Week of December 1 - 5

Tuesday, December 2

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
      Tom Hinrichs, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "The evolution of the proofs of the Fundamental Theorem of
       Algebra from d'Alembert to Liouville"

Wednesday, December 3

 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

 6:00 KME EVENT  - Room 330 MSC
      David Meel, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Mathematical Assessment:  Kids say the most interesting things"
    
      Pizza and pop will be provided after the talk.

Thursday, December 4

 3:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      To be announced.

Friday, December 5

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      John Anderson, College of the Holy Cross
      "Some ideas in geometric function theory of several complex variables"
      Abstract: In recent years celebrated theorems of classical
        geometric function theory, such as the growth and distortion
        theorems and the Koebe 1/4-theorem, have been generalized to
        certain classes of biholomorphic mappings of the unit ball in
        C^n.  We will survey some of these results, explain a few of
        the ideas in their proofs, and discuss some open questions
        concerning the boundary behavior of these mappings.