Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Spring 2007
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, January 17, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Iwan Duursma
- Title: Algebra for Cryptography and Coding Theory
- Wednesday, January 24, No 499 talk scheduled. Instead, please attend (at least) one of the
special seminars scheduled this week
- Wednesday, January 31, No 499 talk scheduled. Instead, please attend (at least) one of the
special seminars scheduled this week
- Wednesday, February 7, No 499 talk scheduled. Instead, please attend (at least) one of the
special seminars scheduled this week
- Wednesday, February 21, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Douglas B. West
- Title: Coloring and List Coloring in Graphs and Hypergraphs
- Wednesday, February 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Christian Rosendal
- Title: Hausdorff gaps
- Wednesday, March 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- No Math 499 talk today; attend the March 8 Joint Colloquium/Math 499 lecture by Randy McCarthy
- Thursday, March 8, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Randy McCarthy
- Title: Introduction to algebraic topology
- Wednesday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Robert Bauer
- Title: A Taste for Random Walks, Scaling Limits, and Conformal Invariance
- Wednesday, March 21, SPRING BREAK
- Wednesday, March 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Peter Loeb
- Title: Infinitesimals in Analysis and Probability Theory
- Wednesday, April 4, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Peter Newstead, University of Liverpool, UK
- Title: 200 years (well almost) of linear systems on Riemann surfaces
- Wednesday, April 11, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Ilya Kapovich
- Title: Groups as geometric objects
- Wednesday, April 18, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Rinat Kedem
- Title: Integrability: From statistical mechanics to combinatorics, representation theory and invariants of knots
- Wednesday, April 25
- NO MATH 499 LECTURE TODAY. PLEASE ATTEND THE COBLE LECTURE AT 4 P.M. IN 314 ALTGELD HALL BY ISADORE M. SINGER FROM MIT.
- Wednesday, May 2, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: William Haboush
- Title: Algebraic groups and symmetry
Last modified April 27, 2007
