MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS | ||
Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2003 | ||
| Date | ||
| 1/16 | Wei-Ming Ni, Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Qualitative properties of solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations |
| 1/23 | Huyi Hu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Dynamical System Center, Penn State University | Job Talk - Statistical properties of chaotic dynamical systems |
| 1/29 - 2:10 p.m. | Jiu-Kang Yu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Maryland College Park, Maryland | Job Talk - Smooth models of reductive groups over p-adic fields. Please note special date and time. |
| 1/29 - 4:10 p.m. | Yi-Jen Lee, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey | Job Talk - Torsion invariants insymplectic Floer theories. Please note special date. |
| 1/30 | Xiaodong Yan, Research Fellow Department of Mathematics New York University New York, New York | Job Talk - Non-Lipschitz minimizers for smooth strongly convex functionals. |
| 2/6 | Victor Ostrik, C. L. E. Moore Instructor Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts | Job Talk - Fusion categories. |
| 2/13 | Kalle Karu, Assistant Professor Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts | Job Talk - On rational and nonrational polytopes. |
| 2/17 - 1:50 p.m. | Anna Sfard, Professor The University of Haifa Haifa, Israel | Mathematics as a formof communication: what it means and how it adds to our understanding of teaching and learning Please note special date and time. |
| 2/20 | David Terman, Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus | Job Talk - Geometric singular perturbation analysis of neuronal systems |
| 2/27 | No Colloquium | No Colloquium |
| 3/6 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 3/13 | Frederick Cohen, Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester, New York | Braids, mapping class groups, and homotopy groups |
| 3/20 | Richard Weiss, Professor of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA | Buildings and the Moufang property |
| 3/27 | Eric Sawyer, McKay Professor of Mathematics, McMaster University, Ontario | The degenerate Monge-Ampere equation and a higher dimensional partial Legendre transform |
| 4/3 | Laurent Baratchart , Professor of Mathematics, Unite de recherche INRIA Sophia-Antipolis | AAK-theory in Lp: Hankel operators and meromorphic approximation on the unit circle |
| 4/10 | Lynn Erbe, Professor of Mathematics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Dynamic equations on time scales |
| 4/17 | Shui-Nee Chow, Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta | Nonlinear circuits and singular perturbations |
| 4/22 - 3:00 p.m. | Shiyi Chen, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, | Multiscale simulation of micro- and nano-fluidics Please note special date and time. |
| 4/24 | Herbert Wilf, Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | The patterns of permutations |
| Colloquium, Fall 2002 | ||
| Last Revised: 04/07/03 | ||
| Corrections: mccarthy@math.msu.edu | ||