Weekly Calendar

September 13 - September 17, 1999

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

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Monday, September 13, 1999

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute

THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR.

Mair Churchill, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO;

Structure and Function of Chromosomal High Mobility Group Proteins.

Abstract.

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.

Stephanie Alexander, Professor of Mathematics;

Geometry, I.

7:30 p.m. - Lincoln Hall Theater

THE 14TH ANNUAL BECKMAN LECTURE ON SCIENCE AND INNOVATION.

Robert Langer, Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

Biomaterials and How They Will Change Our Lives.

Abstract.

Tuesday, September 14, 1999

11:00 - 345 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.

Don Stanley, Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta;

Rational closed classes.

11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Ivan Mizera (jointly with Milos Volauf), Professor, Department of Probability Comenius University, Bratislava;

Continuity of halfspace depth contours and maximum depth estimators: diagnostics of depth-related methods.

Abstract.

12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.

Yoshiyasu Ishigami, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;

Vertex-disjoint cycles containing specified edges.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Bruce Berndt, Professor of Mathematics;

Introduction to elliptic integrals. (The only prerequisite is elementary integral calculus).

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

Don Stanley, Professor, University of Alberta;

The Lusternick-Schnirelmann category of products.

1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Evgenii Gordon, Professor;

A new axiomatic system for nonstandard set theory, III.

2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Peter Andrews, Professor , Eastern Illinois University;

Geometry Revisited -- Dynamically.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 241 AH

STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.

Rich Sowers, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

Stochastic Averaging: A Markov Process on a Lollipop.

2:00 - 441 Altgeld Hall

GROUP THEORY.

No meeting this week.

2:00 - 343 Altgeld Hall

STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Mr. Michael Bush, Department of Mathematics;

Title to be announced.

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE & SOCITY.

Walter Hayman, Professor, F. R. S. Imperial College, London;

A Functional Equation Arising from the Mortality Tables.

Abstract.

Wednesday, September 15, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.

Maarten Bergvelt, Math. Department, UIUC

Vertex Algebras for Beginners, III.

Thursday, September 16, 1999

12:00 p.m. - 6-110 ESB

MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.

Matthew Ando, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC

An introduction to K-theory.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Kenneth S. Williams, Professor, Carleton University;

The size of a small solution of a diagonal quadrartic equation.

Abstract.

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, III.

1:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS.

Marne Helgesen

Early Informal Feedback.

2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Marcin Mazur, Professor, UIUC;

Kitaoka's conjecture and finite group schemes, II.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Walter Hayman, Professor, Imperial College, London

On successive ordinates of the zeros of Riemann's zeta function.

3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.

Mr. Ben Richert, Department of Mathematics;

Further Results Concerning Minimal Resolutions, continued.

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.

Krishnaswami Alladi, Professor, University of Florida;

A fundamental invariant in the theory of partitions.

Abstract.

Friday, September 17, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall

MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.

Anand Pillay, Professor of Mathematics;

A continuation of the discussion of the paper by Cromov entitled "Endomorphisms of symbolic algebraic varieties".