Date | ||
Friday, 9/22/2000 | Prof. G. Tian, MIT 3:00 - 3:50 p.m. (Not usual day and time!) | Curvature flows in complex geometry |
Thursday, 9/28/2000 | Prof. Max Gunzburger, Iowa State University | Shape optimization influid flows |
Thursday, 11/2/2000 | Dr. Jonathan M. Borwein, FRSC, Pres. Canadian Mathematical Society Simon Fraser University | Maximizing Surprise |
Thursday, 11/9/2000 | Dr. Asen L. Dontchev, University of Michigan | Numerical Variational Analysis |
Thursday, 11/16/2000 | Prof. Alex Eremenko, Purdue University | Meromorphic functions, negative curvature and spherical geometry |
Monday, 11/20/2000 | Dr. 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, 11/30/2000 | Larry D. Greller, Asst. Dir. Bioinformatics Mathematical Biology SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research & Development | Nonlinear Dynamics Motivated by Disease Biochemistry |
Tuesday, 12/5/2000 | Professor 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, 1/15/2001 | Jason Fulman, Stanford University (Candidate for Open Position) | Random matrix theory and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities. (Combinatorics) |
Wednesday, 1/17/2001 | Kirill Vaninsky, Kansas State University (Candidate for Open Position) | Invariant Gibbs' States for PDE. (PDE) |
Thursday, 1/18/2001 | Prof. W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University (Chair Candidate) | Complex Cobordism in Homotopy Theory. |
Monday, 1/22/2001 | Moxun Tang, University of Minnesota (Candidate for Open Position) | Turning patterns in the CIMAS reaction diffusion system. (Applied Math) |
Thursday, 1/25/2001 | Prof. David Hoff, Indiana University (Chair Candidate) | Mathematical Problems in Compressible Fluid Flow. |
Monday, 1/29/2001 | Zhong-Hui Duan, University of Michigan (Candidate for Open Position) | Adaptive Treecodes for Computing Nonbonded Interactions in Molecular Simulations. (Applied Math) |
Tuesday, 1/30/2001 | Jie Shen, Pennsylvania State University (Candidate for Open Position) | Some New Developments on Projection Methods for Incompressible Flows. (PDE) |
Thursday, 2/1/2001 | Jim 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, 2/5/2001 | Prof. Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary (Chair Candidate) | Graphs, Eigenvalues, and Multiplicities. |
Wednesday, 2/7/2001 | Prof. Peter Bates, Brigham Young University(Chair Candidate) | The Mathematics of Phase Transitions. |
Monday, 2/12/2001 | Kim Froyshov, Harvard (Candidate for Open Position.) | Floer homology and four-dimensional topology. (Dyn Geo, PDE, Top) |
Tuesday, 2/13/2001 | Prof. 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, 2/16/2001 | Peter Wolenski, LSU (Candidate for Open Position) | Convexity in Hamilton-Jacobi Theory. (Analysis, App, PDE, Dyn, Geo) |
Monday, 2/19/2001 | Shawn Wang, University College of Cape Breton (Candidate for Open Position) | Generalized Subdifferentials: A Baire Categorical Approach. (Analysis, App, PDE, Geo) |
Tuesday, 2/20/2001 | Natasha Speer, UC-Berkeley (Candidate for Open Position) | Connecting Beliefs and Teaching Practices: Case Studies of Teaching Assistants in Calculus. (Math Ed) |
Thursday, 2/22/2001 | Brad 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, 2/26/2001 | Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware (Candidate for Open Position) | Improving Students' Learning of Mathematics: What Can We Learn From Cross-National Studies. (Math Ed) |
Tuesday, 2/27/2001 | Prof. Igor Krichever, Columbia University (Please note the unusual day!) | Whitham equation and conformal mappings. |
Thursday, 3/1/2001 | Prof. 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 Sciences | Nonconforming Finite Element Methods | Thursday, 3/15/2001 | Prof. Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague, Czech Republic | Secret structures of configuration spaces. |
Thursday, 3/22/2001 | Prof. V. Apostolov, University of Quebec at Montrealand Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Self-dual Einstein equations and complex structures in dimension 4 |
Thursday, 4/5/2001 | Prof. Dima Burago, Penn State University | Gaussian measures of surfaces, ellipticity of volume functionals, and asymptotic geometry of tori. |
Thursday, 4/12/2001 | Prof. Christopher Skinner, University of Michigan | Some ternary diophantine equations. |
Thursday, 4/19/2001 | Prof. Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University | Enumeration of algebraic curves by geometry and physics. |
Thursday, 4/26/2001 | Prof. Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington | Inverse Boundary Problems |
See Fall and Spring Semester 1999-2000 Colloquium Schedule.
Last revised 4/9/2001
Corrections: web@math.msu.edu
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