UIUC Department of Mathematics
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April 11, 1997

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Current News

FROM THE MATHEMATICS LIBRARY

ZBL Online

The Mathematics Library has just received unlimited and free access to the electronic version of "Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete" for the remainder of 1997. The site is available via the World Wide Web. Their URL is: http://www.emis.de/cgi-bin/MATH.

Access is limited to those who are connecting from the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Take advantage of this opportunity. If you have any questions and comments, please contact the Mathematics Library at library@math.uiuc.edu.

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 Altgeld Hall for further information and application forms.

June 2, 1997 - Scholar's Travel Fund

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

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.

IMPORTANT DATES - SUMMER TERM 1 1997

April 28 Registration begins for nondegree students.
May 19 First day of instruction.
May 20 - 8:00 AM Late registration begins.
May 21 - 5:00 PM Deadline for undergraduate and graduate students to add a new course.
May 26 Memorial Day (all -campus holiday).
May 30 - 5:00 PM Deadline to elect credit-no credit option; deadline to change credit-no credit option to regular grade basis; deadline to withdraw or drop a course without academic penalty.
June 13 Last day of instruction.
June 13 - 14 Final examination period.

IMPORTANT DATES - SUMMER TERM 2 1997

April 28 Registration begins for nondegree students.
June 16 - 7:00 AM First day of instruction.
June 17 - 8:00 AM Late registration begins.
June 20 Deadline to suppress directory information.
July 4 Independence Day (all -campus holiday).
July 14 Second half-term courses begin.
August 7 - Noon Last day of instruction; Reading day (no classes, no final exams).
August 8 - 9 Final examination period.
August 11 August graduation date (no commencement exercise).

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Coming Events
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
When: Thursday, May 1, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 314 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Prof. Boris Apanasov, University of Oklahoma and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Topic: Geometry And Topology Of Complex Hyperbolic And CR-Manifolds.
Abstract.

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.

NEW YORK JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE.
When: June 8 - 14, 1997
Where: University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Sponsors: National Science Foundation, University at Albany, SUNY, Williams College and the New York Journal of Mathematics editors, Jerry Bona, Joseph Rosenblatt, Birgit Speh and Mark Steinberger.
Topics: Ergodic Theory and Probability, Modern Analysis and Paritial Differential Equations and Lie Theory in Number Theory, Geometry and Physics
Details.

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday


Monday, April 14, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; The Standard Form of von Neumann Algebras, III.

3:00 PM - 141 Computer & Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. John Mallet-Paret, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University; Qualitative Theory of Differential Delay Equations.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 2:40 pm in Room 154 C&SRL.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Randy McCarthy; Homology.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Yuri Burago, Steklov Math Institiute, St. Petersburg Branch; 2-Polyhedra of Curvature Bounded Above.


Tuesday, April 15, 1997
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Vincent J. Matsko, Quincy University; A Classification of Convex Polygons.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Randy McCarthy; On n-Excisive Functors of Module Categories, II.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Equivariant Quantum Cohomology and Gromov-Witten Invariants, I.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Seon-Hong Kim; On the Zeros of Convex Combinations of Polynomials.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Mr. Cesare Tinelli, Department of Computer Science; Unions of Theories and Combinations of Satisfiability Procedures.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Dima Burago, Pennsylvania State University; BiLipschitz Non-Equivalent Separated Nets and Volume Elements.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Sergei Ivanov; An Asphericity Conjecture and Kaplansky Problem on Zero Divisors.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Jin Ma, Purdue University; Backward Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with Applications in Finance.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tao Jiang; Connectivity and Separating Sets in Cages.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. John Mallet-Paret, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University; Dynamics of Lattice Differential Equations.
Abstract.
Refreshments will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, April 16, 1997

12:00 PM - 59A English Building
A SLOAN CENTER FOR ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR.
Beth Sandore, University Library; The UIUC Library's Digital Imaging Initiative.
BACKGROUND MATERIAL AVAILABLE AT: http://images.grainger.uiuc.edu/.
Open to all interested faculty, staff, and students. Brown bag lunches also welcome!

3:00 PM - B02 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
WILLET SEMINAR SERIES IN CONTROL.
Prof. Bruce H. Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University; Generating Approximating Automata for Hybrid Systems for Verification and Controller Synthesis.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 2:40pm before the seminar in Room 154 C&SRL.
4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Quantization (and Bundles, Connections and Differential Equations).
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
No Meeting This Week.

4:00 PM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University; Local Estimating Equations.
Abstract.


Thursday, April 17, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Equivariant Quantum Cohomology and Gromov-Witten Invariants, II.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Abby Hoit; Systems of Numeration and Related Sequences.
1:00 PM - 400 Engineering Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. C. Wong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Noisly Information and Computational Complexity.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Steve Harding; Stark's Conjecture for Modular Forms of Weight 1, II.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

2:30 PM - B02 Computer & Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Dr. Mehran Mesbahi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; LMIs, Minimum Rank Problems, Interior Point Methods, and their Applications in Fixed Order Controller Synthesis and Robustness Analysis.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 2:10 pm in Room 154 C&SRL.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Sankar Dutta; Smoothness and Intersection Multiplicity, III.
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. John C. Murray; Counting Characters in Blocks.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University; Index Theory and Boundary Problems on Simplices.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Friday, April 18, 1997

4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Model Theory of Valued Fields, Continued.


Saturday, April 19, 1997

See details for times, location and accomodations information.
MIDWEST INDEX THEORY CONFERENCE.

Invited Speakers:
  • Steven Hurder of the University of Illinois at Chicago; Transverse Index Theory.
  • Slawek Klimek of Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis; Quantization and Toeplitz Operators.
  • Guoliang Yu of the University of Colorado at Boulder; Controlled Operator K-Theory, Positive Scalar Curvature and the Novikov Conjecture.
  • Victor Nistor of Pennsylvania State University; An Index Theorem for Foliated Bundles..