UIUC Department of Mathematics
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January 24, 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 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 27, 1997

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Logic and Analytic Geometry.

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Mary Pugh, Courant Institute of Mathematics; Motion of Free Boundaries in Fluids.
Abstract.


Tuesday, January 28, 1997
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. John E. Wetzel; Reconstructing a Triangle from its Summits.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; A Crossed Module Safari.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Yong Lin, Statistics Department, Penn State University; The Likelihood Ratio Test of Mixture Hypotheses and The Tube Volume Problem.
Abstract.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Introduction to Geometric Langlands Theory.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Harold Diamond; An Estimate of Squarefree Numbers of H. Montgomery, I.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Anand Pillay; Differentially Closed Fields.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Organizational meeting. Talks are solicited. Graduate students are encouraged to attend.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Organizational meeting.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Dhruv Mubayi; Potentially and Forcibly Hamiltonian Degree Sequences.

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Prof. John Sullivan, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota; Thick Knots and other Optimal Geometries.
Abstract.


Wednesday, January 29, 1997

4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Gabor Hetyei, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California; Counting Faces of Polyhedral Complexes.


Thursday, January 30, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. William Haboush; Geometric Invariant Theory and Vector Bundles.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Harold Diamond; An Estimate of Squarefree Numbers of H. Montgomery, II.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Anand Pillay; Model Theory and Diophantine Geometry.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Lev Aizenberg, Bar Ilan University; Duality in Complex Analysis.


Friday, January 31, 1997

No Meetings Today.