Weekly Calendar

November 8 - November 12, 1999

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, November 8, 1999

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Professor Viola Vogel, Center of Nanotechnology and Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
Fibril Assembly and Single Molecule Mechanics of a Multidomain Protein.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Steve Bradlow, UIUC;
Differential Geometry.

Tuesday, November 9, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
No meeting this week.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Mr. Hirotsugu Asari, UIUC;
Stable marriage and its relation to other combinatorial problems.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Joshua Mullet, UIUC;
Number Mysticism and Incommensurability in Pythagoreanism.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Professor Grigory Mikhalkin, Harvard University;
Geometry of holomorphic amoebas and real algebraic geometry.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Ms. Linda Lawton, UIUC;
A Survey of Structural Results Concerning P01-classes.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Gregory Galperin, Professor , Eastern Illinois Universtiy;
The billiard illumination problem.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Yefgeniy Gordon, Visiting UIUC from Nizhnii Norgorod State University;
Finite approximation of infinite groups with applications to ergodic theory.
2:00 p.m. - 241 AHProf
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Professor Joseph Conlon, University of Michigan;
Homogenization of Elliptic Equations with Random Coefficients.
Abstract.

Wednesday, November 10, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Professor Muriel Medard
Secure optical communication.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Ms. Iana Anguelova, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
Boson-Fermion Correspondence and Vertex Algebras.

Thursday, November 11, 1999

12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Seon-Hong Kim, UIUC;
Arithmetic and geometric progressions of the zeros of the polynomial equation
n
Ő
 i = 1 
 (x-ri) + n
Ő
 i = 1 
 (x+ri) = 0."
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Chris Skinner, IAS;
Base change and lowering the level of mod p modular representations.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University,Evanston, IL;
Extension problem for positive definite generalized Toeplitz kernels.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Mr. Andrew Richardson, UIUC;
Torsion Theories and Localization.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Professor Tibor Szabó, UIUC;
Explicit vs. Probabilistic in Extremal Combinatorics.
Abstract.

Friday, November 12, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Paul Schupp, UIUC;
Celluar Automata.