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March 8-12, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

 Monday, March 8, 1999

3:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Professor of Education, University of Michigan and
Hyman Bass, Adrian Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University
Crossing Boundaries: Probing the Mathematical Entailments of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics.
 
3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Harry A. Frank, Professor of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Carotenoids in Photosynthesis: Structure, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 114 CSR&L
COMMUNICATIONS GROUPS SEMINAR.
Professor Ralf Koetter
The Sudan algorithm and beyond

 Tuesday, March 9, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Professor Mohammad Ghomi, Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Santa Cruz
Illuminating the Shadow Problem
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 347 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Mr. Andrew Mauer-Oats, (UIUC)
Ignoring classes of groups in homotopy theory.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR
Professor Istvan Berkes, Department of Statistics, UIUC and
Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
On the almost sure central limit theorem.
Abstract.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor H. Halberstam.
Gowers' work on Szemeredi's theorem: an introduction.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Jean-Marie Lion, University of Burgundy (Dijon).
Pfaffian closure: analytic stratification.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRIA/GROUP THEORY.
Professor Anton Klyachko, Moscow State University.
Quasivarieties of groups and equations over groups, III.
2:00 PM - 345 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY.
Mr. Kittikorn Nakprasit;
Characterization of Nice Graphs, II.
2:00 PM - 347 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
No meeting this week.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Mohammad Ghomi, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Constructing an Ovaloid with Prescribed Submanifolds and Tangent Planes.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Professor Harold Diamond.
A survey of analytic number theory.
4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Professor Hyman Bass, Columbia University, New York.
Non arithmetic super rigid discrete groups: Counterexamples to Platonov's Conjecture.
Recent joint work with Alex Lubotzky.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Wednesday, March 10, 1999

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL LECTURE
Dr. Yimin Xiao, University of Utah.
Packing Dimension and Fractal Properties of Stochastic Processes.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 312, Altgeld Hall

 Thursday, March 11, 1999

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall
TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS.
Mr. Brad Edge;
Asking and Answering Questions Effectively.
1:00 PM - 6-110 ESB
BCDE MATH-PHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR
Dr. Susan Tolman, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Constructing hyper-Kahler manifolds: a symplective perspective.
1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Discussion of the special year in Number Theory.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Ms. Alison Miller.
A tower of function fields attaining a coding theory bound.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No meeting this week.
3:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Mr. Matthew J. Rodriguez.
Incomparable minimals among the resolutions of a given Hilbert function

 Friday, March 12, 1999

4:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR
Professor Dugald Macpherson, University of Leeds
Primitive permutation groups definable in O-minimal structures.