Weekly Calendar
December 4 - December 8, 2000
Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can now be submitted using the
new submission
form. Other questions or comments related to the Weekly Calendar should
be sent to Hilda Britt.
Deadline for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar is noon every
Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts.
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3:00 p.m. - 447 Altgeld Hall
- ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY STUDY GROUP.
- Nigel Boston
- Why Number Theorists Care about Schemes.
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3:00 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
- DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
- Arthur Kuo, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
, University of Michigan;
- Mechanics and Control of Locomotion.
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis
- THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
- Professor D. Thirumalai, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
- Klaus Witz, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
, UIUC;
- Students' Transition to a Deeper Involvement in Mathematics.
- Abstract.
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11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
- Professor Kathryn Lesh, University of Toledo;
- Conjectures on the unstable Adams spectral sequence for SO and U.
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11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
- STATISTICS SEMINAR.
- Professor James M. Robins, Department of Epidemiology
, Harvard School of Public Health;
- Causation, Association, and Inverse-Probability-of-Treatment-Weighted Regression?.
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
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- 10 minutes talks.
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1:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
- Miguel Abreu, Fields Institute;
- Kahler metrics on toric varieties: A symplectic approach.
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1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- LOGIC SEMINAR.
- Lou van den Dries, Department of Mathematics
, UIUC;
- Asymptotic differential algebra, continued.
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 2269 Beckman
- SPECIAL SEMINAR ON MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER VISION.
- Mimi Boutin, University of Minnesota;
- Curve Recognition Modulo Lie Group Action.
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
- STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
- Krzysztof Bogdan , Prof.
, Purdue University;
- Gradient estimates for $\alpha$-harmonic functions.
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
- COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
- Marco Schlichting, Department of Mathematics
, UIUC;
- Intersection Multiplicities, cont..
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
- GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
- Prof. Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, UIUC Department of Mathematics
- Any arc in the trace of a rectifiable path is rectifiable.
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
- Radhika Ramamurthi
- Collision-free colorings.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
- MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY.
- Brent Collins, Sculptor, Missouri
- Visual Mathematics from Artistic Intuition.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
- Tony Peressini, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
, UIUC;
- A New Mathematics Course for High School Teachers.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 145 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
- Professor Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins University;
- Duality for the Tate Cohomology of Framed Circle Actions.
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4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
- INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
- Colin Ferguson, UIUC;
- LLL attacks on knapsack cryptosystems.
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12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB
- MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
- Professor Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins University;
- Topological Gravity in Dimensions Two and Four.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
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- Putnam problems (with solutions!).
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1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
- Professor Mike Newman, Australian National University;
- The Order Problem for Finite Groups.
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2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Iwan Duursma, Department of Mathematics
, UIUC;
- Expander Graphs and Heck Operators, II.
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3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
- Robert Fossum, Department of Mathematics
, UIUC;
- Protomorphic Perpetuants, cont..
- Abstract.
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10:00 a.m. - 155 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
- Professor Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins University;
- Applications of Tate Cohomology of Circle Actions to the Kontsevich-Witten Theory of 2D Topological Gravity.