Weekly Calendar

April 10 - April 14, 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 10, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Stanley K. Burt, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Frederick, MD;
Quantum Chemical Investigations on the Catalytic Mechanisms of Thymidine Phosphorylase and DNA Polymerase Beta.
Abstract.
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, II;
2. E. Lerman: Introduction to Hamiltonian Systems, II.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor William Haboush
Lie Theory.

Tuesday, April 11, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Nitya Kitchloo, Northwestern University;
A generalization of Compact Lie groups.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 1 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. See Friday's listing at 4:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Steve Ullom
Locally free class groups.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
10 minute talks
Students and Faculty are encouraged to bring short gems and/or open problems.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Kai Cieliebak
Moment maps and holomorphic curves.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Ms. Linda Lawton
An introduction to quantum computation, II.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Kittikorn Nakprasit
On the game of Mastermind.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Donghi Lee
Endomorphisms of free groups with non-cyclic images (II).
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Professor Aaron Yip, Purdue University;
Stochastic Curvature Driven Flows -- Some Results and Questions.

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
See Doug Kuhlman's thesis defence on Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
W. Haboush, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Greenberg functors and topological algebraic geometry.

Thursday, April 13, 2000

10:30 a.m. - 114 CSRL
THESIS DEFENSE.
Mr. Doug Kuhlman
On the orders of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves.
11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Peter Andrews, Department of Mathematics , Eastern Illinois University;
Constructing Regular Polygons.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
12:00 p.m. - 6.110 Engineering Sci.
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt
An asymptotic formula for a q-continued fraction of Ramanujan involving the Riemann zeta-function and a Dirichlet L-function found in Ramanujan's lost notebook.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Algeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Peter Loeb
Independence of an infinite number of equally weighted random variables IV.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
See Doug Kuhlman's thesis defence today at 10:30 a.m.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL SEMINAR.
Professor Pierre-Francois Seri, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC;
Applying heavy traffic limits to the control of networks: the BIGSTEP approach.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
No meeting this week.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Ms. Chaoyuan Liu
Exactness for C*-algebras of discrete groups, II.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRA AREA FACULTY MEETING.
Robert Fossum presiding
Agenda:
1. Courses and schedules for Spring 2001
2. Math 401-402
3. Other business.

Friday, April 14, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Robert Clegg, Department of Physics , UIUC;
How molecules move in cells.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 - TOPICS IN ANALYSIS/UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION AND RELATED TOPICS.
Professor Walter Philipp, Department of Statistics , UIUC;
Laws of iterated logarithm for discrepancies.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Michael Schmeling, Universite Paris VII;
Fields of transseries.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor David Bartholomew, Formerly Professor of Statistics and Pro-Director of the London School of Economics and President of the Royal Statistical Society
The Benefits of a General Approach to Latent Variable Analysis.
Abstract.