Weekly Calendar

December 6 - December 10, 1999

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Seminars Announcements Conferences Calendar Archive

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.

Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, December 6, 1999

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Vladimir Chernyak, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester;
Collective Excitations in Biological Antenna Complexes and Dendrimeric Supramolecules.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Jared Bronski, UIUC;
Linear and nonlinear waves.

Tuesday, December 7, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Matthew Ando, UIUC;
The fixed-point formula on the free loop space as a Riemann-Roch formula..
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Michael Pelsmajer, UIUC;
Brambles, tangles, and tree decompositions.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Doug Bowman, UIUC;
Introduction to multiple zeta values, III.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Ludmil Katzarkov, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine;
Plane curve whose complement has a nonresidually finite fundamental group.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Mr. Matthias Aschenbrenner, UIUC;
Liouville closures of H-fields, II.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Richard L. Bishop (joint with Stephanie Alexander), Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Examples and uses of K-convex functions in metric spaces, II.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
John Walters, Professor Emeritus, UIUC;
Reflection subgroups of linear Coxeter groups II.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Elton Hsu, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;
Pathwise Uniqueness of Reflecting Brownian Motion in Euclidean Domains.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS GROUP MEETING I.
Discuss job candidates

Wednesday, December 8, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Dr. Ramarathnam Venkateresan, Microsoft Research;
Discrete log and random walks on Cayley digraphs.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY & PHYSICS.
No meeting this week. See Special BCDE/Moduli Spaces seminar at 4:00 pm on Wednesday.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL JOINT BCDE/MODULI SPACES SEMINAR.
Professor Ludmil Katzarkov, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine;
On Abel Jacoby maps and and Vafa's coordinates.
Abstract.

Thursday, December 9, 1999

12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. See Special BCDE/Moduli Spaces seminar at 4:00 pm on Wednesday.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Kevin O'Bryant, UIUC;
Sets Without Arithmetic Progressions.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Y. Gordon, (Nizhni Novgorod; Visiting Professor here during 1999-2000);
Actions of amenable groups in Loeb spaces constructed by Foelner sets.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRA AREA FACULTY MEETING.
Professor Robert Fossum, presiding
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
No meeting this week because of the algebra area faculty meeting.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Erik Talvila, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Some divergent integrals and the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS GROUP MEETING II.
Discuss job candidates
3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Professor Hans-Bjfrn Foxby, University of Copenhagen Denmark;
Local Cohomology and Derived Completions.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Dr. Patrick Muldowney, Magee College, University of Ulster, Ireland;
Non-Absolute Integration in Black-Scholes Valuation.
Abstract.

Friday, December 10, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Paul Schupp, UIUC;
Celluar Automata, continued.