UIUC Department of Mathematics
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November 8, 1996

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Current News

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 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

11/22 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 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 11, 1996

12:00 PM - 280 Materials Research Laboratory
THEORECTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. R. Parthasarathy, Institute of Mathematics, Madras, India; Strings in Curved Space-Time and Entropy of Black Holes.

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Eugene Lerman; Equilibria in Hamiltonian Systems, II.

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Evan Evans, Duke University, School of Engineering, Durham, North Carolina; Brownian Dynamics of Molecular Bond Dissociation Under Force.
Abstract.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Richard B. Sowers; Topic in Probability Theory.


Tuesday, November 12, 1996
11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Richard Schwartz, University of Chicago; The Devil's Pentagram.
Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; Trees and Towers.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Prof. Xuming He (joint work with Dr. Liji Shen); Linear Regression after Spline Transformation.
Abstract.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Steve Harding; An Elementary Introduction to Artin's L-Functions.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
QUANTUM GROUPS SEMINAR.
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Quantization of Lie Bialgebras, II.

2:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORIAL GAME THEORY LECTURE.
Mr. Kevin O'Bryant; Results on Partisan Games.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
Prof. Rich Schwartz, University of Chicago; Geodesics and Automorphisms of Surface Groups.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Dongshin Kim; Klyacko's Results on Equations Over Torsion Free Groups, II.

2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed, Southern Illinois University; Growth Rates for Solutions of Stochastic Delay Equations.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Birgit Bluemer; Genera of Lattices and Representations, continued.

3:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR.
Prof. R. Parthasarathy, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India; Harmonic Gauss Maps and Self Dual Equations.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Susan Friendlander, University of Illinois at Chicago; A World of Instabilities.
Abstract.
Coffee and tea will be offered at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, November 13, 1996
3:00 PM - B02 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab)
DECISION, CONTROL, and OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Alberto Isidori, Department of Systems Science & Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and Dipartimento di informatica e Sistemistica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; Semiglobal Robust Output Regulation for a Class of Nonlinear 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.
Prof. Michael Heath; Program in Computational Science and Engineering. Abstract


Thursday, November 14, 1996

11:00 AM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Predrag Tosic; Quantum Computers: Power and Limitations of Quantum Computing, II.

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Prof. William Haboush; Introduction to Stability.

1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
Mr. Gossa Sellassie; Picard Varieties, II.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Jeff Meyer; Sums Analogous to Dedekind Sums.

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. Darrin Doud; DeSmit and Lenstra's Constructions of Universal Deformation Rings.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Ronghui Ji, Indiana University at Purdue University-Indianapolis; Smooth and Dense Subalgebras of Crossed Product C^*-Algebras.

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.
Prof. Dan Grayson; Introduction to Macaulay 2, a Software System for Algebraic Geometry.


Friday, November 15, 1996
3:00 PM - 141 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab)
DECISION, CONTROL, and OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.
Prof. Larry Holloway, Center for Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; Synthesizing Control Code for Achieving Condition Sequences in Manufacturing Systems with Discrete Sensing and Actuation.
Abstract.
Coffee and cookies will be offered at 2:40 PM in Room 154 C&SRL.