University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Colloquium 2000-2001

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.

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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.

August, 2000

  • August 31
    • Edward F. Schaefer of Santa Clara University
    • Title: When is the product of two consecutive integers equal to the product of

      • three consecutive integers? 
    • Rating: U 
    • abstract 

    September, 2000

  • September 
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    October, 2000

  • October 5
    • Professor Lizhen Ji,  Dept. of Math. Univ. of Michigan,  Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Title: Spectral theory and geometry of locally symmetric spaces 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • October 19
    • D.-N. Verma, Tata Institute
    • Title: A Progress Report on a New Approach to the Jacobian Conjecture
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • October 25
    • Professor Andrzej Schinzel,  Polish Academy of Sciences
    • Title: Solved and unsolved problems on polynomials
    • Rating: 
    • abstract N/A

    November, 2000

  • November 2
    • Adam Parusinski, University of Angers, France
    • Title: Proof of Thom's gradient conjecture
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • November 9
    • Joe Ward, Texas A&M University 
    • Title: Representing and analyzing scattered data on spheres
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • November 16
    • Scott Carter,  University of South Alabama
    • Title: Quandle Homology and Abstract Knot Diagrams
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • November 17--Joint colloquium with Math Ed Dept. This is a Friday. To be held in  G-5 Aderhold Hall; at 1:30pm 
    • Kurt Kreith, UC-Davis 
    • Title: Algebra in the Time of Computers
    • Rating: U
    • abstract 

    December, 2000

  • December 7
    • Prof. Bernd Sturmfels (U.C. Berkeley)
    • Title: Groebner Bases
    • Rating: U/G
    • abstract 

    January, 2001

  • January 8, 2001, Monday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304
    • Prof. Yu Yuan, University of Texas at Austin
    • Title: A Priori Estimates for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 16, 2001, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304
    • Prof. Wojciech Chacholski, Yale 
    • Title: Localization process in Homotopy Theory
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 17, 2001, Wed, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304
    • Prof. Shekhar Khare, Tata Institute 

      • Title: The absolute Galois group of {\bf Q} 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 19, 2001, Friday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304
    • Prof. David Nicholls, University of Minnesota 
    • Title: High Order Boundary Perturbation Methods for Free Boundary and

      •         Boundary Value Problems 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 23, 2001, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Xian-Jin Li, Bringham Young University
    • Title: On the zeros of the Riemann zeta function 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 25, 2001, Thursday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Matt Baker, Harvard
    • Title: Torsion Points on Modular Curves 
    • Rating: 
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  • January 29, 2001, Monday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Farshid Hajir, California State University, San Marcos
    • Title: On the 'fundamental group' of number fields 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 
  • January 30, 2001, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Hal Schenck, Harvard
    • Title: Line arrangements and vector bundles on the projective plane 
    • Rating: 
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  • January 31, 2001, Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Joseph Landsberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Title: Construction of complex simple Lie algebras via geometry 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    February, 2001

  • February 5, 2001, Monday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Akos Magyar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Title: Discrete problems in harmonic analysis and application 
    • Rating: 
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  • February 7, 2001, Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Robert Bauer, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Title: Construction of heat flows via random holonomy and applications
    • Rating: 
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  • February 8, 2001, Thursday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Sergio Fenley, Washington University 
    • Title: Foliations and flows: relations with topology and geometry of 3-manifolds 
    • Rating: 
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  • February 12, 2001, Monday, 3:30 p.m. - Room 304 
    • Prof. Scott Ahlgren, Colgate University 
    • Title: Congruence properties for the partition function 
    • Rating: 
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    March, 2001

  • March 1, 3:30-4:30pm. - Room 304
    • Prof. Alex Kasman, College of Charleston 
    • Title: Solitons and Almost-Intertwining Matrices 
    • Rating: 
    • abstract
  • March 15, Thursday, 2:30-3:30pm (NOT 3:30-4:30pm). - Room 304 
    • Prof. John Sullivan, U. of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
    • Title: THE GEOMETRY OF FOAMS
    • Rating: 
    • abstract
  • March 22, 3:30-4:30pm. - Room 304
    • Prof. Bob Connelly, Cornell University 
    • Title: How to unfold the carpenter's rule in the plane. 
    • Rating: G 
    • abstract

    April, 2001

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    May, 2001

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     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 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.