Weekly Calendar

October 25 - October 29, 1999

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 25, 1999

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute
THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.
Angela M. Gronenborn, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIH;
Advances in NMR Structure Refinements.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Richard B. Sowers, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Probability: from coin flips to chaos to the Chicago Board of Trade.

Tuesday, October 26, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
JOINT STATISTICS-ACCOUNTANCY SEMINAR.
Professor Jimmy Ye, Baruch College, City University of New York;
On Specification Problems in Equity Valuation Models.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Bob Craggs, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Frank Quinn's work on the Andrews--Curtis Conjecture.
12:00 a.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Tao Jiang, University of Illinois;
Short odd cycles in 4-chromatic graphs.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Reznick, UIUC;
A recursively-defined family of sets of integers with many interesting properties.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Scot Adams, Professor, School of Mathematics , University of Minnesota;
Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds .
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Jan Krajicek, Czech Academy of Sciences;
Modular counting in proof complexity.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
No meeting this week. Cancelled at Chair's requst due to the 2:00 p.m. VIGRE Site Visit planning meeting.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Alberto Delgado, Professor,Department of Mathematics , Bradley University;
The diameter of the prime graph of a finite group.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Leonid Ryzhik, University of Chicago;
Reaction enhancement by fluid advection.
2:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Madhav Chandrasekher, UIUC;
Outer Galois Representations and a Conjecture of Ihara.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
VIGRE SITE VISITING PLANNING MEETING.
VIGRE Grant (Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences);
The department's $3.7M VIGRE proposal has successfully completed the first stage of evaluation. The next stage of evaluation will be a one-day site visit sometime in November by a team of three NSF program officers. Please come to the meeting on Tuesday and contribute to the planning for this important site visit.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCIETY.
Christian Borgs, Microsoft Corp.;
Phase Transitions and Hardness: A Physics View of Algorithms .
Abstract.

Wednesday, October 27, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Mr. Doug Kuhlman, UIUC;
Picking good elliptic curves.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
W. Haboush, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Obstruction to Fineness, IV.

Thursday, October 28, 1999

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Yifan Yang, UIUC;
Arithmetic progressions in random sets.
12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Dr. David Berenstein, Department of Physics, UIUC;
D-branes and K-theory, part II.
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Thomas Kuhnt, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;
Tamely Ramified Towers and Discriminant Bounds.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago;
Unique continuation for the Schrodinger equation.
3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
Mr. Andrew Richardson, UIUC;
Torsion Theories and Localization.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Corp.;
Phase Transitions and Finite-Size Scaling in Computer Science.
Abstract.

Friday, October 29, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Jan Krajicek, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic;
Euler structures.
Abstract.