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Fall 2002
• Monday, October 14, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Caflisch spoke on Mathematics at the nanoscale: Big problems for small systems
• Monday, October 7, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. John Garnett spoke on Analytic Capacity, Bilipschitz Maps, Menger Curvature and Couchy Potentials
  Spring 2002
• Monday, June 3rd, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Chris Anderson spoke on Quantum Device Modeling
• Monday, April 29th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Jonathan Rogawski spoke on An Elementary Introduction to the Trace Formula
• Monday, April 15th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Robert Brown spoke on A trip upstream on the fixed point theory river
  Winter 2002
• Monday, January 14th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  D. Shlyakhtenko spoke on Free Probability Theory
• Monday, February 4th, 4-4:50 in IPAM1180
  I. Neeman spoke on Infinite Games
• Monday, February 25th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  E. Effros spoke on Functional analysis and quantum mechanics
• Monday, March 4th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  K. Baker spoke on Combinatorics on Words
• Monday, March 11th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  T. Banchoff spoke on What Are Characteristic Classes, Anyway?>
  Fall 2001
• Monday, October 15th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. J. Ralston spoke on Outside, Looking In
• Monday, October 22nd, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  N. Berloff spoke on Mathematical Modeling of Bose-Einstein Condensation
• Monday, November 5th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  V.S. Varadarajan spoke on What is the Geometry of the Physical World?
  You can view a copy of his slides here.
• Monday, November 19th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  M. Green spoke on Points, Curves, and the Hodge Conjecture
• Monday, December 3rd, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  R. Perez-Marco spoke on Celestial Mechanics and the oldest problem in Mathematics
  Spring 2001
• Monday, April 9th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. K. Liu spoke on Heat kernel is everything
  You can view a copy of his slides here.
• Monday, April 16th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  D. Sherman spoke on Fun Facts about Operator Algebras
• Monday, April 23th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. R. Perez-Marco spoke on Small divisors and holomorphic dynamics
• Monday, June 4th, 4-4:50 in MS6627
  Prof. L.T. Cheng spoke on Constructing Surfaces Arising from the Minkowski Problem
  Winter 2001
• Monday, January 22nd, 4-4:50 in MS6229
  Prof. Thomas Liggett spoke on A Probability Sampler
• Monday, January 29th, 4-4:50 in MS6229
  Prof. A. Merkurjev spoke on Algebra versus Topology
• Monday, February 12, 4-4:50 in MS6229
  Prof. L. Vese spoke on On some variational problems on the BV space for image reconstruction and segmentation
• Monday, February 26th, 4-4:50 in MS6229
  Prof. H.Hida spoke on Reciprocity Laws and Prime Decomposition
• Monday, March 5th, 4-4:50 in MS6229
  Prof. R. Garibaldi spoke on Exceptional algebraic objects
  Fall 2000
• Monday, December 4th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. T.W. Gamelin spoke on At the Crossroads of Functional Analysis and Complex Analysis
• Monday, November 27th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Paul Roberts spoke on Simulating the Earth's Magnetic Field
• Wednesday, November 15th, 3-3:50 in Boelter Hall 9413
  Stephen Erickson spoke on Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease
  You can view a copy of his slides here: Slides 1, Slides 2, Handout.
• Monday, November 13th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Gregory Eskin spoke on Inverse Problems in Mathematical Physics
• Wednesday, November 1st, 3-3:50 in Boelter Hall 9413
  Roger Peng spoke on Statistical Analysis of Literary Style
  You can view a copy of his slides here.
• Monday, October 30th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Robert Greene spoke on Geometry and Complex Analysis
• Monday, October 23rd, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Paul Burchard spoke on The Coming Infinite-Dimensional Calculus
  You can view a copy of his slides here.
  Spring 2000
• Monday, June 5th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Ali Kisisel spoke on Toda, KdV, and all that
• Wednesday, May 17th, 3-3:50 in MS6221
  Prof. Don Ylvisaker spoke on Inside the Lottery
• Wednesday, May 10th, 3-3:50 in MS6221
  Prof. Yingnian Wu spoke on Seeing is Modeling
• Monday, April 24th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Heinz Kreiss spoke on The numeric solution of nonlinear time dependent partial differential equations
• Monday, April 10th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Mark Green spoke on WHICH SURFACES HAVE INTERESTING CURVES? --AND WHY THIS INVOLVES COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
  Winter 2000
• Monday, March 13th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Andrea Brose spoke on Bumping, Bouncing, Sticking: The Mathematics of Rain
• Monday, February 28th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Richard A. Berk spoke on Doing Well by Doing Good: The Life and Times of the UCLA Statistical Consulting Center
• Monday, February 7th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Jackie Shen spoke on From Filter Banks to Wavelets
• Monday, January 31th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. V.S. Varadarajan spoke on Mathematics and the physical world: myths, facts, and philosophy
• Monday, January 24th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Jim Ralston spoke on The PDE of the Century