Weekly Calendar

September 06 - September 10, 1999

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

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Monday, September 06, 1999

LABOR DAY - CAMPUS HOLIDAY.

Tuesday, September 07, 1999

11:00 - 345 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.

Matthew Ando, Professor of Mathematics;

Geometric and algebraic complex orientations in K-theory.

11:00 - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Barbara Bailey, Professor, Department of Statistics;

A Short Short Course in Data Mining.

Abstract.

12:00 - 241 Altgeld Hall

GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.

Mr. Tao Jiang, Department of Mathematics;

Trees in graphs with large girth.

Abstract.

1:00 - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Michael Bennett, Professor of Mathematics;

On the representation of integers by binary cubic forms.

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Margaret Symington , Visiting Professor;

Symplectic Rational Blowdowns.

1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Evgenii Gordon, Professor;

A new axiomatic system for nonstandard set theory, II.

2:00 - 243 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Robert Connelly, Professor , Cornell University;

Mathematical Bellows and Volume Formulas.

Abstract.

2:00 - 441 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

Derek Robinson, Professor of Mathematics;

A criterion for an infinite group to be commutative.

2:00 - 343 Altgeld Hall

STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Mr. Will Galway, Department of Mathematics;

Primality Testing Via Conic Sections.

Wednesday, September 08, 1999

4:00 - AH 243

MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.

Maarten Bergvelt, Professor of Mathematics;

Vertex Operators for Beginners, II.

Thursday, September 09, 1999

1:00 - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Michael Bennett, Professor of Mathematics;

On some exponential equations of S. S. Pillai.

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.

E. Gordon, (Nizhni Novgorod; Visiting Professor here during 1999-2000);

Approximations of infinite groups by finite ones and some applications, II.

2:00 - 241 Altgeld

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Marcin Mazur, Professor of Mathematics;

Kitaoka's conjecture and finite group schemes.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Marius Junge, Professor of Mathematics

Recent developement in the theory of non-commutative L_p-spaces, II.

3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.

Mr. Ben Richert, Department of Mathematics;

Further Results Concerning Minimal Resolutions.

4:00 - 245 AH

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.

DR. Martin Schagerl, Institute of Mechanics, Vienna University of Technology;

Travelling Kinks in the Perfectly Flexible String: How do these shock-waves show up in nature?

Abstract.

Friday, September 10, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall

MODEL THEORY.

Lou van den Dries, Professor of Mathematics

We will begin looking at a paper of Gromov entitled "Endomorphisms of symbolic algebraic varieties", II.