m@th

Colloquia
Department of Mathematics
Wayne State University


All colloquia are held Mondays at 3:00 PM in room 189 Education, unless otherwise noted. Tea is served in the Math Department from 2:00-3:00. Contact Claude Schochet for information.

Date Speaker and Title

9/11
Kenneth Davidson, University of Waterloo
Semigroup Operator Algebras

9/18
Ron Fintushel, Michigan State University
Smooth 4-Manifolds

Wed. 9/27
Robert Liptser, Tel Aviv University
Large Deviations for Past-Dependent Recursions

10/2
Joel Smoller, University of Michigan
Shock Waves and General Relativity

10/9
Ron Solomon, Ohio State University
Finite Simple Groups: Past, Present and Future

Wed. 10/18
Daoqi Yang, Wayne State University
Parallel Numerical Computing on Hypercube Machines

10/23
Steve Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Geometry of Hyperbolic Spaces

10/30
Nigel Higson, Penn. State University
Group C*-algebras and the topology of group representations

11/6
George Yin, Wayne State University
Stochastic Approximation: Asymptotic Properties and Applications

11/13
Ken Kuttler, Michigan Technological University
An Introduction to Implicit Evolution Equations

11/20
Thanksgiving week. No talk scheduled.

11/27
Rene Bellwied, Physics Department, WSU
Modern Nuclear Physics: Reenacting the Creation of the Universe

12/4
Arkadii Kryazhimski, Vienna
Inverse Problems for ODE's

12/11
Faina Kirillova and Rafaeil Gabasov,
Positional Solution of Linear Optimal Control Problems