Rutgers Math Colloquium
Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium
2003-2004
| Unless otherwise noted, mathematics department colloquia take
place on Friday afternoons 4:30-5:30PM 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 for information on fares and schedules for the
Northeast Corridor Line. Taxis are
available at the New Brunswick train station (fare about $7) and
can take you to and from the Hill Center (Victory Cabs, (732)
545-6666). The Rutgers
Campus Bus System provides free intra-campus transportation,
with the A and H buses taking passengers
between Busch Campus and College Avenue, with the A providing
a faster ride from College Avenue and the H providing
a faster ride from the Hill Center: please visit their
website for bus schedules and maps, including real-time tracking
of campus buses.
Unfortunately, colloquium cancellations
do occur from time to time. Please feel free to call our department
(732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.
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Autumn
2003 Schedule
Colloquium participants and hosts may wish to also consult the
Rutgers University academic
calendar, as well as its calendars of religious holidays
and of weather
emergencies and university closings.
| Date |
Speaker & Affiliation |
Rutgers Faculty Hosts |
Colloquium Lecture Title |
| September 5 |
First Friday of Semester |
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No Colloquium (Autumn
semester begins Tuesday, 9/2) |
| September 12 |
Larry
Shepp
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University |
Joel Lebowitz |
A
review of CT scanning, emission tomography, and functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (fMRI) |
| September 19 |
Hector Sussmann |
Paul Feehan
Xiaochun Rong |
Curve minimization
problems, Lie algebras of Hamiltonian functions, the brachistochrone,
the Reeds-Shepp car in two and three dimensions, spinning tops, and
elastic rods |
September 22
Monday, 3:00 PM |
Amir
Alexander
History and Philosophy of Science UCLA |
Doron Zeilberger |
Is There a Story in
the Signs? Tales of Geographical Exploration and the New Mathematics of
the Seventeenth Century |
| September 26 |
Chris Heyde
Department of Statistics
Columbia University |
Lisa Carbone |
Minimal description risky
asset modeling |
October 3
Hill 525 |
Bernd Sturmfels
University of California, Berkeley |
Doron Zeilberger |
Tropical
algebraic geometry |
| October 10 |
Jean-Michel
Coron
Orsay |
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Lewis Lectures |
October 17
Hill 525 |
Stavros Garoufalidis
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Doron Zeilberger |
What is a holonomic
function? (or Zeilberger meets Jones and Thurston) |
October 24
Hill 525 |
Bodo
Pareigis
Universität München, Germany |
Earl Taft |
The
mathematics of sequential dynamical systems |
October 31
Hill 525
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Huai-Dong Cao
UCLA |
Xiaochun Rong |
Perelman's local
injectivity radius estimate and the Kaehler-Ricci flow |
November 7
Hill 525
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Peter
Winkler
Bell Laboratories |
Joel Lebowitz |
Mixing and shuffling |
November 14
Hill 525
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Yuri Berest
Cornell University |
Vladimir Retakh |
Differential isomorphism
and equivalence of algebraic varieties |
November 21
Hill 525
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Simeon
Reich
Technion, Haifa, Israel |
Roger Nussbaum |
Genericity and porosity
in
nonlinear analysis and optimization |
| November 28 |
Thanksgiving Recess |
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No Colloquium (Thanksgiving
Recess) |
December 5
Hill 525
|
Ravi
Kulkarni
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
& Queen's College, CUNY |
Sagun
Chanillo |
Dynamical types of
transformations in classical geometries |
| December 12 |
First Friday of Winter Recess |
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No Colloquium (Autumn
semester ends Wednesday, 12/10) |
Note to Rutgers Mathematics Faculty: We are now
accepting nominations for the Spring 2004 Colloquium Series,
so please contact us with any suggestions
you may have for speakers you would like to invite.
Spring 2003 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn
2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
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.
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Last updated on December 15, 2003 by Paul Feehan.
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