Math 400 - Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Spring 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, February 3, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Karen Shuman

Title: Harmonic Analysis: A Young Mathematician's View

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

Speaker: Sheldon Katz

Title: Geometric Physics

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

Speaker: Ilya Kapovich

Title: Groups as Geometric Objects

Monday, February 24, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Stephanie Alexander

Title: Geometry and Curvature

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

Speaker: John Sullivan

Title: Optimal Geometry in Topology

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

Speaker: John P. D'Angelo

Title: Inequalities and Complex Analysis

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

Speaker: Rinat Kedem

Title: Algebraic structures in mathematical physics

Monday, March 24, SPRING BREAK

Monday, March 31, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Randy McCarthy

Title: Topology and Stuff

Monday, April 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Ken Stolarsky

Title: Polynomials and the Art of Conjecture

Monday, April 14, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Marius Junge

Title: What is noncommutative probability?

Monday, April 21, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Peter Loeb

Title: The proper use of infinitely small and infinitely large numbers in mathematics

Monday, April 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall

Speaker: Joseph Rosenblatt

Title: Randomness and Ergodicity