Weekly Calendar

April 3 - April 7, 2000

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Seminars Announcements Conferences Calendar Archive

Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can now be submitted using the new submission form. Other questions or comments related to the Weekly Calendar should be sent to Hilda Britt. Deadline for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts.

Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, April 3, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GALOIS THEORY AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS.
Professors Anand Pillay and Eugene Lerman
1. A. Pillay: Introduction to Differential Galois Theory;
2. E. Lerman: Introduction to Hamiltonian Systems.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Phillip Griffith
Some Remarks on Conjectures in Commutative Algebra Since 1975 - and a few remarks about DGS.

Tuesday, April 4, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Michael Mandell, University of Chicago;
Department of Cell and Structural Biology.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Stephen Portnoy, Department of Statistics
Some Pathological Regression Asymptotics Under Stable Conditions.
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Steve Ullom
Title to be announced.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Robert Tichy
Algorithmic Solution of Thue Equations.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago;
Cocompact proper discontinuous actions on Euclidean space.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Linda Lawton
An introduction to quantum computation.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Alexandr Kostochka
Orientations and colorings of multicircuits.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Donghi Lee
Endomorphisms of free groups with non-cyclic images (I).
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Rene Schott, Professor, University Henri Poincaré-Nancy 1, France;
Probabilistic analysis of some algorithms.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor G. Kasparov, Universite de Marseille, France;
On the Baum-Connes conjecture.
Abstract.

Wednesday, April 5, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 280 MRL
`PHYSICS & BEYOND'.
Robert Goldstein, Professor of Finance, Ohio State University;
An ex-physicist's view of academic finance.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Professor Iwan Duursma, UIUC and Limoges;
Sudan's key equation and syndrome extension.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS .
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon
Moduli stack of pairs II.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY MEMORIAL LECTURE.
Professor Elliott Lieb, Princeton University;
The Quantum Mechanical World View: A Highly Successful but Still Incomplete Theory.
Abstract.

Thursday, April 6, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, UIUC Department of Mathematics
The broadest curve of length one.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor A. Tumanov
More on Analytic Disks.
11:00 a.m. - 141 C&SRL
THESIS DEFENSE.
Jenny Steichen
Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems for the Closed Lu-Kumar Network.
12:00 p.m. - ESB 6.110
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor Robbert G. Leigh, Department of Physics, UIUC;
String theory and non-commutative geometry, part II.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Doug Bowman
Fourth Order Ultimately Periodic Polylogarithms.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Algeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Peter Loeb
Independence of an infinite number of equally weighted random variables III.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Mark Bauer
The Arithmetic of Certin Cubic Planar Curves.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. See Special Analysis listing on Tuesday at 4:00 pm.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL SEMINAR.
Ruth Williams, University of California at San Diego;
Dynamic Control of Stochastic Networks Under Heavy Traffic.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Ms. Chaoyuan Liu
Exactness for C*-algebras of discrete groups.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY MEMORIAL LECTURE.
Professor Elliott Lieb, Princeton University;
The Mathematics and Physics of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Abstract.

Friday, April 7, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Andrew Belmont, Department of Cell and Structural Biology , UIUC;
How cells store their genes.
3:00 p.m. - 269 Everitt Lab
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Ruth J. Williams, University of California, San Diego;
The measure-valued fluid limit for a processor sharing queue.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Speaker and title to be announced
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY MEMORIAL LECTURE.
Professor Elliott Lieb, Princeton University;
The Bose Gas: A Subtle Many-Body Problem.
Abstract.