Fall Semester Colloquia Main Schedule
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Friday January 4, 2002
First Day of Classes, Spring Semester
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Thursday January 10
No colloquium
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Thursday January 17
Special Interview Lecture
Anurag Singh (University of Utah), Host: Basu
Intersection multiplicities
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Thursday January 24
Special Interview Lecture
Tai Peng Tsai (IAS Princeton), Host: Loss
Soliton dynamics of nonlinear dispersive PDE
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Thursday January 31
Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab), Host: McCuan
Optimal Control of Various Population Models
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Thursday February 7
Dan Pollack (University of Washington), Host: McCuan
Gluing
and wormholes for the Einstein constraint equations
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Friday February 8
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Marie-Francois Roy (Universite de Rennes, France), host: Basu
Three problems in real algebraic geometry and their applications
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Thursday February 14
Prof. I. Pritsker (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater),
host: Lubinsky
Integer Chebyshev problems
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Thursday February 21
Valentin Zagrebnov (Iniv. of Marsielle), Host: Bunimovich
Trotter product formula
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Thursday February 28
Claude LeBrun, Host: Landsberg
Curvature and smooth topology in dimension four
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March 4-8 Spring Break
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Thursday March 14
Special Interview Lecture
Angel Kumchev (University of Toronto), Host: McCuan
Old and new results on the distribution of primes
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Thursday March 21, ROOM CHANGE: 249 Skiles
Mel Slugbate (Slugbate and Mossbutter Real Estate, Williamstown, MA)
Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space:
Investment Opportunities for the New Millenium
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Thursday March 28
Leonid P.Shilnikov (Inst. of Appl. Math., Nizhny Novgorod)
Host: Bunimovich
On problems of complex dynamics of Hamiltonian systems
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Thursday April 4
Peter Winkler (Bell Labs), Host: Tetali
Building Uniformly Random Objects
Special Additional Lecture, 3:00 Skiles 269: Games People Don't Play
(Undergraduates encouraged to attend.)
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Thursday April 11
Serge Tabachnikov (Penn. State), Host: Landsberg
Skew loops, skew branes, double normals and quadratic surfaces
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Indroductory Material
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Thrusday April 18
Walter Philipp (University of Illinois, Urbana), Host: Lacey
Bell's Theorem and quantum entanglement at a distance
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Related news article in Nature
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Thursday April 25 (Last Week of Classes)
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Thursday May 2 (Finals Week)
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