UIUC Department of Mathematics
Weekly Bulletin

November 27, 1996

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Current News

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.
Research Board Scholar's Travel Fund
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

11/28-12/1 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, 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, December 2, 1996

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall
BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.
Prof. Steve Bradlow; Instantons and the Information Metric.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.
Prof. Julian Palmore; Dynamics and Computation.


Tuesday, December 3, 1996
11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. Kenneth Stolarsky; Geometric Visualization and Representation of Iterated Means.
Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.
11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

12:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Mr. Will Galway; Kummer's Work on Fermat's Last Theorem.
1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Five and ten minute talks. Also a possible summer class will be discussed.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
QUANTUM GROUPS SEMINAR.
Mr. Massoud Amini; Standard Quantization of sl(2, C), III.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
No Meeting This Week: Please see today's Colloquium.

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


3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Maria Axenovich; Covering Radius of Some Constant Weight Codes.
Abstract.

3:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR.
Ms. Edith Adan Bante; Infinite Group Rings, continued.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Alexander Ol'shanskii, Moscow State University; Subgroups of Free Burnside Groups.
Coffee and tea will be offered before the talk at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Wednesday, December 4, 1996
4:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.
Prof. Jerry Uhl; Calculus & Mathematica.
Abstract.


Thursday, December 5, 1996

11:00 AM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
COMPLEXITY SEMINAR.
Mr. Lawrence Bowie; Discrete Logarithms, Knapsacks and Cryptography.

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.

1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.
To Be Announced.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.
Prof. Paul T. Bateman; Exact Formulas Related to Sums of Squares.

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.
To Be Announced.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Prof. Robert Jerrard; Rectifiability for Sets of Finite Circulation.

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.
To Be Announced.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Prof. Kai Lai Chung, Stanford University; Probability and Doob.
Coffee and tea will be offered before the talk at 3:15 PM in 321 Altgeld Hall.


Friday, December 6, 1996

No meetings today.