The following is a list of Lecture Series lectures scheduled for the Spring 2003 semester.
February 21, 2003
Prof. John Sylvester
University of Washington, Seattle WA
"Scattering and Inverse Scattering in the Frequency Domain: The Wronskian, the Paley-Wiener
theorem,and the Scattering Support."
February 28, 2003
Prof. Evgeny Poletsky
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
"Polynomial Approximations and Plurisubharmonic Functions."
March 11, 2003
Prof. John McCuan
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
"Capillary Surfaces in Corners: Very Different Contact Angles."
April 4, 2003
Prof. Maarten de Hoop
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
"Microlocal Analysis and Computational Aspects of the Downward Continuation Approach
to Seismic Imaging, Inversion and Tomography."
April 11, 2003
Prof. Robert Lipton
Louisiana State University
"Bounds on the distribution of extreme values for the stress in composite materials."
April 14, 2003
Prof. Plamen Stefanov
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
"Boundary Rigidity of Riemannian Manifolds"
April 18, 2003
Prof. Gary Lieberman
Iowa State University
"The Sel'kov Model: A Simple PDE System with Complex Behavior."
April 25, 2003
Prof. Kyung Bai Lee
University of Oklahoma
"Maximal Holonomy of Infra-Nilmanifolds with 2-dimenstional Quaternionic Heisenberg
Geometry."
May 9, 2003
Prof. Shmuel Friedland
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Computation of Entropy in Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory"
May 16, 2003
Prof. S. Nandi
Dept of Physics, Oklahoma State University
"Extra Dimensions: Physics or Fantasy?"
May 23, 2003
Prof. Roman Hric
Matej Bel University, Slovaki and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon
"Topologically Minimal Sets in Dynamical Systems"