BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                        Week of September 22-26

Monday, September 22

 3:30 INVITED STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
 **** Moved from Wednesdays to Mondays ****
      Lev Klebanov, BGSU and St. Petersburg State University
                             for Architecture and Civil Engineering
      Model Construction in Statistical Estimation Theory

Tuesday, September 23

11:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Steve McCleary, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Antique totally ordered sets"     

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Alex Izzo, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Gelfand theory"

Wednesday, September 24

 6:00 KME MOVIE  - Room 459 MSC
      "Math MagicLand" with Donald Duck
      Pizza and beverages will be provided

Thursday, September 25

 3:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC

Friday, September 26

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Karen Parshall,  University of Virginia
      "Glancing Back: The Mathematics of James Joseph Sylvester"
      Abstract: This talk will analyze the mathematical output and
        thought processes of the nineteenth-century English
        mathematician, James Joseph Sylvester.  Sylvester began his
        research career in the late 1830s with work on what was then
        called the theory of elimination.  This led him immediately to
        results in the developing theory of determinants and shaped
        his algebraic approach to mathematical questions.  By the late
        1840s and early 1850s, it had also led him---along with Arthur
        Cayley---to establish and flesh out a full-blown theory of
        invariants.  Sylvester spent the rest of his life engaged in
        the further advancement of that new area, although his work
        also took him quite naturally into matrix theory as well as
        into combinatorics.




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