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Rutgers Math Colloquium

Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium

2002-2003

Unless otherwise noted, mathematics department colloquia take place on Friday afternoons 4:30-5:30 in Hill Center 705, Busch Campus. Here are a map and driving directions. If you need information on public transportation, you may want to check the New Jersey Transit page. Unfortunately, cancellations do occur from time to time. Feel free to call our department (732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.
Autumn 2002 Schedule


Date Speaker & Affiliation Rutgers Faculty Hosts Colloquium Lecture Title
September 6 First Friday of Semester   No Colloquium (Rosh Hashanah)
September 13 Department Reception   No Colloquium (Department Reception)
September 20 Hans Lindblad, UCSD A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh The motion of the free surface of a liquid
September 27 Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago Simon Thomas, Gregory Cherlin Orbit structures of ergodic group actions
October 4, 4:15-5:15 Haim Brezis, Rutgers University Joel Lebowitz Topology and Sobolev space
October 11 Igor Kriz, University of Michigan Yi-Zhi Huang Conformal field theory and elliptic cohomology
October 18

Richard Stanley, MIT

Jeff Kahn

Lewis Lectures III: Gromov-Witten invariants and graphical degree sequences

October 25 Christian Kassel, CNRS - Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Chuck Weibel Recent developments on Artin's braid groups
November 1 Cathleen Morawetz, NYU-Courant Institute Amelia Taylor, Martin Kruskal Mixed equations and some linear problems from transonic flows
November 8 Janos Kollar, Princeton University Jerrold B. Tunnell Rational varieties over finite fields
November 15 Gero Friesecke, University of Warwick Michael Kiessling Long time dynamics of Hamiltonian  nearest-neighbour chains fifty years after Fermi, Pasta and Ulam
November 22 Wilma Olson, Rutgers University (Chemistry) Rick Falk, Eduardo Sontag A New “Dimension” to DNA Sequence Analysis
November 29 Thanksgiving Holiday   No Colloquium
December 6 Zvi Artstein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel Hector Sussmann Variational limits of the chattering type
December 13 First Friday of Winter Break   No Colloquium


Spring 2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn 2001 Colloquium Schedule Archive

The colloquium organizers are: Xiaochun Rong and Paul Feehan. Please contact them with suggestions and inquiries. 
 

Schedule last updated on November 6, 2002 by Paul Feehan.

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