BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                         Week of February 3-7

Tuesday, February 4

 2:30 PM  STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          P. K. Sen, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU. 
          "Robust statistical procedures"

 3:30 PM  ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Gordon Wade, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "An L-p version of the Arzela Ascoli Theorem"

Wednesday, February 5
      
 3:30 PM  STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR  - Room 447
          Hanfeng Chen, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Estimating Function Method in the Presence of Nuisance
           Parameter"

 4:30 PM  PHYSICS DEPARTMENT SEMINAR  - Room 106 Overman
          Craig Zirbel, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Mass transport by random fluid flows"

Thursday, February 6

 2:30 PM  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Panayot Vassilevski, BGSU and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
          "Computational aspects of multilevel hierarchical methods"
          Second talk.

 3:30 PM  ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Michael Abramson, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "The Feit-Higman Theorem"

Friday, February 7

 3:30 PM  Coffee
 3:45 PM  COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
          Patrick Billingsley, University of Chicago
          "Large Cyclic Permutations and Large Prime Divisors"
          Abstract: Suppose a permutation on the integers 1,...,n is
            drawn at random.  Write it as a product of cyclic
            permutations, let C_1 be the length of the cycle containing
            1, let C_2 be the length of the cycle containing the
            smallest number not contained in the first cycle, and so
            on.  We can derive the joint limiting distribution (as n
            goes to infinity) of (C_1/n,C_2/n,...).  Let N_n be an
            integer between 1 and n, drawn at random; let
            Q_1,Q_2,... be the prime divisors of N_n, arranged in
            decreasing order.  Then (Q_1/log n, Q_2/log n,...) has the
            same limiting distribution as the C_i/n, and this
            distribution has connections with mathematical population
            biology.

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