Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
in 2002 - 2003

Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Fall 2002 -- Spring 2003
Organizer: Frauke Bleher

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Colloquia in 2001 - 2002


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 April 2003  
 
 Thursday  May 1, 2003
 
3:30 pm  Mathematics Colloquium
 Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, UC Santa Barbara
  Geometric aspects of representation theory
 Host: Frauke Bleher
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 April 2003  
 
 Wednesday  April 30, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Mathematics Colloquium
 Hsiang-Ping Huang, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan
  New techniques in von Neumann subfactors
 Host: Fred Goodman
 Room: 105 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
  
 Friday  April 25, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
  Mathematical and Computational Models for Microstructure, Phase Transformation, and Metastabilty
 Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
 A Sharp Interface Thin Film Model
 Host: Weimin Han
 Room: 113 MLH
  
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Bill Sledd, Michigan State University
  Construction of some unconditional bases and the role of sampling theorems and theorems of Littlewood and Paley
 Host: Tom Branson
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  April 24, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
  Mathematical and Computational Models for Microstructure, Phase Transformation, and Metastabilty
 Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
 Numerical Analysis of Microstructure
 Host: Weimin Han
 Room: 114 MLH
  
 Wednesday  April 23, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
  Mathematical and Computational Models for Microstructure, Phase Transformation, and Metastabilty
 Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
 The Geometrically Nonlinear Theory of Structural Phase Transformation
 Host: Weimin Han
 Room: 113 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  April 17, 2003
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Feng Luo, Rutgers University
  Combinatorial Ricci flow on surfaces
 Host: Ying-Qing Wu
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  April 10, 2003
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Konrad Schmüdgen, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  The Moment Problem and Positive Polynomials
 Host: Raul Curto, Paul Muhly
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  April 3, 2003
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Juping Wang, Harvard University
  Singular Modular Forms
 Host: Yangbo Ye
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 March 2003  
 
 Friday  March 28, 2003
 
3:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
 Bennett Chow, UC San Diego
  Harnack estimates of Li-Yau-Hamilton type for the Ricci flow
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 214 MLH
  
 Thursday  March 27, 2003
 
3:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
 Bennett Chow, UC San Diego
  Singularities of the Ricci flow in dimension three
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 118 MLH
  
 Tuesday  March 25, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
 Bennett Chow, UC San Diego
  Convergence and other good behaviors of Ricci flow in dimension three
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 214 MLH
  
 Monday  March 24, 2003
 
3:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
 Bennett Chow, UC San Diego
  Evolving metrics on surfaces to constant curvature ones
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  March 13, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series   "Approximations and tilting"
 Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  Tilting Approximations and Finitistic Dimensions of Algebras
 Host: Kent Fuller
 Room: 27 MH
  
 Wednesday  March 12, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series   "Approximations and tilting"
 Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  Elements of Tilting Theory
 Host: Kent Fuller
 Room: 113 MLH
  
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan
  A mechanical model of tumor encapsulation and invasion
 Host: Herb Hethcote
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Tuesday  March 11, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series   "Approximations and tilting"
 Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  The Abundance of Approximations
 Host: Kent Fuller
 Room: 140 SH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
  
 Monday  March 10, 2003
 
2:30 pm  Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series   "Approximations and tilting"
 Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  Modules and their approximations
 Host: Kent Fuller
 Room: 113 MLH
  
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Isabel Darcy, University of Texas at Dallas
  A First-order Model of Protein-DNA Complexes
 Host: Herb Hethcote
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  March 6, 2003
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Patrick Nelson, University of Michigan
  Modeling primary HIV infection and antiviral therapy using delay differential equations and structured PDEs
 Host: Herb Hethcote
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 February 2003  
 
 Thursday  February 13, 2003
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Erwei Bai, Engineering, University of Iowa
  Identification of a block oriented nonlinear model
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  February 6, 2003
 
3:30 pm Joint Colloquium of Mathematics and AMCS
 Kurt Anstreicher, George Daly Professor of Management Sciences, University of Iowa
  The problem of the thirteen spheres
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 January 2003  
 
 Thursday  January 30, 2003
 
3:30 pm AMCS Colloquium
 Jaime Mena-Lorca, Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile
 Periodicity and Stability in Epidemiology Models
 Room: 118 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 December 2002  
 
 Thursday  December 5, 2002
 
3:30 pm AMCS Colloquium
 Yinnian He, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China
  Two-Level Method Based on Finite Element and Crank-Nicolson Extrapolation for the Time-Dependent Navier-Stokes Equations
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 November 2002  
 
 Tuesday  November 19, 2002
 
2:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Blow-up in 2D Harmonic Map Flow
 Hosts: Lihe Wang, Dan Knopf
 Room: 158 VAN
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
  
 Monday  November 18, 2002
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Computational Issues for Schrödinger Equations in the Semiclassical Regime
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 221 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  November 14, 2002
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Eric Barth, Kalamazoo College
  Numerical Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics Simulation
 Host: Laurent Jay
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Thursday  November 7, 2002
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Bent Orsted, University of Southern Denmark and Cornell University
  Complex geometry of the Maslov index
 Host: Tom Branson
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 October 2002  
 
 Monday  October 21, 2002
 
2:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Lawrence Peterson, University of North Dakota
  Tensor Calculus with Mathematica
 Host: Tom Branson
 Room: 1505 SC (Seamans Center)
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
  
 Wednesday  October 9, 2002
 
3:30 pm  Mathematics Colloquium
 Dmitry Kozlov, Royal Institute Stockholm
  Combinatorics and Topology of Resonances
 Host: Dick Randell
 Room: 221 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 Monday  October 7, 2002
 
3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium
 Eva Feichtner, ETH Zürich
  Combinatorial stratifications - a key to cohomology and intersection theory
 Host: Dick Randell
 Room: 221 MLH
 Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.