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# Mathematics

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Friday, February 24, 2006

11:00 am in 2169 Beckman Institute,Friday, February 24, 2006

#### TBA

###### Robert Fossum and Yi Ma (UIUC ECE)

2:00 pm in 341 Altgeld Hall,Friday, February 24, 2006

#### Rational Surfaces in Smooth Hypersurfaces

###### Roya Beheshti (Queens University, Ontario)

Abstract: It is conjectured that a general hypersurface of degree n in P^n is not unirational for n > 3. I'll talk about some questions, arising from this conjecture, on rational surfaces contained in a smooth hypersurface of degree n in P^n. I'll also talk about the birational geometry of the space of rational curves of low degree contained in such a hypersurface. This is joint work with Jason Starr.

4:00 pm in 141 Altgeld Hall,Friday, February 24, 2006

#### Groups, measures, and the NIP - continuation

###### Clifton Ealy (UIUC Math)

Abstract: Clifton will continue his presentation of Section 3.