Math 400 - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Fall 2003

All talks will take place on Mondays 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.

Monday, September 8, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Phillip Griffith

Title: About Math 400

Monday, September 15, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: John D'Angelo

Title: Complex Variable Analogues of Hilbert's 17th Problem

Monday, September 22, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Bruce Reznick

Title: "Ever Try to Explain the Difference Between Algebra and Analysis to your Brother" AND "Resources for Research"

Monday, September 29, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Susan Tolman

Title: Symplectic Manifolds

Monday, October 6, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Dan Grayson

Title: Algebraic K-Theory

Monday, October 13, 4:00 p.m., 165 Everitt

TRJITZINSKY MEMORIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Herbert Wilf, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Recounting the Rationals

Abstract

Monday, October 20, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Ken Stolarsky

Title: Polynomials in Analysis and Number Theory

Monday, October 27, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Marius Junge

Title: Probabilistic Methods in Banach Spaces

Monday, November 3, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Iwan Duursma

Title: Algebraic Curves: Theory and Applications

Monday, November 10, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Douglas B. West

Title: Coloring and List Coloring of Graphs and Hypergraphs

Monday, November 17, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Anand Pillay

Title: Logic and model theory