Weekly Calendar

February 21 - February 25, 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 21, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Todd J. Martinez, Department of Chemistry and The Beckman Institute , UIUC;
Photoinduced cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions: From Gas Phase Photochemistry to Photoactive Proteins.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 1320 Digital Computer Lab
DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP SERIES.
Professor Lawrence A. Rowe, Director of Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of California, Berkeley;
The Future of Interactive Television is Internet Webcasting.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Paul Schupp
Combinatorial Group Theory: the intersection of group theory, the theory of computability and low-dimensiona geometry/topology.

Tuesday, February 22, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Igor Kriz, University of Michigan;
On modularity formulas in conformal field theory.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Ivo W. Molenaar, Statistics & Measurement , University of Groningen, NL;
"THE RANDOM AND THE REGULAR", Statistical modeling as a tool to separate what we know from what we ignore, and the consequences of this view for educational measurement .
Abstract.
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 Paul Bateman
The number of representations of an integer as a sum of odd squares.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Andras Szenes
Quantization of moduli spaces of flat connections and traces.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Anand Pillay
Meromorphic Groups.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Tibor Szabo
A generalization of the Frankl-Wilson theorem.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Sergei Ivanov
Intersecting free subgroups in free products of groups, II.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Peter Imkeller
Enlargement of Filtrations and Arbitrage Possibilities for an Insider.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY.
Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins;
Quantum chaos, random polynomials and complex geometry.
Abstract.

Wednesday, February 23, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 449 Altgeld Hall
THESIS DEFENSE.
Mr. Gary Schwartz, University of Michigan;
A Reduction for Dade's Conjectures.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Professor Nigel boston
Should supersingular hyperelliptic curves be avoided in cryptography?.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon
Algebraic Stacks.
Abstract.

Thursday, February 24, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Bruce Reznick, UIUC Department of Mathematics
Some geometric aspects of quartic polynomials in one variable.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor Alex Tumanov
More on extremal analytic discs.
12:00 p.m. - 6-110 Engineering Science Bldg
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor Matthew Ando, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
'K-theory for Non-Commutative spaces and related issues.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Will Galway
Dissecting a Sieve to Cut its Need for Space.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Yevgenii Gordon, Visiting Professor
On some properties of convergence in ergodic theorems, III.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Helmut Koch, Humboldt University and UIUC;
Nonabelian local class field theory, continued.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
STOCHASTIC NETWORK SEMINAR.
J. L. Steichen, UIUC;
A Heavy Traffic Limit Theorem for the Closed Lu-Kumar Network .
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
APPROXIMATION PROPERTIES OF GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Professor Marius Junge
An organizational meeting.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Ms. Sandra Spiroff
Symbolic Powers and Intersection Theory, II.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Professor Mario Bonk, University of Michigan;
Negative Curvature in Analysis.
Abstract.

Friday, February 25, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Paul Selvin, Physics Department , UIUC;
How nerves fire.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Mr. Thomas Rohwer
We will continue to look at Poizat's book Les Petits Cailloux (on complexity theory over arbitrary structures.