Colloquia Schedule: Fall 2002


 
September  |  October  |  November  |  December

Orange & Blue Bar
Thursday, September 5, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Hugh C. Williams, University of Calgary
Title: Cryptography and Class Numbers
Abstract

Thursday, September 12, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bruce Berndt, Recipient of the 2001-2003 Distinguished Mathematics Research Award in honor of Michio Suzuki, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
Title: Ramanujan's Contributions to Eisenstein Series, Especially in His Lost Notebook
Abstract

Thursday, September 19, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Walter Hayman, FRS, Imperial College, London
Title: a,b,c, Waring and Fermat for Functions
Abstract

Thursday, September 26
No colloquium this week.

Thursday, October 3
Special Meeting of all Faculty and Students: VIGRE in Middle Age
Come and join a discussion on VIGRE based on the last two years of experience. We need to talk as a group about what is happening this year and what should happen in the subsequent years of this program.

Thursday, October 10, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Audrey Terras, University of California at San Diego
Title: A New Kind of Zeta Function: When Number Theory Meets Graph Theory
Abstract

Thursday, October 17, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
Title: 25 Years With Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Some New Perspectives
Abstract

Thursday, October 24, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University
Title: The Novikov conjecture and geometric properties of groups
Abstract

Thursday, October 31
No colloquium this week.

Thursday, November 7, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: William T. Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Geometric Inclusion Orders: From Planar Graphs to Ramsey Theory
Abstract

CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURES
November 12-14, 4:00 p.m.
in 314 Altgeld Hall for the Tuesday and Thursday lectures and in 245 Altgeld Hall for the Wednesday lecture
Speaker: Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Title: Towards a Calculus of Symmetry
Abstract

GOLDBERG MEMORIAL COLLOQUIUM
November 21, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico
Title: The Influence of Samuel Goldberg on Sasakian Geometry
Abstract

Thursday, November 28
Thanksgiving Break

Tuesday, December 3, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Misha Kapovich , University of Utah
Title: A survey on Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Abstract

Thursday, December 5, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Gerard Ben Arous , New York University
Title: Dynamics in Random Media: Aging and Intermittency

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