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August 30 - September 03, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, August 30, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Joseph Rosenblatt, Department Chair.
Welcome to new graduate students.

Tuesday, August 31, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Seminar Coordinator: Robert Craggs.
Organizational Meeting.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Dr. Hung-Lin Fu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.;
A Generalization of Tait Colorings of Cubic Graphs.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Atgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Heini Halberstam, Professor of Mathematics;
A Tauberian Theorem of Erdös, after Siegel and Korevaar, I.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Ana Cannas da Silva , (Professor, Instituto Suprior Tecnico, Lisbon);
Folded symplectic forms.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Evgenii Gordon, Professor;
A new axiomatic system for nonstandard set theory, I.
2:00 p.m. - 441 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY.
A. Mann, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
Enumerating finite groups with a bounded number of generators or relations.
2:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Organizational Meeting.

Wednesday, September 01, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Maarten Bergvelt, Professor of Mathematics;
Vertex Algebras for Beginners, I.

Thursday, September 02, 1999

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Heini Halberstam, Professor of Mathematics;
A Tauberian Theorem of Erdös, after Siegel and Korevaar, II.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
E. Gordon, (Nizhni Novgorod; Visiting Professor here during 1999-2000);
Approximations of infinite groups by finite ones and some applications, I.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY/GROUP THEORY.
Nigel Boston, Professor of Mathematics
Galois groups incognito - a whodunit, II.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Marius Junge, Professor of Mathematics
Recent developement in the theory of non-commutative Lp-spaces.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Seminar Coordinator: Graham Evans.
Organizational Meeting.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Avinoam Mann, Professor, Israel.
Positively finitely generated groups and their zeta-functions.
Abstract.

Friday, September 03, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Lou van den Dries, Professor of Mathematics
We will begin looking at a paper of Gromov entitled "Endomorphisms of symbolic algebraic varieties".