Weekly Calendar

January 31 - February 4, 2000

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Seminars Announcements Conferences Calendar Archive

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.

Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, January 31, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 1 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Tony Cai, Department of Statistics , Purdue University;
Analysis of Spectral Data via Wavelets and A Functional Linear Model.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Charles L. Brooks, III, Department of Molecular Biology, TPC6 , The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California;
Dielectric Response and Electrostatic Interactions in Protein Stability.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Anand Pillay
Model Theory and Applications.

Tuesday, February 1, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Mark Johnson, Notre Dame University;
Picard Groups and Stabilizations of Spaces.
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
Non-Existence of Hilbert-Speiser Fields, continued.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mike Bennett
Yikes! More on Pillai's Equation.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Eugene Lerman
Geodesic flows and contact toric manifolds.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Rahim Moosa
Difference Fields and Quantifier Elimination, II.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Dr. Oleg Kovrizhkin, California Institute of Technology;
On periodizations of functions in higher dimensions.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Prof. Jian Shen
On unavoidable claws.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY.
Professor Derek Robinson
Organizational meeting.
2:30 p.m. - B02, C&SRL
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL.
Sean Meyn
Fluid models: stability and optimization.

Wednesday, February 2, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 280 Materials Res Lab
'PHYSICS AND BEYOND' SEMINAR.
Rich Sowers, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Noisy Hamiltonian Systems: Lollipops, Glue, and Tornadoes.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 3169 Beckman Institute
SPECIAL THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Robijn Bruinsma, Department of Physics , UCLA, Los Angeles;
Why Biopolymers Teach Novel Condensed-Matter Physics.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR .
Dr. Ari Trachtenberg, Computer Science Department
Cryptography using error-correction codes.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
No meeting this week.
4:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Roland Speicher
Free probability theory and free diffusion.
Abstract.
8:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MATH CLUB.
Gala Opening Night
SIGGRAPH99 Elecronic Theater Video.
Abstract.

Thursday, February 3, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 AH
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, UIUC Department of Mathematics
Hirsch's proof of the No Retraction Theorem.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor Alex Sukhov , Visiting UIUC from Universite of Provence;
Title To Be Announced.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Jeffrey Thunder, Professor of Mathematics , University of Northern Illinois;
Hermite's Constant(s).
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Anand Pillay
Infinitesimals in o-minimal groups.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Nigel Boston
Modular points are dense.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Dr. Arkady Tempelman, Mathematics and Statistics Departments , Pennsylvania State University;
Hausdorff dimension and Gibbs random fields.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
STOCHASTIC NETWORK SEMINAR.
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Purdue University;
How Well Can We Compress?
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Professor Phil Griffith
Induced formal deformations, Dan Smith's theorem and maps of divisor class group.
3:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS COHOMOLOGY STUDY GROUP.
Professor Nigel Boston presiding
Organizational Meeting.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Atlgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Mr. Yangsuk Ko, (Purdue Univ)
Analysis of Solutions to a Coupled Ginzburg-Landau System for Layered Superconductors.
Abstract.

Friday, February 4, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY.
Professor Anand Pillay
Organizational meeting.
3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001 LECTURE.
Enrico Gratton, Professor of Physics and Biophysics, Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics
How oxygen spreads in tissue.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Atlgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Dr. Alexander Isaev, Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, School of Mathematical Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;
Characterization of complex manifolds by the groups of their holomorphic automorphisms.
Abstract.