Colloquia Schedule: Fall 2003


 
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Tentative Schedule for Spring 2004 Colloquia
Thursday, September 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Marek Bozejko, Uniwersytet Wroclawski
Title: Amenability and completely bounded multipliers on discrete groups
Abstract
Host: Marius Junge and Zhong-Jin Ruan
Thursday, September 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Hiroaki Aikawa, University of Shimane, Japan
Title: Potential Analysis on Nonsmooth Domains
Abstract
Host: Jang-Mei Wu
Thursday, September 25, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Susan Tolman, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
Title: The cohomology of symplectic quotients
Abstract
Thursday, October 2, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bela Bollobas, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis; and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Title: The Number of k-SAT Functions and Other Problems
Abstract
Host: Alexandr Kostochka
Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures, Monday, October 13, 165 Everitt; Tuesday, October 14, 314 Altgeld Hall; and Wednesday, October 15, 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Herbert Wilf, University of Pennsylvania
Title: 1. Recounting the Rationals; 2. The WZ Method; and 3. Permutation Patterns
Abstract
Host: Paul Schupp
Thursday, October 16, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Walter K. Hayman, F.R.S., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K.
Title: Generalizations of Stirling's Formula
Abstract
Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
Friday, October 17, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Special Colloquium
Speaker: Judy Walker, University of Nebraska
Title: From Hats to Hilbert Space: a Tour of Coding Theory
Abstract
Host: John D'Angelo
Tuesday, October 21, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Gregory Freiman, Tel Aviv University
Title: The Interface between Probability Theory and Additive Number Theory
Abstract
Host: Heini Halberstam
Thursday, October 23, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yuval Peres, University of California at Berkeley
Title: Point Processes, the Stable Marriage Algorithm, and Gaussian Power Series
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich
Thursday, October 30, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M
Title: The spectra of groups generated by finite automata and the Atiyah Conjecture on L2 Betti numbers.
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich and Paul Schupp
Thursday, November 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Fall Faculty Meeting

Coming in Spring 2004

Coble Memorial Lectures
March 16-18, 2004 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
David Eisenbud, Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Aspects of Elimination Theory
David Eisenbud is Director of MSRI, President of the American Mathematical Society, and a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His talks will be held March 16 "I. Resultants, from 1693 to now"; March 17 "II. Exterior algebra methods in algebraic geometry"; and March 18 "III. Instant elimination, and torsion in symmetric algebras.

Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can be submitted via e-mail to Hilda Britt at seminar@math.uiuc.edu or via the web on the weekly seminar page. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts. Please send items for inclusion in "Announcements" and "Conferences" to the webmaster.

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