Temple University

Mathematics Colloquium

The Mathematics Colloquium usually takes place on Mondays at 4 P.M. in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall. The colloquium is preceded by tea starting at 3:30 in the Faculty Lounge, adjacent to Room 617.
 
 
 
 

Talks, Fall 2000
September 18 Ubaldo Garcia-Palomares Superlinearly convergent projection algorithm for the convex inequality problem
September 25 Valeria Simoncini
Pavia		 Block-diagonal and indefinite symmetric preconditioners for mixed finite element formulations
October 2 Ermanno Lanconelli
Bologna		 On the C^infty solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed Levi curvature equation
October 16 Yanming Wang
Zhongshan University, China, and MIT		 Fixed points groups and the structure of a finite group
October 23 Murray Gerstenhaber
U. Penn		 The Donald-Flanigan problem for finite reflection groups
October 30 Warren D. Smith
NEC Research Institute, Princeton		 The computational complexity of some simple (?) statistical tasks
November 6 Juan Carlos Alvarez
Universite Catholique de Louvain-La Neuve, Belgium		 Total curvature and Legendrian knot theory
November 13 Oleg Trofimov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia		 Computerized X-ray Tomography Algorithms and Distributions with Power Singularity
November 20 Robert Curtis
University of Birmingham, UK		 From Plato and Klein to the Mathieu groups and beyond
November 29* Roy Meshulam
Technion and Institute for Advanced Study		 Matching and Covering via Homology
December 4
Lev Truskinovsky**
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis		 Mechanical behavior of discrete systems with bi-stable elements
Elisabeth Logak
U. de Cergy-Pontoise, France		 Free boundary dynamics in bio-mathematical models
December 11 Robert Lipton
Worcester Polytechnic Institute		 Field fluctuations in random media
(*) Wednesday, 4PM, Rm 617, Wachman Hall (**) At 2:40PM, Rm 617, Wachman Hall