Weekly Calendar

April 17 - April 21, 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 17, 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, III;
2. E. Lerman: Introduction to Hamiltonian Systems, III.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Richard Gorvett
Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics: Doing Integrals for Fun and Profit.

Tuesday, April 18, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Dan Dugger, Purdue University;
An Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence for KR-theory.
11:00 a.m. - 1 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. See Special Seminar Listing at 3:30 p.m.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
Tate Sequences.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Reznick
A rational approach to the Diophantine equation a3 + b3 = c3 + d3 in C[x,y].
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
To be announced
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Michael Pelsmajer
Circular Flow Number.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Donghi Lee
Endomorphisms of free groups with non-cyclic images (III).
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 AH
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Renming Song, Dept of Math , UIUC;
Intrisic ultracontractivity and conditional gauge theorem.
Abstract.
3:30 p.m. - 109 Atmospheric Sciences Bldg
SPECIAL SEMINAR JOINTLY SPONSORED BY THE STATISTICS DEPARTMENTS & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES.
Christopher K. Wikle, Department of Statistics , University of Missouri - Columbia;
Hierarchical Bayesian Models in Atmospheric Science.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
DEPARTMENT FACULTY MEETING.
Professor Joseph Rosenblatt
Spring 2000 meeting of the department.

Wednesday, April 19, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 280 MRL
`PHYSICS AND BEYOND'.
N. Sri Namachchivaya, Professor of Aeronaut & Astronaut Eng , UIUC;
Stochastic Stability and Bifurcations.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Sergei Sukharev, Department of Biology , University of Maryland, College Park, MD;
The Gating Transition in Large Mechanosensitive Channel, MscL.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
THE ANNUAL DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AWARDS CEREMONY.
Professor Joseph Rosenblatt, presiding
Refreshments will follow in room 321 Altgeld Hall.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
To be announced
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, II.

Thursday, April 20, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Vince Matsko, Mathematics Department , Quincy University;
Linear Cone Closures in Special Relativity.
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.
Professor Marius Junge, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
An introduction to Moyal products and quantization.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Mike Bennett
All the great theorems I learned at last week's meeting in Oberwolfach.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
To be announced
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Farshid Hajir, UCLA & Cal State University San Marcos;
Asymptotically Good Towers of Global Fields.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
To be announced
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
To be announced
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Ms. Chaoyuan Liu
Exactness for C*-algebras of discrete groups, III.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Vera Serganova
A generalization of Harish-Chandra modules for Lie algebras.
Abstract.

Friday, April 21, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
To be announced