Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Deborah Heicklen, U. of California, Berkeley

Title: Discretized randomly-perturbed dynamical systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University

Title: Pointwise semigroup methods for stability of viscous shock waves.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor R. Sowers , U. Illinois

Title: Some probabilistic comments on boundary layers in the Allen-Cahn equation
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Gregory Arone, University of Chicago

Title: Tits buildings, partition posets and symmetric product spectra
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University

Title: Relative Completions of Linear Groups over Z[t] and Z[t,t^{-1}]
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Chuck Gartland, Kent State University

Title: Numerical Modeling of Confined Liquid Crystal Systems
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Chengbo Yue, UIC

Title: Smoothness self-renewal in dynamical systems
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington

Title: Hot Bodies
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Christoph Thiele, Universitat Kiel

Title: Time frequency analysis and the bilinear Hilbert transform
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Antonio Garcia , Northwestern University

Title: Homoclinic maps in symplectic manifolds II
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Philippe LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Title: Nonconservative Hyperbolic Systems
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Special Seminar Lunt 103, 4:10pm

Yuhan Zha, University of Chicago

Title: A general arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem
Special Note: Mr Zha is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship.
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Shankar Venkataramani, U. Chicago

Title: Pattern formation with period doubling: Patterns in a vibrated sandbox
Special Note: Coffee and cookies FOLLOWING the seminar
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor Laurette Tuckerman, LIMSI-CNRS, France, and IMA U. of Minnesota

Title: Stability analysis of perturbed plane Couette flow
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Gary Gutman, Northwestern University

Title: Elliptic Spectra and Group Actions
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3.00pm

Huazhang Luo , MIT

Title: Stability of Algebraic Manifolds
Special Note: Mr. Luo is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Joseph Jerome, Northwestern University

Title: Models of Electrodiffusion and their Domains of Influence
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Adam Epstein, SUNY -- Stonybrook

Title: Algebraic Dynamics: Contraction, Finiteness, and Transversality Principles
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester

Title: Morava K-theory and generalized characters for finite groups revisited
Special Note: This is a bonus talk for the Midwest Algebraic Topology Seminar on Saturday.
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Midwest Topology Seminar

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• 11:30am Igor Kriz, University of Michigan
  Title: Toward a geometric construction of elliptic cohomology
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• 4:00pm Vladimir Voevodsky , Northwestern University
  Title: Classifying spaces of finite groups from algebro-geometrical point of view
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Igor Kriz, University of Michigan

Title: The equivariant mod 2 Steenrod algebra and Real cobordism
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University

Title: An introduction to Frobenius manifolds
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dr. Robert Holt , Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories

Title: Algebraic Methods for Image Processing and Computer Vision
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Chris McCord, University of Cincinatti

Title: Reconstructing the global dynamics of an attractor
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech L313 (now called L361), 4:00pm

Dr. M. Chertkov, Princeton U.

Title: Theory of turbulent advection
Special Note: For students (and others interested) there will be an informal introduction to the subject at 3:30 pm in Tech 3371 (Condensed Matter Theory). Note unusal time and location of the seminar.
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Sara Asher, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mikhail Fokin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Title: Hamiltonian Systems with Continuous Spectrum and Chaotic Oscillations of Rotating Ideal Fluid
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Alan Dorsey, University of Florida

Title: From Dendrites to Labyrinths: The Morphology of Magnetic Flux Patterns in Superconductors
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor O. Basaran, Purdue U.

Title: Drop formation in the presence and absence of an electric field
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jonathan Cornick, Ohio State University

Title: Group actions on finite dimensional complexes and cohomological finiteness conditions
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Bernardo Cockburn , University of Minnesota

Title: Continuous Dependence of Nonlinear Convection-Diffusion Equations
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Howie Masur, UIC

Title: Actions of higher rank lattices on surfaces
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

David Richeson, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research

Title: Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together
Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction to the topic at 1:30 in M416
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Persi Diaconis, Cornell University

Title: Card Shuffling and Hyperplane Rearrangements
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Dr. M. Short, U. Illinois

Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University

Title: Noncommutative Geometry in the Perturbative Regime
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago

Title: Self-Affine Sets:Some Dimensional Anomalies
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago

Title: Geometry and Rigidity for the Baumslag-Solitar Groups
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Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University

Title: Brown-Comenetz duality and localization
Special Note: THE TALK IS NOT IN THE USUAL DAY OF THE WEEK AND IN A DIFFERENT ROOM
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Brian Hall, UCSD,

Title: Holomorphic methods in analysis
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor E. Knobloch , U. California, Berkeley

Title: Bursts
Special Note: sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor John Palmieri, University of Notre Dame

Title: The structure of the Bousfield lattice
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University

Title: q-Fractional Integrals and Applications
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Rafael Ruggiero Rodrigues, PUC -- Rio de Janeiro

Title: Topological stability and Gromov hyperbolicity
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor E. Knobloch , U. California, Berkeley

Title: Fully nonlinear rapidly rotating convection
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Eric Zaslow, Harvard University

Title: Categorical Mirror Symmetry: The Elliptic Curve
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Professor John Franks , Northwestern University

Title: The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for polyhedra
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Julio Ottino, Northwestern U.

Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Chaos in Granular Materials
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky

Title: On the splitting of the formal completion of Jacobians of curves from the point of view of analysis
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Jim Bryan, UC, Berkeley

Title: Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces
Special Note: This talk complements a talk at U of C on Wednesday at 4.30.
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor E. N. Barron , Loyola University of Chicago

Title: Option Pricing
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Marian Gidea, Loyola University of Chicago

Title: Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems that Exhibit Hyperbolic Behavior
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• 9:00am Professor , The PDE conference will be held in Leve
  Title: Update information can be found in our webpage http://math.nwu.edu/~gqchen/index.html
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University

Title: God help the state of Maine when mathematics reach for her
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Hans Kaper, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: The Ginzburg-Landau Equations of Superconductivity
Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Norman Lebovitz, The University of Chicago

Title: Nonlinear Methods for Elliptical Instabilities in Fluids
Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz , Northwestern U.

Title: Phase Segregation in Ternary Polymer Blends
Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction at 1:30 in M416
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Henghui Zou, University of Alabama

Title: On positive solutions of degenerate $p$-Laplacian equations on $R^n$.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor R. Lande , U. Oregon

Title: Anthropogenic, ecological and genetic factors in extinction
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Lev Rozansky, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: Burau representation of the braid group and the structure of the colored Jones polynomial
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Marlies Gerber, Indiana University

Title: Horocycle foliations on surfaces of nonpositive curvature
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University

Title: Symplectic quotients and moduli spaces of flat connections
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Scott G. Moar, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Mariko Arisawa, University of Wisconsin

Title: On some homogenization problems for second-order elliptic P.D.Es.
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Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Professor Clarence Wilkerson, Purdue University

Title: Lie groups and friends at the prime 2
Special Note: The talk is not in the usual place and day of the week.
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science M416, 2:00pm

Professor Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center

Title: Ionic Channels in Biological Membranes: Natural Nanotubes Described by the Drift-diffusion Equations
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor John Klein, University of Bielefeld

Title: a compression theorem for embeddings
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Scott Thatcher, Northwestern University

Title: Hecke operators on vector bundles over elliptic curves
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Youngna Choi , Northwestern University

Title: Attractors for Lorenz-like maps
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

David Richeson, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt, 3:00pm

Professor Omar Gil, University of Minnesota

Title: The focusing problem for the p-Laplacian evolution equation
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor John Lott, University of Michigan

Title: The Zero-in-the-Spectrum Question
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Workshops/Conferences ,

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Title:
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Workshops/Conferences , 2:00pm

Professor C. Morawetz ,

Title:
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor S. Troian , Princeton U.

Title: Novel instabilities in thin liquid films: the beauty and the beast
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Sen Hu, Princeton

Title: On self-similarity of critical KAM curves
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• 11:00am Professor T. Sideris, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
  Title: The evolution of compactly supported planar vorticity
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• 22 ProWorkshops/Conferences, Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation
  Title: tba
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ESAM Colloquium U. Chicago Eckhart 202 Refreshments at 3:30 in E209, 4:00pm

Professor T.P. Liu, Stanford U.

Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic parabolic PDE's: Recent progress and new challenges
Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Dr. M. Mineev-Weinstein , Los Alamos National Lab

Title: Selection of the Saffman-Taylor finger width in the absence of surface tension: an exact resu
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PDE Seminar Leverone, Coon Forum, 9:00am

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Title: Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar
Special Note: The PDE conference will be held in Leverone Hall, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston; March 21-24, 1998
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• 8:30-9:15 Registration/Coffee,
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• 9:15-9:30 Open/Announcements,
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• 9:30 Professor L. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin
  Title: Some Aspects of Homogenization
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• 10:20 Professor B. Dacorogna, Ecole Polytech Federale, Switzerland
  Title: Existence of Lipschitz Solution for Some Nonlinear First Order PDEs and Systems
  Details of the talk

• 11:30 Professor T.-P. Liu, Stanford University
  Title: Hyperbolic conservation laws
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm Professor C. Morawetz , Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
  Title: The Reflection of a Weak Shock from a Thin Wedge
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• 2:50pm Professor P. Constantin, University of Chicago
  Title: Turbulent Heat Transport
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• 4:00pm Professor S. Osher , University of California at Los Angeles, USA
  Title: The Level Set Method and Evolving Crystalline Shapes, Island Dynamics, and New Wulff Isoperimetric Inequalities for Convex Curves
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• 5:00pm Professor Y. Zheng , Indiana University, USA
  Title: Convergence of the vanishing viscosity approximation for superpositions
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• 5:00pm Professor L. Capogna , Courant Institute of mathematical Sciences, USA
  Title: The Dirichlet problem for sub-Laplacians
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• 5:25pm Professor S.-H. Wang , Indiana University, USA
  Title: Structure Analysis of the 2D Incompressible Flows
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• 5:25pm Professor P. Korman , University of Cincinnati, USA
  Title: Symmetry breaking for semilinear equations
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• 5:50pm Professor W.-C. Wang, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, USA
  Title: Asymptotic Limit of the Initial Boundary Value Problems for Conservation Laws with Relaxational Extensions
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• 5:50pm Professor L. Mou , Bradley University, USA
  Title: Estimates for biharmonic differential equations and some applications
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• 6:15pm Professor S. Watson , Louisiana State University, USA
  Title: Unique global solvability for initial-boundary value problems in one-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity
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• 6:15pm Professor B. Yan , Michigan State University, USA
  Title: Coercivity of certain integrals in Sobolev spaces.
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• 8:00pm After-Dinner Party, 763 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette
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  Sunday, March 22, 1998

• 9:00am Professor J. Glimm , State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
  Title: Predictibility of Complex Phenomena
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• 9:50am Professor Stefan Mueller, Max Planck Institute for Math. in the Sciences, Leipzig
  Title: Variational problems with multiple scales
  Details of the talk

• 11:00am Professor T. Sideris , University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
  Title: The evolution of compactly supported planar vorticity
  Details of the talk

• 11:00am Professor I. Gamba , University of Texas at Austin
  Title: Multiscale Analysis for Boltzmann-Poisson Systems in Bounded Domains
  Details of the talk

• 11:35am Professor H. Koch , University of Heidelberg, Germany
  Title: Instability of stationary solutions to the 2-d Euler equations of inviscid incompressible fluids
  Details of the talk

• 11:35am Professor P. LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  Title: Compressible Euler Equations with General Pressure Law
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm Professor A. Friedman , University of Minnesota, USA
  Title: Propagation of Crack in Elastic Media
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• 3:00pm Professor S. Tahvildar-Zadeh , Princeton University, USA
  Title: Global existence of the equivariant Yang-Mills heat flow
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• 3:00pm Professor D. Hoff, Indiana University, USA
  Title: The Zero-Mach Limit of Compressible Flows
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• 3:35pm Professor P. Marcati, Universita' degli Studi dell' Aquila, Itali
  Title: Diffusive dynamics of the multi-D Nonlinear Wave Equations
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• 3:35pm Professor M. Grillakis , University of Maryland, USA
  Title: The critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation has classical solutions
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• 4:10pm Professor H. Frid, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Title: Divergence - Measure Fields and Conservation Laws
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• 4:10pm Professor H. Smith , University of Washington, USA
  Title: Small data scattering for a nonlinear dampened wave equation
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• 5:00pm Professor C. Huang , Wright State University, USA
  Title: On Non-Local Differential Equations and Applications to Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors
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• 5:00pm Professor Q. Zhang , University of Missouri, USA
  Title: A new critical behavior for semilinear wave equations
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• 5:25pm Professor M. A. Sychev , Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Title: Characterization of homogeneous scalar variational problems solvable for all boundary data
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• 5:25pm Professor M. Kovalyov , University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  Title: Nonlinear harmonics for Integrable Systems
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• 5:50pm Professor A. M. Blazhierskiy , Khmelnitsky Institute of Regional Mngm@Law, Ukraine
  Title: Summation of functional series by the method of finite hybrid integral transforms Hankel 1-Hankel 2-Fourier
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• 5:50pm Professor R. Cascaval, University of Memphis, USA
  Title: Global Well-posedness for Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
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• 7:30pm Conference Dinner Party, 1629 Chicago Avenue (Church&Chicago), Evanston
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  Monday , March 23, 1998

• 9:00am Professor A. Majda , Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
  Title: A Model for Dispersive Wave Turbulence
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• 9:50 Professor B. Matkowsky , Northwestern University, USA
  Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion
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• 11:00am Professor R. Kupferman, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. and UC Berkeley, USA
  Title: Optimal prediction of underresolved dynamics
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• 11:00am Professor P. Marcellini, Dipartimento di Matematica
  Title: Almost everywhere solutions of some nonlinear second order pdes and systems
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• 11:35am Professor S. Chanillo , Rutgers University, USA
  Title: Symmetry of solutions of Non-linear PDE
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• 11:35am Professor Weinan E, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
  Title: Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation
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• 2:00pm Professor R. Schoen , Stanford University, USA
  Title: The Plateau Problem for Lagrangian Submanifolds
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• 3:00pm Professor D. Andreucci, University of Rome, Italy
  Title: Parabolic problems in domains narrowing at infinity: estimates and blow up
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• 3:00pm Professor F. Otto , University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  Title: The lubrication approximation with prescribed non--zero contact angle
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• 3:35pm Professor P. Bauman, Purdue University, USA
  Title: A Three Dimensional Superconductor in a Strong Magnetic Field
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• 3:35pm Professor R. Jerrard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Title: Vortex Dynamics of Conservative Ginzburg-Landau Systems
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• 4:10pm Professor C.-Y. Wang, University of Chicago, USA
  Title: Energy Minimizing Maps into Piecewise Uniformly Lipschitz Manifolds
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• 4:10pm Professor M. Miksis, Northwestern University, USA
  Title: Stability and Evolution of Thin Solid Films
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• 5:00pm Professor M. O'Leary , University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
  Title: Integrability and Boundedness of Local Solutions to Singular and Degenerate Quasilinear Parabolic Equations
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• 5:00pm Professor B. Guan , University of Tennessee, USA
  Title: Curvature Estimates for Hypersurfaces of Constant Gauss Curvature with Boundary
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• 5:25pm Professor G. Simonette, Vanderbilt University, USA
  Title: On the surface diffusion flow
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• 5:25pm Professor L. Giaocomelli , University of Rome, Italy
  Title: A Degenerate Parabolic Equation from Plasma Physics
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• 5:50pm Professor Y. Koo , University of Minnesota, USA
  Title: A fattening principle for fronts propagating by mean curvature plus a driving force
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• 5:50pm Professor S. Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati, USA
  Title: Parabolic Equations of Monge-Ampere Type in Finance: Derivation and Computations
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• 6:15pm Professor D. Knopf , University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, USA
  Title: Quasi-convergence of the Ricci flow
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• 6:15pm Professor E. Kim, University of Connecticut
  Title: On the Existence of Positive Solutions of Quasilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
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  Tuesday, March 24, 1998

• 9:00am Professor C. Dafermos, Brown University, USA
  Title: Structure of Solutions of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
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• 9:50am Professor B. Perthame, University of Paris 6, France
  Title: Compactness Averaging Lemmas and Applications
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• 11:00am Professor S.-T. Yau , Harvard University, USA
  Title: Surfaces with Prescribed Mean Curvature
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• 1:30pm Professor C. Kenig , The University of Chicago, USA
  Title: Well Posedness for Derivative Nonlinearity Schrodinger Equations, and for the Systems of Ishimori
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• 2:00pm Professor G. Talenti , University of Florence, Italy
  Title: On Complex-Valued Solutions to a 2D Eikonal Equation
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• 3:30pm Professor A. Chang , University of California at Los Angeles, USA
  Title: Regularity Results of Harmonic and Bi-harmonic Maps
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• 4:20pm - 4:30pm Announcements/Close ,
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor S. Morris, U. Toronto, Canada

Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films
Special Note: unusual day and time
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor S. Solla , Northwestern U.

Title: Connections between statistical physics and statistical inference: a Bayesian approach to learning theory
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University

Title: On the homology of SL_2(Z[t])
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University

Title: Pointwise Fourier Inversion, the Wave Equation, and Fourier Bessel Series
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Viviane Baladi, University of Geneva

Title: The spectrum of coupled map lattices: beyond the first gap
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 1:00pm

Professor Steve Morris, U. Toronto, Canada

Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films
Special Note: unusal day and time
Abstract and details available

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 216, 10:30am

Youngna Choi, Northwestern University

Title: Thesis Defense: One Dimensional Lorenz-like Attractors
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Ofer Zeitouni, Electrical Engineering, Technion

Title: Asymptotics for random combinatorial structures
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Liz Bradley, University of Colorado

Title: Chaos and Control
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Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Paul Shick, John Carroll University

Title: Toward the stable homotopy of finite complexes
Special Note: Special session, not in the standard time or day
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Dr. G. McFadden, NIST

Title: A Phase Field Model of Rapid Solidification of a Binary Alloy
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor William Richter,

Title: Poincare surgery and nonfiberwise homotopy theory
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Dan Nakano, Utah State University

Title: Representation type of Schur algebras
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Barry Simon, Caltech

Title: A New Approach to Inverse Spectral Theory
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Robert Jerrard, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigh

Title: Functions of bounded higher variation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Alvin Bayliss, Northwestern U.

Title: New Modes of Burning in Solid Fuel Combustion
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Professor Steven Brahms, New York University

Title: Fair Division
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Barbara Fantechi, University of Trento

Title: Obstructions for deformation functors and applications
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Walter Trebels,

Title: On the Rate of a.e. Convergence of Poisson Type Means
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Predrag Cvitanovic', Northwestern, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Title: Kneading theory for 2-dimensional maps: the pruning front conjecture
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor L. Mahadevan , MIT

Title: Crescents and Cones in Crumpled Sheets
Special Note: unusual day
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 216, 11:00am

David Richeson, Northwestern University

Title: Thesis Defense: TBA
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Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Professor David Hunter, North Central College

Title: Characterizing spectra with $U$-injective cohomology which satisfy the Brown-Gitler property
Special Note: The session is not in the usual time and place
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NU-UC Workshop on Nonlinear/Complex Systems

• 10:00 Professor David Grier, U. Chicago
  Title: Vortex interactions and pinning in Type-II superconductors
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• 10:40 Professor Seth Lichter,
  Title: Size Matters in 1-d Lattices
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• 11:20 Professor Jens Niemeyer,
  Title: Turbulent Thermonuclear flames in Type Ia Supernovae
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• 1:00pm Professor Tom Nagylaki, U. Chicago
  Title: Diffusion approximations for migration models in population genetics
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• 1:40pm Professor Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi,
  Title: How do we learn to move our arms? A neurobiological approach to nonlinear adaptive control
  Details of the talk

• 3:00pm Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern U.
  Title: Genericity conjectures for volume preserving diffeomorphisms
  Details of the talk

• 3:40pm Professor Alexei Tkachenko, U. Chicago
  Title: Statics of granular material: stress propagation paradox
  Details of the talk

• 4:20pm Professor Mike Miksis, Northwestern U.
  Title: Stability and Evolution of Thin Solid Films
  Details of the talk

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Paul Goerss, University of Washington

Title: Hopf rings, Dieudonn\'e modules, and E_\ast \Omega^2 S^3
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Thomas Geisser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: K-theory in characteristic p
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Malgorzata Stawiska , Northwestern University

Title: Chebyshev Polynomials on Equipotential Curves of a Quadratic Julia Set
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar TBA, TBA

Antonio Garcia,

Title: Thesis Defense: TBA
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University

Title: Eigenvalue Inequalities and Quantum Cohomology of the Grassmannian
Abstract and details available

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 216, 11:00am

John M. Alongi, Northwestern University

Title: Thesis Defense: Rotation vectors on compact surfaces
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Yuan Lou, University of Chicago

Title: The proof of a conjecture about the peturbed Gelfand problem.
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Professor Chris Bendel, University of Notre Dame

Title: Representations of restricted Lie algebras and powers of p-characters
Special Note: This is not the usual time or day of the week!
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Alastair Rucklidge, Cambridge U., England

Title: Bifurcations of periodic orbits with spatio-temporal symmetries
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky

Title: Formal groups obtained from \Theta functions
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor William Kath, Northwestern University

Title: "Stability of Pulses with Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers"
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Kathy Alligood, George Mason University

Title: Global Bifurcations of Chaotic Basic Sets
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PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm

Professor Piermarco Cannarsa, Universita di Roma

Title: Singularities of solutions to H-J-B equations with application to optimal control
Special Note: Time changed ! This is not the usual day !
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Lee Mosher, Rutgers -- Newark

Title: Quasi-isometries and solvable groups
Special Note: Note special time, date, and room
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Bob Jensen, Loyola University of Chicago

Title: Cramer's Theorem via PDEs
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Brooke Shipley, University of Chicago

Title: Classification of stable model categories
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University

Title: Extremal Problems in Analysis (Green Functions, Heat Kernels,...) Arising from Probabilistic Considerations
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Hildeberto Carbral, TBA

Title: Periodic solutions of symmetric perturbations of the Kepler problem
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Colloquium Tech Bldg. Lecture Room 6, 4:30pm

Professor David Ruelle, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

Title: New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Special Note: Joint Physics & Astronomy / Mathematics Colloquium
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Robert McCann , Brown University

Title: Shape Recognition, Optimal Transportation, and Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Susan Friedlander, U. Illinois, Chicago

Title: Nonlinear Instabilities in fluid flows
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Florence Newberger, University of Maryland

Title:
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Topology Seminar Lunt 102, 4:10pm

Professor Brayton Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: The EHP spectral sequence for V(0)
Special Note: Special session. Note the different day.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Dr. V. Kovanis, Phillips Labs

Title: Instabilities of Coupled Diode Lasers
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Giles Novak, Northwestern U.

Title: New observations of interstellar magnetic fields
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Andrew Torok, Princeton University

Title: "Density of stably ergodic diffeomorphisms around some non-ergodic ones"
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PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France

Title: A New Fluid Model of Traffic Flow
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PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 3:30pm

Professor Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Beijing

Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic systems with damping mechanism
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PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 4:30pm

Professor M. Kratka, University of Chicago

Title: Multidimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with free boundary and symmetryh
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. J. Eggers, U. Essen

Title: Coalescence of Two Spheres
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Gregory King, University of Warwick, UK

Title: Recent results on the physics of chaotic advection in wavy Taylor vortex flow
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 4:10pm

Professor Ionut Ciocan,

Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, I
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Gang Wang, De Paul University

Title: Some recent progress and open questions on the uniqueness of multiple trigonometric series
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 4:10pm

Professor Ionut Ciocan,

Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, II
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. H.P. Grimm, Northwestern U.

Title: Steps, Kinetic Anisotropy, and Long--Wave Instabilities in Directional Solidification
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University

Title: Numerical Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in Ionic Channels of Cellular Membranes
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Stephen Theriault, UIC

Title: Anick's Spaces and the Double Loops on Odd Primary Moore Spaces
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: Witten's Integral and the Kontsevich Integrals
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor J. Fineberg, Hebrew U., Israel

Title: How things break: Instability in Dynamic Fracture
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Thy Tran, Northwestern University

Title: n-widths and Optimal Recovery
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Fineberg, Hebrew U., Israel

Title: New Structures in a Shaking Fluid
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Peter Kan, Northwestern University

Title:
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Brayton Gray, UIC

Title: Composition methods in the homotopy groups of Moore spectra
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Chris Hoffman, University of Maryland

Title: Rational maps of the Riemann sphere are Bernoulli.
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3rd UC/NU Workshop on Nonlinear and Complex Systems

• 3:30 D. Mogul, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern U.
  Title: Chaos and Control of Epilepsy in the Brain
  Details of the talk

• 4:20 A. Neisthadt, Mathematics, U. Chicago and Space Research Institute, Moscow
  Title: On the Calculation of Stability Loss Delay Time for Dynamical Bifurcation
  Place: Tech M416
  Abstract and details available

• 5:10 V. Putkaradze , James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
  Title: Selective Withdrawal in Oil/Water System
  Place: Tech M416
  Abstract and details available

• 6:00 H. Riecke, Applied Mathematics, Northwestern U.
  Title: Localized Structures in Pattern-forming Systems
  Place: Tech M416
  Abstract and details available

• 7:45 D. Saari, Mathematics, Northwestern U.
  Title: Chaos and stability. But, in "voting"?
  Details of the talk

• 8:40 L. Kadanoff, James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
  Title: Generic Behavior of Reversible Dynamical Systems
  Details of the talk

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 103, 4:10pm

Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Comments on Kontsevich's Mirror Symmetry Conjecture
Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jason Holt , Northwestern University

Title: Flat donuts and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science , 2:00pm

,

Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science , 2:00pm

,

Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Miron Bekker , Northwestern University and Loyola University

Title: Integral Representation for Continuous O(n)-Positive Defined Functions
Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor J. Powers, U. Notre Dame

Title: Ignition theory for shearing reactive solids
Contact Info here

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Po Hu, University of Chicago

Title: A geometric approach to spectra in the category of schemes
Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,

Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman and Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University

Title: Double affine Hecke algebras and 2-dimensional local fields
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: Density of rational points on algebraic varieties
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 10:30am

Dimitry Tamarkin, Penn State University

Title: Operadic proof of Kontsevich's formality theorem
Special Note: CHANGE OF TIME!!
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Scott Moar, Northwestern University

Title: Zeta Functions and Homology
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor N. Spruston, Northwestern U.

Title: Cable properties of cortical neurons: theory and experiment
Special Note: http://www.nwu.edu/neurobiology/Spruston/
Abstract and details available

• 3:00 PM Professor Ioannis KARATZAS , Columbia
  Title: Probabilistic Aspects of Finance I
  Place: Annenberg G15
  Abstract and details available

• 4:30 PM Professor Horng-Tzer YAU, Courant
  Title: Hydrodynamical limit and relaxation rate for lattice gases
  Place: Anneberg G15
  Abstract and details available

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  Saturday, October 24, 1998

• 9:30 AM Professor Ioannis KARATZAS , Columbia
  Title: Probabilistic Aspects of Finance II
  Place: Swift 107
  Abstract and details available

• 11:00 AM Professor Horng-Tzer YAU, Courant
  Title: Potential Theory and the Brownian Sheet
  Details of the talk

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Gilbert Walter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Title: Continuous non-negative wavelets and their use in probability density estimation
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Dr. A. Neishtadt, Moscow Space Research Inst.

Title: On the delay of stability loss for periodic trajectories in systems with slowly varying parameters
Contact Info here

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mark Johnson, Northwestern University

Title: Classifying models for the stable homotopy category
Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,

Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman, Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
Contact Info here

• 4:00pm Professor Roza Galeeva,
  Title: Option pricing and dimension theory
  Details of the talk

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mikhail Feldman, Northwetsern University

Title: Mass transfer in inhomogeneous media
Contact Info here

Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference

• 10:30am Burt Totaro, University of Chicago
  Title: Real manifolds with good complexifications
  Place: Swift
  Abstract and details available

• 12:00 noon Dick Hain, Duke University
  Details of the talk

• 3:00pm Jean-Benoît Bost, Université de Paris-Sud
  Title: Intersection theory on arithmetic surfaces and metrics with L^2_1 regularity
  Place: Swift
  Abstract and details available

• 4:30pm Lucia Caporaso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Details of the talk

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  Sunday, November 1, 1998

• 9:30am Alexander Polishchuk, Harvard University
  Title: Fourier transform in algebraic geometry
  Place: Swift
  Abstract and details available

• 11:00am Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Gröbner deformations of hypergeometric differential equations
  Place: Swift
  Abstract and details available

• 1:15pm Hélène Esnault, Universität Essen
  Title: Riemann-Roch theorem for flat bundles with values in the Chern-Simons theory
  Details of the talk

• 2:30pm Alexander Beilinson, University of Chicago
  Details of the talk

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor A.K. Kapila, R.P.I.

Title: Modeling the transition from deflagration to detonation in granular explosives
Contact Info here

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Don Stanley, Berlin

Title: Fibrewise stabalization and an application to a conjecture of Iwase
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor J.-B. Bost, CNRS and Institute for Advanced Study

Title: Optimal estimates in Arakelov geometry
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern

Title: Stable ergodicity and frame flows
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Margaret Stawiska, Northwestern University

Title: Iterations of Contractions and Analytic Maps
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Peiyong Wang, University of Texas at Austin

Title: A Harnack Approach to The Regularity of The Free Boundaries for 2-phase Problems
Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor H. Jaeger, U. Chicago

Title: Compaction and Compression of Granular Matter
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Eilon Solan , Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management)

Title: Dynamical Systems in Stochastic Games
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor G. Tryggvason, U. Michigan

Title: Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows
Contact Info here

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University

Title: Kac-Moody groups and topology
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor ,

Title:
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Marshall Slemrod , University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: TBA
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Seva Joukhovitsky, Northwestern University

Title: Characters and representations according to Frobenius, Wiles and Taylor
Special Note: Note the unusual time: 5PM
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern

Title: Robust ergodic properties of diffeomorphisms
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University

Title: Introduction to Morse Theory
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PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 4:15pm

Professor Nets Katz, University of Illinois At Chicago

Title: Hexagons, distances, and Besicovitch sets
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Tom Hales, University of Michigan

Title: The Kepler Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Houk, Northwestern U.

Title: Distributed Modular Networks for Controlling Movement and Cognition
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University

Title: Entropy, Compactness, and Asymptotic Problems of Discontinuous Solutions
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor S.W. Joo, Yeungnam U. Korea

Title: Interfacial Instabilities in Ferrofluids
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University

Title: Finite Group Actions on Riemann Surfaces, G-Signature and Cobordism
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Patrick Brosnan, Northwestern

Title: Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Sara Asher, Northwestern

Title: Dynamics of Continuous Baker's Maps
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kamlesh Parvani, Northwestern University

Title: Billiard Balls
Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor R. Freeman, Northwestern U.

Title: Robust Nonlinear Control Systems: Theory and Design
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Alvin Bayliss, Northwestern University

Title: Adaptive Pseudo-Spectral Methods and Computations of the Interaction of Counterpropagating Hot Spots in Solid Fuel Combustion
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Octavian Cornea, University of Lille

Title: An extension of the Morse complex
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Sam Evens, University of Arizona

Title: Poisson geometry and a theorem of Kostant
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Wilhelm Schlag, Princeton University

Title: On uniformly distributed dilates of finite integer sequences
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Dynamical Systems Seminar TBA, 3:00pm

Professor Henk Bruin, Caltech

Title: Interval Maps and Adic Transformations
Special Note: One hour earlier than usual.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor L. Kramer, U. Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Patterns and Defects in the Anisotropic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Arek Goetz, Boston University

Title: Return maps in piecewise affine and piecewise isometric systems
Special Note: One hour earlier than usual.
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Wilhelm Schlag,

Title: On uniformly distributed dilates of finite integer sequences
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Antti Kupiainen, University of Helsinki

Title: KAM Theorem and Quantum Field Theory
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professors L. Kramer, U. Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Secondary instabilities in anisotropic convection
Special Note: Note unusual day!
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Weighted Strichartz estimates and existence for nonlinear wave equations
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yuan Che, Northwestern University

Title: Symbolic Dynamics and Markov Partitions
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. M. van Hecke, CATS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Local Structures and Spatiotemporal Chaos
Special Note: Note unusal day!
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Albrecht Klemm, The Institute for Advanced Study

Title: Mirror Symmetry at Higher Loops
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M128, 12:00 noon

Professor R. Kamm, M.I.T.

Title: The role of mechanics in the biological remodeling of the asthmatic airway
Special Note: Jointly sponsored by B.M.E. unusual location and time!
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