University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Mathematics
Colloquia Schedule
Fall 1998
Orange & Blue Bar

Talks will be delivered on Thursdays at 4:00 PM usually in 245 Altgeld Hall
or occasionally in 314 Altgeld Hall when indicated.

Orange & Blue Bar

 
September 3 - 314 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Alexandru Buium, Professor
Title: Elementary Adeles and Differential Modular Forms

September 17
Speaker: Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan, Professor, Courant Institute, New York University
Title: Interacting Particle Systems: Hydrodynamic Scaling and Large Deviations

September 24
Speaker: Lesley Sibner, Polytechnic University
Title: Abelian Gauge Theory on Riemann Surfaces and New Topological Invariants

October 8
Speaker: Luchezar L. Avramov , Professor, Purdue University
Title: Geometry of extensions of modules

October 15
Speaker: Zhong-Jin Ruan , Professor, University of Illinois
Title: Operator Spaces, a Natural Quantization of Banach Spaces

October 29
Speaker: Joseph M. Landsberg , Professor, Universite Paul Sabatier
Title: Dual varieties, local differential geometry, and a classical problem in linear algebra.

November 5
Speaker: Petra Bonfert-Taylor , Professor, University of Michigan
Title: Discrete Quasiconformal Groups

November 12
Speaker: Mikhail Kapranov , Professor, University of Illinois, Northwestern University
Title: Noncommutative neighborhoods in geometry and deformation theory.

November 19
Speaker: Alexandru Dimca , Professor, Bordeaux University
Title: On the Topology of Complex Polynomial Functions.

November 26
NO COLLOQUIUM: Thanksgiving Holiday

December 3
Speaker: Kenneth Davidson , Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Nevanlinna--Pick Interpolation for non-commutative analytic Toeplitz algebras

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: FRIDAY, December 4
Speaker: Carl Pomerance , Professor, University of Georgia
Title: Smooth numbers.

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: FRIDAY, December 11
Speaker: Felipe Voloch , Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Waring's problem for the p-adics.
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