University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Mathematics
MATH 400 - Spring 1998
Introduction to Graduate Mathematics

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MATH 400 will meet every Monday at 4:00 PM in 314 Altgeld Hall. The schedule is subject to change. All first year graduate students should be registered for this course. Everyone else is welcome to attend any or all sessions.

Jan. 26 . P. Loeb The Correct Use of Infinitesimals in Analysis and Applied Mathematics
Feb. .2 . W. Henson Model Theory and Mathematics
Feb. .9 . C. Jockusch What Computers Can and Cannot Do in Principle
Feb. 16 . M. Loui Ethics in Scientific Research - ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY ARE INVITED
Feb. 23 . D. West Bandwidth: an Interesting Invariant of Graphs
Mar. .2 . L. McLinden Optimization and Analysis
Mar. .9 . H. Diamond A Survey of Analytic Number Theory
Mar. 16 . B. Berndt Number Theory, The Queen of Mathematics
Mar. 30 . B. Reznick Resources
Apr. .6 . E. Dade Group Representations
Apr. 13 . T. Y. Lam First Trjitzinsky Lecture
Apr. 20 . D. Grayson Topological Methods in Algebra and Number Theory
Apr. 27 . G. Evans Gröbner Bases
May . 4 . W. Haboush Lie Theory