MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquium Schedule for 1996-7

Date
Speaker
Title of the talk
9/26 Alexander Barvinok,Universtity of Michigan The measure concentration phenomenon and its applications in optimization.
10/10 Ruth Lawrence, University of Michigan Divergent series, Feynman integrals and knot theory.
10/17 Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University Jacobians and compensated compactness
10/24 Alexander Voronov, Michigan State University and MIT Formal moduli problem.
10/31 Dmitrii Burago, Penn State University Collisions of hard balls and geometry ofnon-positive curvature.
11/7 Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University Existence and moduli for some noncompact geometric problems.
11/14 Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota Combinatorial positivity theorems.
11/21 Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin  Virtual neighborhoods and the double cover of a 4-manifold
12/3 Peter Zograf, Sankt-Petersburg Branch of Steklov Mathematical Institute, visitingSUNY at Stony Brook Volumes of moduli spaces
12/5 Cora Sadosky, Howard University Getting dilations from integral representations --- and vice versa.
12/12 Ivo Klemes, McGill University Conjectures on partial orderings of distribution functionsof exponential sums on the circle.
3/20 Alexander Megretskii, MIT Optimization of linear controllers:It is not good to mix H-2 with H-infinity
3/27 Anna Zdunik, University of Warsaw Analytic or complicated
4/10 Karen Smith, University of Michigan Characteristic p methods in complex algebraic geometry
4/17 Peter Teichner, University of California - San Diegoand University of California - Berkeley Link homotopy in dimension 3, 4 and more

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