Wayne State University

Mathematics Department Colloquium

2000 - 2001

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This page contains the schedule for all departmental colloquia and visiting scholars for the academic year 2000 - 2001. In most cases it also contains a link to an abstract of the talk. For more information about the Department, go to the Mathematics Department Home Page. Our new Seminar Home Page gives detailed information on seminar schedules for the week.

Note that all colloquia take place on Monday at 2:45 PM in 169 Education except as noted. Each colloquium is preceded by tea in the Nelson Room in the Faculty-Administration Building (FAB) (on the first floor near the Mathematics Department offices) unless otherwise noted. Here are maps of the campus and the vicinity. There is a student parking ramp just west of FAB. You pay as you enter ($2.00 cash). If that lot is full try the Law School parking lot, which is usually available.

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Rating System

In the spirit of our continuing quest for truth in advertising, each colloquium talk has been assigned a rating of G, R, or X by the speaker. Check the Rating System Page for definitions.

Coming Attractions:

The Owen Glynn Owens Memorial Lecture will be presented this winter semester by

David Eisenbud, Director

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

Monday, February 19, 2001

There will be several Visiting Scholars this year. As of now, there is one scheduled, namely Jean Bellissard, Professor of Physics from Universite’ Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, who is co-sponsored by the WSU Physics Department. See Dec. 4 below for details.

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September, 2000

· September 11:

• Alexander Voronov, Michigan State University
• Deformation Quantization
• Abstract
• http://www.mth.msu.edu/People/Faculty/voronov_a.html

· September 18:

• Brooke Shipley, Purdue University
• The Algebra of Spectra
• Abstract
• http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bshipley/

· September 25:

• Vitali Bergelson, Ohio State University
• Many Facets of the Poincare¢ Recurrence Theorem
• abst-bergelson.html
• http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~vitaly

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October, 2000

· October 2:

• Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
• On the Gibbs Phenomenon and Its Resolution
• abst-shu.html
• http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/shu/home.html

· WEDNESDAY October 11:

• Peter Malcolmson, Wayne State University
• Specializing Fields to Prime Characteristic
• abst-malcolmson.html

· October 16:

• Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California
• Probabilistic Methods in Generation of Finite Groups
• abst-guralnick.html
• http://math.usc.edu/~guralnic

· October 23:

• Lewis Coburn, SUNY Buffalo
• The Segal-Bargmann space: complex analysis made real
• abst-coburn.html
• http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~lcoburn/

· October 30:

• Sasha Volberg, Michigan State University
• Sharp weighted estimates for certain singular operators
• abst-volberg.html
• http://www.mth.msu.edu/People/Faculty/volberg_a.html

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November, 2000

· November 6:

• Juha Heinonen, University of Michigan
• Function Theory in Real n-Space
• abst-heinonen.html
• http://math.lsa.umich.edu/~juha/

· November 13

· Douglas N. Arnold, Penn State University

· Colliding Black Holes and Gravity Waves: A New Computational Challenge

· abst-arnold.html

· http://www.math.psu.edu/dna

· November 20:

• Ali Khan, The Johns Hopkins University
• Co-sponsored with WSU Economics Department
• On Mathematical Reasoning in Economic Theory
• abst-khan.html
• http://www.econ.jhu.edu/People/khan/

Professor Khan also will be giving a talk in the Economics Department. The title is “On Theories of Asset Pricing. Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 1:30 – 3:00, in FAB 2339. Here’s an abstract: abst-khan.html .

· Wednesday, November 29:

• Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin
• The Chapman Enskog expansion
• abst-slemrod.html
• http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ep/ema/faculty/slemrod_marshall.html

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December, 2000

· December 4-6: Visiting Scholar

• Jean Bellissard, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Monday, December 4:

The Hull of an Aperiodic Solid

Wednesday, December 6 in Education 200

The Non Commutative Brillouin Zone

In addition, Professor Bellissard with speak in the topology seminar on Tuesday, December 5, 2:00 PM, in FAB 1285 on

The Gap Labeling Theorem for 3D Aperiodic Solids.

• http://w3-phystheo.ups-tlse.fr/~jeanbel/
  
  
  

· December 11:

• Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan
• Spectral theory and geometry of locally symmetric spaces
• Lizhen Ji's Home Page

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January, 2001

· January 8:

• no colloquium (first day of classes)

· January 15

• no colloquium (Martin Luther King Day)

· Tuesday, January 16, Ed. 155

• Jason Fulman, Stanford University
• Random matrix theory and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities
• abstract
• Jason Fulman's web page

· Tuesday, January 23, Ed. 155

• Sandra Di Rocco, Yale University
• Embeddings of complex manifolds with a torus action
• abstract
• Sandra Di Rocco's web page

· Wednesday, January 24, Ed. 155

• Wojciech Chacholski, Yale University
• Localization process in Homotopy Theory
• abstract
• Wojciech Chacholski's web page

· January 29

• Kirill Vaninsky, Max Planck Institute, Bonn and Courant Institute
• Probabilistic Approach to Nonlinear Waves
• abstract

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February, 2001

· February 5

• Min Chen, Penn State University
• Results on Boussinesq Equations and Other Systems for Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
• Min Chen's web page
• abstract

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Wednesday, February 7, Ed. 155

• Alvaro Arias, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Commutative and Non-commutative Interpolation Problems
• abstract
• Alvaro Arias' web page

· February 12

• Larry Brenton, Wayne State University
• Homologically Simple Singularities in General Relativity and Cosmology
• abstract

· February 19 The Owens Lecture

• David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI
• Systems of linear equations with varying coefficients
• abstract
• David Eisenbud's web page

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Wednesday, February 21

• Jairo Z.Goncalves, University of Sao Paulo
• Free groups in division rings
• abstract

· February 26

• Ralph Cohen, Stanford University
• What happens to the topology of the space of Riemann surfaces when the genus gets large?
• abstract
• Ralph Cohen's web page

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March, 2001

· March 5:

• Sergei Fomin, University of Michigan
• Loop-erased walks and total positivity
• abstract
• Sergei Fomin's web page

· Wednesday, March 7:

• Zhong-Ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
• abstract
• Zhong-Ci Shi's web page

March 12: spring break – no colloquium

March 19

• Boris Kushner, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

· March 26

• Luchezar Avramov, Purdue University
• Luchezar Avramov's web page

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April, 2001

· April 2:

· Wednesday, April 11

• Lindi Wahl, University of Western Ontario
• to be announced
• Lindi Wahl's web page

· April 16:

• James McClure, Purdue University
• Reconstructing a space from its chain complex

· April 23

• Arunava Mukherjea, University of South Florida

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Last update on February 4, 2001 by Claude Schochet, Colloquium Chair. Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are most welcome. We will be happy to make arrangements with other universities to share speakers and costs. Please email. You can always reach me at claude@math.wayne.edu . Sometimes, people have reached me in my office at FAB 1097 (313) 577-3177 or home (248) 538-8399 (where you can leave a voice message). A fax to (313) 577-7596 works eventually. Please don't call on the Sabbath (Friday sundown - Saturday sundown).