Weekly Calendar

February 7 - February 11, 2000

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, February 7, 2000

2:00 p.m. - 155 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Ms. Anna Mazzucato, UNC Chapel Hill;
The Navier-Stokes Equations in New Distribution Spaces.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Peter Loeb
Non-standard Analysis.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Joseph Rojas, City University of Hong Kong
Points, Curves, Surfaces, and the Frontier to Tractability.
Abstract.

Tuesday, February 8, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Mr. Anthony Bedenikovic, UIUC;
Graphs Associated with Ribbon Disks.
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Leon McCulloh, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
Multiplicative Galois Module Structure.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Various Speakers,
Various speakers will present 10 minute lectures.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Peter Ozsvath, Michigan State University;
The Theta-Divisor and Three-Manifold Invariants.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Lou van den Dries
Exponentiation on Surreal Numbers.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Sergei V. Ivanov
Intersecting Free Subgroups in Free Products in Groups, I.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University, Israel;
Hamiltonian cycles in pseudo-random graphs.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 168 Everitt Lab
ELLIPTIC CURVES (AND APPLICATIONS) STUDY GROUP.
Professor Nigel Boston, UIUC;
Organizational Meeting.

Wednesday, February 9, 2000

3:00 p.m. - B02 CSRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
P.R. Kumar, Coordinated Science Lab , UIUC;
The Traffic Carrying Capacity of Wireless Networks.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Dr. Ari Trachtenberg, Computer Science Department, UIUC;
Cryptography Using Error-Correction Codes.
4:00 p.m.
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
No meeting this week.

Thursday, February 10, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. John E. Wetzel, UIUC Department of Mathematics;
Covers for non-zigzag unit arcs: A (lack of) progress report.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES.
Professor Alexandr Sukhov, Visiting UIUC from Universite of Provence;
More on Segre Varieties and PDE.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS.
Professor Abram Kagan, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland;
A New Statistical Structure: The Algebra of UMVUE's from Categorical Data.
12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor Daniel R. Grayson, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Introduction to Non-commutative spaces.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Robert Tichy, Visiting Scholar, Institut fuer Mathematik, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria;
Well Distribution and Digital Expansions.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Yevgeny Gordon, Visiting Faculty, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
On Some Properties of Convergence in Ergodic Theorems (A Review of A.G. Kachurovskii's Thesis).
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Michael Drinen, Knox College;
Iwasawa Theory and Elliptic Curves.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
STOCHASTIC NETWORK SEMINAR.
James R. Morrison, UIUC
Linear Programming Performance Bounds for Queueing Networks.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m.
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Dr. John Conway, Princeton University (visiting Northwestern University spring semester);
The Fifteen Theorem
Abstract.

Friday, February 11, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001 LECTURE.
Professor Colin Wraight, Department of Biophysics, University of Illinois;
How Cells Conduct Protons.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Wai Yan Pong, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Model Theory of Differential Fields.