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