UIUC Department of Mathematics
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April 25, 1997

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Current News

FROM THE MATHEMATICS LIBRARY

ZBL Online

Free access to the electronic version of "Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete" is available to those who are connecting from the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please contact the Mathematics Library at library@math.uiuc.edu with questions or comments.

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 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 28, 1997

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

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Michael C. Wiener, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, University of Virginia; X-Ray Crystallography of Membrane Proteins: Issues & Examples.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. William Haboush; Lie Theory, I.
5:00 PM - 141 Altgeld Hall
CALCULUS&MATHEMATICA INFORMATION SEMINAR.
An orientation session for all instructors who are interested in finding out more about Calculus&Mathematica. Questions? Send e-mail to: Jerry Uhl or Ben Halperin.


Tuesday, April 29, 1997
11:00 AM - GrafiXlab, 102 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Mr. Stuart Levy, Senior Technical Staff, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota; Making Mathematics Visible: Some Work from the Geometry Center.
Abstract.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Indian Statistical Instituteo; Calcutta Geometry of Data Cloud and Multivariate Inference.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Craggs; Andrews-Curtis Type Limitations in Lifting Problems.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Equivariant Quantum Cohomology and Gromov-Witten Invariants, V.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gergely Harcos; Zero Sums and Ultraproducts.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Gregory Galperin, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University; Polygonal Billiards with Pockets.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Sergei Ivanov; An Asphericity Conjecture and Kaplansky Problem on Zero Divisors, III.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Cancelled due to speaker's illness.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRA MEETING.
To Discuss Math 402.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Andre Kundgen; Random Perfect Matching in Planar Graphs.


Wednesday, April 30, 1997
3:00 PM - B02 Computer & Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Bassam Bamieh, Coordinated Science Laboratory; Control of Spatio-Temporal Systems.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 2:40 pm in Room 154 C&SRL.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
No Meeting This Week.


Thursday, May 1, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeff Meyer; An Integer-Valued Analogue of the Dedikind Sum and Quadratic Reciprocity.
1:00 PM - 400 Engineering Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Daniel Slilaty; The Complexity of G-Free Colorings.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Nigel Boston; Frobenius Groups and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture, II.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS MEETING.
Discussion of possible changes in 300 and 400-level analysis courses.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Andei Kuznetsov; Explicitly CR-Invariant Conformal Metric on a Real Hypersurface in C^n (after Charles Fefferman).
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEGRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Sarah Witherspoon, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute; Clifford Theory for Hopf Algebras.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Boris Apanasov, University of Oklahoma and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA; Geometry and Topology of Complex Hyperbolic and CR-Manifolds.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Friday, May 2, 1997

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Speaker and Title to be Announced.