Department of Mathematics
Weekly Calendar

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

 Monday, October 12, 1998

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATH 400 SEMINAR - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics

Prof. Joseph Rosenblatt ; Harmonic analysis in probability theory, ergodic theory and other places too..

 Tuesday, October 13, 1998

 

11:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR

No meeting this week.

11:00 AM - 1 Illini Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

Mr. Chuck Iwashita;
Lefschetz trace in algebraic $K$-theory.

1:00 AM - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

Professor Paul T. Bateman; A questionable claim by Chebyshev.

1:00 PM - 345 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY SEMINAR

Professor Dave Jackson; Presentations for nilpotent groups.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR

Professor Philipp Rothmaler; (University of Kiel, visiting UIUC)
Pure-injective, pure-projective, and Mittag-Leffler modules from a model-theoretic point of view, II.

2:00 PM - 441 Altgeld Hall

COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR

Ms. Ya-Chen Chen; Hamiltonian cycles in Kneser graphs

 

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC & NONLINEAR ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Professor Jared Bronski; A Fokker-Planck equation for solitons.

4:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR

Professor Sergei Buyalo (PDMI RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia);
Metrics of nonpositive curvature on graph-manifolds and electromagnetic fields on graphs

Abstract.

 

4:30 PM - At Purdue

JOINT PURDUE-ILLINOIS STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

Professor Barbara A. Bailey (University of Illinois);
Modeling Cloud Cover as a Dynamical System

Abstract.
Refreshments will be available in MATH Library at 4:15 p.m

Check Department of Statistics, Purdue University's WEB SITE

 Wednesday, October 14, 1998

3:00 PM - 2 Illini Hall

STUDENT TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

Mr. Tony Bedenikovic; Ribbon and Clasp Disks.

 

4:00 PM - 1320 DCL

DISTINGUISHED ENTREPRENEUR SERIES

Mr. Sohaib Abbasi (Vice President, Tools Division, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, California); The evolution of the computer industry, Oracle, and the important issues facing the industry today.

Abstract.

Refreshments in 1330 DCL after the talk

 Thursday, October 15, 1998

11:00 AM - 1 Illini Hall

REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR

Mr. Gary Schwartz; Defect Groups of the General Linear Groups, continued.

12:00 PM - 6-110 ESB (at Goodwin and Springfield)

BCDE MATH - PHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR

Professor David Berenstein (UIUC, Physics); Geometry and dynamics of D-branes, III.

1:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

JOINT ANALYTIC AND ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

Professor Scott Ahlgren (Penn State University); A Gaussian hypergeometric series evaluation and Apery number congruences.

Abstract.

1:00 PM - 443 Altgeld Hall

NON-STANDARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Speaker: To be announced; NSA proof of the solution to Hilbert's Fifth Problem, continued

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

Ms. Chris Hurlburt (University of New Mexico); Isogeny covariants modulo $p$.

 

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Prof. Joseph Rosenblatt ; Unbounded Angular Ratio is Bad

Abstract.

3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR

Mr. Daniel Smith; A Variation on a Theme of Vasconcelos, I.

 

3:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

SIGNAL PROCESSING, HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS SEMINAR

Prof. Dilip V. Sarwate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Meeting the Welch Bound with Equality.

 

4:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Prof. Zhong-Jin Ruan;
Operator Spaces, a Natural Quantization of Banach Spaces

Abstract.

Refreshments will be offered in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.

 Friday, October 16, 1998

2:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall

MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR

Mr. Donghoon Hyeon; Moduli of semi-stable bundles: Simpson's approach, III.

4:00 PM - 7 Illini Hall

GRADUATE STUDENT ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Mr. Vladimir Troitsky ; Bounded operators on topological vector spaces: classification and spectral properties.

4:00 PM - 147 Altgeld Hall

MODEL THEORY SEMINAR

Professor David Ross (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Visiting UIUC); Logic with a probability quantifier, II