Sverre O. Smalø, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norvegia)
Degenerations and other orderings on the space of d-dimensional representations of associative algebras
Monday, June 04 2007, at 17:00
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università degli Studi - Via Saldini 50 - Milano - Sala di Rappresentanza | |
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Timothy J. Sluckin, University of Southampton (Gran Bretagna)
The mathematical legacy of Vito Volterra
Tuesday, May 22 2007, at 17:00
Dipartimento di Matematica - Politecnico di Milano - Via Bonardi 9 - Milano - Aula Seminari VI piano |
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Vito Volterra's mathematical work stretches over the period 1881 to 1940. His first paper was written while still an undergraduate student and not yet twenty years of age, while his last was published only months before his death in 1940 at the age of eighty. His work stretches over a long period, during which great mathematical strides were made, and mathematical styles changed considerably. Likewise, he danced from one subject to another, covering wide swathes of continuum mechanics, astronomy, differential equations and mathematical biology. Unlike many mathematical colleagues, he did not settle into a happy but intellectually unproductive old age. He wrote several masterly textbooks, some parts of which give summaries of the field which cannot be bettered even today. Finally, he was no mean historian of science, as can be seen from some of the semi-popular essays he wrote. Meanwhile he had an active life as a politician and public figure. In this talk I shall give a brief outline of Volterra's life, career and mathematics, concentrating particularly on areas in which his work, sometimes accidentally, had lasting influence. |
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Erik Weyer, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Non-asymptotic confidence regions for the parameters of dynamical systems
Tuesday, May 22 2007, at 14:30
Dipartimento di Matematica - Politecnico di Milano - Via Bonardi 9 - Milano - Aula Seminari MOX (VI piano) | |
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Carlo Petronio, Università di Pisa
Combinatorial and geometric methods in topology
Monday, April 23 2007, at 17:00
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università degli Studi - Via Saldini 50 - Milano - Sala di Rappresentanza | |
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Enzo Mitidieri, Università di Trieste
Convexity, representation and Liouville theorems
Monday, March 26 2007, at 17:00
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università degli Studi - Via Saldini 50 - Milano - Sala di Rappresentanza | |
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Yasuhide Fukumoto, Kyushu University (Giappone)
Asymptotic formula for velocity of a vortex ring and kinematic variational principle
Wednesday, March 14 2007, at 11:00
Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni - Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca - Via Cozzi 53 -Milano Aula 3014 | |
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