UIUC Mathematics Colloquia Spring 2002

Colloquia Schedule: Spring 2002

January | February | March | April

$Orange & Blue Bar$

Monday, January 14, 347 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium)

Monday, January 14, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Actuarial Program Director, Illinois State University; Title: Optimal Funding of a Liability; Abstract

Tuesday, January 15, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Jonathan Mattingly, Szego Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Title: Ergodicity of Stochastically Forced PDEs; Abstract

Thursday, January 17, 314 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Dirk Hundertmark, Olga Taussky-John Todd Instructor, California Institute of Technology; Title: Recent results on Lieb-Thirring inequalities; Abstract

Thursday, January 17, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Igor Mineyev, Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama; Title: Constructions in Hyperbolic Groups; Abstract

Friday, January 18, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Tai-Peng Tsai, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Title: Soliton dynamics of nonlinear dispersive PDE; Abstract

Tuesday, January 22, 314 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Viorel Nitica, Assistant Professor, West Chester University, Pennsylvania; Title: Ergodic Theory and Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms; Abstract

Tuesday, January 22, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Weimin Chen, James H. Simons Instructor, SUNY at Stony Brook; Title: A "Classical" Algebraic Topology of Orbifolds; Abstract

Wednesday, January 23, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Vlada Limic, H.C. Wang Assistant Professor, Cornell University; Title: Properties of Random Walks with Memory; Abstract

Thursday, January 24, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Atanas Stefanov, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Title: Harmonic Analysis and Applications to Nonlinear PDE; Abstract

Friday, January 25, 345 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Dror Varolin, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan; Title: Mapping C^k into Complex Manifolds; Abstract

Friday, January 25, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Thomas Tucker, Postdoc, University of Georgia; Title: Some Simple Questions About Diophantine Equations; Abstract

Monday, January 28, 347 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Andrew Kresch, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania; Title: Stacks in Mathematics; Abstract

Monday, January 28, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Thomas Struppeck, Vice President, Centre Insurance Co.; Title: CDOs: Making New Cloth From Old; Abstract

Tuesday, January 29, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Anurag Singh, Wylie-Scott Assistant Professor, University of Utah; Title: Intersection Multiplicities; Abstract

Wednesday, January 30, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Igor Belegradek, Taussky-Todd Instructor, California Institute of Technology; Title: Nonnegative Curvature and Topology; Abstract

Thursday, January 31, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Jeremy Tyson, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SUNY at Stony Brook; Title: Quasiconformal maps and analysis on metric spaces; Abstract

Friday, February 1, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Special Colloquium): Speaker: Benjamin Sudakov, Veblen Instructor, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study; Title: Probabilistic Method and Ramsey Theory; Abstract

Thursday, February 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Harold M. Edwards, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Title: Factorization of Polynomials over an Algebraic Number Field: An Algorithm; Abstract

March 5-7, Coble Memorial Lectures: Speaker: Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study; Title: Methods in Modern Combinatorics:
      1. Dimension, Distances and Information Theory, 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 5, 314 Altgeld Hall
      2. Polynominals, Addition and Coloring, 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 6, 160 English Building
      3. The Probabilistic Method, 4 p.m., Thursday, March 7, 314 Altgeld Hall; Abstract

Thursday, March 14, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: David Bressoud, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; Title: Alternating Sign Matrices; Abstract

Thursday, March 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Information Sciences Research, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ

Title: Wavelets, Tilings and Number Theory

Abstract

Thursday, April 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Zlil Sela, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton; Title: Diophantine Geometry over groups and the elementary theory of free and hyperbolic groups

Thursday, April 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Michael O. Albertson, Smith College; Title: Coloring Graphs on Surfaces, Act II

Thursday, April 18, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Arthur Jaffe, The Clay Mathematics Institute; Title: Symmetry in Quantum Geometry: an Introduction; Abstract

Tuesday, April 23, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Professor Mika Seppala, Florida State University and the University of Helsinki; Title: Computations on tori; Abstract

Thursday, April 25, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Department Student Awards Ceremony; A reception follows in the Common Room, 321 Altgeld Hall

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