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March 28, 1997

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Current News

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
1997 Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
April 7
April 7 June 2

IMPORTANT DATES - SPRING 1997

April 7 Registration for summer terms 1 and 2 begins.
Registration for fall 1997 begins.
April 11 Graduate student deadline to add a second half-session course.
April 18 Graduate student deadline to drop a semester course.
May 2 Graduate student deadline to drop a second half-session course.
May 7 Last day of instruction.
May 8 Reading day (no classes, no final examinations).
May 9-16 Final examination period.
May 18 Commencement.

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Coming Events
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
When: Wednesday, May 7, 1997, 4:00 PM
Where: 247 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Dean Morton Lowengrub, Indiana University.
Topic: AMS Task Force on Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship.
Abstract.

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday


Monday, March 31, 1997

2:00 PM - 165 Altgeld Hall
KAC ALGEBRAS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; The Standard Form of von Neumann Algebras.

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Charles L. Brooks, III, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Exploring Free Energy Land-scapes in Protein Folding.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 SEMINAR. - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Michio Suzuki; Group Theory Now.


Tuesday, April 1, 1997
11:00 AM - GrafiXlab, 102 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. George Francis; Benchmarks for Numerical Geometry.
Abstract.
11:30 AM - 159 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Craggs; On the Algebra of Handle Operations in 4-Manifolds, IV.
12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Slava Meleshko, Kiev University, visiting the Department of Theorectical and Applied Mechanics; Summations of Series Using Mellin Techniques.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Mr. Ben Schaeffer; Abstract Complexity Theory, Genericity, and Low2 Degrees.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert L. Foote, visiting UIUC from Wabash College; Isoperimetric Inequalities on Constant Curvature Surfaces via Planimetry.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY LECTURE SERIES.
Prof. John Lewis, University of Kentucky; Symmetry Problems and Related Topics.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Wednesday, April 2, 1997
3:00 PM - B02 Computer &Systems Research Laboratory
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Ramavarapu "RS" Sreenivas, Coordinated Science Laboratory; Supervisory Control of the Untimed Behaviors of Petri Net Models of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
No Meeting This Week.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY LECTURE SERIES.
Prof. John Lewis, University of Kentucky; Symmetry Problems and Related Topics.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Thursday, April 3, 1997

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Ken Ono, Pennsylvania State University and the Institute for Advanced Study; The Residue of p(N) Modulo Small Primes.
1:00 PM - 400 Engineering Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Chris Skinner, Princeton University; Rational Points on Singular Cubic Hypersurfaces.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Prof. Sankar Dutta; Smoothness and Intersection Multiplicity, I.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
PROBLEMS IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Alexander Tumanov; Embedding Problem for Abstract CR Structures.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Gary Schwartz; Block Theory and Chains of Subgroups, continued.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
TRJITZINSKY LECTURE SERIES.
Prof. John Lewis, University of Kentucky; Symmetry Problems and Related Topics.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.


Friday, April 4, 1997

4:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
To be Announced.
See details for times and locations.
ILLINOIS NUMBER THEORY CONFERENCE.
Principal Speakers: Mike Kolountzakis of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Ken Ono of the Institute for Advanced Study and Pennsylvania State University; John Selfridge of Northern Illinois University and Kanan Soundararajan of Princeton University.


Saturday, April 5, 1997

See details for times and locations.
ILLINOIS NUMBER THEORY CONFERENCE.
Principal Speakers: Mike Kolountzakis of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Ken Ono of the Institute for Advanced Study and Pennsylvania State University; John Selfridge of Northern Illinois University and Kanan Soundararajan of Princeton University.