UIUC Department of Mathematics
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February 7, 1997

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Current News

FROM THE MATHEMATICS LIBRARY

The Mathematics Library has recently added electronic journal links to its web site. Eleven SIAM journals and four AMS journals have been added to the list of subscribed electronic journals. The address is: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Library/ejournals.html.

A select number of free electronic journals have also been added to http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Library/nonsub.html. If you have any suggestions for adding journals, please contact the library at library@math.uiuc.edu.

DEADLINES

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

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

February 28 Graduate student deadline to add a semester course.
Graduate student deadline to drop a first half-session course.
March 17 Second half-session courses begin (nontraditional courses may begin earlier or later).
March 22-30 Spring Break.
April 7 Registration for summer terms 1 and 2 begins.
Registration for fall 1997 begins.
April 11 Graduate student deadline to add a second half-session course.
April 18 Graduate student deadline to drop a semester course.
May 2 Graduate student deadline to drop a second half-session course.
May 7 Last day of instruction.
May 8 Reading day (no classes, no final examinations).
May 9-16 Final examination period.
May 18 Commencement.

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Coming Events
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUMS.
When: Wednesday, February 19, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 247 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Prof. Larry Dornhoff
Topic: Strategies for Increasing Student Success in Large Lecture Courses.
Abstract.

When: Wednesday, March 5, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 247 Altgeld Hall
Speakers: Profs. Elliot Weinberg, Esther Portnoy and Hiram Paley of the Department of Mathematics, and Prof. George Friedman, Department of Computer Science.
Topic: Undergraduate Mathematics Curricula.
Abstract.

CSE/CS JOINT COLLOQUIUM. (Computational Science & Engineering/Dept. of Computer Science)
When: Monday, February 24, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory
Speaker: Dr. Margaret H. Wright
Topic: Interdisciplinary Research for Fun and Profit: Radio, Computational Geometry, Optimization, and User Interface Design.
Details.

4TH MIDWEST ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY DAY.
When: Saturday, March 29, 1997, 1:00 - 6:00 PM
Where: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speakers: Richard Taylor of Harvard University and Chris Skinner of Princeton University
Details.

ILLINOIS NUMBER THEORY CONFERENCE.
When: April 4 & 5, 1997
Where: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal Speakers: Mike Kolountzakis of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Ken Ono of the Institute for Advanced Study and Pennsylvania State University; John Selfridge of Northern Illinois University and Kanan Soundararajan of Princeton University.
Details.

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

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


Monday, February 10, 1997

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Doug West; A Sampling of Combinatorial Problems.

4:00 PM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Ronghui Xu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego; Estimation in the Proportional Hazards Model Under Censoring.
Abstract.


Tuesday, February 11, 1997

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Mr. Paul McCreary; Title To Be Announced.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; The Fundamental Group of an Aspherical Complex.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Introduction to Geometric Langlands Theory, III.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Heini Halberstam; Square Free 'Twins'.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Anand Pillay; Differentially Closed Fields, continued.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Igor G. Nikolaev; Construction of Sasaki Metric in a Metric Space.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Yu-Fen Wu; Groups in which Commutativity is a Transitive Relation, II.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Andre Kundgen; Stationary Distributions of Random Walks on Graphs.


Wednesday, February 12, 1997
3:00 PM - 59A English Building
A SLOAN CENTER FOR ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR.
John Ory, Office of Instructional Resources; SCALE Evaluation Results: A Developing Pattern of Success.
Open to all interested faculty, staff, and students.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
Prof. Dan Grayson; LAS Executive Committee.
The LAS Executive Committee advises the dean of our college on various matters involving committees of the college, funding of conferences, awards, policies, organization of the college, and most importantly, faculty promotion and tenure recommendations. We will discuss how this committee works.


Thursday, February 13, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. William Haboush; Geometric Invariant Theory and Vector Bundles, III.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Heini Halberstam; Squarefree Numbers in Arithmetic Progression.
1:00 PM - 110 Lincoln Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Ms. Maria Axenovich; Coloring Block Designs is NP-Complete.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Dan Grayson; Voevodsky's Work on Milnor's Conjucture.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. Rich Stankewitz; Completely Invariant Sets for Polynomial Semigroups.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Phil Griffith; A Relative Filtration Index and Fibers over Normal Primes in Extensions of Finite Type.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.


Friday, February 14, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
GRADUATE STUDENT ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Ms. Jennifer Steichen; Queuing Theory and Reflecting Brownian Motion.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Elimination of Imaginaries.