Department of Mathematics
Colloquia Schedule
Fall 1997
Talks will be delivered on Thursdays at 4:00 PM usually in 245 Altgeld Hall
or occasionally in 314 Altgeld Hall when indicated.
September October November December
- September 4 - 314 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Anand Pillay, Swanlund Professor, UIUC
- Title: Model Theory, Algebra, and Number Theory
- September 11
- Speaker: Alexandru Buium, Professor, University of New Mexico
- Title: An Arithmetic Analogue of Differential Equations
- September 18
- Speaker: Juergen Bliedtner, Professor, University of Frankfurt
- Title: Potential Theory of Semi-Elliptic Differential Operators
- September 25 - 314 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Noam Elkies, Professor, Harvard University
- Title: Lattices and their Shadows
- October 2 - No Colloquium (Rosh Hashanah)
- October 9 - No Colloquium (Coble Lectures on October 6, 7, 8)
- October 16
- Speaker: Nigel Higson, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
- Title: Groups which Act Properly and Isometrically on Euclidean Space
- October 23
- Speaker: Victor Ginzburg, Professor, University of Chicago
- Title: Hilbert Schemes and Reductive Groups
- October 30
- Speaker: Lawrence Ein, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Linear Systems on Algebraic Varieties
- November 6
- Speaker: Shreeram Abhyankar, Professor, Purdue University
- Title: Higher Dimensional Algebraic Fundamental Groups
- November 13
- Speaker: Robert Friedman, Professor, Columbia University
- Title: G-Bundles on Elliptic Fibrations
- November 20
- Speaker: Peter Kuchment, Professor, Wichita State University
- Title: Photonic Crystals: a New Challenge for Mathematics
- December 4
- Speaker: Trevor Wooley, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor visiting Princeton University
- Title: On Exponential Sums, and the Solubility of Diophantine Equations in Many Variables
- December 11
- Speaker: Greg Hjorth, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Title: The Mackey Doctrine
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