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January 25-29, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

 Monday, January 25, 1999

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Thomas Scanlon, University of California at Berkeley;
Elementary and Model-Theoretic Approaches to Diophantine Geometry in Positive Characteristic.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Tuesday, January 26, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Professor Richard L. Bishop, UIUC Department of Mathematics;
Two separate topics: (1) Embedding surfaces with boundary in a 3-leaved book; (2) A reverse differential equation problem.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 347 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Maria Basterra.
Topological Andre-Quillen Cohomology.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Reznick.
Some recursively defined sets of integers and a family of directed graphs.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Enrique Casanovas, University of Barcelona, visiting UIUC;
The finite cover property over a set, II.
2:00 PM - 345 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY.
Mr. Tao Jiang;
Feasible sets for mixed hypergraphs.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRIA/GROUP THEORY.
Organizational meeting;
2:00 PM - 347 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Anastasia Ruzmaikina, Princeton University;
Stochastic calculus with fractional Brownian motion.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Howard Osborn.
Connection complexes and de Rham complexes.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Professor John Gray.
Vector Bundles.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Dmitry Jakobson, Caltech;
Limits of eigenfunctions.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Wednesday, January 27, 1999

3:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
John Thorpe, Executive Director, NCTM;
K-12 Mathematics Standards: Past, Present and Future.
 
4:30 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Alexandru Zaharescu; McGill University.
Spacing statistics in number theory.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Thursday, January 28, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS.
Bill Branson/Susan Plisch; An Organizational meeting.
Abstract.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt.
Ramanujan's proof of the general partition congruence mod 5.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Madhav Chandrasekher.
Lifting Galois Representations, II.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
SIGNAL PROCESSING, HARMONIC ANALYSIS, AND APPLICATIONS.
Professor Joseph Rosenblatt;
Phase Retrieval.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Thomas Geisser, University of Tokyo;
Motivic cohomology.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Friday, January 29, 1999

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Marius Junge, visiting Odense University in Denmark;
Some aspects of the Grothendieck program for operator algebras.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321, Altgeld Hall