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Seminar and Colloquium Bulletin
for the week of March 1 - March 5, 2004.

 


MONDAY, March 1
        3:00 PM         COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
                        Florian Enescu will present
                        "F-pure rings"
                        in LCB 225

        3:00 PM         MAX DEHN
                        Xiaodong Wang (MIT) will present
                        "The positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds 
                        and the uniqueness of the AdS spacetime"
                        in LCB 215

        4:30 PM         APPLIED MATH/NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
                        Rob Knapp (Wolfram Research) will present
                        "New and improved features for Mathematica 5"
                        in LCB 222


TUESDAY, March 2
       12:55 PM         UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
                        Fred Adler will present
                        "Can ants do calculus? And if not, can they fake it?"
                        in LCB 121

        4:15 PM         SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
                        Xiaodong Wang (MIT) will present
                        "On the stability of Riemannian manifolds with parallel spinors"
                        in LCB 219

        4:30 PM         GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
                        Jingyi Zhu will present
                        "Modeling credit risk with diffusion"
                        in JWB 335


WEDNESDAY, March 3
        3:00 PM         PDE/DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
                        Rob Kusner (Massachusetts) will present
                        "Moduli of three-ended, genus zero, constant mean curvature surfaces I"
                        in LCB 225

        3:05 PM         MATH BIOLOGY
                        Steve Cox (CAAM, Rice University) will present
                        "Eavesdropping on synaptic traffic"
                        in LCB 215


THURSDAY, March 4

        2:45 PM
                        STRING GEOMETRY
                        Grisha Mikhalkin will present
                        "Enumerative tropical algebraic geometry in R^n"
                        in LCB 222

        3:05 PM         PDE/DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
                        Rob Kusner (Massachusetts) will present
                        "Moduli of three-ended, genus zero, constant mean curvature surfaces II"
                        in LCB 219

        4:15 PM         SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
                        Greg Huber (University of Massachusetts) will present
                        "How complex feedback, functioning designs 
                        and informatic turbulence emerge from nested recursion"
                        in JWB 335
                        Refreshments in the Faculty Lounge (JWB 228) at 3:45 PM.


FRIDAY, March 5
        3:00 PM         COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
                        Florian Enescu will present
                        "On the upper semi-continuity of the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity (II)"
                        in LCB 323

        3:05 PM         MATH BIOLOGY
                        Greg Huber (University of Massachusetts) will present
                        "Chirality transformations on bacterial flagella"
                        in LCB 215

        3:05 PM         PDE/DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
                        Rob Kusner (Massachusetts) will present
                        "Moduli of three-ended, genus zero, constant mean curvature surfaces III"
                        in LCB 225

        4:00 PM         NUMBER THEORY
                        Haseo Ki  (Yonsei University) will present
                        "The zeros of the Epstein zeta-function"
                        in LCB 222





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