Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Previous Entries
Year 2006


Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Damanik, Caltech
Title: Structures of intermediate complexity and quantum dynamics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 5, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Roman Shvydkoy, UIC
Title: Shortwave instabilities of ideal fluid and the cocycle theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 6, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and Frobenius manifolds in higher genus
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Chao Tang, UCSF
Title: On Function and Form
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm
Professor Frank Calegari, Harvard University
Title: Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
Title: The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin - Stout
Title: Cohomology of Lie algebras and quantum groups
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Monica Visan, UCLA
Title: The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Maria G. Reznikof, Princeton University
Title: Slow Motion of Gradient Flows
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Joseph Johns, Univesity of Chicago
Title: The directed Fukaya category and Morse theory
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mikhail Pereplitsa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Title: The existence of weak, small energy solutions for the equations of motion of 3D compressible, viscous fluid flows with the no-slip boundary conditions
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 103, 5:30pm
Justin Thomas,
Title: Quadratic Forms and Closed Geodesics in the Modular Space
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 13, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Hoff, Indiana University
Title: Uniqueness of Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations of\nMultidimensional, Compressible Flow
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 16, 2006

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University
Title: Eigenvalue Distributions for Gaussian Unitary Ensembles
Special Note: This is the first meeting of the Random Matrix Theory seminar
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3pm
Vigleik Angeltveit, MIT
Title: The cyclic (co)bar construction on A-infinity objects and THH
Special Note: Note the time.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Martin Bazant, MIT
Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jeff Viaclovsky, M.I.T.
Title: Moduli Spaces in Riemannian Geometry
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Curt McMullen, Harvard University
Title: Topology of numbers
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Chris Novak,
Title: Thurston's Classification of Surface Automorphisms
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00pm
Teruji Thomas, University of Chicago
Title: The Maslov class as a quadratic space
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
Title: Combinatorial differential manifolds: Oriented matroids in topology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 19, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jane McDougall, Colorado College
Title: Harmonic Maps onto Polygonal Domains and Minimal Surfaces
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Peter Storm, Stanford University
Title: Topological lower volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Special Note: Special Colloquium
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Thierry Emonet, University of Chicago
Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI
Title: Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 23, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jason Starr, MIT
Title: Solutions of families of polynomial equations
Abstract and details available
Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Jeff Allotta,
Title: Arithmetic Geometry, Rational Points, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
Title: Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI
Title: Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 27, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Greg Lawler, Cornell University
Title: Conformal Invariance and Two-dimensional Statistical Physics
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M345, 3:00PM
Prof. Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Special Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Florian Herzig, Harvard University
Title: The weight in Serre's Conjecture for GL_3
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00pm
Oren Ben Bassat,
Title: Noncommutative tori and the Fourier-Mukai transform
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Elizabeth Meckes, Stanford University
Title: Random matrices and infinitesimal rotations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Alexander Bufetov, University of Chicago
Title: Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich induction map on the space of interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Julie Rowlett, Stanford University
Title: Spectral Geometry and Asymptotically Conic Convergence
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Professor David Nadler,
Title: Morse Theory and Graphs
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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Barannikov's construction of Frobenius manifolds versus BV-infinity algebras
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Vera Hur, Brown University
Title: Rotational Stokes waves: construction via degree/bifurcation theory
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
Title: Cluster Algebras, Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 3, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Professor Young-Heon Kim, The Fields Institute, University of Toronto
Title: The determinant of the Laplacian and the quasifuchsian space
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Renato Feres, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: Random billiards and diffusion
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 6, 2006

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices II
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Donald Yau, Ohio State University
Title: Gerstenhaber structure and Deligne's conjecture for Loday algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
Title: Gowers's norms in combinatorial number theory and in ergodic theory
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Mike Johnson,
Title: Applications of Ergodic Theory in the field of Combinatorics
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Thursday, February 9, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
Title: Relative formality theorem and quantization of coisotropic submanifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 10, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
Peter S. Dodds, Columbia University
Title: Models of social and biological contagion
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. P. S. Dodds, Columbia University
Title: Models of Social and Biological Contagion
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00pm
Sergiy Koshkin, Kansas State University
Title: Conormal bundles to knots and Large N duality
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 13, 2006

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
Title: Coexistence for Richardson type competing spatial growth models
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm
Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
Title: Multiple recurrence and convergence along the primes
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 101, 12:30-2pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT II
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Alexandra Pettet, University of Chicago
Title: Finiteness properties of subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 17, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Roger Guimera, Northwestern University
Title: Modules and roles: towards a cartography of complex networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jacob Rubinstein, Indiana University
Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Teena Gerhardt, MIT
Title: Towards an RO(S^1)-graded Witt complex
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Alexander Fish, Hebrew University
Title: Solvability of Linear Equations within Weak-Mixing Sets
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute
Title: TBA
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Panel and Audience Discussion,
Title: Graduate Course Meeting
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:45pm
Professor Melissa Liu,
Title: Marino-Vafa formula of one-partition Hodge integrals
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute
Title: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks and a Model of Birdsong Learning
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
Title: Mirror symmetry for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov)
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Oleg Igoshin, University of California- Davis
Title: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial development: Insights from Mathematical Modeling
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Paul Seidel, University of Chicago
Title: Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo
Abstract and details available
Saturday, February 25, 2006

Chicago Area PDE Workshop

Monday, February 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan
Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Tom Fiore, University of Chicago
Title: Double Categories and Double Structures
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
Title: Centralizers of C^1 generic diffeomorphisms
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Joshua Weitz, Princeton University
Title: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral communities: from microstates to macrodynamics
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at CHampaign-Urbana
Title: K-theory of singularities
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Marco Aldi,
Title: What is a ... String?
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm
Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago
Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homotopy Frobenius algebras
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 2, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
Title: Test of the homological mirror conjecture for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov)
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Mohammed Abouzaid, University of Chicago
Title: On Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Wolfgang Staubach, University of Chicago
Title: Estimates for pseudodifferential operators with low regularity and applications
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Monday, March 6, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Keith Promislaw, Michigan State University
Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University
Title: Semicircle Law and Logarithmic Potential
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona
Title: Factoring the Becker-Gottlieb Transfer through the Trace map
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm
Professor Chris Leininger, University of Illinois
Title: Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and homology
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Stefano Boccaletti, CNR- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi
Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Vivek Dhand,
Title: Outer Automorphisms of Categories
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU
Title: Singularities of smooth maps and isoperimetric inequalities
Special Note: Professor Gromov is a Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Mihnea Popa, University of Chicago
Title: GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 10, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Michael F. Schatz, Center for Nonlinear Science and School of Physics, Georgia Tech
Title: Homological Characterization of Spiral Defect Chaos
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Ben Green, Unversity of Bristol & MIT
Title: Generalising the Hardy-Littlewood method for primes
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jens O.M. Karlsson, Georgia Tech
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Amos Nevo, IAS and Technion University
Title: Ergodic theory and lattice points
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Juan Souto, University of Chicago
Title: Geometry of Heegaard splittings and rank of the fundamental group
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
Title: Numerical methods for equations of fluid mechanics
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4.15pm
Professor Alexey Bondal, Steklov Institute, Moscow
Title: Derived categories of toric varieties
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Friday, March 31, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University
Title: Statistical Analysis for Network Science
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 3, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann, NJIT
Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jozsef Fritz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Compensated Compactness and Stochastic Models of Hydrodynamics
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
Title: A criterion for unique ergodicity of a translation flow
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 6, 2006

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3pm
Professor Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario
Title: Cocycle categories
Special Note: Unusual day and time
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Davesh Maulik, Princeton University
Title: Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of A_n resolutions
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 3 (evening) and depart on April 7 (morning).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 7, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Professor Daniel Segre', Boston University
Title: Learning about the evolution of biochemical networks from topology, fluxes and perturbations
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm
Eric Friedlander, Bryna Kra, Amie Wilkinson and Eric Zaslow
Title: Panel: How to apply for a grant
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Madhav Nori, University of Chicago
Title: Hyperplane arrangements, mixed Tate motives, and a theorem of Suslin
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Marco Gualtieri , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: D-branes in generalized complex manifolds
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 13 (morning) and depart on April 14 (night).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 14, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Towards Estimating the Risk of Cascading Failure Blackouts
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Fedor Malikov, University of South California
Title: From Lagrangians to sheaves of vertex algebras
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Griffeath, Univ of Wisconsin
Title: MODELING SLOW CRYSTAL GROWTH
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 17, 2006

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
Title: Heat transport bounds for Rayleigh-Benard convection in an infinite
Special Note: This is a joint analysis/probability and PDE seminar
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Daomin Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: Nonsymmetric Positive Solutions for Symmetric Dirichlet Elliptic Problems
Special Note: This is a joint PDE and Analysis/Probability Seminar
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor David Fisher, Indiana University
Title: Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries and rigidity for lattices in solvable Lie groups
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
Title: A categorical definition of the cyclic differential
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Sasha Getmanenko,
Title: Divergent series and quantum tunneling
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Renzo Cavalieri, University of Michigan
Title: Hurwitz numbers and Admissible Covers
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 19 (night) and depart on April 21 (evening).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 21, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: A generalized Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg isomorphism
Special Note: The speaker will arrive between 11-11:30am on April 21 and depart on the same day.
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 24, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yefim Brun, DuPont
Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Corbett Redden, Notre Dame University
Title: The adiabatic limit of a string structure
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Vladimir Guletski,
Title: Zeta functions in motivic stable categories
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Title: Natural differential operators and graph complexes
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 28, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Greg Huber, University of Connecticut
Title: Dominos, first-passage problems, and dynamic binding in flagellar motor statistics
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 1, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Robert (Bob) Bruner, Wayne State University
Title: The homological approach to computing algebraic K-theory
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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor David Nadler, Northwestern University
Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category
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Friday, May 5, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Jane Wang, Cornell
Title: Efficiency of flapping flight
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 8, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Eric Lauga, MIT
Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kathleen (Kate) Ponto, University of Chicago
Title: Fixed Point Theory and Bicategories
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University
Title: Cantor minimal models for ergodic transformations and topological orbit equivalence.
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Andrea Carter,
Title: Brauer-Manin Obstructions and Del-Pezzo Surfaces
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame
Title: Fully Nonlinear Equations From Conformal Geometry
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Christopher Woodward, Rutgers University
Title: Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory and TQFT
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on May 10 (night) and depart on May 12 (morning).
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Hongjie Dong , University of Chicago
Title: Regularity of solutions to the heat equations near singular boundary points
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 12, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Boolean models for genetic regularity networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 15, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech
Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Batanin, Macquarie University
Title: Recognition of n-fold loop spaces and symmetrisation of n-operads
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 107, 5:00PM
Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University
Title: Packing boxes into boxes, squaring rectangles, and other challenging elementary problems
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Marcelo Viana, IMPA
Title: Dynamics in the moduli space of abelian differentials
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:30pm
Jeremiah Heller,
Title:
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 5:00 pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Title: The Mathematics of Doodling
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Lev Rozansky, University of North Carolina
Title: Soergel bimodules and the categorification of the 2-variable HOMFLY-PT polynomial
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Joachim Krieger, Harvard
Title: Recent developments on global existence and breakdown of Wave Maps in the critical dimension
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Friday, May 19, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Bertrand Duplantier, Theoretical Physics, CEA- Saclay
Title: Brownian Motion
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern Unversity
Title: Formality of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra of Hochschild cochains of a regular algebra
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 22, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Daniel Davis, Purdue University
Title: The Homotopy Orbit Spectrum for Profinite Groups
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight.
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Matt Salomone,
Title: 101 things to do with N bodies
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki
Title: On a problem of Calderon and the mathematics of medical imaging
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University
Title: On Mukai conjecture for singular varieties
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Laura Spinolo, SISSA ( Italy)
Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ethan Devinatz, University of Washington
Title: Finiteness properties for the homotopy groups of certain homotopy fixed point spectra
Special Note: This seminar is on Thursday!
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Pat Hooper, SUNY Stony Brook
Title: Stable Periodic Billiard Paths in Triangle
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 2, 2006

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. John White, Boston University
Title: Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation
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Monday, June 5, 2006

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor James (Jim) Turner, Calvin College
Title: On topological lifts of algebraic diagrams
Abstract and details available
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Vasily Dolgushev,
Title: Modular symmetry of Poisson manifolds and the Van den Bergh duality
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 25, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago
Title: Singular Surfaces
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Kari Ragnarsson, Northwestern University
Title: A Segal conjecture for p-completed classifying spaces
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS
Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU
Title: "Protein Problems" or how a mathematician may think of proteins
Special Note: This is a joint seminar with ESAM
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Gabriel Kerr, University of Chicago,
Title: Weighted Blowups and Homological Mirror Symmetry of Toric Surfaces
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Friday, September 29, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Misha Gromov, IHES, France
Title: Entropy and Isoperimetry
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Monday, October 2, 2006

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: Picard spaces and Picard groups at chromatic level 2
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Howard Masur, UIC
Title: Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity on translation surfaces
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Thursday, October 5, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Monica Torres, Purdue University
Title: Normal traces and Gauss-Green formula for weakly differentiable\nvector fields and applications to conservation laws
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4pm
Professor Sergiy Koshkin,
Title: Large N Duality between 3-manifolds and Calabi-Yau 3-folds
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Washek F. Pfeffer, University of California at Davis
Title: The Gauss-Green Theorem, Removable Singularities , and the Equation div u =F
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Monday, October 9, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. C. Postlehwaite, Northwestern University
Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
David McClendon, Northwestern University
Title: On the identification of points by Borel semiflows
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
Title: Negative K-theory: theorems and conjectures
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin,
Title: Modular forms and topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Yong-Geun Oh, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Floer cohomology, Lagrangian surgery and analysis of pseudo-holomorphic polygons
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Monday, October 16, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ben Schmidt, University of Chicago
Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:15pm
Marco Aldi,
Title: Algebraic Geometry 101 and its Mirror
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00pm
Professor David Treumann,
Title: Constructible stacks
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Midwest Probability Colloquium

Friday, October 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Alexandre Karabegov, Abilene Christian University
Title: A formal model of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization
Abstract and details available
Midwest Probability Colloquium
Monday, October 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies
Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
Title: Existence of physical invariant measures for some chaotic attractors
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:15pm
Chenghao Chu,
Title: Classical K-Theory
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Dima Tamarkin,
Title: A category of microlocal sheaves on a symplectic manifold
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 27, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Quantum resonances and quantum chaos
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 30, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor David Srolovitz, Yeshiva University
Title: Curvature-Driven Growth in Polycrystalline Materials and Froths: Beyond von Neumann
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University
Title: The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University
Title: Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Ludmil Katzarkov,
Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Vasily Pestun, Princeton University
Title: Topological strings in generalized CY manifolds
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Friday, November 3, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jeremy Marzuola, Berkeley
Title: A stable class of perturbations for the minimal mass soliton of saturated nonlinear Schr\
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Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 105, 5:30PM
Mike Johnson, Northwestern University
Title: Frequency of the leading digit of 2^n
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Monday, November 6, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Horacio Rotstein, NJIT
Title: Mechanistic Aspects of the Creation of Theta Rythmic Activity in the Hippocampus: A Modeling Study
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France
Title: Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities and compensated compactness for scalar conservation laws
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago
Title: Symplectic Anosov Structures on Riemann surfaces
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nora Ganter, University of Illinois
Title: Hecke operators in elliptic cohomology and generalized Moonshine
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:15pm
Scott Bailey,
Title: The center of the endomorphism rings of some spectra
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Thursday, November 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Yan Soibelman,
Title: Geometry and algebra of Calabi-Yau varieties
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University
Title: Continuous Dependence of Admissible Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Physical Parameters
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 10, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
Title: Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 13, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
Title: Computer Simulations
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Grace Lyo , University of California, Berkeley
Title: Galois Representations and Descent in Algebraic K-theory
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anthony Quas, University of Victoria
Title: Global behaviour of piecewise isometries
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Igor Pak, M.I.T.
Title: The nature of partition bijections
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 16, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Laura Spinola, Northwestern University
Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 20, 2006

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Fuzhou Gong, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: Exponential Ergodicity, Spectral Gap, and Their Applications
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Adilson Motter, Department of Physics, Northwestern University
Title: On a Dynamical Systems Problem in Theoretical Physics
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Joachim Krieger, Harvard University
Title: Singular Wave Maps in the critical dimension
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Steep billiard potentials and the Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
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Title: Graduate Student Forum - Ethics and Mathematics Research
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Dmitriy Boyarchenko, University of Chicago
Title: Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields (Joint work with Vladimir Drinfeld)
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