UO Department of Mathematics
Basic Notions Seminar
Fall 2002
The Basic Notions Seminar of the Mathematics Department
is devoted to Mathematics as a whole with emphasis on topics
connecting different subfields. The talks are intended to be at the
level accessible to graduate students.
The goal is to provide an opportunity for learning about things that are
important (basic) for contemporary mathematics, but yet not as widely
known as they probably should.
Seminar meets on Fridays, 4:00-5:00 each week during the academic year
in room 208 Deady.
For questions or suggestions contact
Arkady Vaintrob
Fall 2002 schedule
October 4:
Theodore Palmer (University of Oregon)
Totally disconnected groups
October 11:
Arkady Berenstein (University of Oregon)
Macdonald's Identities
October 18:
Dev Sinha (University of Oregon)
Geometry and Topology of Configuration Spaces
October 25:
Jon Brundan (University of Oregon)
The Irreducible Representations of sl(2,C)
November 1:
Yuri Burman (University of Oregon and Independent Moscow University)
Classification of Immersions
November 8:
Sergey Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon)
Topological Robotics
November 15:
Jim Isenberg (University of Oregon)
What Yang-Mills Theory is all About
November 21 (Thursday !) at 3:30 :
Joe Buhler (Reed College)
Primality is ``Easy"
in 220 Deschutes Hall (CIS colloquium room)
[Notice: Non-standard date, time and place!]
(joint meeting with Computer Science colloquium, refreshments will
follow)
December 6:
Spring
2002 seminars
Unless otherwise stated, the seminar is at 4 p.m. on Fridays at 208
Deady. If you have any questions, please contact Arkady
Vaintrob