Math 400: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Spring 2004
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 2, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Stephanie Alexander
- Title: Geometry and Curvature
- Monday, February 9, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Scott Ahlgren
- Title: The congruent number problem
- Monday, February 16, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Ilya Kapovich
- Title: Groups as geometric and probabilistic objects
- Monday, February 23, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Rick Gorvett
- Title: Actuarial Science & Financial Mathematics: Doing Integrals for Fun and Profit
- Monday, March 1, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Robert Ghrist
- Title: Topological Methods in Applied Mathematics
- Monday, March 8, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Dror Varolin
- Title: Geometry and Analysis in Complex Spaces
- Monday, March 15, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Peter Loeb
- Title: The proper use of infinitely large and infinitely small numbers in mathematics
- Monday, March 22, SPRING BREAK
- Monday, March 29, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Matt Ando
- Title: Lessons from the labyrinth: Theseus upside down and other lessons of algebraic topology
- Monday, April 5, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Sheldon Katz
- Title: Quantum Cohomology
- Monday, April 12, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Kevin Ford
- Title: The Distribution of Prime Numbers
- Monday, April 19, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Jared Bronski
- Title: Linear and Nonlinear Waves
- Monday, April 26, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Slawomir Solecki
- Title: Set theory and the reals
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