University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Mathematics
Weekly Calendar
Orange & Blue Bar

December 7-11, 1998

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Orange & Blue Bar

 Monday, December 7, 1998

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 SEMINAR - Nonstandard Analysis
Mr. Thomas Rohwer; The spectral theorem for bounded selfadjoint operators on Hilbert space.
4:00 PM - 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory
DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP SERIES
Professor Mary Shaw, Department of Computer Science,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Building Software Systems from Parts: How Software Architecture Helps Explain Why it's Hard.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Professor Robert Jerrard; Differential Equations.

 Tuesday, December 8, 1998

11:00 AM - 1 Illini Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Mr. Andrew Mauer-Oats; The homotopy groups of a wedge of spaces.
1:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Graduate talks by Will Galway, Abby Hoit, ...
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR
Professor Anand Pillay;
Existentially closed structures and forking.
2:00 PM - 441 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR
Mr. Dennis Eichhorn;
Edge-coloring cliques with many colors on subcliques.
Abstract.
 
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC & NONLINEAR ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Ali Naddaf, University of Michigan;
Estimates on the variance of some homogenization problems.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Discuss Job Candidates in Analysis.
3:00 PM - 441 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Professor Matthias SchwarzUniversity of Chicago;
On the action spectrum for closed symplectic manifolds.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY
Professor John Sullivan;
The Geometry of Foams.
Abstract and Poster. (Click on the image to see the larger version.)
Refreshments will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.

 Wednesday, December 9, 1998

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 SEMINAR - Nonstandard Analysis
Mr. Steven Shepherd; Construction of Brownian motion.

 Thursday, December 10, 1998

11:00 AM - 1 Illini Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Defect Groups of the General Linear Groups, continued.
12:00 PM - 6-110 ESB (at Goodwin and Springfield)
BCDE MATH - PHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR
To be Announced.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
To be Announced.
1:00 PM - 443 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR
NSA proof of the solution to Hilbert's Fifth Problem, continued
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Professor Nigel Boston; A distinguished family of Galois p-groups.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Discuss Job Candidates in Analysis, II.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Professor Bran Broer (University of Montreal)
Reflection Hyperplane Arrangements and Generalized Exponents.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall

 Friday, December 11, 1998

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 SEMINAR - Nonstandard Analysis
Mr. Matthias Aschenbrenner; Bounds in the theory of polynomial rings over fields.
4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR
No meeting this week.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Professor Felipe Voloch, University of Texas at Austin;
Waring's problem for the p-adics.
Abstract.
Refreshments will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.