Colloquia Schedule: Spring 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.
- Tuesday, January 19 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Yuri Berest, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Differentially Isomorphic Curves
- Wednesday, January 20 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Real Schubert Calculus
- Thursday, January 21 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Matthew Ando, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: The second Chern class in elliptic cohomology and representations of loop groups
- Monday, January 25 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Thomas Scanlon, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Elementary and Model-Theoretic Approaches to Diophantine Geometry in Positive Characteristic
- Tuesday, January 26 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Jakobson, Caltech
- Title: Limits of eigenfunctions
- Wednesday, January 27 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Alexandru Zaharescu, McGill University
- Title: Spacing statistics in number theory
- Thursday, January 28 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Thomas Geisser, University of Tokyo
- Title: Motivic cohomolgoy
- Friday, January 29 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Marius Junge, Odense University of Denmark
- Title: Some aspects of the Grothendieck program for operator algebras
- Abstract
- Monday, February 1 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Lijia Guo, Ball State University
- Title: A contingent claim approach for aggregate claim analysis
- Abstract
- Tuesday, February 2 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Mark de Cataldo
- Title: The decomposition theorem: Hilbert schemes and Heisenberg algebras
- Abstract
- Thursdsay, February 4
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Alexander V. Kostochka, Novosibirsk State University and University of Memphis
- Title: On the number of edges in color-critical graphs and hypergraphs
- Abstract
- Friday, February 5 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Sam Evens, University of Arizona
- Title: Geometric formulas for multiplicities of representations
- Abstract
- Thursday, February 11
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Luchezar L. Avramov, Purdue University
- Title: Homological algebra of the Jacobian matrix
- Abstract
- Friday, February 12 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Richard W. Gorvett, FCAS, MAAA, ARM, Ph.D.)
- Title: The convergence of mathematics and actuarial science research
- Abstract
- Wednesday, February 24 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Larry Pinzur, Hewitt Associates
- Title: The soul of the 21st century actuary: mathematician or businessman?
- Thursday, February 25 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Michael Bean, University of Toronto
- Title: Asset liability management in insurance
- Thursday, March 4
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Peter Ozsvath
- Title: Symplectic 4-manifolds and the minimal genus problem
- Tuesday, March 9
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Hyman Bass, Columbia Univerlsity, New York
- Title: Non arithmetic super rigid discrete groups: Counterexamples to Platonov's conjecture
- Wednesday, March 10 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Yimin Xiao, University of Utah
- Title: Packing dimension and fractal properties of stochastic processes
- Abstract
- Thursday, March 25
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Gabriele Villari, Department of Mathematics, University of Florence, Italy
- Title: 1983-1998: Fifteen years of mathematical collaboration, and much more, with Felix Albrecht
- Thursday, April 1
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Peter Loeb
- Title: Thick sets in analysis and topology
- Abstract
- Tuesday, April 5 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Christopher Jones, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
- Title: Dynamical systems problems arising in the study of the ocean
- Abstract
- Thursday, April 8
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Mark A. Pinsky, Northwestern University
- Title: Pointwise Fourier Inversion Revisited
- Abstract
- Tuesday, April 13 (Special Lecture)
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Yeneng Sun, National University of Singapore
- Title: A new product space to make independence work for the continuum
- Abstract
- Thursday, April 22
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Professor Michele Audin, Institut de Recherche Mathematique Avancee Universite Louis Pasteur et CNRS Strasbourg
- Title: Integrable systems and spaces of curves
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