Arun Ram abstract
Fri Oct 17, 2003 P. Sarnak Courant-NYU & Princeton University Ramanujan Graphs(LAA Lecture) R. Brualdi abstract
Fri Oct 24, 2003 R. Bryant Duke University The talk will be rescheduled X. X. Chen abstract
Wed Oct 29, 2003 Paul Gauduchon Ecole Polytechnique Bochner-flat geometry of weighted projective spaces X.X. Chen abstract
Fri Oct 31, 2003 Peter Markowich University of Vienna Talk is cancelled Shi Jin abstract
Fri Nov. 7, 2003 P. Constantin University of Chicago TBA A. Kiselev abstract
Wed Nov. 12, 2003 Nancy Kopell Boston University Rhythms in the nervous system: From cells to behavior via dynamics(Wolfgang Wasow Memorial Lecture) R. Brualdi abstract
Fri Nov. 14, 2003 Mei-Chi Shaw Notre dame University Estimates for the d-bar - Neumann problem and nonexistence of Levi-flat hypersurfaces in CP^n X.H. Gong abstract
Fri Nov. 21, 2003 J. Ellenberg Princeton University Counting field extensions and rational points on quotients K. Ono and N. Boston abstract
Monday, Dec. 1st, 2003 F. B. Hang Princeton University The approximation problem for Sobolev maps between manifolds S. Angenent abstract
Wed.. Dec. 3, 2003 Govind Menon University of Wisconsin Dynamic scaling in models of coalescence Paul Milewski abstract
Fri.. Dec. 5, 2003 Jason Schweinsberg Cornell University Using random partitions to approximate the effect of beneficial mutations on the genealogy of a population Timo Seppalainen abstract
Wed. Dec. 10, 2003 D. Freed University Of Texas at Austin Dirac operators and representation theory Alejandro Adem abstract
Fri. Jan. 30, 2004 Jason Starr MIT TBA Y. B. Yuan abstract
Fri. Feb. 6, 2004 Guido Weiss Washington University, St.Louis A unified theory of reproducing systems for $L^2(R^n)$ S. Wainger abstract
Fri. Feb. 13, 2004 Gabriel Navarro University of Valencia, Spain Representation theory of finite groups: local problems Martin Isaacs abstract
Monday. March 8th, 2004 S. Smale University of California at Berkeley Shannon Sampling, Learning Theory and Reconstructing Functions from Point Values. J. Mitchell and J. Robbin abstract
Fri. March 12th, 2004 B. Kleiner University of Michigan The asymptotic geometry of negatively curved spaces X.X. Chen abstract
Fri. April 9th, 2004 Jeff A. Viaclovsky MIT Compactification of moduli spaces in Riemannian geometry X. X. Chen abstract
Mon. April 12th, 2004 Max Karoubi University of Paris VII Bott periodicity in topological, algebraic and hermitian K-theory A. Adem abstract
Fri. April 16, 2004 Craig Tracy UC-Davis Distribution functions for largest eigenvalues and their applications R. Brualdi abstract
Fri. April 23rd, 2004 George Pappas Michigan State University Geometric Galois modules T. H. Yang abstract
Wednesday, April 28rd, 2004 Andrzej Zuk ENS-Lyon and University of Chicago. TBA N. Boston abstract
Thur. April 29th, 2004 Hildebrandt University of Bonn Plateau's problem for parametric variational integrals, and Lichtenstein's Theorem(distinguish lecture) P. Rabinowitz abstract
Monday, May 3rd, 2004 Hildebrandt University of Bonn Regularity of minimizers to parametric variational problems (Joint Geometry/Applied math/PDE seminar) P. Rabinowitz abstract
Friday, May 7th, 2004 R. Bryant Duke University Aufwiedersehn Surfaces, Revisited X. X. Chen abstract
Friday, September 10th, 2004 Itay Ben-Yaacov Univ. of Wisconsin TBA Steffen Lempp abstract
Monday, September 13rd, 2004 Michael Christ UC-Berkeley TBA (Wasow lecture) Andreas Seeger abstract
Friday, September 17rd, 2004 Xianzhe Dai UCSB TBA X.X. Chen abstract
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 Barry Mazur Harvard TBA (Hilldale lecture) N. Boston abstract
Fri., Oct. 1st, 2004 Bob Guralnick University of Southern California TBA Marty Isaacs abstract
Fri., Oct. 8th, 2004 Gerhard Michler University of Essen TBA Don Passman abstract
Fri., Oct. 22th, 2004 W. Ziller University of Pennsylvanian TBA X.X. Chen abstract
Fri., Nov 5th, 2004 X. S. Lin University of California at Riverside TBA Y. B. Ruan abstract
Fri., Nov. 12th, 2004 Tom Haines University of Maryland TBA Arun Ram abstract
Fri, Dec. 3rd, 2004 Olver, P. University of Minnesota TBA Maria-Beffa and X. Chen abstract
Fri, Dec. 10th, 2004 John McCleary Vassar College TBA Arun Ram and J. Supanich abstract

All talks will be at 4:00 pm in B239 unless otherwise noted