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Fall 2006 Mathematics Colloquia

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Thursday, August 31, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: M. Fukushima, Osaka University
Title: Excursions, time changes and Feller measures
Abstract
Host: Renming Song
Thursday, September 7, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research
Title: What's Polynomial Time, Anyway?
Abstract
Host: Paul Schupp
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (NOTE: THIS IS A TUESDAY!)
Speaker: Ronald J. Evans, University of California at San Diego
Title: Some conjectures for Kloosterman sums
Abstract
Host: Bruce Berndt
Thursday, September 14, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Fall Department Faculty Meeting
Thursday, September 21, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: John Stillwell, Monash University in Melbourne and University of San Francisco
Title: A Brief History of Space
Host: George Francis
Abstract
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vladimir Temlyakov, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Title: Universality in Approximation and Estimation
Host: Kevin Ford
Abstract
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Christophe Pittet, Cornell University and University of Provence Aix-Marseille I
Title: Bounded 2-cocycles on Lie Groups
Abstract
Host: Igor Mineyev
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ken Bromberg, University of Utah
Title: Recent progress in Kleinian groups
Abstract
Host: C. Leininger
October 16-18, 2006, CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURES
Speaker: Bruce Kleiner, Yale University
Title: "Perelman's work on Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture" and "The asymptotic geometry of negatively curved spaces: uniformization, geometrization, and rigidity"
Abstract
Host: Stephanie Alexander
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ralph J. Faudree, University of Memphis
Title: Linear Forests, k-Ordered, and Pancyclic Graphs
Abstract
Host: Alexandr Kostochka
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Roger Barnard, Texas Tech University
Title: How far can you deform a disk under a convex map?
Abstract
Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Weitsman, University of California at Santa Cruz
Title: Lattice points in simple polytopes and the Euler-Maclaurin formula with remainder
Abstract
Hosts: E. Lerman and S. Tolman
Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Lucien Szpiro, City University of New York
Title: Diophantine Geometry from a Dynamical Point of View
Abstract
Host: W. Haboush
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Izzet Coskun, MIT
Title: The Geometry of Grassmannians and Flag Varieties
Abstract
Friday, December 8, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Avraham Soffer, Rutgers University
Title: Soliton dynamics and scattering
Abstract
Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 12:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
Title: From Strings to the Standard Model (via Algebraic Geometry)
Abstract
Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 12:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Nikolaos Tzirakis, University of Toronto
Title: Recent progress on the L2-critical defocusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation
Abstract

Coming in Spring 2007

Coble Memorial Lectures, April 24-26, 2007
Speaker: I.M. Singer , MIT
Title: TBA
Items for inclusion in the calendar can be submitted via the web on the calendar webpage or by sending an e-mail seminar@math.uiuc.edu.

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