Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Previous Entries
Year 2007
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ravi Vakil, Stanford
- Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 4, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu,
- Title: Positivity of Quasi-local Mass
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Laura DeMarco, University of Chicago
- Title: Complex dynamics and potential theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 11, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler,
- Title: Sheaves of differential graded Lie algebras and moduli spaces
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
- Title: Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction in 3D
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 12, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Michael Hochman, Hebrew University
- Title: Genericity in Topological Dynamics
Special Note: Unusual Time
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rich Schwartz, Brown University
- Title: Outer Billiards, the Penrose Kite, and the Neumann Problem
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Santiago Schnell, School of Informatics, Indiana University
- Title: Enzyme reactions within cells
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Abstract and details available
Friday, January 19, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston
- Title: Multidimensional Conservation Laws - More Questions than Answers
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Andrew Belmonte, Penn. State University
- Title: Deep and Shallow Impact: Acoustic Ripples and Elastic Splashes
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Brian Smithling, University of Chicago
- Title: Some structure results on the moduli stack of formal Lie groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- See http://math.northwestern.edu/graduate/events.html for further information,
- Title: Graduate Student Forum - How to Give a Seminar
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Katrin Wehrheim,
- Title: Lagrangian correspondences, holomorphic quilts, and a Floer field theory I
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 25, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Katrin Wehrheim,
- Title: Lagrangian correspondences, holomorphic quilts, and a Floer field theory II
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Honig, Northwestern University
- Title: Combined Channel Estimation and Power Control for Wireless Fading Channels
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 26, 2007
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Katherine Walker, University of Chicago
- Title: Some Results on Fundamental Groups of Moduli Spaces of Quadratic Differentials.
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 29, 2007
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Adrian Lim, Cornell University
- Title: Path Integral Quantization
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Brayton Gray, UIC
- Title: Anick's fibrations revisited
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State University
- Title: Ergodic Theory on Foliations
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Anne Thomas, University of Chicago
- Title: TBA
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Vivek Dhand,
- Title: Classification of Real Semi-Simple Lie Algebras
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Gabriel Kerr,
- Title: Organizing Critical Values and the Directed Fukaya Category
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 1, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Mohammed Abouzaid, University of Chicago
- Title: Fukaya Categories of Riemann Surfaces
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Susan Friedlander, UIC
- Title: A dyadic model for turbulence
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Monday, February 5, 2007
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Unstable homotopy theory of fusion systems
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:30pm
- Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
- Title: Ergodic theory and Dimension Conservation for Fractals
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
- Title: Boundaries of Groups, Harmonic Functions and Random Walks: a Survey
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dmitri Volfson, UC San Diego
- Title: The Role of Population Dynamics in Phenotypic Variability
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Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Javier Zuniga,
- Title: Cellular Models of Compactified Moduli Spaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jian Song, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Canonical Kähler metrics and the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 12, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Angela Yu, Princeton
- Title: To Spike or Not to Spike: Optimal Change-Detection in Single
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Stable homotopy theory of fusion systems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jon Aaronson, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Entropy of conservative endomorphisms
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Riemann-Roch for real varieties
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Randy Qian,
- Title: Pseudo-Differential operators and the Regularity of Solutions to the Laplacian
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
- Title: Tensor categories in non-commutative geometry
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 16, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Paolo Cascini, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Title: On the Minimal Model Program
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Monday, February 19, 2007
- Special Event
Common Room, 3.45
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- Title: Special Afternoon Tea for Chinese New Year
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Elizabeth Torres, CALTECH
- Title: Dynamics without movement
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Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Stable Homotopy Theory of Saturated Fusion Systems
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: Pathological foliations, revisited
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Paul Krapivsky, Department of Physics-Boston University
- Title: The Motion of Molecular Spiders
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Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
- Title: Deligne's conjecture and Drinfeld's double
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Cheng Ouyang,
- Title: Introduction to Stochastic Analysis and Brownian Motion on Manifolds
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Kevin Costello ,
- Title: Renormalisation and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wilson Truccolo, Brown University-Neuroscience Department
- Title: Stochastic Modeling of Neural Point Processes
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Abstract and details available
Friday, February 23, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
- Title: Cycles in dense digraphs
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 26, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Max Planck Institute for ynamics and Self Organization
- Title: Topological superdiffusion: from target localization on folding
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Vladimir Matveev, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Title: Degree of mobility and its applications: Lie Problem, Beltrami Problem and Schouten Problem
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Operads revisited
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor Kevin Costello,
- Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homological algebra
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wei Ji Ma, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences-University of Rochester
- Title: Neural variability and optimal computation
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Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
- Title: Hopf bifurcation and galloping instability of detonation waves
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ketty de Rezende, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
- Title: Continuation Theorems for Lyapunov Graphs
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor David Nadler, Northwestern University
- Title: Loop spaces and Langlands parameters
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor Frank Calegari,
- Title: Ramification
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 8, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nadine Even, University of Wuerzburg and Northwestern University
- Title: Entropy Solutions to Conservation Laws with Discontinuous Fluxes via Microscopic Interacting Particle Systems
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 22, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
- Title: On the validity of Chapman-Enskog expansions
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 26, 2007
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Hydodynamic limits for Ginzburg-Landau Models
Special Note: Joint with PDE Seminar
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: First of series
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Moment bounds for Smoluchowski Equation
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: Entropy and the localization of eigenfunctions
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: second in series; note time
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Pavel Mnev,
- Title: On simplicial BF theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: third in series
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Jeff Allotta,
- Title: Modular Symbols - Cohomology in Number Theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 5, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Nalini Anantharaman , Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: fourth in series; note time
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Renzo Cavalieri,
- Title: The orbifold GW theory of C^3/Z_3
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 9, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Hsiang-Wei Lu, UCLA
- Title: Electrowetting in a Hele-Shaw Cell
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Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zoran Vondracek, University of Zagreb
- Title: On infima of Levy processes and application in risk theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
- Title: (Very) preliminary remarks on multiple correlations
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Sasha Getmanenko,
- Title: Introduction to Hyperasymptotic Analysis
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Friday, April 13, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- David Salac, University of Michigan
- Title: Investigations of Directed Self-Assembled Systems using the Level
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 16, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Paul Baum, Penn State
- Title: Trees, buildings, elliptic operators, and K-theory for group C* algebras
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Erifc Choate, University of North Carolina
- Title: Linear viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystal polymers in small
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic points for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms
Contact Info here
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Professor Paul Baum, Penn State
- Title: Geometric structure in the representation theory of p-adic groups
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Rob Nendorf,
- Title: Model Categories
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Michael Westdickenberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Title: Finite Energy Solutions to the Isentropic Euler Equations with Geometric Effects
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth
- Title: Constructing manifolds with the same spectral data in the compact and noncompact settings
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Friday, April 20, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Richard Kenyon, University of British Columbia
- Title: Branched polymers in 2D and 3D
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Bimodule deformations, Picard groups and contravariant connections
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Shaowei Su,
- Title: Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian Manifolds into Euclidean Space
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University, Israel
- Title: Resolvent estimates and global regularity for divergence-type operators
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
- Title: The Calabi-Yau equation and symplectic geometry
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 26, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
- Title: Energy functionals and canonical Kahler metrics
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Bruno Vallette, University of Nice
- Title: Deformation theory of representations of prop(erad)s
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 30, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt Common Room, 1:00pm
- Professor Pavel Etingof, MIT
- Title: Topology of the moduli space of real curves of genus 0 with n labeled points
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Yi-Ju Chen, 454 Corp.
- Title: Massively-Parallel Genome Sequencing in Microfabricated Picoliter
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- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Denis Bell, University of North Florida
- Title: Quasi-invariant Measures on Path Space
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Anne Thomas, University of Chicago
- Title: Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in R3 (I): Overview
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Professor Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Microlocal sheaves on elliptic curve
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Graduate Students,
- Title: General Meeting
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in $R^3$((II): Local Theory
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 3, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Masoud Kamgarpour, U of Chicago
- Title: Stacky abelianization of a connected algebraic group and Serre duality
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in $R^3$ (III): Global Theory
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Robert Penner, USC
- Title: Fatgraphs and stable curves
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yoichiro Mori, University of British Columbia
- Title: Convergence proof of a Stokes flow immersed boundary method
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 4, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Ionescu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: A uniqueness property of Kerr spacetimes
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. S. Abarji, I.I.T.
- Title: Influence of parametric forcing on the non-equilibrium dynamics of
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- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Pierre Villermott, Institut Elie Carton, Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy, France
- Title: Holder-Sobolev Regularity of Solutions For a Class of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
- Special Event
Annenberg 101, 1:00
- Michael Johnson, Northwestern University
- Title: Results on polynomial ergodic averages
Special Note: Dissertation Defense for Michael Johnson
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Danijela Damjanovic, Harvard
- Title: TBA
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- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Sum-product estimates and expanders
Special Note: Please note special time
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Professor Bruno Vallette, University of Nice
- Title: Manin's products and Deligne's conjecture
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Expanders: from number theory to combinatorics and back again
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 10, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
- Title: Multicomponent reactive flows
Special Note: Special Time
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Yuri Manin,
- Title: Modular shadows
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Pierre Vuillermot, Institut Elie Cartan, University Henri-Poincare, Nancy (France)
- Title: Variational Solutions for a Class of Partial Differetnial Equations Driven by a Fractional Noise
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Friday, May 11, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
- Title: Fermi acceleration
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 14, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields I
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor C. O'Hern, Yale University
- Title: Are Mechanically Stable Hard Particle Packings Equally Likely?
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields II
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Colin Guillarmou, University of Nice
- Title: Resolvent at low energy for asymptotically conic spaces with applications to the Riesz transform
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Kal Nanes,
- Title: Hyperbolicity and the Hopf Argument
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields III
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- Undergraduate Math Society
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Professor Don Saari, University of California at Irvine
- Title: Mathematics is everywhere!
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 17, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields iV
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Joe Jerome, Northwestern University
- Title: Analysis and approximation of complex systems via fixed point formulations
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Friday, May 18, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields V
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 21, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Alexander Yarin, Univ. Illinois Chicago
- Title: Electrospinning of Nanofibers and Nanotubes
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Andrew Blumberg, Stanford and IAS
- Title: Approximation and localization in THH
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Allen Cheng,
- Title: Global Class Field Theory
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mike Shub, University of Toronto
- Title: Smale's 17th Problem: Recent progress
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 31, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Nadya Shirokova,
- Title: On the classification of Floer-type theories
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 4, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. J. Klafter, Tel Aviv University
- Title: From Diffusion to Anomalous Diffusion: Subdiffusion and Levy Walks
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Polarization Fingerprints in the Clear Blue Sky
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Abstract and details available
Friday, June 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Physics of Non-Hermitian Degeneracies
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, August 2, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, tba
- Professor Kai Behrend, UBC
- Title: Donaldson-Thomas Type Invariants via Microlocal Geometry
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 11:00AM
- Jens Eggers, University of Bristol
- Title: Hydrodynamic theory of coating
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Amos Nevo, Technion, Israel
- Title: Prime matrices, lattice points and ergodic theorems
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:30pm
- Peter March, Director DMS at NSF
- Title: Special Lecture
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Monday, October 1, 2007
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 pm
- Members of the department,
- Title: Panel discussion on jobs and grants
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Emo Todorov, University of California San Diego
- Title: A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions
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Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: A recent update on the existence of extremal K\"ahler metrics in K\"ahler surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 4, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Constantine Dafermos , Brown University
- Title: Redistribution of Damping in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
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Monday, October 8, 2007
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: An introduction to the work of Robert Langlands
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Natalia Komarova, UC Irvine
- Title: Stochastic modeling of cancer
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Patrick Hooper, Northwestern University
- Title: Dynamics on an infinite translation surface
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rowan Killip, UCLA
- Title: From the circular moment problem to random matrices
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 11, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Kobi Kremnizer, MIT
- Title: Quantum localization
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 15, 2007
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:00PM
- Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Probability
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 4-6 pm
- Professor Kari Vilonen,
- Title: An overview of D-modules
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Roberta Wenocur,
- Title: Vapnik-Cervonenkis classes and their applications
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 18, 2007
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 1:30pm
- Professor S. R. S. Varadhan, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Diffusive Scaling Limits
Special Note: Thursday's Program Prior to the Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:30pm
- Professor Ciprian Manolescu, Columbia
- Title: Symplectic Instanton Homology
Special Note: Special Session
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 2:45pm
- Professor S. R. S. Varadhan, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Nongradient Systems
Special Note: Thursday's Program Prior to the Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Pramod Achar, LSU
- Title: The category of staggered sheaves
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
- Title: Asymmetric Exclusions
Special Note: Thursday's Program Prior to the Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Chris Novak,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Friday, October 19, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Lev Rozansky, UNC at Chapel Hill
- Title: Virtual links and algebraic categorification of quantum polynomial invariants
Special Note: Special Session
Abstract and details available
Twenty-Ninth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 3:00pm Professor Chris Burdzy,
University of Washington
Title: Branching Brownian Motion and Potential Theory in Euclidean Domains
Details of the talk
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ciprian Manolescu, Columbia University
- Title: Combinatorial Floer homology
Abstract and details available
Twenty-Ninth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 4:30pm Professor Vladas Sidoracivius,
IMPA
Title: Growth Systems with Columnar Defects and the Polymer Pinning Problem
Details of the talk
Saturday, October 20, 2007
- 9:30am Professor Chris Burdzy,
University of Washington
Title: Reflected Brownian Motion
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Professor Eulalia Nualart,
Paris
Title: Potential Theory for Stochastic Heat Equations
Details of the talk
Monday, October 22, 2007
- Special Event
Tech L211, 4:30
- Professor Don Saari, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UC Irvine
- Title: Complexity of Decisions and Vision
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Byoung Du Kim, Northwestern
- Title: Iwasawa theory for supersingular reduction primes and the parity conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Vladas Sidoravicius, (IMPA-Instituo Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:00PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: The Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
- Special Event
Tech L211, 4:30
- Professor Steve Smale, Professor of Economics and Mathematics Emeritus, U. C. Berkeley
- Title: Conditions for Consensus
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 25, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Oscillatory Modules
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Thierry De Pauw, Rice University and Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
- Title: Existence and Regularity for the Plateau Problem: Classical Results and Recent Developments
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Chris Novak,
- Title: Distortion in the Interval Exchange Group
Contact Info here
Monday, October 29, 2007
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Toby Gee,
- Title: Slopes of modular forms and the reduction mod p of crystalline representations
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Petia Vlahovska, Dartmouth
- Title: Dynamics of vesicles in hydrodynamic and electric fields
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Don Davis, Lehigh University
- Title: From invariant theory to homotopy groups
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Julia Wolf, University of Cambridge and Institute for Advanced Study
- Title: Minimal characteristic factors in arithmetic combinatorics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 1, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Alexei Oblomkov, Princeton
- Title: Gromov-Witten/Donaldson-Thomas correspondence for toric threefolds
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
- Title: Regularity of Koch-Tataru Solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations Revisited
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Vivek Dhand,
- Title: Local Geometric Langlands Duality
Contact Info here
Friday, November 2, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Robert Langlands, Institute of Advanced Study
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, November 5, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Andras Vasy, Stanford University
- Title: Asymptotics of solutions of the wave equation on de Sitter and de Sitter-Schwarzschild spaces
Special Note: Note special day, time.
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 107, 5:00PM
- Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Matt Bainbridge, University of Chicago
- Title: Billiards in L-shaped tables with barriers
Abstract and details available
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 4-6pm
- Professor Kari Vilonen, Northwestern
- Title: An overview of D-modules
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Robert Langlands, Institute of Advanced Study
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 8, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ben Green, University of Cambridge and IAS
- Title: Nilsequences in Additive Combinatorics
Special Note: Note unusual time
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- David Treumann, Northwestern University
- Title: Nearby cycles over general bases and stratified homotopy type
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Randy Qian,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Friday, November 9, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ben Green, University of Cambridge and IAS
- Title: Equidistribution of nilsequences
Special Note: unusual time
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 12, 2007
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Robert Langlands, IAS
- Title: Informal Lecture
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, NWU
- Title: The Adaptive Representation of Space and Time Through Motor
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- John Francis, MIT
- Title: Derived Loops and Drinfeld Centers
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Polynomials and Roots of Unity
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 101, 4-6 pm
- Professor Robert Langlands, IAS
- Title: Informal Lecture
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Inger J. H. Knutson, University of Agder
- Title: Recurrence along generalized polynomials in ergodic theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 15, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Jake Rasmussen, Princeton
- Title: Odd Khovanov homology
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Dana Ferguson,
- Title: Characteristic Classes
Contact Info here
Friday, November 16, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Klainerman, Princeton University
- Title: On the Uniqueness of Black Holes
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
- Title: On the Uniqueness of Black Holes
Special Note: Joint with Department Colloquium
Abstract and details available
Saturday, November 17, 2007
The 60th Midwest PDE Seminar
- 10:00 am Professor Sergiu Klainerman ,
Princeton University
Title: Uniqueness of Solutions for Gross-Pitaewski Hierarchy
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 11:10 am Professor Carlos Kenig,
University of Chicago
Title: The Concentration Compactness/Rigidity Method for Critical Dispersive\nand Wave Equations
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 13:30(1:30 pm) Professor Henri Berestycki ,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris and University of Chicago
Title: Generalized Traveling Fronts Passing an Obstacle
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 14:20(2:20 pm) Professor Maria Schonbek ,
University of California at Santa Cruz
Title: Poincar\'e's inequality and diffusive evolution equations
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 15:40(3:40 pm) Professor Irene Gamba ,
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Propagation of Sharp Estimates for Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 16:30(4:30 pm ) Professor Mikhail Feldman ,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Existence and Regularity of Solutions to Regular Shock Reflection\nProblem
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Sunday, November 18, 2007
- 9:00 am Professor Luis Caffarelli ,
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Fully Nonlinear Equations with\nIntegral Diffusions
Details of the talk
- 9:50 am Professor Roman Shvydkoy ,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Locality of Energy Transfer and Its Consequences
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 11:10 am Professor Marshall Slemrod ,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Steady Transonic Flow
Details of the talk
- 13:30(1:30 pm) Professor Tai-Ping Liu ,
Academia Sinica, Taipei and Stanford University
Title: Problems in Kinetic Theory
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 14:20(2:20 pm ) Professor Jeff Viaclovsky ,
University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Title: Orthogonal Complex Structures on Domains in R^4
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 15:40(3:40 pm) Professor Peter Constantin ,
University of Chicago
Title: On the Inviscid Limit
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 19, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University
- Title: Solving PDE, Green's Function Approach.
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University
- Title: Solving PDE, Green's Function Approach
Special Note: Joint with Department Colloquium
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Integral Diffusions: Fluids, Free Boundaries, and Optimal Control
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Integral Diffusions: Fluids, Free Boundaries, and Optimal Control
Special Note: Joint with Department Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 216 (2nd floor Conference Room), 5:00PM
- Toby Stephen Gee, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Recurrence Relations
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Hillel Fustenberg, Hebrew University at Jerusalem
- Title: Compact semigroups and van der Waerden's theorem on arithmetic progressions
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 26, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Christian Bonatti, University de Bourgogne (Dijon)
- Title: C^1 generic dynamics
Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Florian Herzig, Northwestern
- Title: A Serre-type conjecture for the weights of tame n-dimensional mod p\nGalois representations
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Lincoln Lauhon, Northwestern University The capability to grow extremely pure
- Title: The roles of 'impurities' in the growth of anisotropic
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: How to write up a solution
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Dave Constantine, Michigan
- Title: Rank rigidity via ergodic 2-frame flow
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 29, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Sergiy Koshkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Holomorphic fusion rules in Chern-Simons theory
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Fabio Priuli , Institutt for matematiske fag Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Title: Nash Equilibrium Solutions for Noncooperative Nonzero-sum Differential Games
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Kalman Nanes,
- Title: Fubini Foiled: Katok's Paradoxical Example in Measure Theory
Contact Info here
Friday, November 30, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
- Title: Symplectic forms, Kahler metrics and the Calabi-Yau equation
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 3, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dean Ho, NWU
- Title: Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Wilfredo Urbina, DePaul University
- Title: On the hypercontractivity property
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 101, 11:00am
- Andy Hammerlindl, University of Toronto
- Title: Center Integrability and Plaque Expansiveness
Special Note: Note unusual time and room
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Suzanne Hruska, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Title: Dynamics of polynomial skew products of C^2
Special Note: CANCELED due to snow
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 6, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Johannes Walcher, IAS
- Title: Progress on Mirror Symmetry for Open Strings
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Austin Ford,
- Title: K-Theory and Bott Periodicity
Contact Info here
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