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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
October 21, 1996		November 4, 1996
November 18, 1996		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

10/23	Probable date mid-semester grades for freshmen are due in 273 AH (Pat)
10/25	Last day for undergraduate students to drop a semester course or to arrange for the credit/no credit option
11/02	Registration for the Spring semester begins
11/22	Last day for graduate students to drop a semester course
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

Coming Events

Monday - Wednesday, October 21-23, 1996

LECTURES.

Dr. Richard W. Hamming, The Naval Postgraduate School.

Monday, October 21	Teaching from the Systems Engineers Point of View, followed by a discussion with graduate students on career choices.
Tuesday, October 22	Mathematics on a Different Planet, or How Arbitrary is Mathematics? This will be a talk in the series Mathematics in Science and Society.
Wednesday, October 23	The future of Electrical Engineering. This will be a talk in our Computational Science and Engineering Program, in which the Department of Mathematics is a partner.

Weekly Calendar

Monday, October 14, 1996

3:00 PM - 343 Altgeld Hall

BUNDLES, CONNECTIONS, AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR.

Prof. Robert Jerrard; Singular Limits of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Vector Bundles.

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute

THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.

Prof. James A. Given, Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology and Biotechnology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD; A First-Passage Algorithm of Brownian Dynamics.

Abstract.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.

Prof. John D'Angelo; The Cauchy-Riemann Equations (Complex Analysis and Geometry.

Tuesday, October 15, 1996

11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Prof. Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville; Algebraic Inroads to Triangle Geometry.

Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.

Mr. Tony Bedenikovic, Maps of 2-spheres into 2-complexes, continued.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Prof. Handan Wand, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Three State Survival Models with Frailty.

Abstract.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Kenneth B. Stolarsky, Area Chair; Determination of Analytic Number Theory Courses for Next Year. Interested graduate students are encouraged to attend.

1:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

QUANTUM GROUPS SEMINAR.

Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Classical R-Matrices and Integrable Systems.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Prof. Richard L. Bishop; Warped Products - Curvature, Conservative Mechanics, and Billiards.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

Prof. Eli Aljadeff; On Projective Representations of Finite Groups and the Twisting Problem, continued.

2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Mr. Benjamin Schaeffer; The Paris-Harrington Principle, continued.

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Prof. Richard Sowers; Some Probabilistic Thoughts About Mean Curvature.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Douglas West; Open Problems from Recent Conferences.

Abstract.

Wednesday, October 16, 1996

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.

Prof. Werner G. F. Kleinert, Humboldt University, Berlin;Implementation of the International Cooperation Agreement between the University of Illinois and the Humboldt University, Berlin.

Abstract.

Thursday, October 17, 1996

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall

MODULI OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.

Prof. Werner G. F. Kleinert; Generalized Krichever Correspondences, Infinite Grassmannians and Relativization.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Mihail Kolountzakis; Uniqueness of the Poisson Summation Formula and Idempotent Measures.

NOTE: Plans for the 1997 Illinois Number Theory Conference will be presented from 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM.

Abstract.

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.

Mr. Yihsiang Liow; Boston's Conjectures.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Prof. Edward G. Effros, UCLA; New Results of Pisier and Junge on Operator Spaces.

Abstract.

2:00 PM - 141 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab)

DECISION, CONTROL, and OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.

B. Ross Barmish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Madison, Wisconsin; The Uniformity Principle: Probabilistic Assessment of System Robustness Without Apriori Statistics.

Abstract.

Coffee and cookies will be offered at 1:40 PM in Room 154 C&SRL.

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.

Speaker to be announced.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.

Prof. Edward G. Effros, UCLA; Normed Spaces and their Quantized Analogues.

Abstract.

Coffee and tea will be offered before the talk in 321 Altgeld Hall at 3:15 PM.

Friday, October 18, 1996