Weekly Calendar
September 18 - September 22, 2000
Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can now be submitted using the
new submission
form. Other questions or comments related to the Weekly Calendar should
be sent to Hilda Britt.
Deadline for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar is noon every
Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
- Paul Goldenberg, Education Development Center, Newton, MA;
- What Some Brilliant U of I People Knew 40 Years Ago that We Need to Remember Today.
- Abstract.
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11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
- Frank Quinn, Professor of Mathematics
, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;
- Dual 2-complexes in 4-manifolds.
- Abstract.
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11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
- PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
- Professor Marianthi Markatou, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York
- Model Selection Based on Statistical Distances.
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Professor Bruce Reznick
- Equal sums of higher powers of quadratic forms I .
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
- Professor Luis Alvarez-Consul, UIUC;
- Dimensional Reduction, Quivers and Vortices.
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1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- LOGIC SEMINAR.
- Professor C. Ward Henson
- Urysohn's homogeneous, universal metric space.
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
- STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
- Salah Mohammed, Prof.
, Southern Illinois University ;
- Stochastic Dynamics of Infinite-Dimensional Systems .
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3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
- COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
- Sean Sather-Wagstaff
- Graded Rings and Samuel Multiplicity.
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
- GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
- Prof. Gregory Galperin, Department of Mathematics
, Eastern Illinois University;
- Billiard Orbits in Polygons with Pockets, I..
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
- Dmitry Fon-Der-Flaass
- Prolific constructions of strongly regular graphs.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
- Professor Randy McCarthy
- Algebraic Topology.
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4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
- INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
- Mr. John Jossey
- NSS: the NTRU Signature Scheme.
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12:00 p.m. - 6.110 Engineering Science Bldg
- MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
- Professor Mike Stone, Department of Physics, UIUC
- Oil wells, Quantum gravity, and the Riemann mapping theorem.
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1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Professor Bruce Reznick
- Equal sums of higher powers of quadratic forms, II .
- Abstract.
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1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
- To be announced
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1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
- NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
- Professor Yevgenii Gordon
- Boolean valued analysis and applications to extensions of Lebesgue measure, III.
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2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
- Professor Nigel Boston
- Introduction to modular curves, II.
- Abstract.
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2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
- Professor Peter Loeb, UIUC
- Making the Lebesgue Integral look like the Riemann Integral.
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
- Andrew Richardson
- Local Cohomology with respect to Monomial Ideals (cont.).
- Abstract.
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3:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
- GALOIS MODULES.
- Professor Marcin Mazur
- The Lifted Root Number Conjecture, continued.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
- MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
- Olga Kharlampovich, Professor
, McGill University;
- Diophantine Geometry for Free Groups and First-Order Properties.
- Abstract.
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4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
- MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
- Piotr Kowalski, Mathematical Institute of Wroclaw University, Poland;
- On Groups definable in fields with jet operators.
- Abstract.