Events for the week of May 12 2008

Monday May 12
14:00-14:502007-2008 Distinguished Lecture Series (MS 6221)
John Coates (University of  Cambridge)Iwasawa Theory - Lecture 1: Whyever Iwasawa Theory?
16:00-16:50Algebra Seminar (MS 6221)
Anthony Ruozzi (UCLA)Essential dimension of p-groups
16:30-17:20Number Theory Seminar (MS5128)
Shamgar Gurevich (U.C. Berkeley)TBA
Tuesday May 13
14:00-14:502007-2008 Distinguished Lecture Series (MS 6627)
John Coates (University of  Cambridge)Iwasawa Theory - Lecture 2: Foundations of Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory
15:00-15:50Participating Analysis Seminar (MS6221)
No meeting this week.
Wednesday May 14
15:00-15:50Applied Math Colloquium (IPAM1200)
Eric Lauga (U.C. San Diego)Nonlinear and Nonlocal Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
16:00-16:50Probability Seminar (MS 5233)
Lincoln Chayes (UCLA)Mean Field Analysis of Low Dimensional Systems
16:30-17:20Applied Math Colloquium (IPAM1200)
Craig Evans (U.C.  Berkeley)A Nonlinear PDE Model for Lakes and Rivers
Thursday May 15
13:50-14:50Combinatorics Seminar (MS 6943 )
David Conlon (Cambridge University)The Ramsey Multiplicity of Complete Graphs
14:00-14:502007-2008 Distinguished Lecture Series (MS 6221)
John Coates (University of  Cambridge)Iwasawa Theory - Lecture 3: The Work of M. Kakde
15:00-15:50Number Theory Colloquium (MS6627)
Gopal Prasad (University of Michigan)Lengths of Closed Geodesics and Isospectral Locally Symmetric Spaces.
16:00-16:50Image Processing Seminar (IPAM1200)
Simon Morgan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)TV-L1 and the Flat Norm for Shape Signatures and Distance Functions
16:15-17:05Functional Analysis Colloquium (MS6627)
Lewis Bowen New measure-conjugacy invariants for actions of sofic groups
Friday May 16
15:00-15:50Analysis and PDE Seminar (MS6221)
Jose A. Carrillo (ICREA)The Patlak-Keller-Segel Model: Free Energies, Geometric Inequalities and Gradient Flows
16:00-16:50Logic Colloquium (MS6627)
Aldo Antonelli (U.C.  Irvine)Abstraction Principles in First-Order Arithmetic