Weekly Calendar

May 1 - May 5, 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, May 1, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 - TOPICS IN ANALYSIS/UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION AND RELATED TOPICS.
Professor Ken Stolarsky, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Beatty Sequences.
4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GALOIS THEORY AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS.
Professors Matthew Ando and Wai Yan Pong
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Maarten Bergvelt
Algebra from Physics, II.

Tuesday, May 2, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Dan Christensen, Institute for Advanced Study
Brown representability in derived categories.
Abstract.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
Tate Sequences, continued.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt
Discussion of courses for next year, followed by 10 minute talks. Please bring open problems and brilliant gems for presentation .
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Jason Cantarella
Curl Eigenfields, Convexity Theorems, and Contact Structures.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Jerry Gagelman
Sub-stable groups.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Douglas West
Constrained edge-colorings of bicliques.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 AH
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Rich Sowers, Professor, UIUC;
On the Tangent Flow of a Stochastic Differential Equation with Fast Drift.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 5269 Beckman
PHOTONIC SYSTEMS.
Michal Balberg, Beckman Fellow, Photonics Group, Beckman Institute
Biophotonic sensors.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Yevgenity Gordon
Some episodes in the history of Soviet mathematics. (As discussed in letters of L. Pontrjagin to I. Gordon.)

Wednesday, May 3, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MATH 468 - TOPICS IN ANALYSIS/UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION AND RELATED TOPICS.
Professor Ralph Alexander, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Geometric discrepancy theory.
3:00 p.m. - 57 Everitt Lab
WORKING SEMINAR ON GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS.
Mr Andrew Rizzo
Uniform embeddings of discrete groups in Hilbert spaces.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Jenny Steichen and a panel of graduating math PhDs
Jobs for Math PhDs.
Abstract.
5:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY GROUP.
Eugene Lerman
Discuss the courses for Spring 2001 and the syllabus of math 423.

Thursday, May 4, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 347 Algeld Hall
SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES SEMINAR.
Professor John D'Angelo
Some open problems involving finite type.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Ms. Linda Lawton
Quantum computers and polynomial-time factoring.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor David Drasin, Purdue University;
Positive Harmonic Functions on T-automorphic Domains.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 3169 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. John T. M. Kennis, Department of Chemistry, University of California and Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA;
A new pathway of excited state energy deactivation in carotenoids: singlet to triplet state conversion on the femtosecond timescale in a photosynthetic antenna.
Abstract.
2:30 p.m. - CSRL B02
NETWORK MODELING AND CONTROL.
Ravi Mazumdar, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
The mathematics of large telecommunication networks.
Abstract.

Friday, May 5, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 3169 Beckman
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Dr. Michael Lee, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
New Polarized Atomic Orbital and Local Correlation Methods in Quantum Chemistry.
THE FOLLOWING TALKS ARE DURING EXAM WEEK.
NOTE ALSO THE CHANGE OF ROOM AND TIME FROM THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.

Tuesday, May 9, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Endre Szemeredi, Rutgers University;
On a problem in combinatorial number theory.
Abstract.

Friday, May 12, 2000

2:00 p.m. - 445 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Professor Bob Williams, University of Texas at Austin;
Tiling Spaces and a theorem of Anderson-Putnam.
4:00 p.m. - 165 Everitt Lab
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Professor Karen K. Uhlenbeck, Austin;
Integrable systems in Geometry: The Geometric Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation.
Abstract.