MONDAY, MARCH 16

"The Poincare Series of C \ Z," Manfred Denker, University of Gottingen (Germany), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Biocontrol- and Green-Mold Related Trichoderma harzianum," Manuel D. Ospina-Giraldo, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-3761).

"Mechanistic Studies on Peptide Hydrolysis by Dinuclear Metalloenzymes," Richard C. Holz, Utah State University, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Greg Ferry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Koszul Duality for Operads," Dmitry Tamarkin, Penn State, 5:00 p.m., 306 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Recent Discoveries with the Hubble Space Telescope" (Marker Lecture #1 of 3), John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, 8:00 p.m., 102 Thomas Building, host: Peter Meszaros, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

TUESDAY, MARCH 17

"Beuker's Conjecture for Central Binomial Coefficients Mod p^2," Michael Dancs, Penn State, 1:00 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Gravitational Waves and Pulsating Relativistic Stars," Kostas Kokkotas, Thessaloniki University (Greece), 2:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Sequent Calculus and the Specification of Computation," Dale Miller, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 308 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"A Proof of the 'Bellows Conjecture' by I. Sabitov," Eric Johnson and Konstantin Shemyak, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 309 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Maxwell's Equations and Discrete Differential Forms," Ralf Hiptmair, University of Augsburg (Germany), 4:00 p.m., 115 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Host Galaxies of Quasars" (Marker Lecture #2 of 3), John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, 4:00 p.m., 101 Osmond Laboratory, host: Peter Meszaros, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18

"Renormalization and Period Doubling Bifurcations," Jorn Davidsen, Penn State, 10:30 a.m., 328E Health and Human Development East Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Recent Advances in Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy," Allen J. Bard, University of Texas, 11:15 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-0119).

"Ozone Effects on Wild Grape Under Contrasting Light Environments," John Skillman, Penn State, 12:20 p.m., 106 Wartik Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (865-0323).

"Solar Neutrinos: Where We Are, Where We Are Going" (Marker Lecture #3 of 3), John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Peter Meszaros, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

"Weakly Symmetric Spaces and Spherical Varieties," Dmitri Akhiezer, Moscow Civil Engineering University (Russia), 4:40 p.m., 119 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

"A Gentle Proof of Tsfasman-Vladut-Zink Bound," Hiren Maharaj, Penn State, 10:10 a.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Computing the Lead Term of an Abelian $L-$function with Applications to Stark's Conjecture," Brett Tangedal, College of Charleston at South Carolina, 11:15 a.m., 105 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"From Surgery to Analysis," John Roe, Oxford University (England), 11:15 a.m., 3 White Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Mechanistic Studies of Transcription Complex Assembly," Robert Coleman, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"MALDI Mass Spectroscopy: Great Applications But Little Understanding," Franz Hillenkamp, Universitat Munster (Germany), S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 12:15 p.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Pulsar Astronomy and the Hunt for Stellar Mass Black Holes," Norbert Wex, Princeton University, 1:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Edge Elements," Ralf Hiptmair, University of Augsburg (Germany), 4:00 p.m., 115 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Least Average Residual Algorithm (LARA) for Tracking the Motion of Ice Floes," Shyamal Peddada, University of Virginia, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Parallel Data Mining for Rule in Very Large Databases," Mohammed Zaki, University of Rochester, 4:00 p.m., 302 Pond Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (865-9505).

"Protein Recognition of a Ribosomal RNA Tertiary Structure," David Draper, Johns Hopkins University, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 4:00 p.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Weyl Type Bounds for Harmonic Functions," William Minicozzi, Johns Hopkins University, 4:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building (refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in 212 McAllister Building), Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

"Second Harmonic Generation at Liquid Interfaces," Kevin Dahl, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-0119).

"An Asymptotic Theory of Boundary and Local Singularities of Solutions to Higher Order Linear and Semilinear Elliptic Equations," Vladimir Maz'ya, Linkoping University (Sweden), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865- 7527).

"A Proof of the 'Bellows Conjecture' by I. Sabitov (continued)," Eric Johnson and Konstantin Shemyak, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 320 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

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SUNDAY, MARCH 22

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