Colloquia Schedule: Fall 2001


 
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Orange & Blue Bar

Thursday, August 30, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama, Mobile
Title: Amenable groups, hyperbolic groups, and Baum-Connes conjecture
Abstract

Thursday, September 6, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Edward G. Effros, UCLA
Title: Some geometrical notions in Banach space theory and their quantum analogues
Abstract

Thursday, September 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 11
Speaker: Tomasz Luczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland and Emory University, Atlanta
Title: Sum-Free Sets

Thursday, September 20, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Fall Department Meeting (refreshments will be served following the meeting)

Thursday, September 27, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bob Wengert, Department of Philosophy, UIUC
Title: What are we talking about when we talk about ethics?
Abstract: It is Graduate College policy that every academic unit present a combined graduate student and faculty seminar each year which addresses the ethical standards and practices that represent the norms in the discipline. Wengert will provide short case studies and discussion in his presentation "What are we Talking about when we Talk about Ethics?"

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Tuesday, October 2, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joris van der Hoeven, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Title: GNU TeXmacs: A User Friendly Mathematical Text Editor
Abstract

Thursday, October 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Richard Bass, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
Title: Probability and Analysis on Fractals
Abstract

Thursday, October 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Tomasz Luczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland and Emory University, Atlanta
Title: Sum-Free Sets
Abstract

Tuesday, October 16, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Note this is a Tuesday, not the regularly scheduled Thursday.
Speaker: Yu.G. Reshetnyak, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Title: On the Conformal Representations of Alexandrov Surfaces
Abstract

Thursday, October 25, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Lev Birbrair,Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil
Title: Algebraic Geometry from a Metric Viewpoint
Abstract

Thursday, November 1, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
Title: Curves over finite fields and applications to cryptography and coding theory
Abstract

Thursday, November 8, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Walter Philipp, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, UIUC
Title: Spooky action at a distance, time correlated hidden parameters and the theorem of Bell
Abstract

November 13-15, TRJITZINSKY MEMORIAL LECTURES
Speaker: Martin Davis, Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley; Professor Emeritus, NYU
Gödel's Theorems and Mathematical Practice
Nov. 13, 4 p.m., 314 Altgeld Hall, Unsolvability and Undecidability in the Diophantine Realm
Nov. 14, 4 p.m., 141 Loomis Lab, Gödel's Legacy
Nov. 15, 4 p.m., 314 Altgeld Hall, Beyond the Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms
Abstracts

Thursday, November 22, Thanksgiving Break

SPECIAL LECTURE
Wednesday, November 28, 241 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Ghrist, Georgia Tech
Title: Braid Shortening
Abstract

Thursday, November 29, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Values of modular functions and divisors of modular forms
Abstract

Thursday, December 6, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ping Xu , Penn State
Title: Symplectic realizations of Poisson manifolds
Abstract

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