Colloquium 2002

The colloquium typically meets Mondays at 4:00 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.

 

The colloquium is preceded by tea starting at 3:30 in the Faculty Lounge, adjacent to Room 617. Click on title for abstract.

  • Wednesday January 23, 2002 at 14:30, Wachman 617

    -Note different day and time- Todd Quinto, Tufts University, Stationary sets for the wave equation and integral geometry

  • Monday January 28, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    E. Gallopoulos, Univeristy of Patras, Greece, Towards effective methods for computing matrix pseudospectra

  • Monday February 11, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Richard Melrose, MIT, Pseudodifferential operators, bundles and invariants

  • Monday February 18, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Herschel Farkas, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, In the Shadow of Jacobi

  • Monday February 25, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University, Morse theory and a positive mass theorem for H-surfaces

  • Wednesday March 27, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington, Inverse boundary problems via local measurements

  • Wednesday May 1, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Daniel Grieser, Humboldt University, Berlin, How big can eigenfunctions of the Laplacian be?

  • Wednesday May 8, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Alexei Miasnikov, CUNY Graduate Center, The Andrews-Curtis conjecture and black box groups

  • Wednesday May 22, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Daniel Hug, University of Freiburg, Germany, Curvatures, measures and integral geometry

  • Monday September 9, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Jorge Hounie, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil, Hardy spaces on smooth boundaries and the Poisson kernel

  • Wednesday September 18, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Ermanno Lanconelli, University of Bologna, Maximum principle for sublaplacians for unbounded domains

  • Monday September 23, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Alina Stancu, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, A problem of Minkowski revisited

  • Monday October 7, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Feng Luo, Rutgers University, Two-dimensional combinatorial Ricci flow

  • Monday October 21, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Complex line bundles as sub-bundles of the tangent bundle

  • Monday November 4, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Dmitry Ryabogin, University of Missouri (Columbia), Volumes of projections of convex bodies via Fourier transfrom

  • Monday November 11, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Jonathan Weisman, University of California, Santa Cruz, The topology of Hamilitonian loop group spaces

  • Monday December 2, 2002 at 14:30, Wachman 617

    Elisabeth Logak, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, Reaction diffusion systems, front propagation and complex bacterial patterns

  • Monday December 2, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Lev Truskinovsky, Ecole Polytechnique, Nonlinear discrete models of materials and tissues

  • Wednesday December 11, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- John Loftin, Columbia University, The Geometry of Convex Solutions to det phiij=(-1/ phi)n+2

  • Thursday December 12, 2002 at 11:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day and time- Feodor Borodich, Northwestern University, Similarity and Fractals in Contact and NanoMechanics

  • Monday December 16, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    Xiaodong Yan, Courant Institute, Upper bound on coarsening rate

  • Tuesday December 17, 2002 at 11:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day and time- Jonathan Pila, Institute for Advanced Study, Entire functions having a concordant value sequence

  • Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Vitali Kapovitch, University of California, Santa Barbara, Collapsing with a lower curvature bound and \hat{A}-genus

  • Thursday December 19, 2002 at 16:00, Wachman 617

    -Note different day- Qingbo Huang, Wright State University, Parabolic Monge-Ampere equations in the Gauss curvature flow