Week of November 17 - 21

Monday, November 17

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

Tuesday, November 18

11:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Sergey Shpectorov, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "A new cover of the 3-local geometry of the Co_1 sporadic 
       simple group"

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Kit Chan, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "An elementary property of Schauder bases"
      Abstract: I present a well-known necessary and sufficient
        condition for a sequence in a Banach space to be a Schauder
        basis.

 3:30 DEPARTMENT MEETING  - Room 459 MSC
      Discussion and possible approval of proposed tenure/promotion
      document.

Wednesday, November 19

11:30 APPLIED STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH GUEST LECTURE SERIES
      Room 116 Business Administration Building
      Ashwini K. Mathur, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
      "Quantification of statistical strength for non-linear models:
       generalizations of correlations and risk measures"

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

Thursday, November 20

 3:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Daria Filippova, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Numerical simulation of a relativistic ion beam"

Friday, November 21

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Ron Solomon, The Ohio State University
      "Finite Simple Groups:  Past, Present, Future"
      Abstract: Gorenstein called the Finite Simple Group
        Classification endeavor "the Thirty Years' War". Measuring
        from the inception of the problem in the work of Holder and
        Burnside to its final resolution, the "Hundred Years' War"
        would be a better name, though the period of most focussed
        activity was the early 1950's through the early 1980's. This
        talk will briefly discuss the formulation of the problem and
        the important work of the 1890's, then attempt to give a
        picture of the logical structure and principal methods of the
        proof and finally say a few words about current activity
        related to a possible alternate proof and interesting related
        structures.