Weekly Calendar

September 20 - September 24, 1999

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Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, September 20, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Stephanie Alexander, Professor of Mathematics;
Geometry, II.

Tuesday, September 21, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Kristine Baxter, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois;
Higher Hochshild Homology.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
Bruce Richardson, VP Analytic Insights Development at IRI;
Product Choice Models in Consumer Package Goods.
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.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Bruce Berndt, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;
Introduction to elliptic integrals, II. (The only prerequisite is elementary integral calculus).
1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Eugene Lerman, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;
A non-abelian Duistermaat-Heckman theorem.
Abstract.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
John Baldwin, Professor of Mathematics University of Illinois at Chicago;
Theories in Logics with finitely many variables.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
J. Ralph Alexander, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, UIUC;
On a conjecture of Witsenhausen's in distance geometry.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY.
Dr. Marcin Mazur, Visiting J. L. Doob Research Assistant, UIUC;
New results about class preserving automorphisms of finite groups, (after Martin Hertweck).
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
Jeffrey Bullard, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC;
Stability and evolution of material interfaces in bulk and thin.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE .
Frank P. Kelly, Professor, Cambridge University;
Mathematical Modelling of the Internet .
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURE.
William Fulton, Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Eigenvalues, Invariant Factors, Highest Weights, and Schubert Calculus.
Abstract.

Wednesday, September 22, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld
MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.
Mr. Donghoon Hyeon, UIUC;
Direct Images of Stable Vector Bundles.
5:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURE.
William Fulton, Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Eigenvalues, Invariant Factors, Highest Weights, and Schubert Calculus.
Abstract.

Thursday, September 23, 1999

12:00 p.m. - 6110 ESB
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Steven Bradlow, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;
Gerbes: what they are, and why they have anything to do with D-branes.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Paul T. Bateman, Professor Emeritus, UIUC;
Two problems I am refereeing for the American Mathematical Monthly.
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, IV.
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS.
2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
No meeting this week because of the 37th Annual Allerton Conference.
2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Walter Hayman, Professor, (FRS, Imperial College, London);
The Growth of Solutions of Algebraic Differential Equations.
3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.
E. Graham Evans, Jr., Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;
Keith Pardue on Generic Polynomials and Hilbert Functions.
4:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURE.
William Fulton, Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Eigenvalues, Invariant Factors, Highest Weights, and Schubert Calculus.
Abstract.

Friday, September 24, 1999

8:30 a.m. - Library Room, Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois
37TH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION CONTROL AND COMPUTING.
Frank Kelly, Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Cambridge University, England ;
Proportional fairness, resource pricing and the evolution of congestion control.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 141 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Anand Pillay, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;
A continuation of the discussion of the paper by Cromov entitled "Endomorphisms of symbolic algebraic varieties".