Colloquia Schedule: Fall 1999
Talks will be delivered on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. usually in 245 Altgeld Hall
or occasionally in 314 Altgeld Hall when indicated.
- Thursday, September 2
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Avinoam Mann, Isreal
- Title: Positively finitely generated groups and their zeta-functions
- Abstract
- Thursday, September 9
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Martin Schagerl, Institute of Mechanics, Vienna University of Technology
- Title: Travelling kinks in the perfectly flexible string: How do these shock-waves show up in nature?
- Abstract
- Thursday, September 16
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida
- Title: A Fundamental Invariant in the Theory of Partitions
- Abstract
- Sept. 21-23, Cairns Memorial Lectures
314 Altgeld Hall
Tuesday, September 21, 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 22, 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 23, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: William Fulton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Title: Eigenvalues, Invariant Factors, Highest Weights, and Schubert Calculus
- Abstract
- Thursday, September 30
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Nigel Kalton, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- Title: Maximal regularity; an application of Banach space theory to partial differential equations.
- Abstract
- Thursday, October 14
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Anton Alekseev, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Title: The Center of the Universal Enveloping Algebra
and Equivariant Cohomology
- Abstract
- Thursday, October 28
314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft
- Title: Phase Transitions and Finite-Size Scaling in Computer Science
- Abstract
- Thursday, November 4
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: René Schoof, Universitá di Roma "Tor Vergata"
- Title: The Analogy between Algebraic Number Theory and the Theory of Curves over Finite Fields
- Abstract
- Thursday, November 11
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Tibor Szabo, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
- Title: Explicit vs. Probabilistic in Extremal Combinatorics
- Abstract
- Thursday, November 18
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Daniel Bertrand, Universite de Paris VI
- Title: Integrals of Solutions of Differential Equations
- Abstract
- Thursday, December 2
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Nikolai Makarov, Caltech
- Title: Aggregation in the Complex Plane and the Loewner Equation
- Abstract
- Thursday, December 9
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Patrick Muldowney, Magee College, University of Ulster, Ireland
- Title: Non-Absolute Integration in Black-Scholes Valuation
- Abstract
To have a lecture included in the "Colloquium Schedule" and "Weekly Seminar Calendar", use the new submission form, or send complete information to Hilda Britt. Deadline for inclusion in the weekly calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts. Please send items for inclusion in "Announcements" and "Conferences" to the webmaster.
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