Weekly Calendar
January 24 - January 28, 2000
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.
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4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
- MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
- Professor Carl Jockusch
- What computers can and cannot do in principle.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL SEMINAR.
- Dr. Mikhail Grinberg
- Gradient-Like Flows and Self-Indexing in Stratified Morse Theory.
- Abstract.
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11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
- PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
- Professor Walter Philipp (Joint work with Professors Istv(n Berkes & Robert Tichy)
- Pair Correlations and U-Statistics for independent and weakly dependent random variables.
- Abstract.
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12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
- GALOIS MODULES.
- Professor Marcin Mazur
- Non-Existence of Hilbert-Speiser Fields.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Mr. Jimmy McLauglin
- Parity Considerations in the Expansion of Fermat-Pell Polynomials.
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
- Professor Michael Entov, Weizmann Institute;
- Gromov's K-area, Hamiltonian fibrations, weak coupling and Hofer's geometry.
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- LOGIC SEMINAR.
- Rahim Moosa
- Difference fields and quantifier elimination.
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1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
- REVIEW SESSION.
- Professor Dan Grayson
- Review Session for the 401 Comprehensive Exam.
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2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
- Jian Shen, Professor
- Landau's Inequalities for Tournament Scores and a Short Proof of a Theorem on Transitive Sub-Tournaments .
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Mr. Madhav Chandrasekher
- Organizational Meeting.
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2:30 p.m. - B02, C&SRL
- NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL.
- Sean Meyn
- Stability and structure of Markov chains on a countable state space.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL SEMINAR.
- Dr. Erik Guentner, Department of Mathematical Sciences
, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis;
- Non-Commutative Geometry, the Novikov and Exactness Conjectures.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
- No meeting this week.
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4:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL SEMINAR.
- Dr. Charles Rezk
- Modular forms and homotopy groups.
- Abstract.
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11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
- No meeting this week.
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11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES.
- Prfessor John D'Angelo
- Some simple open questions about proper mappings between balls.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Mr. Kevin O'Bryant
- Potpourri.
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
- Professor Ward Henson
- Organizational meeting.
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2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Professor Nigel Boston
- Bounding minimum distances of cyclic codes using algebraic geometry.
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 154 Henry
- REVIEW SESSION.
- Professor Dan Grayson
- Review Session for the 401 Comprehensive Exam.
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2:30 p.m. - B02, C&SRL
- NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL.
- Sean Meyn
- Markov decision pricesses.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL SEMINAR.
- Dr. Gabor Francsics, Department of Mathematics
, Columbia University, New York;
- Spectrum of the automorphic Laplace-Beltrami operator on complex hyperbolic spaces.
- Abstract.
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3:30-5:30 p.m. - Colonial Room 1st Floor Illini Union
- RETIREMENT RECEPTION.
- In honor of Pat Coombs
- REMINDER: You are cordially invited.
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4:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- SPECIAL SEMINAR.
- Dr. Ilya Kapovich
- Nielsen methods and the subgroup structure of word-hyperbolic groups (based on joint work with Richard Weidmann).
- Abstract.