ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Jung Choi, Northwestern University

Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet

Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago

Title: The distance functionals for wave patterns in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Inwon Kim, MIT

Title: The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Flow
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Baruch Meerson, The Hebrew University

Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Sunder Sethuraman, Iow State University

Title: Diffusive estimates for a tagged particle in zero-range particle
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

David Gepner, University of Illinois

Title: The Thom Isomorphism in Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Youngna Choi, Montclair State University

Title: Topology of Attractors from Expanding Maps with One Discontinuity
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: Lagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic equations in physical space
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Michael Goldberg, Caltech

Title: Dispersive Estimates for the Three-Dimensional Schrodinger Equation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Victoria Booth, University of Michigan

Title: Mean theta phase of model CA1 pyramidal cell firing changes with location of synaptic stimuli
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor David Nadler, University of Chicago

Title: Loops spaces and Langlands duality
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107 (or another room), 2:30pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev, MIT

Title: A simple algebraic proof of the algebraic index theorem
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Peter Carr, Courant Institute, NYU

Title: Time Changed Levy Processes and Option Pricing
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Jonathan B. Freund, UIUC

Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor William Stein, Harvard University

Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Yimin Xiao, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University

Title: Geometric Properties of the Brownian Sheet
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University

Title: Every compact manifold carries a hyperbolic ergodic map
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University

Title: Fukaya theory and string topology (after Fukaya)
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago

Title: Recent developments on the well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Angela Grant, University of Maryland

Title: Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Colin Guillarmou, Purdue

Title: Scattering theory for hyperbolic manifolds
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mona Mocanasu, UCLA

Title: Borel-Moore Functors and Algebraic Oriented Theories
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Rigidity for actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Zhu Chenchang, (ETH Zurich)

Title: CANCELLED - Symplectic (stacky) groupoids of Poisson manifolds - CANCELLED
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University

Title: Murphy's Law in Algebraic Geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Gary Blasdel, Northwestern University

Title: Optical Imaging of non-vascular Intrinsic Signals in Monkey Visual Cortex
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Francois Blanchette, University of Chicago

Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: Two-sided estimates on the density of Brownian Motion with singular drift
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University

Title: Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

André Henriques,

Title: A Lie algebra for the String group
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: The 2--Wasserstein metric and its applications to PDEs
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Volker Elling, Stanford University

Title: Maximum principles in self-similar potential flow
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science, NYU

Title: Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations in Communicating Fish
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Ziad Musslimani, University of Central Florida

Title: Multiscale Asymptopic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: Chaotic billiards with polynomial mixing rates
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern

Title: Fukaya theory and string topology, II
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Richard Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Mary Silber, Northwestern University

Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago

Title: Stochastic Competition and First-Passage Percolation
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor C. Klingenberg, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany)

Title: Conservation laws with discontinuous flux functions: well-posedness
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Chad Topaz, UCLA

Title: Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and dynamics
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jim Colliander, University of Toronto

Title: On rough blowup solutions of L² critical NLS
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University

Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Eric Carlen, George Institute of Technology

Title: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Julie Bergner, University of Notre Dame

Title: Three models for the homotopy theory of homotopy theories
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 2-4pm

Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan

Title: An overview of spaces of arcs
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan

Title: An overview of spaces of arcs, continued
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Daniel Grunbaum, University of Washington

Title: Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Laser Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame

Title: On Multiscale Approaches to Three-Dimensional Modeling of Morphogenesis
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 2:30pm

Professor Dayue Chen, Peking University

Title: The anchored expansion constant of random graphs
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Jerrold Marsden, Caltech

Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (2)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (3)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (4)
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Lev Rozhansky (UNC at Chapel Hill),

Title: Commutative algebra and the categorification of the SU(N) HOMFLY
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame

Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Terence Tao, UCLA

Title: Geometric Renormalization of Wave Maps
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University

Title: Einstein Geometry and Nonlinear Waves
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Andre Levchenko, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Quantification of NF-kappaB: marriage of genetics, biochemistry and mathematical modeling
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Terence Tao, UCLA

Title: Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor tba,

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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Andrew Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories

Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mark Pollicott, University of Warwick

Title: Sierpinski Gaskets with Overlaps
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Pancoe 1-401 (2000 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus), 5:00PM

Daniel Stouffer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering and NSF /IGERT Dynamics of Complex Systems , Northwestern University

Title: A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Natural Ecosystems
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University

Title: Physical Limits to Biochemical Signaling
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Sunil Chebolu, University of Washington

Title: A K-theoretic approach for refining the chromatic towers
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State

Title: Mixing, disjoint factors and isometric extensions
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Daniel Rudolph, Colorado Sate University

Title: Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Ergodic Theory
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Thomas Mason, UCLA

Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Andrew Hassell, Australian National University

Title: The Riesz transform on manifolds with Euclidean ends
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College

Title: A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University

Title: Involutions and Polyconvexity in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Applications to Electromagnetism and Elastodynamics
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Fred Hickernell, IIT

Title: Fast Spline Methods for High Dimensional Problems
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University

Title: Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 1 of 2 talks)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Feimin Huang, Academia Sinica (Beijing, PRC)

Title: Convergence of Viscosity Solutions for Isothermal Gas Dynamics
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ya-Guang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Title: A Microlocal Approach in Studying Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

John Maddocks, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - EPRL

Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. James Grotberg, University of Michigan

Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Robert Neel, Columbia University

Title: The Behavior of the Heat Kernel at the Cut Locus
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Chris Dwyer, University of Wisconsin

Title: Twisted equivariant K-theory and twisted Bredon cohomology
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00 pm

Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame

Title: Unique ergodicity for nonuniquely ergodic horocycle flows (Joint work with Omri Sarig)
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 2 of 2 talks)
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Title: Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical Systems
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. John Bush, MIT

Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mikhail Gromov, IHES

Title: From protein foldings to Morse theory
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Jacques Fejoz, University Paris 6

Title: TBA
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Title: Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 3 of 3 talks)
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ESAM Colloquium Tech Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM

Prof. John Hudson, University of Virginia

Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Dante R. Chialvo, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Title: Critical Brain Networks
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Stephen Watson, Northwestern University

Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame

Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Omri Sarig, Penn State University

Title: Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier)
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Howard Weiss, Pennsylvania State University

Title: How smooth is your wavelet? A dynamical systems approach
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Robert Buchler, University of Florida

Title: Chaos in the Music of the Stars
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois- Champaign/Urbana

Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Rochelle Pereira, University of Chicago

Title: Higher Order Cohomology Operations and Minimal Atomicity
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Matthew Nicol, University of Houston

Title: An almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 2:00pm

Professor Anupam Garg, Northwestern University (Physics Department)

Title: Path Integral Approach to Spin Semiclassics
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Tim Elston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: Regulation of MAP kinase activity revealed by mathematical modeling and experimental analysis
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University

Title: Bifurcations and Geometry
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Soren Galatius, Stanford University

Title: Classifying spaces of cobordism categories
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Nikos Frantzikinakis, Penn State University

Title: Counting polynomial configurations in dense subsets of the integers.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University

Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:00pm

Alissa Crans, UC Riverside

Title: From Loop Groups to 2-Groups
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Paul Bressler, University of Arizona

Title: Riemann-Roch for circle bundles
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Dana Randall, Computer Science Department, Georgia Tech

Title: Algorithms for Finding a Random Needle in a Combinatorial Haystack
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: Extensions of hyperbolic systems of balance laws
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Frederic Rochon, MIT

Title: Bott Periodicity for fibred cusp operators
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Werner Mueller, University of Bonn

Title: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces and scattering theory
Special Note: First talk of Scattering Theory and Singular Spaces conference
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota

Title: Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and "obvious" theorems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10

Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Title: Zero-Viscosity Limit of the Linearized Navier-Stokes Equations with Highly Oscillatory Forces in the Half-Plane
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Werner Pesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Rayleigh-Benard convection with modulated acceleration
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Marc Barthelemy, CEA, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France

Title: Heterogeneity and predictability of global epidemics
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Andres Navas-Flores, IHES and Universidad de Chile

Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Tom Graber, California Institute of Technology

Title: Towards a quantum McKay correspondence
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Nail Akhmediev, The Australian National University

Title: Dissipative solitons in life and science
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Craig Westerland, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Title: Equivariant operads and string topology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago

Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Title: Multi-Scale Models of Sequence-Dependent DNA Mechanics
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Alex Nepomnyashchy, Technion

Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Evaporating Binary Mixtures
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor John Franks, Northwestern University

Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm

Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia

Title: Counting blocks
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University

Title: Characterizing projective spaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Iain Couzin, Oxford University

Title: Collective animal behavior
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech L211, 4:00PM

Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology

Title: How Flies Fly
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Katja Lindenberg, UCSD

Title: Reactions of Subdiffusive Particles and Subdiffusive Traps
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Alex Stokolos, De Paul University

Title: On Gurov-Reshetnyak property
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Jacek Graczyk, Universite de Paris-Sud

Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm

Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University

Title: Cyclic homology, $cdh$-cohomology and negative $K$-theory
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Andrew Norris, Rutgers

Title: Stability of Propagating Cracks and Front Waves using Matched Asymptotic Expansions
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Steffen Sagave, Mathematisches Institut Bonn

Title: Universal Toda brackets of ring spectra
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Christian Bonatti, Université de Bourgogne

Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm

Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University

Title: Homology of linear groups via cycles in BG x X
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics

Title: Enumerative Geometry on Enriques Surfaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Thierry Emonet, U Chicago

Title: Towards a digital bacterium
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Steven Roper, Northwestern University

Title: Fluid Driven Fracture in Geophysics
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm

Professor Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Homotopy decompositions at p =2 of sporadic simple groups
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11am-12:30pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University

Title: Formality of the Lie algebra of polyvector fields and Frobenius manifold
Special Note: Topics in Mirror Symmetry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky

Title: Elliptic genus test for the mirror of some complete intersection
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell

Title: Energetics of Walking
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. David Dunand, Northwestern University

Title: Metallic Foams
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University

Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes".
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3pm

Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Is chaotic behavior typical among dynamical systems?
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11:30am-12:30pm

Melissa Liu, Northwestern University

Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Nan-Kuo Ho, The Fields Institute (Canada) and National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)

Title: On the volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a non-orientable 2-manifold
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Henri Berestycki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Title: Reaction-diffusion equations and propagation phenomena in heterogeneous environment
Special Note: co-sponsored with FIG
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

George Lauder, Harvard University

Title: How fishes swim: experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

• 3-4pm Professor Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
  Title: A Mathematician Meets Learning Theory: a Formative Experience.
  Place: Lunt 107
  Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Sahraoui Chaieb, U of Illinois

Title: Large Deformations in Biomembranes: From the Golgi to Drug Delivery
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago

Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Swift 107, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Entov , Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology

Title: "Almost homomorphisms", "almost linear" functionals and "almost measures" in symplectic topology
Special Note: Special time and location
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm

Professor Jonathon Alperin, University of Chicago

Title: Unipotent conjugacy in general linear groups
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm

Melissa Liu, Northwestern University

Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry II
Contact Info here

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10 pm

Yoichiro Mori , Courant Institute, New York University

Title: A Three Dimensional Model of Cellular Electrical Activity: mathematical analysis and numerical simulation
Special Note: Special PDE seminar
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Difference operators, Hilbert schemes, and the Ruijsenaars-Schneider system
Contact Info here

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

Prof. Tasso Kaper, Boston University

Title: Dynamics of patterns in activator-inhibitor systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Kenneth Schweizer, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana

Title: Microscopic Theories of Hybrid Soft Materials: Structure, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago

Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Steve Hurder, UIC

Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Steven Doty, Loyola University

Title: Is there a twisted tensor product theorem for indecomposable modules?
Abstract and details available

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University

Title: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and Gromov-Witten theory
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Lev Borisov , University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Analytic continuation of solutions of GKZ system and homological mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland

Title: Stability and convergence of efficient Navier-Stokes solvers via a commutator estimate
Abstract and details available

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

Prof. M. Grae Worster, Cambridge, UK

Title: The interior of mushy layers revealed
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern University

Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Mike Hill, MIT

Title: A New Hopf Algebra for Computing tmf Homology and the tmf Homology of B\Sigma_3
Special Note: Note the time change: this talk is at 3 pm, not 4:10 pm
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Title: Transition, turbulence and drag reduction in flowing polymer solutions: the role of self-sustained coherent structures
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh

Title: On Some Two-Dimensional Problems of Conservation Laws
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Dr. Eva Kanso, University of Southern California

Title: An Articulated Fish Swimming with Point Vortices
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Tyler Lawson, MIT

Title: Ring spectra associated to Shimura varieties and the K(n)-local sphere
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis

Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available

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