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Current News

PROCTOR POOL

The Proctor Pool Service is available to faculty who need additional help in proctoring undergraduate exams. This service requires a two-week notice and is provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are interested in obtaining proctors from this pool, please either see Pat Coombs in 273 AH or contact the Testing Offce at 3-3706.

DEADLINES

Please see Joann Hower in 273 AH for further information and application forms.

Research Board		Scholar's Travel Fund
September 23, 1996		September 9, 1996
October 21, 1996		October 7, 1996
November 18, 1996		November 4, 1996
December 9, 1996		December 2, 1996
January 27, 1997		January 6, 1997
February 24, 1997		February 3, 1997
March 17, 1997		March 3, 1997
April 7, 1997		April 7, 1997
		June 2, 1997

NAMED LECTURESHIPS

Professor Imre Barany of Yale University will give the Arthur B. Coble Memorial Lectures on October 1, 2 and 3, 1996.

Professor John Lewis of the University of Kentucky will give the Trjitzinsky Lectures during the Spring semester (dates to be determined).

ID CARDS

All faculty, staff and students must exchange their old ID card for the new I-Card on or before September 13. Old ID cards will not be valid after that date. You may exchange your card at the Arcade Building, 715 S. Wright St. during the hours listed below:

September 6		9 AM - 8 PM
September 9-13		9 AM - 5 PM

JEWISH HOLIDAYS

Please avoid scheduling exams on these dates:

Rosh Hashana		Begins Friday , September 13
Yom Kippur		Monday, September 23
Sukkot		Begins Friday, September 27

IMPORTANT DATES

09/13	Last day for undergraduate students to add a semester course
10/11	Last day for graduate students to add a semester course
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

Thursday - September 19, 1996.
4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE.
"Energy Integral", Cathleen Morawetz, President of the AMS.

5:30 PM-7:00 PM - Room A, Illini Union

Math/AMS reception for Cathleen Morawetz.

Friday - September 27, 1996.
11:30 AM-12:30 PM - 143 Mech. Eng. Bldg.

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE.
"How I became a mathematician", Ingrid Daubechies

4:30 PM-5:30PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE.
"Surfing with Wavelets", Ingrid Daubechies

Weekly Calendar

Monday, September 9, 1996

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute

THEORECTICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.

Dr. Paolo Carloni, IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland; Toward the ab-initio modeling of biological systems in laboratory-realizable conditions.

Abstract.

4:00 - 5:00 314 Altgeld Hall

Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.

Prof. John W. Gray; Introduction to Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.

All new graduate students should be registered for this course/seminar.

Tuesday, September 10, 1996

11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Prof. John Wetzel; The smallest equilateral cover for triangles of perimeter two.

Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.

Organizational meeting.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Prof. Walter Philipp, Department of Statistics, The Domain of partial attraction to a Gaussian law of phi-mixing random variables.

Abstract.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Harold Diamond, Organizer.

Five and ten minute talks.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Organizational meeting. Talks are solicited. Graduate students are encouraged to attend.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

Prof. Paul Schupp; On the structure of Hamiltonian cycles in Cayley graphs of finite quotients of the modular group.

2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Prof. Anand Pillay, University of Notre-Dame; Model Theory and the Manin-Mumford conjecture.

2:00 PM - 159 Altgeld Hall

SPECIAL SEMINAR.

Mr. David Perry; Topological Groups I: An Introduction.

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Prof. Robert Kaufman; Sobolev, packing dimension, and a random process.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR.

Prof. Xiaoyun Lu, University of Hong Kong; The strong Hall property and symmetric chain decompositions.

Please come. If you are a student, by regularly attending this seminar, you can register it as Math 491, (Section ZF, Call number: 08517) and receive 1/4 credit and be asked to present one lecture. It can be repeated for credit again.

4:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY LECTURE.

Noga Alan, Baumritter Professor of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; "Randomness and Pseudo-Randomness in Discrete Mathematics".

Abstract.

Refreshments before the talk in 321 Altgeld.

Wednesday, September 11, 1996

4:00 PM-5:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

FACULTY FORUM.

This new series will meet weekly, mostly on Wednesdays to discuss various issues of interest to the department in an open-ended format. Topics such as finances, course structure, university mandated changes in programs, etc. will be treated as they arise. First meeting: "Welcome by the new Chair of the Department", Philippe Tondeur.

Thursday, September 12, 1996

12:00 PM-2:00 PM - Room TBA

Lecture: Infinite Dimensional Wedge Products, Loop Groups and the Verlinde Formulae.

Prof. Maarten Bergvelt; Introduction to Completely Integrable Systems.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. H. Diamond; Some Fourier analysis used in analytic number theory. Introductory material.

1:00 PM-2:30 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Lou van den Dries; Logarithmic-Exponential Series.

2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Mr. Steve Harding; Serre's Conjectures.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Prof. Tao Qian, University of New England, Australia; Singular Integrals on curves and surfaces that form bounded holomorphic functional calculi.

2:30 PM-3:30 PM - B02 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab)

DECISION, CONTROL, AND OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR.

Prof. S. R. Kulkarni, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; Nonparametric Estimation Under Arbitrary Data and Universal Output Prediction.

Abstract.

NOTE: Coffee and cookies at 2:10pm before the seminar in Room 154 C&SRL (Computer and Systems Research Lab).

Friday, September 13, 1996

Saturday & Sunday, September 14-15, 1996