Weekly Calendar

March 20 - March 24, 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, March 20, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Bruce Berndt
Number Theory, The Queen of Mathematics.

Tuesday, March 21, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
No meeting this week.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Ivan Mizera, Department of Probability and Statistics , Comenius University;
Plastic Splines.
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Steve Ullom
Locally Free Classgroups (Multiplicative Galois Module Structure).
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Aimo Hinkkanen
Formal connections between Nevanlinna theory and number theory.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Sam Evens, Notre Dame;
Lagrangian algebras and Poisson homogeneous spaces.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Anand Pillay
Representations of finite Morley rank.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Irina Perepelitsa, University of Illinois - Chicago;
Bounds on the chromatic number of intersection graphs of sets in the plane.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 443 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Leo Comerford, Eastern Illinois University;
Equations in free groups and their finite quotients.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
No meeting this week.
4:00 p.m. - 143 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Professor Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah;
Analytical Properties of Brownian Sheet.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321 Altgeld Hall.

Wednesday, March 22, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Professor Nigel Boston
Cryptography and the Benefits of Ignorance
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon
Algebraic Stacks IV.
Abstract.
8:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH CLUB.
No meeting this week.

Thursday, March 23, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Dr. Lawrence Evans, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, retired
An octagon inscribed in a triangle-related conic.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor Chong-Kyu Han, visiting UIUC from Seoul Nat. University;
Complete prolongation of overdetermined systems.
12:00 p.m. - 6.110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Mr. Vishnu Jejjala, Department of Physics , UIUC;
An introduction to quantum groups.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Dennis Eichhorn
On the divisibility of rk(n), the number of representations of n as a sum of k squares.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Peter A. Loeb
Infinitely many equally weighted independent random variables.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Madhav Chandrasekher
An overview of the prime-to-adjoint principle and a theorem of Coates and Flach.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. Alfio Giarlotta, UIUC;
Measure Preserving Mappings.
Abstract.
2:30 p.m. - B02 CSRL
NETWORK MODELING & CONTROL SEMINAR.
Yi-Ju Chao
To be announced.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Professor S. P. Dutta
On Several Homological Conjectures.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Ms. Magdalena Musat
Approximation properties of Cred(F2), continued.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Manfred Denker, Göttingen University;
EXACT GROUP EXTENSIONS.
Abstract.

Friday, March 24, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Martin Gruebele, Department of Chemistry , UIUC;
How proteins fold in vitro.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Paul Schupp,
Continues with Poizat's book Les Petits Cailloux on complexity theory over arbitrary structures, Chapter 5.