Weekly Calendar

February 14 - February 18, 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 14, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Doug West
Bandwidth of graphs: a tour of combinatorial techniques.

Tuesday, February 15, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
No meeting this week
11:00 a.m. - 1 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Leon McCulloh
Multiplicative Galois Module Structure, continued.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Mike Bennett
The sequence (3/2)k: a study in ignorance.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Michael Hutchings, Stanford University;
3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory and elementary dynamics.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Lou van den Dries
Exponentiation on surreal numbers.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Alexandr Kostochka
Graphs with small Ramsey numbers .
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Sergei V. Ivanov
Intersecting Free Subgroups in Free Products in Groups, I.

Wednesday, February 16, 2000

3:00 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Yi Ma, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of California, Berkeley;
A Geometric Viewpoint to Computer Vision and Vision Based Control.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
To be announced.
8:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MATH CLUB.
George Francis
Abstract.

Thursday, February 17, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor Alex Tumanov
Title To Be Announced.
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, part II.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt
The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and its connections with partitions and Lambert series.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Yevgenii Gordon, Visiting Professor
On some properties of convergence in ergodic theorems, II.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Helmut Koch, Humboldt University and UIUC;
Nonabelian local class field theory.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Joseph Miles
A theorem on entire functins of infinite order.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
STOCHASTIC NETWORK SEMINAR.
Shane G. Henderson, University of Michigan;
Efficient Simulation of Multiclass Queueing Networks.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Ms. Sandra Spiroff
Symbolic Powers and Intersection Theory.
3:00 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Yi Ma, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of California, Berkeley;
Vision Based Control for Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles.
Abstract.

Friday, February 18, 2000

4:00 a.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Speaker to be announced
We will begin looking at Poizat's book Les Petits Cailloux (on complexity theory over arbitrary structures.
3:00 p.m. - 114 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Nancy Makri, Department of Chemistry , UIUC;
How cells conduct elecrons.