Weekly Calendar

October 4 - October 8, 1999

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

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Deadline for inclusion in the calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts. Please send items for inclusion in "Announcements" or "Conferences" to the webmaster.

Monday, October 4, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM/(AND GRADUATE SEMINAR).

Eric de Sturler, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UIUC

Iterative Methods in Numerical Analysis.

Abstract.

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.

Aimo Hinkkanen, Professor of Mathematics UIUC;

Complex Dynamics.

Tuesday, October 5, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.

Mathew Timm, Professor of Mathematics, Bradley University;

3-manifolds that cover themselves.

11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.

No meeting. See the listing of the Joint Purdue-Illinis Statistics Colloquium on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.

Zoltan Furedi, Professor;

Turan-type problems for hypergraphs.

Abstract.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Doug Bowman, Professor, UIUC;

Introduction to multiple zeta values, I.

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Zhongmin Shen, Professor, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis;

Projective Geometry of Einstein Spaces.

Abstract.

1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Anand Pillay, Professor, UIUC;

Supersimple fields.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Igor Nikolaev, Professor, UIUC;

Generalized tangent 'bundle' of a metric space.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

No meeting this week.

2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.

Matthias Gundlach, MIT;

Random homoclinic chaos.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Mr. Wei He, UIUC;

A Criterion for Local Complete Intersections.

Wednesday, October 6, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL

INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.

Nigel Boston, Professor, UIUC;

An introduction to elliptic curve cryptosystems.

Abstract.

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.

Professor W. Haboush, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;

Obstruction to Fineness.

Thursday, October 7, 1999

12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB

MATH-PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.

Dr. David Berenstein, Department of Physics, UIUC;

D-branes and K-theory.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Mr. Will Galway, UIUC;

Farey Fractions.

Abstract.

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.

E. Gordon , Visiting Professor, UIUC;

Finite dimensional approximations of pseudodifferential operators on locally compact abelian groups.

1:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS SEMINAR.

Sharon Scott, Ph.D., UIUC;

The theory behind cooperative learning.

2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Doug Kuhlman, UIUC;

The frequency of N dividing the order of an elliptic curve.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Robert Kaufman, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

Differentiability in descriptive set theory.

Abstract.

3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.

No meeting this week.

4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS FACULTY MEETING.

The Fall 1999 regular meeting of the department.

Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321 Altgeld Hall

4:30 p.m. - MATH 175 (at Purdue)

JOINT PURDUE-ILLINOIS STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM (AT PURDUE).

Daniel Gervini , Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Department of Statistics, UIUC;

A Robust and Fully Efficient Regression Estimator.

Abstract.

Friday, October 8, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall

MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.

Anand Pillay (tenitive speaker), Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

A continuation of the discussion of the paper by Cromov entitled "Endomorphisms of symbolic algebraic varieties".