Week of October 5 - 9

Monday, October 5

 3:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Kit Chan, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Hypercyclic entire functions"

Tuesday, October 6

10:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Warren McGovern, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Lattice-ordered groups: hyper-archimedean l-groups"

 3:30 GROUPS AND GEOMETRIES SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Curt Bennett and Sergey Shpectorov, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "The Witt design and the sporadic Mathieu groups"

Wednesday, October 7
 
 2:30 STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      John Steele, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Limiting distributions for hierarchical structures"
      Abstract: The Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables
        and the asymptotic normality of many other statistics are
        often used to provide useful approximations of probabilities.
        In the field of Reliability the well known limiting
        distributions for minimum and maximum of observations are
        often used.  These are usually discussed in terms of limiting
        distributions arising from "series" structures in the case of
        minimum observations and "parallel" structures in terms of
        maximum observations.  In this talk I shall generalize some of
        the notions used in determining these limiting distributions
        to other structures beyond the series and parallel cases.

Thursday, October 8

 3:00 FACULTY MEETING  - Room 459 MSC
      Discussion of the actuarial program

Friday, October 9 - Saturday, October 10

 MAA meeting in Columbus