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. Please feel free to call our department (732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.

Spring 2003 Schedule

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Rutgers Faculty Hosts	Colloquium Lecture Title
January 24	First Friday of Semester		No Colloquium (Spring semester begins 1/21)
January 28 3:00 PM, Hill 525	Masahiko Miyamoto University of Tsukuba	Jim Lepowsky	An introduction to a new stage of vertex operator algebra theory (Special Colloquium)
January 31 3:00 PM	Ivars Peterson	Joel Lebowitz	An Iridescent Journey into Mathematical Art (Special Colloquium: Jean Taylor Symposium)
January 31 4:30 PM	Enrico Bombieri Institute for Advanced Study	Joel Lebowitz	A short history of number theory (Special Colloquium: Jean Taylor Symposium)
February 7	John Stalker, Princeton University	A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh	Waves on static radially symmetric space-times
February 14	Peter Paule, RISC-Linz (Austria)	Doron Zeilberger	Contiguous relations and creative telescoping
February 21	Phillip Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study	Yanyan Li	Hodge theoretic invariants of algebraic cycles
February 28	Yair Minsky, SUNY Stony Brook	Feng Luo	The classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
March 7	Herbert Spohn Universitaet Muenchen, Germany	Joel Lebowitz	Shape fluctuations for faceted crystals
March 14	Spring Break		No Colloquium (Spring Break, 3/15 - 3/23)
March 21	Spring Break		No Colloquium (Spring Break, 3/15 - 3/23)
March 28	Gerard Ben Arous Courant Institute, NYU	Joel Lebowitz	Average versus Extreme Values: Intermittency and Aging in Random Media
April 4	Richard Hamilton, Columbia University	Abbas Bahri	D'Atri Lecture III
April 11	Andrei Okounkov Princeton University	Friedrich Knop	Crystals and amoebae
April 18	Heather Johnston Vassar College	Amelia Taylor	The topology of homology manifolds: Nice properties of some very singular spaces
April 25	Frank Quinn Virginia Polytechnic Institute	Feng Luo	History and status of homology manifolds
May 2	Palle E. T. Jorgensen University of Iowa	Roger Nussbaum	Wavelets
May 9	First Friday of Summer Recess		No Colloquium (Spring semester ends 5/5)

Note to Rutgers Mathematics Faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Autumn 2003 Colloquium Series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Autumn 2003 Colloquium Schedule
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.

Last updated on May 7, 2003 by Paul Feehan.

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