Department of Mathematics, HKU

2009

Date	18 Dec 2009 (Fri)
Title	On superconformal algebras
Speaker	Professor Efim Zelmanov (Rita L. Atkinson Professor, University of California, San Diego and Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU)

Date	17 Dec 2009 (Thu)
Title	Geometry Seminar - J-Kepler Problems and Tube Domains
Speaker	Dr. Guowu Meng (HKUST)

Date	16 Dec 2009 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - How Algebras Grow
Speaker	Professor Efim Zelmanov (Rita L. Atkinson Professor, University of California, San Diego and Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU)

Date	02 Dec 2009 (Wed)
Title	Lectures on Several Complex Variables (Lecture 1-12) by Professor Ngaiming Mok (HKU), on 02/09/09 - 02/12/09

Date	01 Dec 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Picard-type theorems in higher dimension and related topics (amended)
Speaker	Professor Zhenhan Tu (涂振汉教授) (Wuhan U, China)

Date	27 Nov 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Total weight choosability of graphs
Speaker	Professor Xuding Zhu (National Sun Yat-sen U)

Date	27 Nov 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - An Introduction to Combinatorial Designs
Speaker	Professor Qingde Kang (Hebei Normal U)

Date	25 Nov 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Examples of (non) holomorphically convex domains and manifolds
Speaker	Dr. Dan Zaffran (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)

Date	24 Nov 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Nilpotent orbit closures
Speaker	Professor Baohua Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Date	23 Nov 2009 (Mon)
Title	Conference on Number Theory, on 23/11/2009

Date	23 Nov 2009 (Mon)
Title	NMAA Group Seminar - Application of Homopoty Analysis Method to the Falkner-Skan Differential Equation
Speaker	by Mr. Liang XU(HKU)

Date	21 Nov 2009 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKU)
Speaker	Professor Weiping Zhang (Nankai U., Tianjin, China), Dr. Dan Zaffran (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea) & Professor Baohua Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Date	20 Nov 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Archimedes' Stomachion: The World's Oldest Puzzle
Speaker	Professor D.G. Rogers (Institute of Informatics, U of Bergen, Norway)

Date	20 Nov 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Estimations of short Kloosterman sums II
Speaker	Professor Maxim Korolev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia)

Date	19 Nov 2009 (Thu)
Title	Colloquium - Estimations of short Kloosterman sums I
Speaker	Professor Maxim Korolev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia)

Date	18 Nov 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Instanton Floer homology for connected sums of Poincaré spheres
Speaker	Professor Weiping Li (Oklahoma State U and CUHK)

Date	18 Nov 2009 (Wed)
Title	Operations Research Group Workshop (ORG2009), on 18/11/2009

Date	17 Nov 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Symplectic singularities and resolutions
Speaker	Professor Baohua Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Date	13 Nov 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - The role of mathematicians and scientists in quantitative finance
Speaker	Professor Tat Sang Fung & Professor Ka Yi Ng

Date	10 Nov 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Intersections between Bruhat cells and conjugacy classes in classical groups
Speaker	Mr. Kei Yuen Chan (HKU)

Date	09 Nov 2009 (Mon)
Title	NMAA Group Seminar - An Application of Homopoty Analysis Method to a HIV Model
Speaker	Mr. XU Liang (HKU)

Date	31 Oct 2009 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKUST)
Speaker	Professor Fan Huijun (Peking U) & Professor Yukinobu Toda (U of Tokyo)

Date	27 Oct 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Some recent progress on Frobenius splitting method
Speaker	Professor Xuhua He (HKUST)

Date	12 Oct 2009 (Mon)
Title	NMAA Group Seminar - Globally Convergent and Efficient Homotopy Methods for Nonsmooth Programming
Speaker	Professor YU Bo (Dalian U of Technology)

Date	09 Oct 2009 (Fri)
Title	The Shaw Prize Lecture on Mathematical Sciences
Speaker	Professor Simon K. Donaldson and Professor Clifford H. Taubes

Date	06 Oct 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Twisted Cohomology of A-infinity Algebras
Speaker	Dr. Siye Wu (HKU)

Date	26 Sep 2009 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at CUHK)
Speaker	Professor Weiping Li (Oklahoma State U) and Professor Huai-Liang Chang (HKUST)

Date	22 Sep 2009 (Tue)
Title	Embedding property of J-holomorphic maps in Calabi-Yau manifolds for generic J
Speaker	Professor Ke Zhu (CUHK)

Date	22 Sep 2009 (Tue)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - On various packing and covering problems
Speaker	Mr. Zhibin Chen (HKU)

Date	21 Aug 2009 (Fri)
Title	Postgraduate Student Seminar - Integral Inequalities and Solvability of Boundary Value Problems with p(t)-Laplacian Operators
Speaker	Miss Dandan Zhao (HKU)

Date	06 Aug 2009 (Thu)
Title	Workshop on Complex Geometry, on 04/08/2009 - 06/08/2009

Date	30 Jul 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	28 Jul 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Multiple fibers of holomorphic Lagrangian fibration
Speaker	Professor Jun-Muk Hwang (KIAS, Seoul, Korea)

Date	24 Jul 2009 (Fri)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	21 Jul 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Two results related to isospectral geometry
Speaker	Professor Sai-Kee Yeung (Purdue U, USA)

Date	17 Jul 2009 (Fri)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Variations on the Theorem of Pompeiu
Speaker	Professor Der-Chen Chang (Georgetown U, Washington D.C., USA)

Date	16 Jul 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	03 Jul 2009 (Fri)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Complex curves tangent to high order
Speaker	Professor John Erik Fornaess (The University of Michigan)

Date	02 Jul 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	25 Jun 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	24 Jun 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Ricci curvature and measures
Speaker	Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (CNRS-IHÉS, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)

Date	22 Jun 2009 (Mon)
Title	Workshop in Algebra, on 22/06/2009

Date	18 Jun 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor, HKU)

Date	16 Jun 2009 (Tue)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Feedback Systems and Oscillation Theory
Speaker	Professor George Sell (U of Minnesota, USA)

Date	15 Jun 2009 (Mon)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor)

Date	11 Jun 2009 (Thu)
Title	Lecture Series - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints (continued)
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor, HKU)

Date	09 Jun 2009 (Tue)
Title	Colloquium - Some geometric problems admitting both algebraic and analytic viewpoints
Speaker	Professor Yum-Tong Siu (William Elwood Byerly Professor, Harvard U., USA and C.V. Starr Visiting Professor, HKU)

Date	15 May 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium & ORG Seminar - Group Connectivity of Graphs
Speaker	Professor Hong-Jian LAI (West Virginia U)

Date	07 May 2009 (Thu)
Title	Workshop on Geometry, on 07/05/2009

Date	06 May 2009 (Wed)
Title	Colloquium - Primes on Orbits
Speaker	Professor Jianya Liu (Shandong U)

Date	22 Apr 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - On the L^p estimates and the L^p -cohomology of d and
Speaker	Professor Xiangdong Li (Fudan U)

Date	22 Apr 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Tropical Nevanlinna theory and ultradiscrete equations
Speaker	Professor Ilpo Laine (U of Joensuu, Finland)

Date	18 Apr 2009 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKU)
Speaker	Dr. Sui Chung Ng (HKU) and Professor Xiangdong Li (Fudan U)

Date	16 Apr 2009 (Thu)
Title	Colloquium & ORG Seminar - Spectrum Management Based on Competitive Economy Equilibrium
Speaker	Professor Yinyu YE (Stanford U)

Date	06 Apr 2009 (Mon)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Hyper-Kähler fibrations
Speaker	Professor Ljudmila Kamenova (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)

Date	06 Apr 2009 (Mon)
Title	Colloquium - Approximating power series solutions by polynomial solutions
Speaker	Professor Jason Starr (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)

Date	03 Apr 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Ideas from Theoretical Physics and the Torelli Problem
Speaker	Professor Andrey Todorov (U of California, Santa Cruz, USA & IMS, CUHK)

Date	19 Mar 2009 (Thu)
Title	Special Lecture - PageRank as a Discrete Green's Function
Speaker	Professor Fan Chung Graham (U of California, San Diego)

Date	18 Mar 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Semi-positivity and abundance problem in Algebraic Geometry
Speaker	Professor Andrey Todorov (U of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

Date	13 Mar 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Goldbach's conjecture, twin prime conjecture and Chen's theorems
Speaker	Dr. WU Jie (Institut Élie Cartan, France)

Date	13 Mar 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Intersection of Schubert varieties and inequalities for eigenvalues of sums of self-adjoint operators
Speaker	Professor Wing Suet Li (School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Date	11 Mar 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometary Seminar - Projective-algebraicity of minimal compactifications of non-arithmetic quotients of the complex unit ball
Speaker	Professor Ngaiming Mok (HKU)

Date	18 Feb 2009 (Wed)
Title	Geometry Seminar - Complex, Quaternionic and Borel-deSiebenthal Symmetric Spaces
Speaker	Professor Joe Wolf (U of California, Berkeley)

Date	14 Feb 2009 (Sat)
Title	<<數趣漫話>> 之拍賣中尋對策 (吳端偉博士主講)
Speaker	by Dr. T.W. Ng (HKU)

Date	13 Feb 2009 (Fri)
Title	Colloquium - Direct Limits of Lie Groups and Homogeneous Spaces
Speaker	Professor Joe Wolf (U of California, Berkeley)

Date	10 Feb 2009 (Tue)
Title	ORG Seminar - A Lagrangian Heuristic for The Singleand and Multi-Period Inventory Problems with Quantity Discounts
Speaker	Professor Guoqing ZHANG (U of Windsor, Canada)

Date	07 Feb 2009 (Sat)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at HKUST)
Speaker	Professor Hu Jianxun (Zhongshan U) & Professor Zhou Jian (Tsinghua U)

Date	17 Jan 2009 (Sat)
Title	Conference on Financial Modelling and Related Topics, on 16/01/2009 - 17/01/2009

Date	12 Jan 2009 (Mon)
Title	Colloquium - Arithmetical Properties of Finite Groups
Speaker	Professor W.J. Shi (School of Mathematics, Suzhou U)

Date	09 Jan 2009 (Fri)
Title	Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (at CUHK)
Speaker	Professor Kang Zuo & Professor Stefan Müller-Stach (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany)