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Thursday, January 6, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Youngna Choi, Northwestern University Title: Chaos and Topological Entropy Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: Hilbert schemes of surfaces Contact Info here

Friday, January 14, 1997

Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor T. Shinbrot, Northwestern University Title: Predictive models for granular convection and pattern formation Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 21, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Title: A filtration of K(R) using projective lines Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Thomas Nystrom, Northwestern University Title: Multipliers for generalized Tchebycheff polynomials Contact Info here

Thursday, January 23, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Title: On regularity of solutions of non-linear parabolic systems Contact Info here

Saturday, January 25, 1997

Winter Midwest Topology Seminar

9:30am Coffee and Donuts, Details of the talk

10:00am Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: Intersection theory in moduli spaces of pointed elliptic curves Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

11:30am Mike Slack, Western Michigan Univeristy Title: Explorations into the adjointness of loops and suspensions Details of the talk

2:30pm Nick Kuhn, University of Virginia Title: Looking back 20 years: Brown-Gilter spectra and Mahowald's construction Details of the talk

4:00pm Bill Dwyer, University of Notre Dame Title: The undiscovered cohomology of $GL_n(Z[1/2])$ Details of the talk

5:30pm Party at Eric and Susan Friedlander's home , Details of the talk

Monday, January 27, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University Title: Graphing integral cycles and Poincare duality Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 28, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Saturated varieties Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University Title: Homoclinic orbits and local variational principle Contact Info here

Thursday, January 30, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University Title: Konstevich's approach to Rozansky-Witten invariants (concluded) Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Tifei Qian, Northwestern University Title: Homoclinic tangencies and Henon-like area-preserving diffeomorphisms, Part II Contact Info here

Friday, January 31, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Bryna Kra, University of Michigan Title: The conjugating map for commutative groups of circle diffeomorphisms Special Note: Note unusual day of the week Contact Info here

Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor M. Brenner, MIT Title: Illuminating Sonoluminescence Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Fedor Nazarov, Michigan State University Title: Little level theorem and Zero-Khinchin inequality for sums of independent random variables Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley Title: TBA Contact Info here

ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor W. Kang, U. Chicago Title: tba Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor , Northwestern University Title: Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor , Northwestern University Title: Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Richard Laugesen, Johns Hopkins University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Monday, February 3, 1997

Tech Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor A.C. Morlet, Northern Illinois University and Cleveland State University Title: What can regularization do for you? Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University Title: Essential Cohomology of Finite Groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 4, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago Title: Algebraic aspects of double-loop Lie algebras and their quantizations Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Eckhard Meinrenken, MIT Title: Symplectic reduction and the equivariant index Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 6, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor J.M. Restrepo, UC Los Angeles Title: Wave-generated mass transport and sand bars Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: Hilbrt schemes of points Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University Title: Title to be announced Contact Info here

Friday, February 7, 1997

ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor F. Cattaneo, U. Chicago Title: Linear and Nonlinear Dynamos Abstract and details available

Monday, February 9, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. M. Short, U. Illinois Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves Contact Info here

Monday, February 10, 1997

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Richard Laugesen, Johns Hopkins University Title: Extremal Eigenvalues of Laplacians and Bi-Laplacians Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor John Klein, University of Bielefeld and Purdue University Title: Recent progress in the theory of embedding Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 11, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan Title: Computation of the metaplectic kernel Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Path Space Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Viorel Nitica, Indiana University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Thursday, February 13, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Dr. G. Luther, Hewlett-Packard Labs Title: Towards a systems theory for nonlinear optics Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Gary Gutman, Title: Overview of Symplectic Cobordism Contact Info here

Friday, February 14, 1997

ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor T. Shinbrot, Northwestern University Title: Predictive models for granular convection and pattern formation Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Chengbo Yue, Penn State University Title: Rigidity and Dynamics on Manifolds of Negative Curvature Contact Info here

Monday, February 17, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Yanni Zeng, SUNY at Stony Brook Title: Nonlinear Systems of Conservation Laws in Composite Type Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jeff Strom, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: A Special Case of Ganea's Conjecture Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 18, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Steve Doty, Loyola University Title: A class of finite-dimensional algebras associated with tensor products of representations Contact Info here

Thursday, February 20, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley Title: Stable ergodicity and extra regularity of invariant foliations Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor T. Witelski, MIT Title: Lubrication theory for gas bearing sliders in disk drives Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jay Kovats, University of Minnesota Title: Regularity of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Dani Condition Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Changyou Wang, U Chicago Title: Harmonic and Quasi-Harmonic Spheres Abstract and details available

Friday, February 21, 1997

ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor I. Aranson, Argonne Natl. Lab and Bar-Ilan U. Title: Dynamic transitions in moving vortex system subject quenched disorder Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Ping Xu, Penn State University Title: Symplectic realization of Poisson manifolds Contact Info here

Monday, February 24, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor A.A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion, Israel Title: Marangoni Patterns and Waves Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor L. Nicolaescu, University of Michigan Title: Adiabatic Limits of 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten Equations Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00PM Professor Ian Grojnowski, Title: Hecke algebras and their representations Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dev Sinha, Stanford University Title: Computations of Equivariant Bordism Rings: A Geometric Approach Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 25, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Elton Hsu , Northwestern University Title: Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Path Space Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of California at Berkeley Title: Mass Transfer and Nonlocal Geometric Motion Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 26, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, , 4:00pm Gary Gutman, Title: Overview of Symplectic Cobordism Special Note: Note the unusual date (Wednesday, not Thursday!) Contact Info here

Thursday, February 27, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor A. Tomboulides, Swiss Federal Inst. Tech. Title: Numerical Simulation of Low-Mach-Number Combustion Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Sara Asher, Northwestern University Title: Zeta Functions Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice Title: Measure Solutions to the Linear Multi-Dimensional Transport Equation with Non-smooth Coefficients Contact Info here

Friday, February 28, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor R. Almgren, U. Chicago Title: Phase-Field Asymptotics for Unequal Diffusivities Abstract and details available

Monday, March 0, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor James Milgram, Title: TBA Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Laurent Piriou, Northwestern University Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space" Contact Info here

Monday, March 3, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech LR 4, 12:00 Professor H. Huppert, Cambridge U. Title: Violent Volcanic Eruptions and Gigantic Landslides Special Note: joint colloquium with Mechanical Engineering Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Katsumi Shimomura, Tottori University Title: The Adams Novikov $E_2$ term for $\pi_*(L_2M)$ at the prime 2 Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 4, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Thomas Ilmanen, Northwestern University Title: The 1/H Flow and the Hawking-Penrose Conjecture Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor John Franks, Northwestern University Title: Surface diffeomorphisms with infinitely many periodic points Contact Info here

Thursday, March 6, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Youngna Choi , Northwestern University Title: Chaos and Topological Entropy Contact Info here

Friday, March 7, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Dr. C. Dettmann, Northwestern U. Title: Crisis in the Lorentz gas Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor James Milgram, Stanford University Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor James Milgram, Stanford University Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jim Milgram, Stanford University Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jim Milgram, Stanford University Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory Contact Info here

Monday, March 10, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Laurent Piriou, Northwestern University Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space" Contact Info here

Tuesday , March 11, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:00pm Professor R. Dorfman, U. Maryland Title: Some Applications of Chaos Theory to Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Special Note: Note unusual day and time Abstract and details available

Friday, March 14, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 1:30pm Professor W. Kang, U. Chicago Title: Magneto-sonoluminescence: interplay of light and sound in magnetic fields Contact Info here

Monday, March 17, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Carnegie Mellon University Title: A Priori Estimates in Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 18, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Erik Doeff, Montana State University Title: Pseudo-Anosov and the Mapping Class Group Contact Info here

Wednesday, March 19, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Hans-Werner Henn, Max Plank Inst. Bonn Title: The L_2 localization of V(1) for P=3 Contact Info here

Thursday, April 0, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:20pm Professor Tom Seidman, UMBC Title: Some Asymptotic Problems for a Reaction-Diffusion System Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Richard Hamilton, UCSD Title: TBA Special Note: Yamabe Lecture Contact Info here

Friday, April 4, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Ulrich Krengel , University of Gottingen Title: On the history of probability theory Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor G. Vattay, Eotvos U., Budapest, Hungary Title: Periodic orbit theory in quantum and mesoscopic physics Abstract and details available

Monday, April 7, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor James Milgram, Stanford University Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 8, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Indecomposables in the symmetric algebra of a kG-module Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Yongmin Zhang, University of Chicago Title: Numerical Solution of Two Free Boundary Problems Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Clark Robinson, Northwestern Title: Bifurcation to Lorenz attractor Contact Info here

Thursday, April 10, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor S. Tanveer, Ohio State U. Title: Dendrites and Complex Singularities Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Ezra Getzler, Title: Topological gravity in two dimensions (work of Witten, ...) Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm John M. Alongi, Northwestern University Title: Twist maps from elliptic fixed points Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor Elisabeth Logak, Ecole Normale Superieure at Paris Title: Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Modified Motion by Mean Curvature Contact Info here

Friday, April 11, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Albrecht Dold, University of Heidelberg Title: Indexes, traces, and other stable fixed point invariants Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor U. Mueller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Title: Can the magnetic field of the earth be simulated in a laboratory experiment? Abstract and details available

Monday, April 14, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor S.I. Hariharan, U. Akron Title: On Exterior Problems in Unbounded Domains Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 15, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Gregory Fasshauer, Northwestern University Title: Multistep Approximation Algorithms: Improved Convergence Rates through Postconditioning with Smoothing Kernels Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern Title: Stably ergodic skew products Contact Info here

Wednesday, April 16, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ed Saff, University of South Florida Title: Distributing Many Points on a Sphere Contact Info here

Thursday, April 17, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 3:00pm Professor C. Menyuk, U Maryland Baltimore County Title: New Approaches for High Data Rate Fiber Transmission: 100Gbits/sec and Beyond Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Eric Zaslow, Harvard University Title: Rational curves on K3 Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jason Holt, Northwestern University Title: Flat doughnuts Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:20pm Professor Thomas Seidman, University of Maryland Title: Some Asymtotic Problems for a Reaction/Diffusion System Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 104, 10:30am Ming-Chia Li , Northwestern University Title: Structural Stability for Numerical Methods Special Note: Ph.D thesis defense Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Professor Robert Oliver, University of Paris 13 Title: Equivariant K-theory for propoer actions of infinite groups Contact Info here

Friday, April 18, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor J.D. Crawford, U. Pittsburgh Title: Weakly unstable systems in the presence of neutrally stable modes Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 19, 1997

Great Lakes K-theory Conference

10:30am Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University Title: The homology of linear groups over polynomial and power series rings Details of the talk

2:00pm Professor Marc Levine, Northwestern University Title: Relating motivic cohomology to K-theory Details of the talk

4:00pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky, Northwestern University Title: On the norm residue homomorphism K3M ---> H3(--,Z/3) Details of the talk

Sunday, April 20, 1997

9:30am Professor Mark Walker, Univ. of Nebraska and Northwestern Univ Title: A filtration of K-theory and rational motivic complexes Details of the talk

11:00am Professor Michael Weiss, Univ. of Notre Dame Title: An index theorem for the algebraic K-theory Stiefel-Whitney class Details of the talk

Monday, April 21, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University Title: Formal group of height 2 over F_4 Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 22, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Roza Galeeva, UNAM, Cuernavaca Title: Stability of densities of invariant measures of interval maps Contact Info here

Thursday, April 24, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor A. Yarin, Technion, Israel Title: Impact of Drops on Solid Surfaces: Capillary and Shock Waves, and Shocks Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Ezra Getzler, Northwestern Title: Topological Gravity in Two Dimensions continued. Abstract and details available

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm David Richeson , Northwestern University Title: Geodesics on S^2 and Annulus Homeomorphisms Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 3:00pm Professor Mei-Chi Shaw, Notre Dame Title: The d-bar Neumann problem on pseudoconvex Lipschitz domains Contact Info here

Friday, April 25, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Elwyn Berlekamp, MSRI and UC Berkeley Title: An overview of Mathematical Games Special Note: A detailed abstract will be posted on the bulletin board Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor A. Bernoff, Northwestern U. Title: Longwave Models of Solidification: Self-similar Blow-up and its Regularization Abstract and details available

Monday, April 28, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor L. Redekopp, U. Southern California Title: The Interaction of Convection and Internal Waves: a Natural Codimension-3 Problem Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Feshbach, University of Minnesota Title: The mod 2 cohomology rings of the symmetric groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 29, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Brian Parshall , University of Virginia Title: Tilting Module Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Roger Jones, DePaul University Title: Oscillation Inequalities in Analysis and Ergodic Theory Contact Info here

Thursday, May 0, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor , Title: Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern Univesrsity Title: Introduction to MAGMA Contact Info here

Thursday, May 1, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Eckhart 106, U of C, 4:30pm K. Fukaya, University of Kyoto Title: C^\infty analogue of Schemes and Stacks and Arnold's Conjecture Special Note: This talk is not ours, but is at the U of Chicago! Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Margaret Stawiska , Northwestern University Title: Complex dynamics Contact Info here

Friday, May 2, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor C. Doering, U. Michigan Title: Convection, Stability and Turbulence Abstract and details available

Monday, May 5, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Dr. G. Merchant, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Title: Application of Stochastic Models to Financial Derivatives Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Bill Richter, Title: A Cartan formula for $\Omega U(n)$ and double coset formulas from the point of view of Dold's work Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 6, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Peko Hosoi, University of Chicago Title: Axial Instabilities of Free-Surface Flows in a Horizontal Rotating Cylinder Contact Info here

Thursday, May 8, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor D.S. Cohen, CalTech Title: New Asymptotic Scales for Moving Boundary Diffusion Problems Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 3:00pm Professor Bennett Chow, Minnesota Title: Geometric Interpretation of the Harnack Inequalities for the Ricci Flow Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin Title: Hole-Filling in Porous Media Contact Info here

Friday, May 9, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Richard Hamilton, UCSD Title: The free-boundary problem for the porous medium equation Special Note: Yamabe Lecture Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor J. Franks, Northwestern U. Title: Periodic Points for Area Preserving Surface Homeomorphisms Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 12, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Rob Ghrist, U. of Texas Title: Flows and Contact Topology Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor H.-C. Chang, U. Notre Dame Title: Coherent Structure Description of Falling Film Waves Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin Title: Free group actions, extensions and cohomology Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 13, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Steve Smith, University of Illinois-Chicago Title: Quasithin Groups Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Nancy Stanton, University of Notre Dame Title: Real Hypersurfaces in C^{n} Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 3:00pm Prof. S. Dippel, FZ Juelich, Germany Title: Dissipation in granular flow on a rough inclined plane Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 15, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M351, 4:30pm Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U. Title: Muscle Mechanics and Locomotion Special Note: This is the Nemmers Prize Lecture. It is jointly hosted with the Mathematics Department Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Professor Todd Young, Northwestern University Title: Bifurcation to a Universal Link Contact Info here

Friday, May 16, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor A. Skeldon, City University, London, UK Title: Generic stability results for steady periodic patterns and their application to convection problems Abstract and details available

Monday, May 19, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor J.-M. Vandenbroeck, U. Wisconsin Title: Singular Free Surface Flows Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Gregory Arone, University of Chicago Title: TBA Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 20, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Chris Bendel, Northwestern University Title: Completely reducible homology complexes and (non)vanishing of cohomology for finite-dimensional Hopf algebras Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Stephen Fisher, Northwestern University Title: Asymptotic Distribution of Zeros of Minimal Blaschke Products Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 21, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor R. Caflisch, UC Los Angeles Title: Theory and application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods Special Note: this talk is jointly sponsored with the Mathematics Department Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor R. Caflisch, University of California at Los Angeles Title: Theory and Application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods Special Note: Joint Seminar with ESAM Colloquium Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor William Dwyer, University of Notre Dame Title: Homology decompositions of classifying spaces Contact Info here

Thursday, May 22, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Tech Title: From Time Series to Dynamics: Chaotic Dynamics in a Magnetoelastic beam Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm K. Fukaya, Kyoto University (visiting U of Chicago) Title: A-infinity categories and topological field theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 27, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor J. Miles, UIUC Title: A Fourier Series Method Applied to Growth Problems for Entire Functions Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Keith Burns, Title: Stable ergodicity for Anosov diffeomorphisms Contact Info here

Thursday, May 29, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U. Title: Convective Pattern Theory Contact Info here

Friday, May 30, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor T. Young, Northwestern U. Title: Triple collision in the Newtonian 3-body problem Abstract and details available

Monday, June 2, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech 3396, 4:00pm Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U. Title: Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Colloquium Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, 105, 4:10pm Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University Title: Introduction to MAGMA Contact Info here

Tuesday, June 3, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Steve Siegel, University of Massachusetts Title: The Hochschild cohomology ring of a finite group Special Note: Special Time Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Galia Dafni, Northwestern University Title: Distributions in local Hp Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Howie Weiss, Penn State University Title: A complete Multifractal Analysis of Gibbs Measures and Applications to Ergodic Theory. Contact Info here

Thursday, June 5, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Dave Richeson, Northwestern Title: Connection matrix pairs Contact Info here

Friday, June 6, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3396, 2:00pm Professor P. Cvitanovic, Northwestern U. Title: Hopf's last hope: spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 12, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Rob Ghrist, U. of Texas Title: Flows and Contact Topology Contact Info here

Monday, June 16, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 106, 4:00pm Professor Benoit Perthame, University of Paris 6 and Ecole Normale Superieure at Paris Title: Semi-Kinetic Equations and Averaging Lemmas Contact Info here

Friday, July 25, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Helene Frankowska, University of Paris at Dauphine and CNRS Title: Optimal Synthesis and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Contact Info here

Thursday, September 0, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Tom Graber, University of Chicago Title: Localization and enumerative geometry Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:15pm Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University Title: Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Olga Oleinik, Moscow State University, Russia Title: Some Homogenization Problems in Perforated Domain with Nonperiodic Structure Special Note: Chicago-Area PDE Colloquium Contact Info here

Wednesday, September 17, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Youngna Choi , Northwestern University Title: One-dimensional Lorentz-like attractors Contact Info here

Thursday, September 18, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Eli Liflyand, Bar Ilan University, Israel Title: Lebesgue Constants of Multiple Fourier Series Contact Info here

Monday, September 22, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor M. Velarde , Univ. Complutense de Madrid Title: Surface and internal waves driven by surfactant gradients and instability Special Note: NOTE NEW LOCATION Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University Title: Spaces of Natural Transformations Special Note: The talk in not at the usual time Contact Info here

Thursday, September 25, 1997

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Michael Shub, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Title: Stable ergodicity and julienne quasiconformality T. J. Watson Contact Info here

Friday, September 26, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Michael Shub, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Title: A Lefschetz principle for the problem "Does P equal NP?" Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Professor Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University Title: The Dynamics of Incremental Learning in Multilayered Neural Networks Abstract and details available

Monday, September 29, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor William Richter, Title: The Segal conjecture and the multiplicativity of stable splittings of BSp and \Omega SU(n) Contact Info here

Tuesday, September 30, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University Title: Finite Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and their Induced Homological Action Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Dave Richeson, Title: Multivalued maps and the Conley index Contact Info here

Thursday, October 0, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor , Title: Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 1, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm John M. Alongi, Northwestern University Title: Rotation numbers and transverse homoclinic points Contact Info here

Friday, October 3, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Professor Jonathan Robbins, U. Bristol and BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Labs Title: The spin-statistics relation from nonrelativistic quantum mechanics Abstract and details available

Monday, October 6, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University Title: Unstable BP homology Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 7, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Mark Walker, Northwestern University Title: The Primitive Topology Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Renato Feres , Washington University, St Louis Title: Dynamical Systems and Semisimple Groups Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 8, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Tifei Qian , Northwestern University Title: Cascade of elliptic periodic points with infintely many invariant curves Contact Info here

Thursday, October 9, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Tom Graber, University of Chicago Title: Localization and enumerative geometry Contact Info here

Friday, October 10, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Dr. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University Title: Effect of Anisotropy on Nonlinear Evolution of Morphological Instability in the Freezing of a Hypercooled Melt Abstract and details available

Sunday, October 12, 1997

Nonlinear and Complex Systems

10:30am B.J. Matkowsky, Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion Details of the talk

11:00 Professor T. Dupont, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Title: Drying coffee drops Details of the talk

11:30 Professor M. Silber , Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU Title: Superlattice Wave Patterns Details of the talk

13:30 Dr. F. Cattaneo , Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Title: Magnetic fields and convection Details of the talk

14:00 Professor Z. Xia, Dept. of Mathematics, NWU Title: Hamiltonian dynamical systems Details of the talk

14:30 Dr. S. Venkataramani, James-Franck Inst., UC Title: Attraction, diffusion and collapse Details of the talk

15:30 Professor D. Margoliash, Dept. of Organismal Biol. & Anat., UC Title: A myopic view of neural population coding in bird song Details of the talk

16:00 Dr. S. Waters, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NWU Title: Biomedical applications of non-linear mathematics Details of the talk

Monday, October 13, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. S.K. Wilson, U. Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland Title: On Lubrication with comparable viscous and inertia forces Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ib Madsen, Aarhus University Title: On the K-theory of local fields Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 14, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Marcelo Aguiar, Northwestern University Title: Internal Categories and Quantum Groups Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Irwin Kra, State University of New York at Stony Brook Title: Ramanujan's Partition Identities Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm John Alongi, Nothwestern Title: A pathwise intermediate value theorem for rotation vectors on compact surfaces Contact Info here

Thursday, October 16, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Olga Oleinik, Moscow State University Title: Some Homogenization Problems in Perforated Domain with Nonperiodic Structures Special Note: Chicago-Area PDE Colloquium Contact Info here

Monday, October 20, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. D. Vaynblat, M.I.T. Title: Large Amplitude Nonlinear Resonant Acoustic Waves without Shock Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University Title: Stably decomposing products of classifying spaces Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 21, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Convection Dominated Problems Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3823, 2:00pm Professor Mark Saffman, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark Title: Spatial dynamics in nonlinear optics: from disorder to control Special Note: Please note unusual day and location! Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 22, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Clark Robinson , Northwestern University Title: Homoclinic Bifurcation to a Lorenz Attractor Contact Info here

Thursday, October 23, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Paul Goerss, University of Washington Title: Spaces of Continuous Maps and the Cohomology of Commutative Rings Abstract and details available

Conference on Probability, Ergodic Theory and Analysis

10:30am Professor Donald Burkholder, University of Illinois at Urbana Title: Noncommutative martingale theory: recent progress and some open problems Details of the talk

1:30pm Professor Amos Nevo, Technion University Title: A Spectral transfer principle and the ergodic theory of semi-simple groups Details of the talk

2:45pm Professor Paul Malliavin, University of Paris Title: Faithful ergodic representations versus Haar measure Details of the talk

4:00pm Professor Earl Berkson, University of Illinois, Urbana Title: Transference methods in spectral theory and ergodic operator theory Details of the talk

Friday, October 24, 1997

3:00 p.m. Professor Tom Liggett , University of California, Los Angeles Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees I Details of the talk

9:30am Professor Marjorie Hahn, Tufts University Title: Self-normalization: Why? Details of the talk

11:00am Professor Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana Title: Convergence of averages in ergodic theory Details of the talk

4:30pm Professor Robin Pemantle , University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: Urn schemes and reinforced random walks, old and new Details of the talk

Saturday, October 25, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 1:00pm Professor David H. Wagner, University of Houston Title: Conservation Laws, Coordinate Transformations, and Differential Forms Special Note: Special Lecture Contact Info here

Nineteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium

9:30am Professor Tom Liggett, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees II Details of the talk

1:30pm Professor Richard Sowers, University of Illinois, Urbana Title: Some probabilistic aspects of motion by mean curvature Details of the talk

3:30pm Professor Ulrich Krengel, University of Gottingen Title: Some highlights in the work of A. Bellow Details of the talk

Sunday, October 26, 1997

9:30am Professor Arkady Tempelman, Penn State Title: Topics in Fractal Dimension Details of the talk

11:00am Professor Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Title: Stationary Group Actions Details of the talk

1:30pm Professor Donald Ornstein, Stanford University Title: Invariant curves for maps of surfaces Details of the talk

Monday, October 27, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor P. Ronney, Univ. Southern California Title: Front Propagation in Quasi-2d Channels Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Fred Cohen, University of Rochester Title: Free groups and self-maps of double loop spaces Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 28, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Serge Yagunov, Northwestern University Title: Geometrically Originated Complexes and the Homology of the Pair (GL_n,GM_n) Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Xian-Jin Li, University of Texas at Austin Title: Trigonometric Polynomial Approximation and Some Trigonometric Extremal Problems Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Michael Field, University of Houston Title: TBA Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 29, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Jason Holt , Northwestern University Title: Billiards inside a pinched cusp Contact Info here

Thursday, October 30, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Lavrentiev, Jr., Institute of Mathematic, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Lyapunov Functionals for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations Contact Info here

Friday, October 31, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Professor Prem Kumar, Northwestern U. Title: Parametric Devices for Ultra-high-speed Systems Abstract and details available

Monday, November 3, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. L. Jiang, U. Michigan Title: Nonlinear Water Waves: Wave Breaking and Capillary Effects Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University Title: The Kervaire invariant and Minami's theorem Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 4, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Bernhard Koeck, University of Illinois at Urbana Title: Operations on Locally Free Classgroups Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Daniel Tataru, Northwestern University Title: Strichartz Estimates in the Hyperbolic Space and Global Solutions for the Semilinear Wave Equation Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Senatian Schreiber, Western Washington University Title: The growth rates of subadditive functions Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 5, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm David Richeson , Northwestern University Title: Period doubling through creating a horseshoe Contact Info here

Thursday, November 6, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Andras Szenes, MIT Title: Iterated residues and hyperplane arrangements Contact Info here

Friday, November 7, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Professor Emily Stone, Utah State University Title: Using Archetypes to Analyze and Control Complex Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Abstract and details available

Monday, November 10, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor V. Volpert, Northwestern U. Title: Mathematical Modeling of Frontal Polymerization Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ran Levi, Northwestern University Title: Loop structures on homotopy fibres of self maps of a sphere Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 11, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University Title: Lower Algebraic K-theory of Bianchi Groups Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University Title: Minimization of Energy Functionals Under Constraints Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Don Wang, UCLA (visiting NU) Title: The Hill's region of the 4-body problem Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 12, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Antonio Garcia, Northwestern University Title: Homoclinic maps in symplectic manifolds Contact Info here

Thursday, November 13, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT Title: Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and canonical basis Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, MSRI at Bekerley and Northwestern University Title: Perron's Method for Convex Viscosity Solutions of Curvature Motion Equations Contact Info here

Friday, November 14, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT Title: Representation theory and special functions: a new approach Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech 3827, 2:00pm Professor W.L. Kath, Northwestern University Title: Controlling solitons in nonlinear optical fibers with phase-sensitive amplifiers Abstract and details available

Monday, November 17, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor J.B. Greenberg , The Technion, Israel Title: New Results in Laminar Spray Flame Theory Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor John Martino, University of Western Michigan Title: An Introduction to Topological Graph Theory Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 18, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professors Irena Peeva and Vaselin Gasharov, MIT Title: Cohomology of Subspace Arrangements via Minimal Free Resolutions (Peeva)/ A-graded Algebras (Gasharov) Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Victor Barcilon, University of Chicago Title: A Mathematical Theory of the Gulfstream Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor C. Q. Cheng, Nanjing University (visiting NU) Title: Lower dimensional tori in the regions of instability of Hamiltonian systems Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 19, 1997

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm James Wiseman , Northwestern University Title: Symbolic dynamics and aggregation paradoxes Contact Info here

Thursday, November 20, 1997

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3.00pm Professor Shadi Tashvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Biao Ou , University of Toledo Title: Global Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem Abstract and details available

Friday, November 21, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University Title: Regularity and Break-down in Geometric Field Theories Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. P. Umbanhower , University of Pennsylvania Title: Wave patterns in shaken sand Special Note: Note changed location because of video Abstract and details available

Monday, November 24, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dmitri Orlov, Steklov Institute Title: Equivalences of derived categories of coherent sheaves Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 25, 1997

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Ronald Coifman, Yale University Title: Adapted Waveform Analysis, Efficient Numerical Transcription, and Fast Computation Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern Title: Positive curvature and chaotic dynamics for the geodesic flow Contact Info here

Monday, December 1, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor G.A. Kriegsmann , N.J.I.T. Title: Growth and Stabilization of Hot Spots in Microwave-Heated Ceramic Fibers Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Jason Douma, Northwsetern University Title: Stably Decomposing B(PxQ): an Algebraic Perspective Contact Info here

Tuesday, December 2, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Burt Totaro, University of Chicago Title: Chern numbers for singular varieties and elliptic cohomology Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University Title: The Smooth Quantum Hydrodynamic Model (for Semiconductor Devices) Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor André de Carvalho, U. of California, Berkeley Title: TBA Contact Info here

Wednesday, December 3, 1997

Topology Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ioanid Rosu, MIT Title: The Rigidity Theorems of Witten via Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 4, 1997

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University Title: Vanishing theorems in the cohomology of moduli spaces of flat connections on a Riemann surface Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Victor Isakov, Title: Inverse Diffusion Problems Contact Info here

Friday, December 5, 1997

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University Title: Flat connections on Riemann surfaces Abstract and details available

Monday, December 8, 1997

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. Y.J. Chen, Cornell U. Title: Pinch-off Dynamics of a Collapsing Soap-Film Bridge Contact Info here

Tuesday, December 9, 1997

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Brendan Hassett, University of Chicago Title: Limiting Plane Curves and the Minimal Model Program Contact Info here

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