University of Illinois at Chicago

MSCS Graduate Student Seminar

Fall 2000

• August 25, Jeremy Teitelbaum, The p-adic numbers , abstract
  
  
• September 1, Jeremy Teitelbaum, The p-adic numbers II , abstract
  
  
• September 8, Mark Ronan, Magic with a wineglass explained using topology and group theory, abstract
  
  
• September 15, Howard Masur, An introduction to dynamical systems and ergodic theory , abstract
  
  
• September 22, Howard Masur, Arithmetic failure of ergodicity in billiards , abstract
  
  
• September 29, NO SEMINAR
  
  
• October 6, David Radford, Beads and knots , abstract
  
  
• October 13, Charles Tier, Some Ins and Outs of Financial Derivatives , abstract
  
  
• October 20, Brayton Gray, Can we always solve f(x)=x?, abstract
  
  
• October 27, Peter Shalen, Topology in three dimensions I, abstract
  
  
• November 3, Peter Shalen, Topology in three dimensions II, abstract
  
  
• November 10, Susan Friedlander, Instabilities in fluid motion , abstract
  
  
• November 17, Alex Furman, Introduction to an exciting family of group -lattices in simple Lie groups. abstract
  
  
• December 1, Stephen Smith, Research in Finite Group Theory --- after the Classification of Simple Groups, abstract