Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
in 2004 - 2005
Fall 2004 -- Spring 2005
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September
Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Peter Selinger, University of Ottawa Categorical models of quantum computation Host: Eugene Madison, George Nelson, Palle Jorgensen and Fernando Souza Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. October
Four Lectures: October 11-15, 2004 Distinguished Visitor Hans Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen Quantum groups and quantized matrix algebras Host: Tuong Ton-That Room: MW 214 MLH, Thur. 114 MLH, Tue. 1:30, 301 VAN(NOTE room change) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Monday, October 18, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Zeph Landau, City College of CUNY Localization of frames and a curious connection to C^* algebras Host: Fred Goodman Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday, October 19, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Alan Huckleberry, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany A quantum mechanical characterization of symmetric spaces Host: Paul Muhly Room: 301 VAN Refreshments: Physics lounge at VAN at 3:00 pm. Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Paul G. Schmidt, Auburn University Explosive Behavior in a System of Equations Related to the Boussinesq Approximation for Viscous Heat-Conducting Fluids Host: Gerhard Strohmer Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, October 22, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Ed Wilson, Washington University Wavelets with composite dilations Host: Tuong Ton-That Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, October 29, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Tullio Checcherini-Silberstein, University of Rome I Amenability and paradoxical decompositions: Tarski's alternative theorem Host: Florin Radulescu Room: 210 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. November Thursday, November 11, 2004 (NOTE special time) 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Min Lee, UNI Automorphic forms and Kuga fiber varieties Host: Phil Kutzko Room: 140 Schaeffer Hall Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm. Friday, November 12, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Mihaly Bakonyi, Georgia State University The Intertwining Lifting Theorem for Ordered Groups Host: Florin Radulescu Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, November 18, 2004 (NOTE special time) 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Frank Deutsch, Penn State THE METHOD OF ALTERNATING PROJECTIONS Host: Bor-Luh Lin Room: 140 Schaeffer Hall Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm. Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin, Madison A geometric formulation of a plasma-sheath interface Host: Tong Li Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm. December Thursday, December 2, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Taka Ozawa, University of Tokyo New progress in the classification of group von Neumann algebras Host: Florin Radulescu Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, December 10, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Hans Wenzl, University of California, San Diego Braids and Categories Host: Fred Goodman Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Wednesday, December 15, 2004 (NOTE special time) 3:15 Mathematics Colloquium Ovidiu Pasarescu, University of Iowa and Institute of mathematics Romanian Academy ABSTRACT AND EMBEDDED PROJECTIVE VARIETIES Host: Florin Radulescu Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:45 pm. January Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Fernando Souza, University of Iowa On diagrammatic methods Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. February Thursday, February 3, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium A. Raghuram, University of Iowa Representations of GL(2) Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday, February 8, 2005 (NOTE special time) 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Christopher M. Brislawn, Los Alamos National Laboratory The polyphase-with-advance representation and linear phase lifting factorizations of multirate filter banks Host: Palle Jorgensen Room: 214 EPB Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm. Tuesday, February 8, 2005 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium David Bortz, University of Michigan Analysis and Inference of Delay and Functional Differential Equation Models of HIV Infection Dynamics Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Colleen Mitchell, Boston University Mathematical Properties of Time-Windowed Neural Systems Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Gregory Pearlstein, Institute for Advanced Study Harmonic Integrals in Algebra and Geometry Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Hao Fang, Institute for Advanced Study Analytic torsion on Calabi-Yau manifolds Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Monday, February 21, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium David Savitt, McGill University, Canada Modular Galois representations Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Matthew Boylan, UIUC Arithmetic properties of the Fourier coefficients of modular forms Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. March Four Lectures: March 7-11, 2005 Distinguished Visitor Craig Benham, UC Davis Genome Center DNA Structure and DNA Topology (Mon. Tu. Wed.) The Emerging Role of Mathematics in Biology (Th.) Host: Isabel K Darcy Room: Monday, Wednesday: 3:30 p.m. in room 110 MLH, Tuesday, Thursday: 2:30 p.m. in room 105 MLH Refreshments: TBA Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University The image of the heat kernel transform on non-compact symmetric spaces Host: Thomas Branson and Palle Jorgensen Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Three Lectures, March 22-24, 2005 Distinguished Visitor Roger Temam, Indiana University at Bloomington Theoretical and computational problems for the equations of the ocean and the atmosphere Host: Lihe Wang Room: Tuesday, Thursday: 3:30 p.m. in room 114 MLH, Wednesday: 3:30 p.m. in room 110 MLH Refreshments: Wednesday, Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Wednesday, March 30, 2005 (NOTE special time) 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Ling Long, Iowa State University Modular forms for noncongruence subgroups of $SL_2(\mathbb Z)$ Host: Yangbo Ye Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. April Thursday, April 7, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Mark Tomforde, University of Iowa Elementary Strong Shift Equivalence of $C^*$-correspondences Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium T.S.S.R.K Rao, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Local isometries of spaces of operators Host: Bor-Luh Lin Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30 AMCS Colloquium Mac Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mathematical Models for the Spread of Epidemics Host: AMCS Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin The Unknotting Number of a Knot Host: Ying-Qing Wu Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Marta Asaeda, University of Iowa Categorifications of Quantum Invariants for Links Host: Department of Mathematics Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. May Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Pavel Solin, University of Texas at El Paso On $hp$-FEM for Elliptic Problems Host: Laurent Jay Room: 114 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. July Monday, July 11, 2005 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Mohamed F. Yousif, The Ohio State University Soc-Injective Rings and Modules Host: Victor Camilllo Room: 118 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.