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Rutgers University--Department of Mathematics
Faculty Research Perspectives

Each week, a member of the graduate faculty will offer an introduction to an active area of research. The seminar is open to all, and first and second year graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.

Speakers are expected to give a talk which is accessible to graduate students. The paper How to give a good colloquium by John E. McCarthy has some useful guidelines for planning an appropriate talk.

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Spring 2009 Schedule

(Previous year schedules can be found here)
The seminar is held weekly on Monday at 3:30 in Hill Center 705 .
Refreshments are available begining at 3:00 in Hill Center 703.

Date	Speaker	Title/abstract
2/2	Joel Lebowitz	Statistical Mechanics of Cooperative Phenomena
2/9	No seminar
2/16	Sagun Chanillo	The Composite Membrane Problem
2/23	Vladimir Retakh	From factorizations of noncommutative polynomials to combinatorial topology
3/2		Seminar rescheduled to March 9
3/9	Roger Nussbaum	Nonlinear Differential Delay Equations: Examples, Theorems and Questions
3/16	No seminar	Spring Break
3/23	Simon Thomas	Superrigidity and the classification problem for the torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank
3/30	Eduardo Sontag	On Systems Biology and Mathematics
4/6	Jeff Kahn	Asymptotics without structure
4/13	Xiaojun Huang	Isolated Complex Singularities and their Cauchy-Riemann Links
4/20	Paul Feehan	Mathematical Finance and Partial Differential Equations
4/27	Avy Soffer	The Challenge and Promise of Nonlinear Dynamics: The case of dispersive waves

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