UIUC Department of Mathematics
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February 14, 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 26, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 314 Altgeld Hall
Panelists: Profs. Bruce Berndt, Peter Loeb, Randy McCarthy, and Joe Rotman; Mr. Dennis Eichhorn, and Ms. Linda Lawton.
Topic: Mathematics Department Comprehensive Exams.
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 Saturday


Monday, February 17, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Modular Theory.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Lynn McLinden; Optimization and Analysis.
4:00 PM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.


Tuesday, February 18, 1997
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert L. Foote, visiting UIUC from Wabash College; Exploring the Hyperbolic Plane with PoincareDraw.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; Two Conjectures in Low Dimensional Topology.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Introduction to Geometric Langlands Theory, IV.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Bruce C. Berndt; Representing an Integer by a Sum of Triangular Numbers.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Some Observations on Logarithmic-Exponential Series.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Gromov-Witten Invariants and Quantum Cohomology.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Eli Aljadelff; A Series of two Lectrues on the Braver Group of a Field and Projective Representations of Finite Groups, (1) The Basic Constructions, (2) Old and New Results.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Elton Hsu, Northwestern University; Martingale Representation and Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Ya-Chen Chen; Applications of the Rodl Nibble.


Wednesday, February 19, 1997

4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
To be Announced.

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
Prof. Larry Dornhoff; Strategies for Increasing Student Success in Large Lecture Courses.
Abstract.


Thursday, February 20, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. William Haboush; Geometric Invariant Theory and Vector Bundles, IV.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Adolf J. Hildebrand; Consecutive Power Residues.
1:00 PM - 110 Lincoln Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Predrag Tosic; Quantum Parallelism vs. Classical Nondeterminism.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. David Perry; The Existence of Infinite Hilbert Class Field Towers.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Dr. Alex Furman, University of Chicago; On the Ergodic Properties of a Generalized Geodesic Flow.
Abstract.
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, II.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Craig C. Davis; Explicit Formulas for Solving the Tangential Cauchy-Riemann Equations on Convex Hypersurfaces.
Graduate students are encouraged to attend.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.


Friday, February 21, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
GRADUATE STUDENT ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
To be Announced.
3:00 PM - 59A English Building
A SLOAN CENTER FOR ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR.
Tim Trick, Director, SCALE; The Web as an Interactive Learning Environment
Open to all interested faculty, staff, and students.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
To be Announced.


Saturday, February 22, 1997

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
STUDENT NUMBER THEORY TALKS.
Schedule Posted on the Mail Room Bulletin Board.