University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Colloquium 1999-2000

This page contains the schedule for all departmental colloquia for the academic year 1999-2000. 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 (unless otherwise specified) 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. 

September, 1999

  • September 30
    • Klaus Hulek
    • Modular forms and the geometry of Siegel varieties
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    October, 1999

  • Tuesday October 5 (note special day)
    • Pierre Schapira
    • Integral transforms in the language of sheaves and D-modules
    • Rating: F 
    • abstract 

  • October 14 
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  • October 21
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  • October 28 
    • Gerard van der Geer
    • The Theta Divisor of a Number Field
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    November, 1999

  • November 4
    • Joseph M. Landsberg
    • Complex Lie algebras and Freudenthal's magic square via geometry
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • November 11
    • Feng Xu
    • Algebraic coset conformal field theory
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • November 18 
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    December, 1999

  • December 2
    • Hans Peter Schlickewei
    • The subspace theorem in Diophantine approximations
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • December 9 
    • Karen Parshall
    • `The mathematical legacy of James Joseph Sylvester, 1814--1897
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    January, 2000

  • January 6 
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  • January 13 
    • Cristian D. Popescu
    • Stark--type Conjectures ``over {\bf Z}''
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 20 
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  • January 25 
    • Joseph L. Wetherell
    • Rational points on algebraic curves
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • January 27 
    • Daniel Lieman
    • The security of the Diffie-Hellman Key exchange protocol (or: an improved bound on the number of zeros of a sparse polynomial)
    • Rating: G+/F-
    • abstract 

    February, 2000

  • February 1 (Tuesday)
    • William Stein
    • Modularity and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 3 
    • Ko Honda
    • Tight Contact Structures and 3-dimensional Topology
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 7 (Monday) at 3:00 pm 
    • Misha Grinberg
    • Self-Indexing and Perverse Sheaves
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 11 
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  • February 14 (Monday)
    • Richard Ehrenborg
    • Inequalities for the cd-index
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • February 18 
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  • February 25 
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    March, 2000

  • March 2 
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  • March 16 
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  • March 23 
    • Oleg Davydov
    • Smooth Piecewise Polynomial Multiresolution Analysis on Irregular Triangulations
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • March 30 
  • Room 328 
    • Thomas Banchoff
    • Interactive Geometry on the Internet: Exploring Surfaces in Four-Space
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

    April, 2000

  • April 6 
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  • April 13 
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  • April 17 (Monday) 
  • Room 304 
    • Carl Pomerance
    • Prime numbers: what we still don't know
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

  • April 20 
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  • April 27 
    • Bertil Walden
    • Numerical Solution of PDE's using FEMLAB
    • Rating: 
    • abstract 

     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.