Colloquia Schedule: Spring 2003


 
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Orange & Blue Bar
Tuesday, January 21, SPECIAL SEMINAR
443 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Rick Gorvett, Zurich North America, Schaumburg, IL
Title: Educating Future Actuaries: Curriculum, Context, and Scholarship
Abstract
Tuesday, January 21, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Gavril Farkas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: The global geometry of the moduli space of curves
Abstract
Wednesday, January 22, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jacques Verstraete, Microsoft Research
Title: Turan Problems in Extremal Combinatorics
Abstract
Thursday, January 23, SPECIAL SEMINAR
443 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Judy Zhu, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: The Actuarial Profession and Individuals’ Consumption, Life Insurance and Investment Decisions
Abstract
Thursday, January 23, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Matthew Papanikolas, Brown University, Providence, RI
Title: Periods and algebraic independence in number theory
Abstract
Friday, January 24, SPECIAL SEMINAR
443 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Gregory Jacobs, Milliman, USA
Title: What it means to be an actuary, and what comprises a good actuarial education
Abstract
Friday, January 24, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vadim Zharnitsky, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies
Title: Microdisk lasers, billiards, and closed orbits in subriemannian geometry
Abstract
Monday, January 27, SPECIAL SEMINAR
443 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Ahlgrim, Bradley University
Title: Strengthening actuarial education: Applying skills in the 21st century
Abstract
Monday, January 27, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yi-Jen Lee, Princeton University
Title: Torsion invariants in symplectic Floer theories
Abstract
Tuesday, January 28, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Tao Luo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations of Balance Laws
Abstract
Wednesday, January 29, SPECIAL SEMINAR
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Cristian Popescu, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Stark-Type Conjectures "over Z"
Abstract
Thursday, January 30, SPECIAL SEMINAR
445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Thomas Struppeck, Centre Insurance Company, New York
Title: Credibility
Abstract
Thursday, January 30, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Laurent Bartholdi, University of California at Berkeley
Title: Groups, Automata and Tilings
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich

Thursday, February 6, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: C.K. Gunsalus, University of Illinois
Title: Research Ethics: How to Have a Dispute Professionally
Abstract
Thursday, February 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Benson Farb, University of Chicago
Title: The classification of isometry groups of Riemannian manifolds
Abstract
Thursday, February 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Andreas Defant, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
Title: Bohr's power series theorem and local Banach space theory
Abstract
Host: Marius Junge
Thursday, February 27, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ruth Charney, Ohio State University
Title: CAT(0) geometry and applications to Coxeter and Artin groups
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich

Thursday, March 6, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Guido Weiss, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: Some personal views about pure and applied science and mathematics and the teaching of mathematics
Abstract
Host: Richard Laugesen
Tuesday, March 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title: New null sets and Frechet differentiability of Lipschitz functions between Banach spaces
Abstract
Host: Marius Junge
Thursday, March 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Steve Gersten, University of Utah
Title: Geometry of the Word Problem: Space and Time as Geometric Notions
Abstract
Host: Igor Mineyev
Thursday, March 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota
Title: The q-calculus
Abstract
Host: Bruce Berndt
Thursday, March 27, SPRING BREAK

Thursday, April 3, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Seppo Rickman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Title: Quasiregularly elliptic manifolds
Abstract
Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
Coble Lectures: April 15-17
Speaker: Walter Neumann, Columbia University
Title: The Volume of Three-manifolds
The Coble Lectures will be held at 4 p.m. April 15 (314 Altgeld Hall), April 16(245 Altgeld Hall) and April 17 (314 Altgeld Hall). A reception will follow the April 16 lecture in the General Lounge, Illini Union.
Abstract
Friday, April 18, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto
Title: Some miracles of mathematical cranks
Abstract
Host: Zhong-Jin Ruan
Thursday, April 24, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Ruhan Zhao, University of Toledo
Title: Weighted Composition Operators on the Bergman Space
Abstract
Host: Aimo Hinkkanen

Thursday, May 1, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joeseph Auslander, University of Maryland
Title: On the classification of minimal flows
Abstract
Host: Alicia Miller

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