U.C. Berkeley Mathematics Department

Spring, 1999 Colloquium Schedule


Date Speaker Title
January 21 Peter Sarnak, Princeton UniversitySpectra of elements in some group rings
January 28 Heinz-Otto Kreiss, UCLADiPerna Lecture, The numerical solution of nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations
February 4 Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern UniversityDiffeomorphisms with robust statistical properties
February 11 Allen Knutson, Brandeis UniversityHermitian matrices, tensor products, and honeycombs
February 18 Daqing Wan, UC IrvineIntroduction To Dwork's Conjecture
February 25 Oscar E. Lanford, ETH ZürichWhat really happens when a smooth expanding map is iterated on the computer
March 4 Ranee Brylinski, Penn State UniversityStar Products and Quantization of Manifolds with Symmetry
March 11 George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford UniversityJoint Math-Geophysics colloquium: Time reversal imaging
March 18 Richard Taylor, Harvard University and UC BerkeleyThe local Langlands conjecture
March 25 Spring Break!
April 1 Jim Pitman, Statistics Department, UC BerkeleyBrownian excursions, random trees, and random partitions
April 8 Katherine F. Stevenson, Caltech Fundamental groups in positive characteristic
April 15 Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers UniversityKontsevich's deformation quantization and invariant differential operators
April 22 David Hoffman, MSRIProperly embedded minimal surfaces of finite topology
April 29 George Oster, UC Berkeley Departments of Environmental Science, Policy and Management; and Molecular and Cell BiologyMathematics Awareness Month Lecture, The world's smallest rotary motor
May 6 Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University and MSRIK-theory and Cohomology Theories

Other colloquium schedules:

The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is warmly invited to attend.


Kenneth A. Ribet, colloquium chair

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