Math 499: Introduction to Graduate Mathematics
Spring 2005
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 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Robert Ghrist
- Title: Applications of CAT(0) geometry
- Monday, February 14, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Robert Fossum
- Title: The ABCs of Mathematics: Mathematical Alphabet Soup
- Monday, February 21, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Matt Ando
- Title: The fundamental group and orientations
- Monday, February 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Lou van den Dries
- Title: Some things that model theorists do
- Monday, March 7, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Thomas Nevins
- Title: Luroth's problem and birational geometry
- Monday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Douglas B. West
- Title: Coloring and List Coloring of Graphs and Hypergraphs
- Monday, March 21, SPRING BREAK
- Monday, March 28, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Iwan Duursma
- Title: Intractable problems for cryptography
- Monday, April 4, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Alexandru Zaharescu
- Title: Exponential sums and their role in number theory
- Monday, April 11, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Aimo Hinkkanen
- Title: Complex Analysis of One Variable
- Monday, April 18, 4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
- Speaker: Sheldon Katz
- Title: Enumerative Algebraic Geometry
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