UIUC Department of Mathematics
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February 28, 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
March 3
March 17 April 7
April 7 June 2

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

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 FORUM.
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, March 3, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Modular Theory, III.

3:00 PM - B02 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
WILLET SEMINAR SERIES IN CONTROL.
Prof. Hassan Khalil, Michigan State University; Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems.
Abstract.
Sponsored by: The Willet Endowment & The Coordinated Science Laboratory.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Bruce Berndt; Number Theory, The Queen of Mathematics.


Tuesday, March 4, 1997
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. John E. Wetzel; Cevian Dissections of a Triangle. (Joint work with Prof. Douglas West.)
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Richard Sowers; A Modified Allen-Cahn Equation and Interfacial Motion.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Craggs; On the Algebra of Handle Operations in 4-manifolds, I.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
No Meeting Today.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Dr. Paul Voutier, University of Colorado; Liouville's Theorem and Diophantine Approximation.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Zoe Chatzidakis, CNRS-University of Paris VII; Examples of Simple Theories.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeffrey Ho; Gromov-Witten Invariants and Quantum Cohomology, III.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. John Meakin, University of Nebraska; Groups and Inverse Semigroups: Some Connections.

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Frank Knight; On a Brownian Problem of Pitman and Yor, I.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tao Jiang; Graphs in which every Edge Extends to P3 in exactly k ways.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Larry Bates, University of Calgary; Rolling and Sliding.
Abstract.
Refreshments will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, March 5, 1997

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

3:00 PM - B02 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
WILLET SEMINAR SERIES IN CONTROL.
Prof. John Baras, University of Maryland; From Robust to Intelligent Control.
Abstract.
Sponsored by: The Willet Endowment & The Coordinated Science Laboratory.

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
Profs. Elliot Weinberg, Esther Portnoy and Hiram Paley of the Department of Mathematics, and Prof. George Friedman, Department of Computer Science; Undergraduate Mathematics Curricula.
Abstract.


Thursday, March 6, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Eugenio Balanzario; Beurling's Theory of Primes and a Statement Inequivalent to the PNT.
1:00 PM - 110 Lincoln Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Prof. Paul Schupp; The Bar Problem---A Simple Tiling Problem which is NP-Complete on the Euclidean Tessellation by Squares but which is Polynomial Time on Hyperbolic Tessellations.

2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Jeremy Teitelbaum, University of Illinois at Chicago; Multivariate p-adic Integration with Applications.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Joseph Rosenblatt; Ergodic Theoretic Formulations of Martingale Inequalities.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Ms. Claudia Miller; Frobenius Functors over Complete Intersection Rings.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
To be Announced.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.


Friday, March 7, 1997
3:00 PM - B02 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Shane G. Henderson, University of Michigan; Variance Reduction via an Approximating Markov Process.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Anand Pillay; Elimination of Imaginaries, continued.