Department of Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

Seminars and Colloquia: Week of October 27, 2002 - November 02, 2002

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SUNDAY - OCTOBER 27, 2002

No events scheduled for this day.

MONDAY - OCTOBER 28, 2002

Special Algebra

Date - Time:
10/28/2002 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Laurent Bartholdi - University of California, Berkeley
Title:
Algebras and Growth in Branch Groups

Special Algebra

Date - Time:
10/28/2002 - 03:01 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Laurent Bartholdi - University of California, Berkeley
Title:
Algebras and Growth in Branch Groups

TUESDAY - OCTOBER 29, 2002

Octonion

Date - Time:
10/29/2002 - 10:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6438
Speaker:
Graham Hazel - UCSD Graduate Student
Title:
Octonionic projective spaces

Differential Geometry

Date - Time:
10/29/2002 - 10:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6218
Speaker:
Jiaping Wang - U. of Minnesota, Visiting UCSD
Title:
Harmonic functions and applications to geometry II

Numerical Analysis

Date - Time:
10/29/2002 - 11:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Beate Winkelmann - UCSD Graduate Student
Title:
Preconditioners for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Matrices Arising in the Optimal Control of Distributed Systems

Quantum Computing

Date - Time:
10/29/2002 - 11:30 AM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Markus Hunziker - University of Georgia
Title:
Query Complexity of Quantum Algorithms for Structured Search Problems: A Geometric Approach

Combinatorics

Date - Time:
10/29/2002 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Kevin O Bryant -
Title:
The Permutation that Orders Fractional Parts and Nearly PeriodicWords

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 30, 2002

Differential Geometry

Date - Time:
10/30/2002 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6218
Speaker:
Peter Ebenfelt - UCSD
Title:
The equivalence problems and rigidity of CR manifolds embedded in hyperquadrics

THURSDAY - OCTOBER 31, 2002

Math 288 - Probability

Date - Time:
10/31/2002 - 10:00 AM
Location:
AP&M 6438
Speaker:
Weining Kang - UCSD Graduate Student
Title:
On "SDEs with oblique reflection in non-smooth domains", following Dupuis and Ishii.

Number Theory

Date - Time:
10/31/2002 - 02:30 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Audrey Terras -
Title:
Where are the Zeros of the Ihara Zeta Function and Why do We Care?

Colloquium

Date - Time:
10/31/2002 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7321
Speaker:
Markus Hunziker - University of Georgia
Title:
Hilbert series and resolutions of determinantal varieties

FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 01, 2002

Special

Date - Time:
11/01/2002 - 03:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 6438
Speaker:
Markus Hunziker - University of Georgia
Title:
Chebyshev polynomials over finite fields and two-dimensional additive cellular automata

Topology

Date - Time:
11/01/2002 - 04:00 PM
Location:
AP&M 7218
Speaker:
Rob Kirby - UC Berkeley
Title:
Foliations and almost complex structures on 4-manifolds

SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 02, 2002

No events scheduled for this day.