Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
in 2001 - 2002

Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Fall 2001 -- Spring 2002
Organizer: Frauke Bleher

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May 2002
Thursday  May 9, 2002
2:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Floyd Williams, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	Some zeta functions appearing in physics
	Host: Phil Kutzko
	Room: 221 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 2:00 pm.
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
	Zhong-Ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	A nonconforming rotated Q1 finite element and its applications
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room: 118 MLH
Wednesday  May 8, 2002
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
	Zhong-Ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Second and fourth order elliptic problems
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room: 113 MLH
Tuesday  May 7, 2002
2:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
	Zhong-Ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Second and fourth order elliptic problems
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room: 15 SH
Monday  May 6, 2002
2:30 pm	AMCS Colloquium
	Lourdes Esteva, UNAM in Mexico City.
	Mathematical models in Immunology: Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis
	Room: 118 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:20 pm.
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
	Zhong-Ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Second and fourth order elliptic problems
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room: 113 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
April 2002
Thursday  April 25, 2002
3:30 pm	Joint Colloquium of Mathematics and AMCS
	Philip Korman, University of Cincinnati
	Exact multiplicity of positive solutions for semilinear elliptic problems
	Host: Yi Li
	Room: 105 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  April 11, 2002
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Yoav Moriah, Technion, Israel.
	Closed essential surfaces and weakly reducible Heegaard splittings in manifolds with boundary
	Host: Ying-Qing Wu
	Room: 118 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Friday  April 5, 2002
3:30 pm	Joint Colloquium of AMCS and Mathematics
	Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University.
	Model of collaborative learning, drug use and the spread of ideologies
	Room: 113 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Wednesday  April 3, 2002
2:45 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Gilbert Strang, MIT
	Too much Calculus
	Host: Palle Jorgensen
	Room: 427 EPB
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Gilbert Strang, MIT
	Mathematics in Life (and Testimony to Congress)
	Host: Palle Jorgensen
	Room: 427 EPB
Tuesday  April 2, 2002
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Gilbert Strang, MIT
	Wavelet Bases and Applications
	Host: Palle Jorgensen
	Room: 118 MLH
Monday  April 1, 2002
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Gilbert Strang, MIT
	Filtering and Signal Processing
	Host: Palle Jorgensen
	Room: 113 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
March 2002
Friday  March 29, 2002
3:30 pm	Joint Colloquium of AMCS and Mathematics
	Aderemi Kuku, The International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste.
	Chern Characters in Non-Commutative Geometry
	Room: 113 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  March 28, 2002
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Bo Li, University of Maryland.
	Continuum Models for Epitaxial Growth of Thin Films
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room: 118 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Wednesday  March 27, 2002
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Bert Kostant, MIT
	The Weyl algebra and the determination of all Riemannian super Lie algebras
	Host: Tuong Ton-That
	Room: 113 MLH
Tuesday  March 26, 2002
2:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Bert Kostant, MIT
	A problem of Richardson and the generalizied Cayley map
	Host: Tuong Ton-That
	Room: VAN 301
Monday  March 25, 2002
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series
	Bert Kostant, MIT
	On Convexity Theorems and the Geometry of Symmetric Spaces
	Host: Tuong Ton-That
	Room: 113 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  March 14, 2002
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Zhimin Zhang, Wayne State University.
	Superconvergence of the Zienkiewicz-Zhu Patch Recovery for Rectangular Elements
	Host: Weimin Han
	Room:118 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
February 2002
Thursday  February 21, 2002
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Andrea Malchiodi, Princeton University
	Some new results and questions in concentration phenomena
	Host: Yi Li
	Room: 118 MLH
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
January 2002
Thursday  January 24, 2002
3:30 pm	Joint Colloquium of AMCS, Mathematics and Statistics
	William Massey, Princeton University.
	Strong approximations for Markovian service networks
	Room: 140 SH
	Refreshments: in 302 SH at 3:00 pm.
November 2001
Thursday  November 29, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Marius Somodi, University of Northern Iowa.
	Witt equivalence of number fields
	Host: Phil Kutzko.
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  November 15, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Carlo Morpurgo, University of Missouri at Columbia.
	Conformally invariant inequalities in analysis and spectral geometry
	Host: Tom Branson.
	Room: 205 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  November 8, 2001
3:30 pm	AMCS Colloquium
	Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University.
	Stochastic problems in applied science and engineering
	Joint Colloquium of AMCS and Mechanical Engineering.
	Room: 2217 SC
Thursday  November 1, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College.
	Hecke algebras, Markov traces and centralizer algebras
	Host: David Manderscheid.
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
October 2001
Thursday  October 25, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Peter Casazza, University of Missouri at Columbia.
	Applications of Hilbert space frames to the internet, multiple-antenna coding, quantum mechanics and more
	Host: Peter Lin.
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  October 18, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Eduardo Munoz, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile.
	On the arithmetic sum of regular Cantor sets
	Host: Juan Gatica
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Thursday  October 11, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania.
	Deformation rings, Fermat and arithmetic geometry
	Host: Frauke Bleher.
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
September 2001
Thursday  September 27, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Kazimierz Goebel, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland.
	Minimal displacement and optimal retractions
	Host: Art Kirk.
	Room: 105 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
Tuesday  September 25, 2001
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
	Yasayuki Hirano, Okayama University, Japan.
	Host: Victor Camillo.
	Cancelled.
August 2001
Thursday  August 30, 2001
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Parabolic Evolutions Equations
	Herbert Amann, University of Zürich.
	Parabolic equations involving measure
	Host: Gerhard Ströhmer.
	Room: 114 MLH.
Wednesday  August 29, 2001
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Parabolic Evolutions Equations
	Herbert Amann, University of Zürich.
	Heat-conducting viscous fluids
	Host: Gerhard Ströhmer.
	Room: 213 MLH.
Tuesday  August 28, 2001
2:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Parabolic Evolutions Equations
	Herbert Amann, University of Zürich.
	Coagulation-Fragmentation Models
	Host: Gerhard Ströhmer.
	Room: 66 SH.
Monday  August 27, 2001
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series  Parabolic Evolutions Equations
	Herbert Amann, University of Zürich.
	Reaction-Diffusion Equations
	Host: Gerhard Ströhmer.
	Room: 213 MLH.
	Refreshments: in H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.