FALL 1998

• October 1:
  Speaker: Louis J. Billera, Cornell University.
  Title: Enumerating flags in polytopes
  Abstract
• October 8:
  Meeting with the Dean
• October 15:
  Departmental Meeting
• October 22:
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
• October 27: (This is a Tuesday)
  Speaker: Francisco Samaniego, University of California at Davis
  Title: The "Signature" of a coherent system and its application on comparing system reliability.
  Abstract
• November 5:
  Speaker: Min-Oo, McMaster University.
  Title: Mass, scalar curvature and K-area
• November 12:
  Speaker: Paul Baum, Penn State University.
  Title: Trees, Buildings, Symmetric Spaces, and K-theory for group C* algebras.
• November 19:
  Speaker: Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University.
  Title: Automorphism of free groups and symmetries of outer space
• December 3:
  Speaker: Thomas Schick, Penn State University.
  Title: Which manifolds admit metrics with positive scalar curvature?
  Subtitle: A counterexample to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.
• December 10:
  Speaker: Seymour Lipschutz, Temple University.
  Title: On Pregroups and Semipregroups.