Colloquium 1999-00

September 2 Gianluca Guadagni: "Introduction to the computer facilities and software in the Mathematics department"

September 9 Kailash Misra (NC State University): "Representations of Quantum Groups and Crystal bases''; Contact: B. Parshall

September 16 Herbert Abels (University of Bielefeld): "Properly discontinuous groups of affine transformations"; Contact: A. Rapinchuk

September 22 Felix Browder (AMS President and Rutgers University): "Where is mathematics going, and why?''; Contact: J. Howland

Joint Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium:
October 1 Eugene Seneta (UVa and University of Sydney): "Sampling, Politics and History: Jefferson and the US Census in the Year 2000"; Contact: K. Parshall & S. Garren

October 7 Tavan Trent (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa): "Operator theory and Nevanlinna-Pick problems"; Contact: T. Kriete

Joint Seminar with the Center for Biomathematical Technology
October 21 Steve Pincus: "Approximate entropy as a measure of sequential irregularity"; Contact: M. Johnson, A. Burchard

October 28 Benn Mann (NSF and University of New Mexico): "On the Geometry, Topology of certain holomorphic mapping spaces and their connections with moduli spaces"; Contact: N. Kuhn

November 11 Dave Witte (Oklahoma State University): "Superrigid subgroups of solvable Lie groups"; Contact: L. Lifschitz

November 16 Arturo Pianzola (University of Alberta): "Simple Lie algebras, coverings, and Galois descent"; Contact: L. Scott, B. Parshall

November 18 Wojciech Chacholski (Yale University): "A new look at some traditional theorems in algebraic topology"; Contact: N. Kuhn

December 2 Mary Pugh (University of Pennsylvania and NYU Center for Neural Science): "Modeling thin liquid films subject to long-wave instabilities -- singularities, steady states, and their properties"; Contact: A. Burchard

December 9 Tom Kennedy (University of Arizona): "Periodic structures from classical interactions"; Contact: K. Haller

January 14 Chongchun Zeng (Courant Institute): "Homoclinic orbits and chaos for dissipative near-integrable PDE"; Contact: I. Herbst

January 16 Jiahong Wu (University of Arizona): "Zero dissipation limits in Mechanics"

January 19 Slava Krushkal (Yale University): "Topological classification of 4-manifolds"

January 24 Alexander Dvorsky: "Deformation quantization and analysis on Lie groups"

January 27: Feng Xu (University of Oklahoma)

February 4 Qing Xiang: "Difference sets with classical parameters and their p-ranks"

February 7 Min Yang (Columbia University): "Moments for exit times"

February 9 Vadim Zharnitsky: "Stabilizing effects of dispersion management"

February 11 Ilya Kapovich: "Nielsen methods and the subgroup structure of word-hyperbolic groups"

March 9 Laszlo Erdos (Georgia Institute of Technology): "Derivation of kinetic equations from Quantum Mechanics"; Contact: A. Burchard

March 23 Herbert Koch (University of Heidelberg): "Well-posedness for the Navier-Stokes equation"; Contact: I. Lasiecka

April 6 Andrzej Swiech (Georgia Institute of Technology): L^p-Theory for fully nonlinear uniformly parabolic equations; Contact: I. Lasiecka

April 13 Peter Webb (University of Minnesota and UVa): "Understanding groups from their actions on spaces"

April 20 Richard Weiss (Tufts University): "Moufang polygons"; Contact: L. Lifschitz

April 27 Don Davis (Johns Hopkins University and Lehigh University): "Homotopy groups of Lie groups"; Contact: N. Kuhn

May 4 Alexander Gamburd (Dartmouth University): "Spectra of Elements in Group Rings"; Contact: A. Rapinchuk

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