UIUC Department of Mathematics Weekly Bulletin

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Department of Mathematics
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September 8-12, 1997

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Current News

FROM THE CHAIR

We would like to welcome for the new academic year the following new faculty members, visiting professors and visiting scholars:

NEW FACULTY

Richard S. Laugesen, Assistant Professor, 376 Altgeld Hall

: Prof. Laugesen earned a Ph.D. degree in 1993 at Washington University in St. Louis under the supervision of Albert Baernstein II. He was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1996-97. He is an outstanding analyst with interests in the direction of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. His initial work was on extremal problems in complex analysis and potential theory. Observers are uniformly enthusiastic about his achievements and his future potential. He is described as a superb teacher.

Renming Song, Assistant Professor, 227 Illini Hall

: Prof. Song earned a Ph.D. degree in 1993 at the University of Florida under the supervision of Joseph Glover. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in 1996-97. His research interests are in stochastic analysis and related problems in hard mathematical analysis and mathematical physics. His work on directed polymers in random environments has established the best mathematical results in a field studied extensively by many physicists. His teaching is described as flawless.

John Sullivan, Assistant Professor, 326 Illini Hall

: Prof. Sullivan earned his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University in 1990 under the supervision of Fred Almgren. Before coming to the University of Illinois, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is an internationally recognized expert in experimental mathematics and mathematical visualization. He does theoretical research in close combination with numerical experimentation. This requires excellent skills from different areas of mathematics and computer science. He is a superb teacher.

Susan Tolman, Assistant Professor, 222 Illini Hall

: Prof. Tolman earned her Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in 1993 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. She was appointed CLE Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also won a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1996-97 she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Her research interests are Hamiltonian group actions, symplectic geometry and the geometry of moduli spaces. She is an outstanding teacher.

Tibor Szabó, J L Doob Research Assistant Professor, 338 Illini Hall

: Dr. Szabó has a 1996 Ph.D.degree from The Ohio State University, earned under the supervision of Professor Ákos Seress. During 1996-97, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His area of interest is extremal combinatorics. He received his undergraduate diploma with distinction from the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in 1990. In 1995 he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship of The Ohio State University.

Tadashi Tokieda, J L Doob Research Assistant Professor, 222 Illini Hall

: Dr. Tokieda has a 1996 Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, earned under the supervision of William Browder. In 1996-97 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at McGill University in Montreal. His interest is in symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics. He is a 1989 classics graduate from Jochi University in Tokyo, has a 1991 bachelor degree from Oxford University in mathematics (where he studied as a Fellow of the British Council) and has a 1992 masters degree from Princeton University. He speaks Japanese, French, English, Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish, Spanish and Russian.

VISITING PROFESSORS FOR FALL'97

Juergen Bliedtner, Professor, 107 Altgeld Hall

: Prof. Bliedtner comes from University of Frankfurt.

David Pierce, Visiting Assistant Professor, 223 Coble Hall

: Prof. Pierce comes from the University of Maryland.

VISITING SCHOLARS FOR FALL"97 OR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1997-98

Chidambaram Adimoolan, 225 Coble Hall

: Prof. Adimoolan comes from Bharathidasam University, Tridy, Tamilnadu, India.

Young Do Chai, 329 Illini Hall

: Prof. Do Chai comes from Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul.

Lakhdar Hammoudi, 329 Illini Hall

: Prof. Hammoudi comes from the Universite de Haute Alsace, Strasbourg.

Segyeong Kim, 329 Illini Hall

: Prof. Kim comes from Brandeis University. He is a lecturer at Chonnan National University in Korea.

Bernhard Koeck, 338 Illini Hall

: Prof. Koeck comes from the University of Karlsruhe.

Seung-Hyeok Kye, 225 Coble Hall

: Prof. Kye comes from Seoul National University.

John Selfridge, 331 Illini Hall

: Prof. Selfridge comes from Northern Illinois University. He currently is also a Professor at Cyberspace University.

Shuang Zhang, 329 Illini Hall

: Prof. Zhang comes from the University of Cincinnati.

DEPARTMENT FAMILY POTLUCK PICNIC: WHEN: Saturday, September 27, Noon - 4:00 PM; WHERE: Pavilion in Crystal Lake Park at the Corner of Central Ave. and Park St. in Urbana; BRING: Please bring a dish to share and your own drinks. Beer and/or wine will be permitted. Folding chairs, blankets, volleyballs and yard games are welcome. Paper plates and plastic utensils will be provided.; NOTE: Please let Pat Coombs know by Wednesday, September 24th if you plan to attend so that enough plates and utensils are available.

FROM THE MATHEMATICS LIBRARY: New Feature; The Mathematics Library now has web links to monthly lists of new acquisitions including November 1996 through May 1997 (April in process). Please let Kathi Fountain know if you have any suggestions for the improvement of this feature.

: Library Dial Access Changes; Effective Wednesday, July 16th, changes implemented will affect dial access to the library catalog and related resources. These changes will affect terminal emulation parameters (the user's ability to connect to the system) as well as initial navigation getting to the first selection menu.; Details about the changes.

IMPORTANT DATES - FALL 1997

September 5-12	Registration of part-time nondegree students without penalty.
September 8 - 4:30 PM	Deadline to suppress directory information.
September 12 - 5:00 PM	Deadline for an undergraduate student to add a semester course.
September 19; Noon	Deadline for a graduate student to add a first half-session course; Payment due.
September 24	Deadline for an undergraduate student to elect credit-no credit or to change credit-no credit to regular grade basis in a first half-session course.
September 26	Deadline for an undergraduate student to drop a first half-session course.
October 10	Deadline for a graduate student to add a semester course and to drop a first half-session course.
October 24	Deadline for an undergraduate student to drop a semester course, to elect credit-no credit or to change credit-no credit to regular grade basis in a semester course and to remove an Ex grade from previous semester to prevent change to an E grade.
October 27	Second half-session courses begin (nontraditional courses may begin earlier or later).
October 29	Midsemester grades mailed to freshmen.
October 31	Deadline for an undergraduate student to add a second half-session course.
November 3	Early registration for spring 1998 begins.
November 14	Deadline for a graduate student to add a second half-session course.
November 21	Deadline for an undergraduate student to drop a second half-session course and to elect credit-no credit or to change credit-no credit to regular grade basis in a second half-session course; Deadline for a graduate student to drop a semester course.
Nov 26, 5:00 PM - Nov 30	THANKSGIVING RECESS.
December 5	Deadline for a graduate student to drop a second half-session course.
December 12	Last day of instruction.
December 13	Reading day (no classes, no final examinations).
December 15 - 20	Final examination period.

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Coming Events

MIDWEST TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: When: Saturday, September 27, 1997; Where: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Organizers: Profs. Dan Grayson (dan@math.uiuc.edu) and Randy McCarthy (randy@math.uiuc.edu) of the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Speakers: To be announced.; Note: Twenty rooms for those two nights are being held at the Illini Union Guest Rooms until August 26, 1997. Please call (217) 333-1241 to make a reservation.

35TH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING: When: Monday, September 29 - Wednesday, October 1, 1997; Where: Allerton House in Allerton Park near Monticello, Illinois; Co-chairs: Tamer Basar and Alexander Vardy; Note: There will be sessions on algebraic geometry and coding theory all day Monday. University of Illinois faculty and students are excused the registration fee.; Conference Information; Preliminary Program

1997-1998 ARTHUR B. COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES

Prof. Freeman J. Dyson of the School of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study will deliver the 27th annual series of the Arthur B. Coble Memorial Lectures* at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 6, 7, and 8, 1997.

All lectures will be delivered in the Tryon Festival Theater at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts (KCPA) at 4:00 PM.

Monday, October 6	Life in the Universe, I. The Paradox of Order and Disorder.
Tuesday, October 7	Life in the Universe, II. The Search for Life.
Wednesday, October 8	Does the Electron Charge Stay Constant as the Universe Evolves?

A reception will be held on Tuesday, October 7 in the KCPA lobby following the lecture.

*The lecture series honors the memory of Arthur B. Coble (1878-1966), professor of mathematics at UIUC from 1918 to 1947. The late Professor Coble's family established a fund to endow a series of public lectures on mathematics to be delivered by outstanding mathematicians.

CONFERENCE ON PROBABILITY, ERGODIC THEORY AND ANALYSIS: When: October 23-26, 1997; Where: Northwestern University; Sponsors: National Science Foundation and Northwestern University; Organizers: Roger Jones, DePaul University; Mark Pinsky, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University and Joseph Rosenblatt, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Details.

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