University of Illinois at Chicago

MSCS Graduate Student Seminar

Fall 2001

• Friday August 24, Lou Kauffman, Introduction to Knot Theory, abstract
  
  
• Friday August 31, Lou Kauffman, Knots, Lie Algebras and Feynman Diagrams, abstract
  
  
• Friday September 7, Brayton Gray, The Ham Sandwich Theorem, abstract
  
  
• Friday September 14, Vera Pless, An Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes, abstract
  
  
• Friday September 21, Dave Marker, Mathematical Logic and Real Geometry , abstract
  
  
• Friday September 28, Sam Hedayat, Disproving The Euler Conjecture By Adding Latin Squares, abstract
  
  
• Friday October 5, Henri Gillet, Counting solutions of equations three variables: The Mordell Conjecture , abstract
  
  
• Friday October 12, Henri Gillett, Counting solutions of equations in more than three variables: Conjectures of Lang and Vojta, also some conjectures of Manin and others. , abstract
  
  
• Friday October 19, Kevin Whyte, Introduction to Geometric Group Theory, abstract
  
  
• Friday October 26, Shmuel Friedland, Fractals and Chaos , abstract
  
  
• Friday November 2, Floyd Hanson, Jump Diffusions in Finance, abstract
  
  
• Friday November 9, Nasrollah Etemadi, An Introduction to Probablity Theory, abstract
  
  
• Friday November 16, Martin Tangora, My Career as a Rocket Scientist , abstract
  
  
• Friday November 23, NO SEMINAR
  
  
• Friday November 30, Bhama Srinivasan, Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group, abstract
  
  

Previous Semesters

• Fall 2000
• Spring 2001