UIUC Department of Mathematics
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December 6, 1996

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Current News

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
December 9, 1996 January 6, 1997
January 27, 1997 February 3, 1997
February 24, 1997 March 3, 1997
March 17, 1997 April 7, 1997
April 7, 1997 June 2, 1997

NAMED LECTURESHIP

Professor John Lewis of the University of Kentucky will give the Trjitzinsky Lectures on April 1, 2 and 3, 1997.

IMPORTANT DATES

12/13 Last day of instruction
12/14 Reading Day
12/16-21 Final Exams

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Coming Events

ALTGELD HALL CENTENNIAL LECTURES.
The Department of Mathematics and the Illinois Journal of Mathematics announce a series of lectures to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the building of Altgeld Hall. The schedule will be posted as available.
ANNUAL DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS COOKIE PARTY.
Tuesday, December 10, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 321 Altgeld Hall
The Office Staff welcomes all department members.

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


Monday, December 9, 1996

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Eugene Lerman; A Symplectic Proof of Verlinde Factorization (Following Meinrenken and Woodward).

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Robert Muncaster; Modeling Dynamic Processes.


Tuesday, December 10, 1996
11:00 AM - GrafiXlab, 102 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Mr. Paul McCreary; Parallelograms and Topological Tori: Conformal Embeddings into R#.
Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Stefan Schwede, Bielefeld, Germany and University of Chicago; An Exact Sequence Interpretation of the Lie Bracket in Hochschild Cohomology.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Minge Xie, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Scaled Link Functions for Heterogeneous Ordinal Response Data.
Abstract.

12:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Birgit Bluemer; Galois Cohomology.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Dennis Eichhorn; A Combinatorial Approach to Partitions with Parts in the Gaps.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Alexander Ol'shanskii, Moscow State University; Locally Finite Subgroups of Free Burnside Groups, II.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
QUANTUM GROUPS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

2:00 PM - GrafiXlab, 102 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. John Sullivan; The Minimax Sphere Eversion.


2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Steve Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago; Status of New Joint Work(s) on Classification of Quasithin Groups.
Abstract.

2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Mr. Ben Schaeffer; Complexity-Theoretic Computability Theory.


3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Mihai Ciucu, MRSI, Berkeley; Enumeration of Perfect Matchings in Graphs with Reflective Symmetry.
Abstract.

3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRY-TOPOLOGY GROUP MEETING.
Agenda: Hiring and Posdoctoral Recommendations.

3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.


Wednesday, December 11, 1996
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
Prof. Joe Miles, CIRI Chair; Update from the Working Group on the Curricular and Instructional Reform Initiative (CIRI).
Abstract.


Thursday, December 12, 1996

11:00 AM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Hong S. Ryoo, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Quadratic Programming is in NP.

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. William Haboush; The Numerical Criterion for Stability, II.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Heini Halberstam; An "Incomplete" Mean Value Theorem for Multiplicative Functions.

1:00 PM-2:30 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Logarithmic-Exponential Series, Continued.

2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Yihsiang Liow; Ribet's Theorem on Lowering Levels.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Analysis Area will Meet to Discuss Job Candidates.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Mr. Srikanth Iyengar; Depth for Complexes, and the Intersection Theorems.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA STUDENT SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Paul Schupp; The Word Problem and William W. Boone.
Coffee and tea will be offered before the talk at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Friday, December 13, 1996

No Meetings Today.