MSU DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Colloquium Schedule for
Fall Semester 1999 and Spring Semester 2000


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Date
Speaker
Title of the talk
9/16/99Prof. B. Stellmacher, U. Kiel Finite Groups of local characteristic p
9/23/99Prof. Nikolai Nikolski, University of BordeauxProblem of filter identification and completeness of translates
10/7/99Prof. Z. Szabo, University of MichiganThe theta divisor and 3-manifold invariants.
10/14/99Prof. A. Kabanov, ETH - ZurichFrobenius manifolds and quantum cohomology.
10/28/99Prof. Hubert Flenner, Ruhr - Universität BochumA Semiregularity Map and Applications to Deformations
11/4/99Prof. J. Alexander, Case Western Reserve UniversityRiddling: Dynamics Beyond Chaos
11/11/99Prof. Liping Ma, Stanford Univ., UC-Berkeley, and the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of TeachingWhat an elementary teacher should know about mathematics
11/18/99Prof. Edward C. Turner, State Univ. of New York, Albany Test elements for automorphisms of groups

Spring Semester 2000

1/20/2000Prof. Carel Faber, Oklahoma State Univ.Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves.
3/16/2000Prof. Rick Schoen, Stanford UniversityNew solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations.
3/23/2000Prof. Steven Krantz, Washington UniversityAutomorphism groups of domains.
3/30/2000Prof. Andrew Sommese, Notre Dame A decomposition of the solution set of a polynomial system into irreducible components.
4/06/2000Prof. John N. Mather, Princeton University Variational Construction of Orbits of Lagrangian Systems.
4/13/2000Prof. Michael Aschbacher, Caltech The classification of finite simple groups.
4/20/2000Prof. Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
NOTE: Will be held at special time, 2:00 p.m.
Beyond Axiom A: The ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms.
4/27/2000Prof. Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Cancelled.


See Spring Semester 1999 Colloquium Schedule.



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