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April 18, 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.

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

If you have any questions or 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

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


Monday, April 21, 1997

12:00 PM - 59A English Building
ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR.
Burks Oakley, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; UI-OnLine: The Future of Distance Learning.
Background Material.
Open to all interested faculty, staff, and students. Brown bag lunches also welcome!
2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; The Standard Form of von Neumann Algebras, IV.

3:00 PM - 114 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
COMMUNICATIONS GROUP SEMINAR.
Dr. Ralf Kotter, IBM Almaden; On the Problem of Finding Error Values in the Decoding of AG Codes.
Abstract.

3:00 PM - Beckman Institute Auditorium
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Kent R. Wilson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego; Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Graham Evans; The Euclidean Algorithm + Reduced Echelon Form = Groebner Bases.


Tuesday, April 22, 1997


11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Foote, visiting from Wabash College; Have You Seen These Theorems? Three Geometric Gems That Used to be Part of Multivariable Calculus.
Abstract.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Xiaohong Chen, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; Semiparametric Estimation of the Diffusion Coefficient.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Randy McCarthy; On n-Excisive Functors of Module Categories, III.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Equivariant Quantum Cohomology and Gromov-Witten Invariants, III.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University; The Bionomial Coefficient Congruences of Babbage Wolstenholm and Glaisher.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Mr. Cesare Tinelli, Department of Computer Science; Unions of Theories and Combinations of Satisfiability Procedures, continued.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Sergei Ivanov; An Asphericity Conjecture and Kaplansky Problem on Zero Divisors, continued.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. David Ford, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Averaging the Navier-Stokes Equation.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Department of Computer Science; Randomized Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Eric Jakobsson, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; A Random Walk through the Biomolecular Landscape; towards a Statistical Mechanics of Molecular Biology.
Abstract.
Refreshments will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, April 23, 1997


3:00 PM - B02 Computer & Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Xin Chen, Coordinated Science Laboratory; Worst Case L-infinity to L-infinity Gain Minimization Via State Feedback.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 2:40 pm in Room 154 C&SRL.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
Prof. George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University, and Profs. Joe Miles, Tony Peressini, and Jerry Uhl; Mathematical Education Reform.


Thursday, April 24, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Equivariant Quantum Cohomology and Gromov-Witten Invariants, IV.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University; The Applications of Q-Series to Random Graphs.
1:00 PM - 400 Engineering Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Brian Dunphy; The Logical Definability of NP-optimization Problems.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
JOINT ANALYSIS-LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Peter Loeb; The Microscopic Behavior of Measurable Functions and Liftings of L^\infty.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Craig Davis; A Simple Proof of the Newlander-Nirenberg Theorem about Complex Coordinates in almost Complex Manifolds based on C^k -Uniform Estimates of the D-Bar Equation and the Kam Approximation Technique (after S. Webster).
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. John C. Murray; Counting Characters in Blocks, continued.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University; MacMahon's Parition Analysis in the Age of Computer Algebra.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Friday, April 25, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
GRADUATE STUDENT ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. James Colliander; L^2 Boundedness of the Hilbert Transform Without Using Plancherel.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Vasselin Gasharof, University of Michigan and Prof. Ireena Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Title To Be Announced.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Model Theory of Valued Fields, Continued.