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April 12-16, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

 Monday, April 12, 1999

 
3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Robin Hochstrasser, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Toward the Determination of Peptide Structures by Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy.
Abstract.
3:15 PM - Main Conference Room
SPECIAL SEMINAR AT WOLFRAM RESEARCH, INC.
Professor Dana Scott, Carnegie Mellon University;
A course about plane algebraic curves.
Abstract.
3:15 PM - Main Conference Room
SPECIAL SEMINAR AT WOLFRAM RESEARCH, INC.
Professor Klaus Sutner, Carnegie Mellon University;
Power automata and Fibonacci polynomials.
Abstract.

 Tuesday, April 13, 1999

10:00 AM - 225A Talbot Lab
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 Averaging-I.
11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Professor Gregory Galperin, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University
The Solution to Proizvolov's Illumination Problem.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 347 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
Topological Modular Forms of Level 3.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor H. Halberstam.
Gowers' work on Szemeredi's theorem, IV.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Matthias Aschenbrenner.
Asymptotic couples.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRIA/GROUP THEORY.
Mr. Hung-Jen Hsuk.
Kurosh Theorem on Torsion-Free Abelian Groups.
2:00 PM - 345 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY.
Maria Axenovich.
The Generalized Anti-Ramsey Problem.
Abstract.
 
2:00 PM - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Professor Robert Kaufman.
Entropy, dimension, and p-harmonic processes
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Professor Alexandru Buium.
Diophantine equations and complex algebraic geometry.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL LECTURE.
Professor Yeneng Sun, National University of Singapore;
A New Product Space to Make Independence Work for the Continuum.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Wednesday, April 14, 1999

3:00 PM - B02 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Sean P. Meyn, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UIUC;
Stability, Optimization, and Performance Evaluation of Multiclass Queueing Networks.
3:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Deborah Schifter, Senior Scientist, Education Development Center, Newton, MA
To See the Invisible: What Skills and Knowledges do Elementary Teachers Need to Engage with Students' Mathematical Ideas?

 Thursday, April 15, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS.
Professor Ken Travers and Mr. Ben Halperin.
Indicators Project Revisited
1:00 PM - 6-110 ESB
BCDE MATH-PHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR
Professor Maarten Bergvelt, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Of Vertex algebras and mirror symmetry.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
To be announced.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Dr. Gebhard Boeckle, University of Mannheim, visiting UIUC;
Lifting residual Galois representations to Z/(p2) and to characteristic zero..
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Mark Freidlin, University of Maryland
On Stochastic Behavior of Perturbed Hamiltonian Systems.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR
To be announced.
3:00 PM - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
To be announced.
4:00 PM - 269 Everitt Lab
JOINT ILLINOIS-PURDUE STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM AT UIUC.
Professor Katy L. Simonsen, Statistics at Purdue University;
Likelihood Ratio Testing with DNA Sequences and Monte-Carlo Integration.
Abstract.

 Friday, April 16, 1999

9:00 AM - B02 C&SR Lab
CSE ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Marsha Berger, Courant Institute, New York University, New York;
Automatic High Performance Fluid Computations in Complex Geometry.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - B02 C&SR Lab
CSE ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Mary F. Wheeler, Texas Institute of Computational and Applied, Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Synthetic Environments for Modeling Subsurface Flows.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 30 Commerce West
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR
Richard Spady and Byron Shafer, Nuffield College, Oxford;
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 103 Talbot Lab
AERONAUTICAL & ASTRONAUTICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Mark Freidlin, University of Maryland;
Stochastic Resonance.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR
Anand Pillay.
The definable multiplicity property and generic automorphisms.