Weekly Colloquia, Dept. of Math., E.I.U.

Department of Mathematics

Schedule of Events - updated 9/24/98

Friday 9/25, 1:00 - Differential Geometry

Speaker: James Glazebrook
Topic: Families of Dirac Operators III
OM 316

Friday 9/25, 4:00 - Colloquium

Speaker: Ira Rosenholtz
Topic:Tangent Sequences, World Series Records, Pi,
and the Meaning of Life
OM 215

Monday 9/28, 4:00 - Departmental Meeting

Speaker: Claire Krukenberg
Topic: To Be Announced
OM 214

Wednesday 9/30, 3:00 - Algebra Seminar

Speaker: Charles Delman
Topic:Algorithms for the Braid Group V
OM 316

Friday 10/2, 1:00 - Differential Geometry

Speaker: Patrick Coulton
Topic:Complex Structures in Low Dimensions
OM 316

Friday 10/2, 4:00 - Colloquium

Speaker: Charles Delman
Topic:How many billiard trajectories exist
on a table with pockets
OM 215
Abstract: In contrast to billiards in an ordinary polygon, the possibilities for trajectories on a table with pockets removed from the corners are limited. Gregory Galperin and I recently showed that the number of trajectories which do not end up in some pocket is bounded above by a number proportional to the ratio of the areas of the table and pocket, regardless of the shape of the table!

Department of Mathematics Schedule of Events - updated 9/24/98