Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium

2001-2002

Unless otherwise noted, mathematics department colloquia take place on Friday afternoons 4:30-5:30 at Hill Center, Room 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.

Spring 2002 Schedule

February 1	Albert Marden University of Minnesota	Thurston's K=2 conjecture about hyperbolic convex hulls
February 8	Howard Garland Yale University	Eisenstein series on arithmetic quotients of loop groups
February 12: Tuesday - note special day	Thomas H Parker Michigan State University & IAS	Elliptic PDEs and bifurcations of holomorphic curves
February 15	Aner Shalev Hebrew University	Finite simple groups, free products, and probabilistic methods
February 22	Matteo Novaga University of Pisa	Evolutions minimizing crystalline energies
March 1	Luis A Caffarelli University of Texas-Austin	Constraint methods for nonlinear homogenization in periodic and random media, Part II of D'Atri Lectures
March 8	Martin Kruskal Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Surreal numbers - a new number system for the new millenium
March 15	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 22	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 29	Gang Tian MIT	Elliptic Yang-Mills Equation
April 5	Dimitris N Metaxas Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Physics-based Modeling for Medical, Vision and Graphics Application
April 12	Noga Alon Tel-Aviv University & IAS	Subgraphs, addition and codes
April 19	Michael Mackey McGill University	Periodic & Dynamical Diseases: Bifurcations at the Bedside
April 26	Cancelled	Cancelled
May 3	Sergey Fomin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Loop-erased walks and total positivity

Spring 2002 Colloquium Speakers

Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University and IAS      (Host: Doron Zeilberger)
Paula B Cohen, Univerity of Lille and Princeton University    (Host: Earl Taft)
Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas-Austin     (Host: Yanyan Li)
Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (Host: Vladimir Retakh)
Howard Garland, Yale    (Host: Steve Miller)
Martin Kruskal, Rutgers University (Host: Michael Kiessling)
Michael Mackey, McGill    (Host: Roger Nussbaum)
Albert Marden, University of Minnesota (Host: Feng Luo)
Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Host: Richard Falk)
Matteo Novaga, University of Pisa      (Host: Jean Taylor)
Tom Parker, Michigan State University and IAS    (Host: Paul Feehan)
Aner Shalev, Hebrew University (Host: Lisa Carbone)
Gang Tian, MIT     (Host: Yanyan Li)

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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