Weekly Calendar

September 27 - October 1, 1999

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

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Deadline for inclusion in the calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts. Please send items for inclusion in "Announcements" or "Conferences" to the webmaster.

Monday, September 27, 1999

3:00 p.m. - 3269 Beckman Institute

THEORETICAL BIOPHYSICS.

Dr. Andrei N. Lupas, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA;

Protein Taxonomy.

Abstract.

4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall

MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.

Zhong-Jin Ruan, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

Analysis.

Tuesday, September 28, 1999

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.

Robert Craggs, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

The Whitehead Asperhicity conjecture, liftings, and ribbon disks.

11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.

Tim Futing Liao, Professor, Department of Sociology, UIUC;

Dealing with Missing Data in Historical Documents: A Latent Class Analysis for Partially Missing Patterns.

Abstract.

12:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.

Tibor Szabo, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

On a Generalization of the Erdos-Szekeres Theorem.

Abstract.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Bruce Berndt, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

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

1:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.

No meeting this week.

1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

LOGIC SEMINAR.

Wai Yan Pong, J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics UIUC;

Ordinal dimensions in the theory of differentially closed fields.

Abstract.

2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.

Gregory Galperin, Professor of Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University;

How many triangles? How many tetrahedra?.

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), continued.

2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall

STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.

Robert Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

Soliton dynamics in a potential.

2:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld Hall

STUDENT ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

Madhav Chandrasekher, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;

Conductors of Elliptic Curves.

Wednesday, September 29, 1999

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL

INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.

Richard Blahut, Professor, UIUC;

An overview of information protection.

Abstract.

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

MODULI SPACES, REPRESENTATION THEORY AND PHYSICS.

Mr. Donghoon Hyeon, Department of Mathematics, UIUC;

Direct Images of Stable Bundles, II.

Thursday, September 30, 1999

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

MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.

Dr. David Berenstein, Department of Physics, UIUC;

D-branes and K-theory.

2:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

ANALYSIS SEMINAR.

Richard Laugesen, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

Stability of Steady States for Thin Film and Cahn--Hilliard Type Equations.

Abstract.

1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.

Bruce Berndt, Professor of Mathematics, UIUC;

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

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.

2:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.

No meeting this week.

3:00 p.m. - 343 Altgeld

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA SEMINAR.

No meeting this week.

4:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.

Nigel Kalton, Professor of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO;

Maximal regularity; an application of Banach space theory to partial differential equations.

Abstract.

Friday, October 1, 1999

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".