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Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics (formerly Math 400)
Fall 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, August 30, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Phillip Griffith
Title: What Math 499 is All About
Monday, September 6, Labor Day, UIUC Holiday
Monday, September 13, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Julian Palmore
Title: Mathematical research, NSF, and graduate education
Monday, September 20, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Stephanie Alexander
Title: Geometry and Curvature
Monday, September 27, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Zhong-Jin Ruan
Title: Operators on Hilbert spaces and non-commutative quantizations
Monday, October 4, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: John D'Angelo
Title: CR: Cauchy-Riemann or Complex-Real?
Monday, October 11, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Bruce Reznick
Title: How to tell if a polynomial is non-negative
Monday, October 18, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Kevin Ford
Title: Primes play dice: probabilistic aspects of number theory
Monday, October 25, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Igor Mineyev
Title: Hyperbolic groups, geometry and cohomology
Monday, November 1, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Dror Varolin
Title: Interpolating and Sampling of Functions: Why would a Complex Geometer Discuss Such Things?
Monday, November 8, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Dirk Hundertmark
Title: Stability of Matter: from Atoms to Stars
Monday, November 15, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Peter Loeb
Title: The Correct Use of Infinitely Small and Infinitely Large Numbers in Mathematics
Monday, November 22, THANKSGIVING BREAK
Monday, November 29, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Jeremy Tyson
Title: Quasiconformal maps: What goes wrong with the Riemann Mapping Theorem in higher dimensions?

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