Spring '00 Quarter Events

• Monday, April 10th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Mark Green will speak on WHICH SURFACES HAVE INTERESTING CURVES? --AND WHY THIS INVOLVES COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
• Monday, April 24th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Prof. Heinz Kreiss will speak on The numeric solution of nonlinear time dependent partial differential equations
• Wednesday, May 10th, 3-3:50 in MS6221
  Prof. Yingnian Wu will speak on Seeing is Modeling
• Wednesday, May 17th, 3-3:50 in MS6221
  Prof. Don Ylvisaker will speak on Inside the Lottery
• Monday, June 5th, 3-3:50 in MS6627
  Ali Kisisel will speak on Toda, KdV, and all that
• ARML (American Regions Mathematics League)
  GSO will host the 5th Annual UCLA American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) meet on may 20th, 2000. High school teams from throughout Los Angeles have been invited to attend this practice meet in preparation for the national meet, three weeks later at UNLV.
• Workshops
  • "How to pick an advisor"
    Thursday 6/7, 3pm: This will be a panel discussion of advanced graduate students discussing their experiences with choosing an advisor, as well as general wisdom about such things. There will also be a panel of faculty to share their expectations of their students.
  • "How to Apply for a Job"
    May 31st, 3pm, Grad. Lounge: How to go about searching for and landing your dream job (academic or industry). See here for useful links from the jobs workshop.
• Graduation Dinner
  GSO will hold a dinner to recognize this year's Ph.D. recipients in early june (after the filing deadline...:)