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April 4, 1997

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Current News

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
1997 Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
April 7
April 7 June 2

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

April 7 Registration for summer terms 1 and 2 begins.
Registration for fall 1997 begins.
April 11 Graduate student deadline to add a second half-session course.
April 18 Graduate student deadline to drop a semester course.
May 2 Graduate student deadline to drop a second half-session course.
May 7 Last day of instruction.
May 8 Reading day (no classes, no final examinations).
May 9-16 Final examination period.
May 18 Commencement.

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Coming Events
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
When: Wednesday, May 7, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 247 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Dean Morton Lowengrub, Indiana University.
Topic: AMS Task Force on Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship.
Abstract.

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


Monday, April 7, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; The Standard Form of von Neumann Algebras, II.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Paul Schupp; Combinatorial Group Theory: The Intersection of Group Theory, the Theory of Computability and Low-Dimensional Geometry/Topology.


Tuesday, April 8, 1997
11:00 AM - 2240 Digital Computer Laboratory
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Dr. Hans Hagen, FB Informatik, Universität Kaiserslautern; Scientific Visualization-Methods and Application.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Gossa Sellassie; Rational Hitchin Systems and Quantization, I.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Chris Hill; Chebyshev-Type Estimates for Primes.
See bulletin board in the mailroom for abstract.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Steven G. Liedahl, University of Notre Dame; Metacyclic p-Groups as Galois Groups.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Ya-Chen Chen; Wormald's Results on the Probability of Triangle-Free Random Graphs.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Athanassios S. Fokas, Imperial College, London; Integrability: from d'Alembert to Lax.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Wednesday, April 9, 1997

4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Leigh, Department of Physics; Singular Bundles in String Theory. More about d-branes and string theory.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
No Meeting This Week.


Thursday, April 10, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bervelt; Rational Hitchin Systems and Quantization, II.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Joung Min Song; Properties of the Sieving Function j_\kappa(u).
1:00 PM - 400 Engineering Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Ms. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Department of Computer Science; On Approximation Complexity Classes.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Steve Harding; Stark's Conjecture in the Case of Weight one Modular Forms.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University; Pointwise Fourier Inversion and the Wave Equation.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Sankar Dutta; Smoothness and Intersection Multiplicity, II.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Jim Milgram, Stanford University; The Structure of the Moduli Spaces of Holomorphic Maps from Riemann Surfaces to Algebraic Varieties.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Friday, April 11, 1997
2:00 PM - 341 Altgeld Hall
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR.
Prof.Richard Jordan, University of Michigan ; Statistical Mechanics of Ideal Magnetofluid Turbulence in Two-Dimensions.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Model Theory of Valued Fields.