UT - Mathematics Department: Seminars

The Department has a regular weekly colloquium. It also hosts two Distinguished Lecturer Series, which yearly feature some of the world's outstanding mathematicians. As a rule, these individuals remain in residence in the Department for a week or longer, during which time they are available for interaction with local faculty and students. Speakers during the past year included Colin Adams (topology), Mike Artin (algebraic geometry), Michel Herman (dynamical systems), Philip Holmes (applied mathematics), Henryk Iwaniec (number theory), Sergei Kuksin (mathematical physics), John Mather (dynamical systems), Giles Pisier (analysis), Rick Schoen (differential geometry), Ridgway Scott (numerical analysis), Roger Temam (partial differential equations), and a host of others. An Introduction to Research lecture series, to which speakers are invited because of their national reputations as fine expositors of mathematics, is aimed at and extremely popular among graduate students.
Various groups within the Department sponsor regular seminars for faculty and graduate students. Some of these are designed for students with a modest background in the field under study; others target students at a more advanced level. Naturally, the participants and the topics for the seminars change from year to year. During 1996-97 there were seminars in mathematical physics, topology, Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, complex analysis, partial differential equations, computational and applied mathematics, number theory, dynamical systems, differential geometry, gauge theory, iterative methods, statistics, algebra, and algebraic geometry. It is expected that most of these will continue during the coming year.