Weekly Calendar

October 23 - October 27, 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 23, 2000

7:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHCLUB.
Professor George Francis
Abstract.

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Laura Scull, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor;
Algebraic Models for Equivariant Homotopy Theory.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Ae Ja Yee, KAIST
Lecture hall partitions .
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Zoe Chatzidakis, CNRS/Paris 7
Asymptotic theories of fields.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Ayse Sahin, Prof., DePaul University;
Mixing properties, entropy and invariant measures of multi-dimensional symbolic dynamical systems.
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
Andrew Richardson
Homological Properties of Rings and Modules (cont.).
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. John Sullivan, UIUC Department of Mathematics
The second hull of a knotted curve.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Jared Bronski
Stability of Nonlinear Waves.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY.
Donald Saari, Departments of Economics and Mathematics , University of California at Irvine;
Mathematics and Democracy.
Abstract.
11:00 p.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Wing-Kam Fung, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
Statistical Assessment of Forensic DNA Mixtures under Dependence Structure .
Abstract.

Wednesday, October 25, 2000

4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Mr. Matt Wolak
A Chosen Ciphertext Attack on NTRU.

Thursday, October 26, 2000

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Soroosh Yazdani, UIUC
The life and times of Fekete polynomials .
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
No meeting this week
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Marcin Mazur
Torsion on elliptic curves. II.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Aimo Hinkkanen
On the Painlevé equations, I.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Multiplicities and a Dimension Inequality (cont.).
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
The Lifted Root Number Conjecture, continued.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Prof. Heather Gavlas, Grand Valley State University;
Cycle decomposition of complete graphs and near-complete graphs.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Gregory F. Lawler, Department of Mathematics , Duke University;
Universality, Conformal Invariance, and the Dimension of the Brownian Frontier.
Abstract.

Friday, October 27, 2000

11:00 a.m. - ESB 6.110
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor Jeffrey Harvey, Enrico fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Solitons in Noncommutative Field Theory.
Note: time and date different than usual.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Mario Edmundo, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University;
to be announced.