Department to Host Math Conferences

The Purdue Mathematics Department will host A Conference on Algebra and Algebraic Geometry with Applications in celebration of the seventieth birthday of Shreeram S. Abhyankar July 20-26, 2000. Organized by C. Bajaj, C. Cowen, C. Christensen, P. Eakin, A. Sathaye, and G. Sundaram, the conference is supported by Bell Labs, the Office of Naval Research, the Purdue School of Science, and the Department of Mathematics. Conference activities will include a daily schedule of talks by international experts. On Saturday evening, a birthday dinner party will be held for Professor Abhyankar at the Purdue Memorial Union.

See http://www.nku.edu/~math/AlgGeoConf/ for additional information.

The Second International Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling of Biointeraction (DESTOBIO 2000) will meet on the Purdue campus August 23-27. First held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1997, DESTOBIO 2000 topics will include 1) deterministic and stochastic approaches to mathematical modeling in population dynamics, epidemiology, immunology, genetics, neurophysiology, molecular biology, cell biology, pattern formation, bioecology; 2) computational biomathematics; and 3) nonlinear dynamics effects; deterministic and stochastic chaos. Organized by Professor Fabio Milner, the conference is sponsored by the Purdue Mathematics Department and School of Science and by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Additional information is available at http://www.math.purdue.edu/~milner/DESTOBIO_2000.html.

Conference activities will continue into the fall as the department hosts The Midwest Several Complex Variables Meeting October 7-9, 2000. A number of world leaders in the field of SCV are expected to attend, including scheduled speakers S. Baouendi (UC San Diego), J. Duval (Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), J. Fornaess (Michigan), B. Hall (Notre Dame), T. Ohsawa (Nagoya), and Y.T. Siu (Harvard). Organized by Purdue professors Laszlo Lempert and Sai Kee Yeung, conference funding will be provided by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and Purdue University.

For information, send e-mail to lempert@math.purdue.edu.