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MAM Colloquim

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Mon. 16 Mar. M111 13:00 Joseph Ball Multivariable analytic function theory and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces: the noncommutative setting
Mon. 23 Mar. M111 13:00 Wim Veys Igusa zeta function and monodromy
Mon. 13 Apr. M111 13:00 Claude Brezinski The life and the works of André-Louis Cholesky
Mon. 20 Apr. M111 13:00 Vasco Brattka A computational perspective on Metamathematics
Mon. 6 July M111 13:00

Michael Melgaard

Resonances in Physics and Chemistry: Rigorous results on the Complex Absorbing Potential method

Mon. 20 July M111 13:00 Dieter Spreen Digit Spaces - Topological Foundations
Mon. 21 Sept. M111 12:00 Marek Ptak On the reflexivity, hyperreflexivity and transitivity of algebras and subspaces of operators
Mon. 5 Oct. M111 13:00 André Ran Eigenvalues of generic rank one perturbations of structured matrices
Mon. 30 Nov. M111 13:00 Murray Bremner Catalan Numbers

Colloquium organizer : Dr. Haris Skokos

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