MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquium Schedule for
Fall Semester 2000 and Spring Semester 2001


The coordinates of the MSUMathematics Department

Date
Speaker
Title of the talk
Friday, 9/22/2000Prof. G. Tian, MIT
3:00 - 3:50 p.m. (Not usual day and time!)
Curvature flows in complex geometry
Thursday, 9/28/2000Prof. Max Gunzburger,
Iowa State University
Shape optimization influid flows
Thursday, 11/2/2000Dr. Jonathan M. Borwein,
FRSC, Pres. Canadian Mathematical Society
Simon Fraser University
Maximizing Surprise
Thursday, 11/9/2000Dr. Asen L. Dontchev,
University of Michigan
Numerical Variational Analysis
Thursday, 11/16/2000Prof. Alex Eremenko,
Purdue University
Meromorphic functions, negative curvature and spherical geometry
Monday, 11/20/2000Dr. Charlie Micchelli,
TJ Watson IBM Research and SUNY-Albany
3:00 p.m. (Not usual day and time!)
Nonnegative solutions to Bezout identities with applications
Thursday, 11/30/2000Larry D. Greller, Asst. Dir.
Bioinformatics Mathematical Biology
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research & Development
Nonlinear Dynamics Motivated by Disease Biochemistry
Tuesday, 12/5/2000Professor Sheldon Katz
Oklahoma State University
(Cancelled due to illness!)
Counting holomorphic curves by geometry and physics
Thursday, 12/7/2000 Professor Juan C. Migliore
University of Notre Dame
Not-so Dangerous Liaisons

Spring Semester 2001

Monday, 1/15/2001Jason Fulman, Stanford University (Candidate for Open Position)Random matrix theory and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities. (Combinatorics)
Wednesday, 1/17/2001Kirill Vaninsky, Kansas State University (Candidate for Open Position)Invariant Gibbs' States for PDE. (PDE)
Thursday, 1/18/2001Prof. W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University (Chair Candidate)Complex Cobordism in Homotopy Theory.
Monday, 1/22/2001Moxun Tang, University of Minnesota
(Candidate for Open Position)
Turning patterns in the CIMAS reaction diffusion system. (Applied Math)
Thursday, 1/25/2001Prof. David Hoff, Indiana University
(Chair Candidate)
Mathematical Problems in Compressible Fluid Flow.
Monday, 1/29/2001Zhong-Hui Duan, University of Michigan
(Candidate for Open Position)
Adaptive Treecodes for Computing Nonbonded Interactions in Molecular Simulations. (Applied Math)
Tuesday, 1/30/2001Jie Shen, Pennsylvania State University
(Candidate for Open Position)
Some New Developments on Projection Methods for Incompressible Flows. (PDE)
Thursday, 2/1/2001Jim Bryan, Tulane
(Candidate for Open Position)
The enumerative geometry of K3 surfaces and modular forms. (Algebraic Geometry)
Friday,
2/2/2001
Harry Tamvakis, IHES
(Candidate for Open Position)
Arithmetic Schubert calculus and applications. (Algebraic Geometry)
Monday, 2/5/2001Prof. Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary (Chair Candidate)Graphs, Eigenvalues, and Multiplicities.
Wednesday, 2/7/2001Prof. Peter Bates, Brigham Young University(Chair Candidate)The Mathematics of Phase Transitions.
Monday, 2/12/2001Kim Froyshov, Harvard
(Candidate for Open Position.)
Floer homology and four-dimensional topology.
(Dyn Geo, PDE, Top)
Tuesday, 2/13/2001Prof. Howard Levine, Iowa State University (Chair Candidate)A Mathematical Model for Tumor Angiogenesis from Tumor Necrosis to Tumor Vascularization.
Thursday, 2/15/2001 Yalchin Efendiev, Minnesota
(Candidate for Open Position)
Multiscale modeling and computation of flow in porous formations. (Num, PDE, App, Dyn)
Friday, 2/16/2001Peter Wolenski, LSU
(Candidate for Open Position)
Convexity in Hamilton-Jacobi Theory. (Analysis, App, PDE, Dyn, Geo)
Monday, 2/19/2001Shawn Wang, University College of Cape Breton
(Candidate for Open Position)
Generalized Subdifferentials: A Baire Categorical Approach.
(Analysis, App, PDE, Geo)
Tuesday, 2/20/2001Natasha Speer, UC-Berkeley
(Candidate for Open Position)
Connecting Beliefs and Teaching Practices: Case Studies of Teaching Assistants in Calculus. (Math Ed)
Thursday, 2/22/2001Brad Findell, National Research Council and U. of New Hampshire
(Candidate for Open Position)
Learning Abstract Algebra and Implications for the Preparation of Secondary Mathematics Teachers. (Math Ed)
Monday, 2/26/2001Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware
(Candidate for Open Position)
Improving Students' Learning of Mathematics: What Can We Learn From Cross-National Studies. (Math Ed)
Tuesday, 2/27/2001Prof. Igor Krichever, Columbia University
(Please note the unusual day!)
Whitham equation and conformal mappings.
Thursday, 3/1/2001Prof. Michael Shapiro - KTH (Stockholm)
(Candidate for Open Position)
Hurwitz numbers and moduli spaces.
Friday,
3/2/2001
Prof. Zhong-Ci Shi, Member of the Chinese Academy of SciencesNonconforming Finite Element Methods
Thursday, 3/15/2001Prof. Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague, Czech RepublicSecret structures of configuration spaces.
Thursday, 3/22/2001Prof. V. Apostolov, University of Quebec at Montrealand Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Self-dual Einstein equations and complex structures in dimension 4
Thursday, 4/5/2001Prof. Dima Burago, Penn State University Gaussian measures of surfaces, ellipticity of volume functionals, and asymptotic geometry of tori.
Thursday, 4/12/2001Prof. Christopher Skinner, University of Michigan Some ternary diophantine equations.
Thursday, 4/19/2001Prof. Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State UniversityEnumeration of algebraic curves by geometry and physics.
Thursday, 4/26/2001Prof. Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington Inverse Boundary Problems


See Fall and Spring Semester 1999-2000 Colloquium Schedule.



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