Weekly Calendar

October 30 - November 3, 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 30, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Hung-Hsi Wu, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley;
Mathematics Education California Style.
Abstract.

Tuesday, October 31, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Professor LeMinh Ha, University of Toledo;
Homotopy Invariants of Phantom Maps.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Professor Peter B. Imrey, Departments of Statistics and Medical Information Science
Dietary and Occupational Risk Factors for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Malaysian Chinese.
Abstract.
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. - 241 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Moduli spaces of framed vector bundles.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Professor Anand Pillay
Commutative Meromorphic Groups.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Yimin Xiao, Professor, Michigan State University;
Renewal Techniques in Fractals, Small Ball Probability and Network Traffic Modeling.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 341 AH
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
Andrew Richardson
Homological Properties of Rings and Modules (continue).
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Prof. John M. Sullivan, UIUC Department of Mathematics;
The second hull of a knotted curve, II.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Alexandr V. Kostochka
On deeply critical oriented graphs.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Alexandr Kostochka
On Graphs of Small Ramsey Numbers.

Wednesday, November 1, 2000

4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Mr. Nathan Whitehead
How the original NTRU system was broken using LLL.

Thursday, November 2, 2000

12:00 p.m. - ESB 6.110
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Dr. Akikazu Hashimoto, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton
Gauge Invariance and Non-commutative Geometry.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Joint meeting of the Analytic Number Theory Seminar and the Nonstandard Analysis Seminar.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
C. Ward Henson
Some recent applications of model theory in additive number theory (a report on work of Renling Jin).
Abstract.
Joint meeting of the Analytic Number Theory Seminar and the Nonstandard Analysis Seminar.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Nigel Boston
New kinds of Galois representations.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Aimo Hinkkanen
On the Painlevé equations, II.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 243 AH
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
E. Graham Evans, Professor
Resolutions with a Given Hilbert Function.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Vitaly Bergelson, Department of Mathematics , Ohio State University;
Many Facets of Poincare Recurrence Theorem.
Abstract.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm in Room 321 Altgeld Hall

Friday, November 3, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Artur Piekosz, Instytut Matematyki, Politechniki Krakowskiej, Krakow;
Desingularization Theorems for K-subanalytic Sets.
Abstract.