University of Georgia

 Mathematics Department Colloquia 1998-1999

This page contains the schedule for all departmental colloquia for the academic year 1998-1999. In most cases it also contains a link to an abstract of the talk. To see the abstracts and titles of the current academic year,  click here. For seminar schedules click here. You are also encouraged to take a look at the Annual Distinguished Cantrell Lectures.

All colloquia take place on Thursday at 3:30 PM, usually in room 304 in Boyd Graduate Studies. They are preceded by tea at 3:00 pm in room 409 in Boyd Graduate Studies. Here are maps of the campus. 

Rating System

In the spirit of our continuing quest for truth in advertising, each colloquium talk has been assigned a rating of U, G, F, or X by the speaker. Check the Rating System Page for definitions. 

October, 1998

  • October 15 
    • Israel Gohberg, Tel Aviv University
    • Infinite Systems of Linear Equations
    • Rating: U 
    • abstract 

  • October 29: exceptionally in room 328, Boyd 
    • Lynn Arthur Steen, St. Olaf College
    • Does College Math Prepare Students to Teach High School Math?
    • Rating: mathematics education 
    • abstract 

    November, 1998

  • November 12 
    • Gary Weiss
    • Elementary sequence and series phenomena with applications to commutators and ideals in B(H)
    • Rating: G 
    • abstract 

    December, 1998

  • December 3: Cantrell lecture, 4:00 pm, room 328, Boyd 
    • Gilles Pisier
    • Similarity problems and lengths of operator algebras
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • December 10 
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    January, 1999

  • January 7 
    • Margaret Symington 
    • Four dimensions from two: symplectic surgery and singularities 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 15 
    • David K. Maslen
    • The eigenvalues of Kac's master equation
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 19 
    • Dmitry Jakobson
    • Spectral gaps for subgroups of SU(2)
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 21 
    • Chris Skinner
    • Recent results on modularity of two-dimensional Galois representations 
    • Rating: G maybe, certainly PG 
    • abstract 

  • January 22 
    • Brian Hall
    • Holomorphic methods in harmonic analysis
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 25 
    • Alexandru Zaharescu
    • Spacing statistics in number theory
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    February, 1999

  • January 28 
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    February, 1999

  • February 1 
    • Shuzhou Wang
    • Simple compact quantum groups
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 2 
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  • February 4 
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  • February 5 
    • Joint Mathematics-Computer Science Colloquium
    • Peter Winkler
    • Percolation and Collision
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 11 
    • Michael Zieve
    • Algebraic dynamical systems
    • Rating: U 
    • abstract 

  • February 18 
    • John Friedlander
    • Prime values of polynomials
    • Rating: U 
    • abstract 

  • February 22 
    • Jason Cantarella
    • The Writhing of Knots and the Helicity of Vector Fields
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 26 
    • Tangan Gao
    • Solving Polynomial Systems by Homotopy Continuation Methods
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    March, 1999

  • March 4 
    • Jerry L. Bona
    • Solitary Waves, Singularity Formation and the Existence of Sand Bars
    • Rating: first thirty minutes U, last thirty minutes G 
    • abstract 

  • March 15 
    • Jingzhi Tie
    • Heisenberg Group and Laguerre Calculus
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • March 17 
  • 4:30 pm (note special time) 
    • Jean-Louis Nicolas
    • Some topics in the theory of partitions
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • March 18 
    • George Yin
    • Stochastic Approximation and Applications
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • March 19 
    • Vera T. Sos
    • Quasi-periodic sequences
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • March 25 
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    April, 1999

  • April 1 
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  • April 8 
    • Cora Sadosky
    • How a general dilation construction pays off in analysis
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • April 15 
  • 4:30 pm, Room 328 (note special time and room; refreshments at 4pm in common room)
  • Banquet in honor of Carl Pomerance at 7 pm
    • Andrew Odlyzko
    • The Future of Integer Factorization
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • April 22 
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  • April 27 
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  • April 29
    •  Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are most welcome. We will be happy to make arrangements with other universities to share speakers and costs. Please email. You can always reach me at szwang@math.uga.edu , or in my office at Boyd 506, phone (706) 542-0884 (where you can leave a message); fax: (706) 542-2573.