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MONDAY, 4/11
3:00 PM MTH 1311
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR Wu-Yi Hsiang (University of California, Berkeley;
National Hong Kong University; Peking University): On the optimal separation of thirteen points on the unit sphere
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR Mark Embree (Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University): A Dozen Cautionary Tales from "Spectra and
Pseudospectra"
MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
Wu-Yi Hsiang (University of California, Berkeley;
National Hong Kong University; Peking University): Geometry and its role in civilization
(Reception at 3:30 in the Math Lounge)
THURSDAY, 4/14
2:00 PM MTH 1311
DYNAMICS SEMINAR Keith Burns (Northwestern University): Ergodicity for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms