University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Colloquium 2002-2003

Time and Place: Thursday at 3:30 PM, Room 304 Boyd Graduate Studies, (unless otherwise specified).
Preceded by tea at 3:00 pm in room 409 in Boyd Graduate Studies.

                                               For abstracts and titles of previous years' colloquia click here:
                                              1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001. 2001-2002.
                                                For seminar schedules click here.
                                                For the Annual Distinguished Cantrell Lectures, click here.

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Rating System

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

August, 2002

  • August 
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    September, 2002

  • September 
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    October, 2002

  • October 24
    • Professor Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
    • Title: Convergence of Fourier Series: Past, Present, Future
    • abstract 

    November, 2002

  • November 7
    • Prof. Arpad Toth (Fordham University)
    • Title: Factorization of primes in rings of algebraic integers
    • abstract 
  • November 14
    • Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Tennessee, Memphis
    • Title: Subsequence ergodic theorems
    • abstract 
  • November 21
    • Professor Rolf Schimmrigk (Kennesaw State University)
    • Title: Arithmetic algebraic geometry in string theory
    • abstract 

    December, 2002

  • December 2 (Monday 2:30 pm; note special day and time)
    • Julie Mitchell (San Diego Supercomputer Center (UCSD))
    • Title: Generating rotation sets that are uniform with respect to the Haar measure on SO(3)
    • abstract 

    January, 2003

  • January 9
    • Professor Michel Brion (Institut Fourier)
    • Title: Geometry of flag manifolds
    • abstract 
  • January 16
    • Professor Vincente Colin (University of Nantes)
    • Title: On the coarse classification of contact structures in dimension 3
    • abstract 
  • January 30
    • Professor Mark Dickinson (University of Michigan)
    • Title: Modularity of icosahedral Artin representations
    • abstract 

    February, 2003

  • February 6
    • Professor Alex Petukhov (University of South Carolina)
    • Title: Wavelet Frames and Their Applications
    • abstract 
  • Friday, February 7 (note special day)
    • Professor Mikhail Kapovich (University of Utah)
    • Title: TBA
    • abstract 
  • February 13
    • Dr. Xin Guo, International Business Machines
    • Title: TBA
    • abstract 
  • Monday, February 17 (note special day)
    • Jorge Cortés Monforte (University of Illinois)
    • Title: Geometric Methods for Control and Coordination of Autonomous Systems
    • abstract 

    April, 2003

  • Tuesday, April 15 (note special day)
    • Professor Juping Wang
    • Title: Converse Theorem of Jacobi Forms
    • abstract 
  • April 17
    • Professor Dieter Kotschick (University of Munich)
    • Title: TBA
    • abstract 

     
     
     
     
     

     Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are welcome. We will be happy to make arrangements with other universities to share speakers and costs; please email. You can reach me at wag@math.uga.edu , or in my office at Boyd 505, phone: (706) 542-2560; fax: (706) 542-2573.