MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquium Schedule for
Fall Semester 2001 and Spring Semester 2002


The coordinates of the MSUMathematics Department

Date
Speaker
Title of Talk
Thursday, September 13, 2001Prof. Vasily Vasyunin,
V.A. Steklov Math. Inst., St. Petersburg
@ 4:10 p.m. in A304 WH
An easy way how you can prove the Riemann Hypothesis
Thursday, September 20, 2001Prof. Zoltan Buczolich,
Michigan State University
Zero-one laws for series of real functions
Thursday, September 27, 2001No speaker
Thursday, October 4, 2001Prof. John Lott,
University of Michigan
Noncommutative geometry and the heat equation
Thursday, October 11, 2001Prof. Ari Naimark,
Jerusalem College of Technology
An engineering oriented linear algebra with elements of functional analysis
Thursday, October 18, 2001No speaker
Thursday, October 25, 2001No speaker
Thursday, November 1, 2001Prof. Anatoly Libgober
University of Illinois at Chicago
Elliptic genus of orbifolds
Thursday, November 8, 2001Prof. Ralph Smith,
North Carolina State University
Modeling and Control Issues associated wtih Atomic Force Microscopy
Thursday, November 15, 2001Prof. William Hager,
University of Florida
The analysis of nonlinear approximations in optimal control
Thursday, November 22, 2001Happy Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 29, 2001Prof. Conan Leung,
University of Minnesota
Mirror symmetry
Thursday, December 6, 2001Prof. James Serrin,
University of Minnesota
How do solutions of elliptic equations disappear at critical values?

Spring Semester 2002

Friday, February 22, 2002Zalman Usiskin,
University of Chicago
Teachers' Mathematics: A Collection of Content Deserving to be a Field
Thursday, February 28, 2002 Dimitri Korotkin,
Concordia University, Montreal
Riemann-Hilbert problems, tau functions and Cauchy-Riemann determinants.
Thursday, April 4, 2002Peter Lax, Courant Institute,
New York University
Multiple eigenvalues
Thursday, April 11, 2002Steve Smale, University of California at Berkeley The evolution of language
Thursday, April 18, 2002Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraskaat LincolnFiniteness in the homology of commutative algebras
Thursday, April 25, 2002Igor Verbitskii, University of Missouri at ColumbiaBoundedness and compactness criteria for the Schroedinger operator




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