Weekly Calendar

November 6 - November 10, 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

Tuesday, November 7, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Mr. Halvard Fausk, University of Chicago;
Homotopy representations and invertible G-spectra.
11:00 a.m. - Room 2, Illini Hall
STATISTICS.
Dr. Fred Hulting, The Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis, MN;
Just what does an industrial statistician do, anyway?.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Kevin O'Bryant
Continuous Ramsey Theory and Sidon Sets.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil;
Lipschitz properties of definable sets in 0-minimal structures.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Min Kang, Professor , Northwestern University ;
Growth Rate of Ballistic Deposition on a Planar Strip.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
Andrew Richardson
Homological Properties of Rings and Modules.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Gregory Galperin, Eastern Illinois University;
A selection of interesting and cute miscellaneous problems.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Attila Sali, Math. Inst. of Hungarian Acad. Science, and Indiana-Purdue Univ. at Ft. Wayne;
Shattering News.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 2240 DCL
WOMEN AND MINORITY GRADUATE RECRUITING EVENT*.
Raissa D'Souza, Fundamental Mathematics and Physics Theory Groups , Bell Labs;
Modeling physics and with discrete reversible lattice dynamics.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Steven Bradlow, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
Differential Geometry and Gauge Theory.

Wednesday, November 8, 2000

3:00 p.m. - B02 C&SRL
DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Professor Lars P. Hansen, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Robust Recursive Prediction and Control.
Abstract.
4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Bogdan Petrenko, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
Lattice reduction: a toolbox for the cryptanalyst (after Joux and Stern).

Thursday, November 9, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
VIGRE FORUM.
Organized by the CIRI Committee
VIGRE Lunch Time Forum on REU's.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ilya Kapovich, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
Boundaries of hyperbolic groups.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
JOINT ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY/MATH-PHYSICS (BCDE) SEMINAR.
Professor Rinat Kedem, University of California at Berkeley;
Fermionic forms of conformal field theory characters.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Yevgeniy Gordon
This is a working seminar for discussion of some questions in ergodic theory raised by the PhD thesis of Katchurovsky.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Alison Champion, Department of Mathematics , UIUC;
A theorem of Tsfasman, Vladut, and Zink.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Mr. Kwang Shin, UIUC
On the eigenproblem of PT-symmetric oscillators.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
no meeting this week
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Steffen Rohde, Department of Mathematics , University of Washington;
Random Sets and the Loewner Differential Equation.
Abstract.

Friday, November 10, 2000

4:00 p.m.
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.