MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2002

Date
Speaker
Title of the talk
10/3Sergey Fomin,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Loop-erased walks and total positivity
10/7Craig Evans,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley
Phillips Lecture Series (B106 Wells Hall) -
Introduction: linear programming and lagrangian dynamics
10/8Craig Evans,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley
Phillips Lecture Series (B106 Wells Hall) -
Nonlinear PDE and hamiltonian dynamics
10/10Craig Evans,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley
Phillips Lecture Series (B106 Wells Hall) -
Analogies for quantum dynamics
10/17Jianhong Wu,
Professor of Mathematics,
Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics,
York University, Ontario
Time lag and spatial diffusion together:modeling, nonlinear dynamics, numerics and applications to biologicalinvasion
10/24   
10/31Grigory Mikhalkin,
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Gromov-Witten invariants and lattice paths in polygons
11/7James Yorke,
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics,
Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology (IPST),
University of Maryland, College Park
Learning about reality from observation
11/11Kewei Zhang,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Sussex, UK
Separating microstructure
11/14Frank Sottile,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A Gromov-Witten invariant in the real world
11/21Boris Korenblum,
Professor of Mathematics,
University at Albany, SUNY
Complemented invariant subspaces in Bergman spaces and their projectors
11/28Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break
12/5Iosif Polterovich,
Professor of Mathematics,
Universite de Montreal
Heat equation, combinatorics and geometric invariants
12/11David Terman,
Professor of Mathematics,
Ohio State University, Columbus
Neuronal Dynamics
Colloquium, Spring 2003
Last revised: 11/20/02
Corrections: mccarthy@math.msu.edu