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Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Fall 2005

All talks will take place on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. Talks will be in Room 245 Altgeld Hall. Consult the Department Seminar Calendar in case of possible room changes. First year graduate students are required to attend. Everyone else is welcome.

Wednesday, August 24, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Steven Bradlow
Title: Introduction to Math 499
Wednesday, August 31, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Robert Ghrist
Title: Secure Sensor Networks via Algebraic Topology
Wednesday, September 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Scott Ahlgren
Title: Old and new number theory
Wednesday, September 14, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Robert Bauer
Title: How to choose a planar curve at random
Wednesday, September 21
No 499 talk due to conflict with the Trjitzinsky Lecture by Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, at 4 p.m. in 245 Altgeld Hall.
Wednesday, September 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Ely Kerman
Title: From Classical Mechanics to Symplectic Topology and Back Again
Wednesday, October 5, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Bruce Reznick
Title: Positive polynomials, and what does ">" mean, anyway?
Wednesday, October 12, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Zhong-Jin Ruan
Title: From Matrices to Operator Theory and Operator Algebras
Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Sergei Ivanov
Title: Some problems in group theory
Wednesday, October 26, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Igor Mineyev
Title: Groups and geometry
Wednesday, November 2, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Anton Malkin
Title: Topological field theory
Wednesday, November 9, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: William Haboush
Title: What is an algebraic group?
Wednesday, November 17, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Eduard Kirr
Title: The Math behind Oscillator-Wave Systems
Wednesday, November 23, THANKSGIVING BREAK
Wednesday, November 30, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Slawomir Solecki
Title: Counting objects in infinite sets
Wednesday, December 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Sheldon Katz
Title: Enumerative Algebraic Geometry

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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