Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium

2004-2005

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 2005 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 28	Konstantin Mischaikow Georgia Inst. of Tech.	Eduardo Sontag	Dynamics, Topology, and Computation
February 4	Reserved for special talks
Wednesday, February 9, 3pm	Charles Fefferman Princeton University	Special Location: Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus	First Rich Pelz Colloquium: Unsolved Problems of Fluid Mechanics
February 11	Yu. Zarhin Penn. State Univ.	Vladimir Retakh	Hyperelliptic jacobians and doubly transitive Galois groups
February 18	Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research	Doron Zeilberger	A New Kind of Mathematics?
February 25	Sema Salur Northwestern Univ.	C. Woodward	Calibrated Geometries
March 4	Susan Friedlander UIC	Y. Li	The Ubiquity of Fluid Instability
March 11	No talk
March 18	Spring Break
March 25	Laura Matusevich Univ. of Penn.	Doron Zeilberger Diane MacLagan	Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions
April 1	Gerhard Michler University of Essen	Earl Taft	Structure of abstract finite simple groups
April 8 - 10	Treves 75th Birthday Conference
April 15	Alexander Nabutovsky Penn. State Univ.	Xiaochun Rong	Very rapidly growing functions in geometry
April 22	G. Weiss Washington University	D. Gundy	Various constructions of wavelets and related reproducing systems
April 29	Bahman Kalantari Rutgers Computer Science	Doron Zeilberger	Polynomial Root-Finding and Polynomiography

Note to Rutgers mathematics faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Fall 2006 colloquium series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Autumn 2004 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Spring 2004 Colloquium Schedule Archive
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) Zheng-chao Han (zchan at math dot rutgers dot edu) and Chris Woodward (ctw at math dot rutgers dot edu). Please contact them with suggestions and inquiries.

Last updated on February 18, 2005 by Chris Woodward.

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