Weekly Calendar

March 27 - March 31, 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 27, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, Laboratory of Computational Genomics , Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri;
Prediction of Protein Structure And Function on a Genomic Scale.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GALOIS THEORY AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS.
Planning Meeting
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Nigel Boston
How and why Algebra enters Number Theory.

Tuesday, March 28, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College;
The complication of a space.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Leonard Smith, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford;
Dynamics Beyond Dimensions: A Case of On-Off Intermittency.
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 Ken Stolarsky
Functional Equations Solved by Smoothing.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Oscar Perdomo, Indiana University;
Low index minimal hypersurfaces of spheres.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Wai Yan Pong.
A model theoretic proof of a theorem of Rosenlicht
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Jian Shen
On a special case of the Caccetta-Haggkvist conjecture.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Paul Schupp
Membership Problem for Coxeter Groups.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
No meeting this week.

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 114 C&SRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
No meeting this week because of The Robert T. Chien lecture.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon
Moduli stack of pairs.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - C&SRL Auditorium
ROBERT T. CHIEN LECTURE.
Professor James Massey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology;
Prognosis for 21st Century Cryptography.
Abstract.
8:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH CLUB.
No meeting this week.

Thursday, March 30, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. J. Ralph Alexander, UIUC Department of Mathematics
Elaborations on a result of Eggleston's.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor John D'Angelo
The X-variety for a proper mapping between balls.
12:00 p.m. - ESB 6.110
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor Rob Leigh, Department of Physics , UIUC;
String theory and noncommutative geometry, part I.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Jimmy McLaughlin
Polynomial Continued Fractions.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Peter A. Loeb
What is Nonstandard Analysis and Measure Theory.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton;
Modularity of Q-curves.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Tony Falcone, Illinois State University;
The Quantum Flow of Weights on a von Neumann Algebra.
Abstract.
2:30 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL SEMINAR.
Maury Bramson, University of Minnesota;
State Space Collapse and Heavy Traffic Limits.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Professor S. P. Dutta
On Several Homological Conjectures, II.
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.
Professor Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago;
Theme and Variations: New Variations on the Old Theme of Classifying Self-Dual Codes.
Abstract.

Friday, March 31, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 144 Loomis Lab
BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 001.
Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Department of Chemistry , UIUC;
How proteins fold in silico.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Anand Pillay
Continues with Poizat's book Les Petits Cailloux on complexity theory over arbitrary structures.