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January 17, 1997

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Current News
FROM THE AMS TO ALL MATHSCINET USERS

The American Mathematical Society will make MathSciNet available on a free open trial basis worldwide from January 20, 1997 through January 31, 1997. A separate system will be established at the AMS for those accessing the free trial. Access to the current MathSciNet site at http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/ will remain limited to subscribers only.
Note Details.
FROM THE AMS PUBLISHER TO JOURNAL OF AMS SUBSCRIBERS

The latest issue of Journal of the American Mathematical Society has been posted to the Web address:   http://www.ams.org/jams/.

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
1997 Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
January 27 February 3
February 24 March 3
March 17 April 7
April 7 June 2

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

January 20 Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday - All department offices will be closed.
January 21 First day of instruction.
5:00 PM - Deadline to clear encumbrances.
January 22 8:00 AM - Late registration begins.
January 27 4:30 PM - Deadline to suppress Student/Staff Directory information.
February 7 12:00 PM - Registration payments due.
Graduate student deadline to add a first half-session course.
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

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.

TRJITZINSKY LECTURES.
Professor 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, January 20, 1997

All Campus Holiday - Department Offices Will Be Closed.


Tuesday, January 21, 1997

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting Today.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Organizational Meeting.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. David Edwards, University of Maryland; Non-Fickian Diffusion in Polymer-Penetrant Systems: Two Mathematical Studies.


Wednesday, January 22, 1997

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Prof. Richard Laugesen, The Johns Hopkins University; Extremal Eigenvalues for Laplacians.


Thursday, January 23, 1997

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Daniel O. Scharfstein, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health; Semiparametric efficiency and its implication on the design and analysis of group sequential studies.
12:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Organizational Meeting.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. S.-S. Huang; Modular Relations for the Gollnitz-Gordon Functions.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Organizational Meeting.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Sarah Patch, Stanford University; Radon Transforms in Linear Transport and Optical Imaging.


Friday, January 24, 1997

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Xiaojun Huang, University of Chicago; On a N-Manifold in C near an Elliptic Complex Tangent.