Weekly Calendar

October 9 - October 13, 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

Monday, October 09, 2000

Tuesday, October 10, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
John Oprea, Cleveland State University;
Applications of Lusternik-Schnirelmann category to dynamics, group actions and geometry.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Coelacanth vs. Lung-Fish: A Fishy Story .
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
To be announced
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Thomas Rohwer
Some model theoretic properties of the structure of bi-infinite words with shift endomorphisms.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Tom Carroll, National University of Ireland, Cork
Extremal Problems for Conditioned Brownian Motion and the Hyperbolic Metric.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Graded Rings and Samuel Multiplicity (cont.).
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Charles Vanden Eynden, Mathematics Department , Illinois State University;
Factorizations of Complete Graphs with $2^n$ Vertices into Cycles.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Nigel Boston
How and Why Algebra Enters Number Theory.

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

3:00 p.m. - 124 Burrill Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Associate Dean and Director, Science and Mathematics Education , Michigan State University, East Lansing;
NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics: Issues and Implications for Mathematics Education.
Abstract.
4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
No meeting this week because of 2000 Fall CEPS Conference
Abstract.

Thursday, October 12, 2000

12:00 p.m. - ESB 6.110
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Dr. David Berenstein, Department of physics, UIUC
Non-commutative instantons and their ADHM construction.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Geumlan Choi
The Rogers-Ramanujan-Selberg-Andrews q-difference equation.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Dr. Richard Weidmann, Bochum University;
1-acylindrical splittings of finitely generated groups.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Professor Peter Loeb
Landers' and Rogge's Nonstandard Criteria for Borel-Measurability.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
No meeting this week because of 2000 Fall CEPS Conference
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Timur Oikberg, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
The Daugavet property of C*-algebras, and some related properties.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC GROUPS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIONS.
Professor William Haboush
Frobenius splitting and the normality of Schubert cells, I.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
No meeting this week.
3:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
The Lifted Root Number Conjecture, continued.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Bernd Ulrich, Michigan State University
Generalized Principal Ideal Theorems and the Codimension of Determinantal Loci.
Abstract.

Friday, October 13, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Matthias Aschenbrenner
Ideal membership in polynomial rings over the integers III.
Abstract.