BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                        Week of April 14 - 18

Tuesday, April 15

 2:30 PM  STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Pranab K. Sen, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU. 
          "Qualitative robustness and differentiability properties"

Wednesday, April 16
      
 3:30 PM  STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR  - Room 300 MSC
          Norman Preston, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU.
          "Numerical and Monte Carlo Verification of the First Spacings Law"

 7:30 PM  KME SEMINAR  - Scientific Computing Lab, MSC
          John Gresser, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU.
          "Maple and other software used in mathematics"

    ****  Pizza and pop as always when Dr. Gresser concludes.

 9:00 PM  KME ELECTIONS  - Room 459 MSC

Thursday, April 17

 2:30 PM  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Hu Jie, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Preconditioned Conjugate Gradients"

 3:30 PM  ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Bruno Bosbach, University of Kassel
          "Some remarks on ideal semigroups: 
           (A contains B) implies (A divides B)"

Friday, April 18

 3:30 PM  Coffee
 3:45 PM  COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
          Steve Stigler, University of Chicago
          "From Pascal's Triangle to Modern Probability and Statistics"
          Abstract: It is not widely appreciated that, historically,
            many of the most important modern concepts and results
            have been derived directly from that most elementary of
            arithmetic devices, Pascal's Arithmetic Triangle, which
            itself dates from at least the 11th Century.  The
            historical derivation lends clarity to the understanding
            of these results today.  The topics discussed range from
            combinatorial probability and the normal distribution to
            regression, correlation, and the inversion of Fourier
            transforms.

Saturday, April 19

 1:00 PM  KME BANQUET  - Towers Inn restaurant
          Contact Curt Bennett, cbennet@bgnet.bgsu.edu



*****************  LUKACS SYMPOSIUM APRIL 25-27  *******************

          The Seventh Eugene Lukacs Symposium will be held at the
          Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green
          State University, Bowling Green, Ohio on April 25-27,
          1997. Professor P.K. Sen of the University of North Carolina
          is the Lukacs Distinguished Professor for the 1996-1997
          academic year.  
          See http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~albert/lukacs.html
          for details.

This announcement and a schedule of future colloquia are available on
the Worldwide Web; see http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/math/.
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