Weekly Calendar

February 28 - March 3, 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 28, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Bruce Reznick
Ever try to explain the difference between algebra and analysis to your brother?

Tuesday, February 29, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Stan Betley, University of Warsaw;
Homlogical algebra in the category of functors and homology of symmetric groups.
11:00 a.m. - 2 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 Wen-Bin Zhang, University of the West Indies, Visiting UIUC this semester;
The distribution of distinct degrees of irreducible factors of polynomials in Fq[x].
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University;
Kontsevich's Mirror Symmetry Conjecture and the Elliptic Curve.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Anand Pillay
Meromorphic Groups, II.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Radhika Ramamurthi
A list-coloring theorem for k-uniform hypergraphs.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Sergei Ivanov
Intersecting free subgroups in free products of groups, III.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
To be announced.

Wednesday, March 1, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 445 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Professor John Etnyre, Stanford University;
Knots and contact geometry.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon
Algebraic Stacks II.
Abstract.
8:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH CLUB.
G.Csicsery's video on Paul Erdos
"N is a Number".
Abstract.

Thursday, March 2, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. J. Ralph Alexander, UIUC Department of Mathematics;
Remarks on the length and width of planar paths.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
12:00 p.m. - 6-110 Engineering Science Bldg
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt
The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and connections with Lambert series.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Yevgenii Gordon, Visiting Professor
On some properties of convergence in ergodic theorems, IV.
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
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL.
Sanjay Shakkottai
An Introduction to Large Deviations in Communication Networks.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Professor Zhong-Jin Ruan, Introduction to Approximation properties, II.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
No meeting this week.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Professor Michael C. Loui, Graduate College, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC;
Ethics in Scientific Research: Plagiarism issues.
Abstract.

Friday, March 3, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Antony Crofts, Department of Biochemistry, UIUC;
How cells part protons and electrons.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Professor Lou van den Dries
Surreal Fields, III.