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April 26-30, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

 Monday, April 26, 1999

 
3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Daniel Barsky, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Learning to Recognize Damaged DNA.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 141 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Christoforos Hadjicostis, Digital Signal Processing Group, Research Laboratory for Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Systems.
3:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Judith Roitman, Professor of Mathematics, University of Kansas at Lawrence;
Problems in U.S. Mathematics Education.

 Tuesday, April 27, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Dr. Daniel Lichtblau, Kernel Development, Wolfram Research, visiting UIUC Department of Mathematics
Fitting cylinders to five points.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 347 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Mr Anthony Bedenikovic, UIUC;
Knot Complement Cone Complexes and the Property P Conjecture.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt.
An Historical Lecture About Ramanujan, Arranged in 3 Acts, An Interact, and An Exodion:

Act 1: S. Janaki Ammal (Mrs. Ramanujan)

Act 2: What books did Ramanujan Learn From?

Act 3: A Tamil Biography and a Family History

There will be no intermission. Refreshments may be served.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Anand Pillay.
The definable multiplicity property and generic automorphisms of strongly minimal sets.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRIA/GROUP THEORY.
Mr. Hung-Jen Hsu.
Torsion-Free Abelian Groups in K_1.
2:00 PM - 345 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY.
Mr. Tao Jiang.
Maximum size of t-critical linear hypergraphs.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 347 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
No meeting this week.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY.
Spring 2000 schedule.
3:30 PM - 141 C&SRL
MILLER LECTURE SERIES.
Rafail Khasminskii, (Wayne State University (George A. Miller Visiting Professor, Departments of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics, UIUC;
Stochastic Stability-I.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Professor Dan Grayson.
Topological Methods in Algebra and Number Theory.

 Wednesday, April 28, 1999

3:00 PM - BO2 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Klara Nahrstedt, MONET Group, (Multimedia Operating and NET-working System Group), Department of Computer Science, UIUC
Adaptive QoS Framework and its Application to Visual Tracking.
4:30 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ARTHUR B. COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES.
Professor Yuri I. Manin, Director of the Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, Germany);
Quantum Computing.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall

 Thursday, April 29, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS.
Professor Larry Dornhoff.
Distributing Class Materials to Students via the Internet.
1:00 PM - 6-110 ESB
BCDE MATH-PHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR
No meeting this week.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Walter Philipp.
Metric results on the pair correlation function of certain dependent sequences.

(Preliminary report on joint work with Istvan Berkes and Robert Tichy).

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
To be announced.
 
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Mr. Giorgios Argiris. Convergence of weighted averages of IID.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Anurag Singh.
On the Cohen-Macaulayness of symbolic Rees algebras.
3:30 PM - 141 C&SRL
MILLER LECTURE SERIES.
Rafail Khasminskii, (Wayne State University (George A. Miller Visiting Professor, Departments of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics, UIUC;
Stochastic Stability-II.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ARTHUR B. COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES.
Professor Yuri I. Manin, Director of the Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, Germany);
Quantum Cohomology and Mirror Pattern I.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall

 Friday, April 30, 1999

2:00 PM - 170 Everitt Lab
PH.D. DEFENSE
Mr. Vladimir G. Troitsky.
Invariant Subspace Problem and spectral properties of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces, Banach lattices, and topological vector spaces.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ARTHUR B. COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES.
Professor Yuri I. Manin, Director of the Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, Germany);
Quantum Cohomology and Mirror Pattern, II.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall