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February 21, 1997

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Current News

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 IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY SEMINAR.
When: Tuesday, March 4, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: Altgeld Hall, Room To Be Announced
Speaker: Larry Bates of the University of Calgary
Details.


MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUMS.
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.

When: Wednesday, March 19, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 247 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Prof. Wesley Seitz, Associate Dean, Graduate College
Topic: Task Force on Graduate Education.
Abstract.

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 24, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Modular Theory, II.
3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Profs. Pamela S. Parkes-Loach and Paul A. Loach, Northwestern University; Evaluation of Stabilizing Interactions in the Core Light-Harvesting Complex of Photo-synthetic Bacteria by Reconstitution with Bacteriochlorophyll and Polypeptide Analogs.
4:00 PM - 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory
CSE/CS JOINT COLLOQUIUM. (Computational Science & Engineering/Dept. of Computer Science)
Dr. Margaret H. Wright; Interdisciplinary Research for Fun and Profit: Radio, Computational Geometry, Optimization, and User Interface Design.
Details.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Harold Diamond; Survey of Analytic Number Theory.


Tuesday, February 25, 1997
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. J. Ralph Alexander; Recognizing Orthogonal Projections of Finite Pointsets.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; Two Conjectures in Low Dimensional Topology, continued.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
No Meeting Today (See Thursday's Listing).
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. James Colliander; Discrete Analogs of Singular Integrals Via Exponential Sums.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Harvey Friedman, Ohio State University; Transfer Principles from Finite to Transfinite.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Gromov-Witten Invariants and Quantum Cohomology, II.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Eli Aljadeff; A Series of Two Lectures on the Braver Group of a Field and Projective Representations of Finite Groups, II.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Nickolai Krylov, University of Minnesota; On a Result of C. Mueller and E. Perkins.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Urban and Regional Planning, Digital Computer Laboratory; Results of Karger-Motwani-Sudan on Approximate Graph Coloring by Semidefinite Programming.


Wednesday, February 26, 1997

4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Profs. Bruce Berndt, Peter Loeb, Randy McCarthy, and Joe Rotman; Mr. Dennis Eichhorn, and Ms. Linda Lawton.; Mathematics Department Comprehensive Exams.
Abstract.


Thursday, February 27, 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. Kenneth B. Stolarsky, area chair; Discussion of graduate courses in analytic and elementary number theory for 1997-98.
Interested graduate students are encouraged to attend.
1:00 PM - 110 Lincoln Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Prof. Harvey Friedman, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University; Ramsey's Theorem and Enormous Lower Bounds.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Steve Harding; The Algebraic Independence of \pi and e^\pi.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Seung-Hyeok Kye, Seoul National University; On the Convex Cone of Positive Linear Maps in Matrix Algebras.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Burt Totaro; The Chow Ring of Classifying Spaces.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Harvey Friedman, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University; Unprovable Theorems in Discrete Mathematics.


Friday, February 28, 1997

11:00 AM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Stefan Goedecker, Max-Planck Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Stuttgart, Germany; Linear Scaling Solution of the Coulomb Problem Using Wavelets.
2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
GRADUATE STUDENT ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. David Boyd; Exploding Exponentials: The Dynamics of the Family \lambda e^z.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Anand Pillay; Elimination of Imaginaries, continued.