Subject: Updated Weekly Seminars

From: "Aubry, Kristy B." <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:17:49 -0800

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Mathematics

Weekly Calendar of Events

February 5 - 9, 2007

Monday, February 5, 2007

* ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY *

Speaker: Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule

4:15 pm   Rm.  257 Sloan

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~arinkin/alggeom/

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

* MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM *

Speaker: Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces

 4:15 p.m.  Rm. 151 Sloan

http://math.caltech.edu/events/colloq%20Ravi%20Vakil.html

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

* MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS *

Speaker: David Damanik (Rice University) 

Wave packet spreading on the Fibonacci chain

12:00 pm  Rm. 351 Sloan (Lounge)

http://math.caltech.edu/events/mathphys.html

* LOGIC *

Speaker: Orestis Raptis

A Dichotomy For Peano Continua (Part 3)

3:00 pm   Rm. 151 pm

http://math.caltech.edu/events/logic.html

* ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY *

Speaker: Herschel Farkas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Thomae's theorem and some generalizations

4:15 p.m.  Rm 257 Sloan 

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~arinkin/alggeom/

Thursday, February 8, 2007

* NUMBER THEORY *

Speaker: Karl Rubin (UC Irvine)

Growth of ranks of elliptic curves in nonabelian extensions of number
fields

4:15 pm   Rm.  257 Sloan

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~wambach/ntseminar.html

Friday, February 9, 2007

* GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY *

Speaker: Henry Wilton (Texas)

Limit groups, LERF and local retractions

3:00 pm   Rm.  257 Sloan

http://www.its.caltech.edu/%7edunfield/seminar/topics.html

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Kristy Aubry

Graduate Option Representative

Caltech Mathematics Department

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