Spring Quarter, 2005

March 28 - April 1 2005 NIVENS LECTURES

Alexandre Kirillov,   University of Pennsylvania

A tea before Lectures 1 and 3 at 3:15 p.m. and a reception after the Monday lecture will be given in 219 Fenton Hall.

Lecture 1:   A Tale of Two Fractals
Monday, March 28, 4:00-5:00 - Room 106 Deady Hall
Lecture 2:   Self-similar Fractal Sets and Generalized Number Systems   (an Undergraduate Lecture)
Wednesday, March 30, 12:00pm - Room 229 McKenzie Hall
Lecture 3:   Descartes Theorem and its Generalizations   (an Undergraduate Lecture)
Friday, April 1, 4:00-5:00 - Room 106 Deady Hall


• April 5 - No Colloquium
  
  
• Tuesday, April 12 - Joint UO-OSU Colloquium
  Peng Lu, University of Oregon
    Ricci flow on locally homogeneous closed 4-manifolds
  The joint colloquium will be held at the OSU campus in Corvallis.
  
  
  

  April 25-27 2005 MOURSUND LECTURES SERIES
  
  Richard Schoen,   Stanford University

  A tea before Lectures 1 and 3 at 3:15 p.m. and a reception after the Monday lecture will be given in 219 Fenton Hall.
  
  Lecture 1:   The Yamabe problem revisited
  Monday, April 26, 4:00-5:00 - Room 106 Deady Hall
  Lecture 2:   Global compactness theorems for constant scalar curvature metrics
  Tuesday, April 27, 4:00-5:00 - Room Deady Hall
  Lecture 3:   Sharp isoperimetric inequalities for minimal surfaces in Euclidean space
  Wednesday, April 28, 4:00-5:00 - Room 110 Willamette Hall
  
  
• May 2 - Maria Gorelik Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    Centers of Classical Lie Superalgebras
  
  
• May 9 - Michael Finkelberg University of Chicago and Independent Moscow University
    Finite difference quantum Toda lattice, and quantum K-theory of flag manifolds
  
  
• May 16 - David Maxwell University of Alaska
    The continuing effectiveness of the conformal method of solving the Einstein constraint equations
  
  
• May 23 - Chuck Doron University of Washington
    TBA
  
  

Winter Quarter, 2005

• January 10 - Steve Mitchell, University of Washington
    The Iwasawa algebra in number theory and topology
  
• February 28 - Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts
    The Generalized Catalan Number
  
• March 7 - Pete Casazza, University of Missouri
    Applications of Hilbert space frames
  
• March 14 - Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University
    Noncommutative Total Positivity

Past Colloquia

Fall Quarter, 2004

• October 4 - Richard Askey, U.Wisconsin-Madison
    Orthogonal polynomials and some applications, including some determinants and combinatorial results
• October 11 - Jim Isenberg, U. Oregon
    Wormholes, broken clocks, and job fraud
• October 18 - John Conway, Princeton University
    Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum
• October 25 - No colloquium
• November 1 - Guershon Harel, USCD.
    On the Development of Students' Conceptions of Proof
• November 8 - Pavel Etingof, MIT
    Hochschild Cohomology of Preprojective Algebras
• November 15 - Kiyoshio Igusa, Brandeis U.
    Semi-Invariants, Root Systems, Associahedra and Nilpotent Groups
• November 22 - Jeffrey Rabin, UCSD
    Supercurves and Their Duals
• November 29 - Ryan Budney, University of Oregon
    Parametrized Constructions and Spaces of Things
• December 6 - Mock AMS session, Part II: Hans Nordstrom and Ollie Ruff