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.

Spring 2004 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
January 23	First Friday of semester		No colloquium (Spring semester begins Tuesday, January 20)
January 30	Aner Shalev Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hill 525	Lisa Carbone	Finite simple groups, random walks, Fuchsian groups and Witten's zeta function
February 6	Andrei Zelevinsky Northeastern University	Vladimir Retakh	Cluster algebras of finite type: one more instance of the Cartan-Killing classification
February 13	Gernot Stroth Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg	Richard Lyons	The exciting world of small groups
February 20	Alexander Berkovich University of Florida, Gainesville	Doron Zeilberger	Combinatorial interpretation of Ramanujan's partition congruences
February 27	Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania	Jeff Kahn	Intervals of permutations and the singular variety method in multivariate generatingfunctionology.
March 5	Tom Mrowka MIT & IAS	Paul Feehan	Gabai + (Thurston-Eliashberg) + Witten + (Feehan-Leness) + Floer + Giroux + Eliashberg => Property P
March 12	Spring break		No colloquium (Spring break, March 13-21)
March 19	Spring break		No colloquium (Spring break, March 13-21)
March 24 Wed, 11:30-12:30	Luis Caffarelli University of Texas, Austin	Yanyan Li	Optimal regularity for the Signorini problem
March 26	Jeff Lagarias AT&T Labs Research	Michael Kiessling	The Riemann Hypothesis: the good, the bad, and the ugly
April 2	Yuefei Wang Academica Sinica of China	Xiaojun Huang, Xiaochun Rong	On holomorphic dynamics
April 9	George Andrews Penn State University	Andrew Sills, Doron Zeilberger	The Scariest Formulas in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
April 16	Dale Cutkosky University of Missouri at Columbia	Wolmer Vasconcelos	Polynomial mappings
April 23 1:10-2:10	Paul Rabinowitz University of Wisconsin, Madison	Abbas Bahri	An Aubry-Mather Theory for Partial Differential Equations (D'Atri Lecture II)
April 23	Paul Glasserman Columbia University	Paul Feehan	Monte Carlo Methods for Pricing American Options: Overview and New Results
April 30	Rahul Pandharipande	Chris Woodward
May 7	First Friday of summer recess		No colloquium (spring semester ends Monday, May 3)

Note to Rutgers mathematics faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Autumn 2004 colloquium series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Autumn 2003 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Spring 2003 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn 2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Spring 2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn 2001 Colloquium Schedule Archive

Colloquium organizers: Xiaochun Rong (rong at math dot rutgers dot edu) and Paul Feehan (feehan at rci dot rutgers dot edu). Please contact them with suggestions and inquiries.

Last updated on March 18, 2004 by Paul Feehan.

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