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November 1, 1996

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Current News

FALL 1997 HONOR CLASSES
To: All Mathematics Faculty
From: Mathematics Honors Committee

We are planning the Honors classes in Fall 1997. If you are interested in teaching Math 190's and Math 290's, please give us a quick response by November 1.

The other courses in which one or two Honors sections may be offered in Fall 1997 are: Math 130 (2 sections), 225, 242 (2 sections), 280, 285 and 315. If you are interested in teaching some of these sections, please let us know (as soon as possible).

The Honors Committee
Robert Craggs (Chair)
Zhong-Jin Ruan
SPRING 1997 ENROLLMENT
Early enrollment begins November 4-25, 1996.
Course descriptions, locations, and times, along with registration information, are available from the U of I Direct website.

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
November 4, 1996
November 18, 1996 December 2, 1996
December 9, 1996 January 6, 1997
January 27, 1997 February 3, 1997
February 24, 1997 March 3, 1997
March 17, 1997 April 7, 1997
April 7, 1997 June 2, 1997
NAMED LECTURESHIP

Professor John Lewis of the University of Kentucky will give the Trjitzinsky Lectures on April 1, 2 and 3, 1997.

IMPORTANT DATES

11/02 Registration for the Spring semester begins
11/22 Last day for graduate students to drop a semester course
11/28-12/1 Thanksgiving Holiday - All University offices are closed
12/13 Last day of instruction
12/14 Reading Day
12/16-21 Final Exams

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Coming Events

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUMS.
Wednesday, November 13, 4:00 pm, 247 Altgeld
Speaker: Michael Heath, Director, Program in Computational Science and Engineering
Abstract: The Department of Mathematics has just become a member of the program in Computational Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering, and has developed a corresponding option to its Master's degree in Applied Mathematics. Professor Michael Heath, director of the program, will describe the goals and purpose of the program to interested faculty members and graduate students.
Wednesday, November 20, 4:00 pm, 314 Altgeld
Speaker: Paul McCreary
Topic: The Merit Workshop
Wednesday, December 4, 4:00 pm, 314 Altgeld
Speaker: J. Jerry Uhl
Topic: Calculus and Mathematica
Wednesday, December 11, 4:00, 314 Altgeld
Speaker: Joe Miles, CIRI Chair
Topic: Update from the Working Group on the Curricular and Instructional Reform Initiative (CIRI)

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Weekly Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


Monday, November 4, 1996

10:00 AM - 155 Altgeld Hall
CALCULUS & MATHEMATICA SEMINAR.
First orientation session for all instructors who are interested in finding out more about Calculus&Mathematica.
3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Eugene Lerman; Equilibria in Hamiltonian Systems.

4:00 PM - 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR.
Prof. Russel Caflisch, University of California at Los Angeles; Theory and Application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods.
Abstract.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Zhong-Jin Ruan; Functional Analysis.


Tuesday, November 5, 1996
11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Profs. Zoltan Furedi and Bruce Reznick; The Angular Distribution of Rectangular Grid Points.
Abstract.
11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Prof. Randy McCarthy; Brave New Rings II: A Useable Model.
11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
See Thursday's 4:00 PM Listing.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Michael Berry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; The Riemann-Siegel Formula for the Zeta Function.
1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
QUANTUM GROUPS SEMINAR.
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Quantization of Lie Bialgebras.

2:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORIAL GAME THEORY LECTURE.
Mr. Scott Coon; Partisan Games for Election Day.
Abstract.
2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Prof. Paul Feehan, Harvard University; Gluing U(2) Monopoles and the Relation Between Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten Four-Manifold Invariants.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY.
Ms. Dongshin Kim; Klyacko's Results on Equations Over Torsion Free Groups, I.
2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Wilkie's New Theorem on the Complement, II.
2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. P. R. Kumar; Quasi-Statically Cooled Markov Chains.
3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
CALCULUS & MATHEMATICA SEMINAR.
Second orientation session for all instructors who are interested in finding out more about Calculus&Mathematica.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Xiaoya Zha, Vanderbilt University; The Strong Embedding Conjecture.
Abstract.
3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Birgit Bluemer; Genera of Lattices and Representations.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Russel Caflisch, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles; Vortex Dynamics and Singularity Formation.
Abstract & Biography.
Coffee and tea will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, November 6, 1996
3:00 PM - B02 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab)
DECISION, CONTROL, and OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Joachim Rosenthal, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; On the Duality Between Convolutional Codes and Linear Systems.
Abstract.
Coffee and cookies will be offered at 2:40 PM in Room 154 C&SRL.
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
No Meeting This Week.


Thursday, November 7, 1996

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Spectral Curves and Hitchin's Integrable System, III.
1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Gossa Selassie; Picard varieties, I.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Bruce C. Berndt and Mr. Seung Hwan Son; Some Results on the Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction from Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
1:00 PM-2:30 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Lou van den Dries; Logarithmic-Exponential Series, continued.
2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Li-Chung Wang; Mordell's Theorem.
2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Jang-Mei Wu; Nonremovable Sets for Quasiconformal Mappings and Sobolev Spaces.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. The Commutative Algebra Student Seminar will meet.
3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA STUDENT SEMINAR.
Mr. Daniel Smith; MCM modules, continued.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Paul Erdös Remembered.
Coffee and tea will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.

4:00 PM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Zhiliang Ying, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University; Interim Analysis in Clinical Trials - Theoretical and Practical Issues.
Abstract.


Friday, November 8, 1996

No Meetings Today.