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DEADLINES

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

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

JEWISH HOLIDAYS

Please avoid scheduling exams on these dates:

Yom Kippur		Monday, September 23
Sukkot		Begins Friday, September 27

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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 16, 1996

3:00 PM - 3269 Beckman Institute

THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.

Sebastian Reich, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany; Molecular dynamics in the fast lane - How dangerous is it?

Abstract.

4:00 - 5:00 314 Altgeld Hall

Math 400. Introduction to Graduate Mathematics.

Prof. Stephanie Alexander, Introduction to Geometry, I.

Tuesday, September 17, 1996

11:00 AM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Prof. John M. Sullivan, visiting UIUC from University of Minnesota; The Configuration Space of k Points on a Sphere.

Abstract.

11:00 AM - 247 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR.

Prof. Robert Craggs; Framed Surgery Invariants for Free Reduction Problems.

11:00 AM - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Prof. Matt Wand, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Nonparametric Variance and Autocovariance Function Estimation.

Abstract.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Adolf Hildebrand; Tauberian theorems for power series.

2:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Prof. John P. D'Angelo; Special metrics on Hermitian line bundles.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

Prof. Derek Robinson; Permutability of subgroups of finite groups, I.

2:00 PM - 155 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Prof. Lou van den Dries; Logarithmic-Exponential series and their uses.

2:00 PM - 159 Altgeld Hall

SPECIAL SEMINAR.

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

2:00 PM - 243 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Bjorn Schmalfuss, University of Bremen; Attractors for Random Dynamical Systems.

3:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR.

Prof. Zoltan Furedi; Oriented graphs of diameter 2.

Abstract.

3:00 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

REPRESENTATON THEORY SEMINAR.

To be announced.

4:30 PM - 241 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY and Math 400. LECTURE.

Cathleen Morawetz, President of the AMS and Professor Emeritus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; The usefulness of energy integrals.

Abstract.

Refreshments before the talk in 321 Altgeld at 3:15 PM.

Wednesday, September 18, 1996

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FORUM.

The ``Environment Committee'' of the Department will present its recent report which recommends a large number of ways in which the Department can improve its physical environment. Copies of the report were distributed to all faculty last week. At this Forum the Committee (Dan Grayson, Chair, Aimo Hinkkanen, Leon McCulloh, and Horacio Porta) will present its report and lead a discussion of it. All members of the Department community, including graduate students, are warmly invited to participate.

Thursday, September 19, 1996

12:00 PM - Room 247 Altgeld Hall
1:00 PM - Room 245 Altgeld Hall

Lecture: MODULI OF VECTOR BUNDLES SEMINAR.

Mr. Gossa Sellassie; Moduli spaces of semi-stable vector bundles.

1:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Harold Diamond; Characterization of derivations on the ring of arithmetic functions.

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

MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.

Mr. Scott Coon; Logarithmic-Exponential Series, continued.

2:00 PM - 247 Altgeld Hall

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR.

Prof. Nigel Boston; An introduction to function field Galois representations.

2:00 PM - 245 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald; Double crossproducts of discrete quantum groups.

4:00 PM - 314 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM.

Cathleen Morawetz, President of the AMS and Professor Emeritus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Transonic Flows.

Abstract.

Refreshments before the talk in 321 Altgeld at 3:15 PM.

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

Math/AMS reception for Cathleen Morawetz.

4:30 PM - 59A English Building

Sloan Center for Asynchoronous Learning Environments Seminar.

Brian Johnson, Department of Journalism; Acquiring graphic images, scanning, digital photography.

Friday, September 20, 1996