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Tuesday, January 6, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Deborah Heicklen, U. of California, Berkeley Title: Discretized randomly-perturbed dynamical systems Contact Info here

Thursday, January 8, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University Title: Pointwise semigroup methods for stability of viscous shock waves. Abstract and details available

Monday, January 12, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor R. Sowers , U. Illinois Title: Some probabilistic comments on boundary layers in the Allen-Cahn equation Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Gregory Arone, University of Chicago Title: Tits buildings, partition posets and symmetric product spectra Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 13, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University Title: Relative Completions of Linear Groups over Z[t] and Z[t,t^{-1}] Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Chuck Gartland, Kent State University Title: Numerical Modeling of Confined Liquid Crystal Systems Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Chengbo Yue, UIC Title: Smoothness self-renewal in dynamical systems Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 14, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:30pm Professor Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington Title: Hot Bodies Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Christoph Thiele, Universitat Kiel Title: Time frequency analysis and the bilinear Hilbert transform Contact Info here

Thursday, January 15, 1998

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

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Philippe LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique, France Title: Nonconservative Hyperbolic Systems Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Yuhan Zha, University of Chicago Title: A general arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem Special Note: Mr Zha is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship. Contact Info here

Friday, January 16, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Shankar Venkataramani, U. Chicago Title: Pattern formation with period doubling: Patterns in a vibrated sandbox Special Note: Coffee and cookies FOLLOWING the seminar Abstract and details available

Monday, January 19, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor Laurette Tuckerman, LIMSI-CNRS, France, and IMA U. of Minnesota Title: Stability analysis of perturbed plane Couette flow Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Gary Gutman, Northwestern University Title: Elliptic Spectra and Group Actions Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3.00pm Huazhang Luo , MIT Title: Stability of Algebraic Manifolds Special Note: Mr. Luo is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Joseph Jerome, Northwestern University Title: Models of Electrodiffusion and their Domains of Influence Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Adam Epstein, SUNY -- Stonybrook Title: Algebraic Dynamics: Contraction, Finiteness, and Transversality Principles Abstract and details available

Friday, January 23, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester Title: Morava K-theory and generalized characters for finite groups revisited Special Note: This is a bonus talk for the Midwest Algebraic Topology Seminar on Saturday. Contact Info here

Saturday, January 24, 1998

Midwest Topology Seminar

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11:30am Igor Kriz, University of Michigan Title: Toward a geometric construction of elliptic cohomology Details of the talk

4:00pm Vladimir Voevodsky , Northwestern University Title: Classifying spaces of finite groups from algebro-geometrical point of view Details of the talk

Monday, January 26, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Igor Kriz, University of Michigan Title: The equivariant mod 2 Steenrod algebra and Real cobordism Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: An introduction to Frobenius manifolds Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Dr. Robert Holt , Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Title: Algebraic Methods for Image Processing and Computer Vision Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Chris McCord, University of Cincinatti Title: Reconstructing the global dynamics of an attractor Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech L313 (now called L361), 4:00pm Dr. M. Chertkov, Princeton U. Title: Theory of turbulent advection Special Note: For students (and others interested) there will be an informal introduction to the subject at 3:30 pm in Tech 3371 (Condensed Matter Theory). Note unusal time and location of the seminar. Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 29, 1998

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

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Fokin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Hamiltonian Systems with Continuous Spectrum and Chaotic Oscillations of Rotating Ideal Fluid Contact Info here

Friday, January 30, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Alan Dorsey, University of Florida Title: From Dendrites to Labyrinths: The Morphology of Magnetic Flux Patterns in Superconductors Abstract and details available

Monday, February 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor O. Basaran, Purdue U. Title: Drop formation in the presence and absence of an electric field Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jonathan Cornick, Ohio State University Title: Group actions on finite dimensional complexes and cohomological finiteness conditions Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 3, 1998

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Bernardo Cockburn , University of Minnesota Title: Continuous Dependence of Nonlinear Convection-Diffusion Equations Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Howie Masur, UIC Title: Actions of higher rank lattices on surfaces Contact Info here

Thursday, February 5, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm David Richeson, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Friday, February 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Title: Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction to the topic at 1:30 in M416 Abstract and details available

Monday, February 9, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Persi Diaconis, Cornell University Title: Card Shuffling and Hyperplane Rearrangements Contact Info here

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

Tuesday, February 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University Title: Noncommutative Geometry in the Perturbative Regime Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago Title: Self-Affine Sets:Some Dimensional Anomalies Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago Title: Geometry and Rigidity for the Baumslag-Solitar Groups Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 12, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University Title: Brown-Comenetz duality and localization Special Note: THE TALK IS NOT IN THE USUAL DAY OF THE WEEK AND IN A DIFFERENT ROOM Contact Info here

Friday, February 13, 1998

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Brian Hall, UCSD, Title: Holomorphic methods in analysis Abstract and details available

Monday, February 16, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor E. Knobloch , U. California, Berkeley Title: Bursts Special Note: sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor John Palmieri, University of Notre Dame Title: The structure of the Bousfield lattice Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 17, 1998

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University Title: q-Fractional Integrals and Applications Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Rafael Ruggiero Rodrigues, PUC -- Rio de Janeiro Title: Topological stability and Gromov hyperbolicity Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor E. Knobloch , U. California, Berkeley Title: Fully nonlinear rapidly rotating convection Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 18, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Harvard University Title: Categorical Mirror Symmetry: The Elliptic Curve Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 19, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor John Franks , Northwestern University Title: The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for polyhedra Contact Info here

Friday, February 20, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Julio Ottino, Northwestern U. Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Chaos in Granular Materials Abstract and details available

Monday, February 23, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky Title: On the splitting of the formal completion of Jacobians of curves from the point of view of analysis Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Jim Bryan, UC, Berkeley Title: Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces Special Note: This talk complements a talk at U of C on Wednesday at 4.30. Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor E. N. Barron , Loyola University of Chicago Title: Option Pricing Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marian Gidea, Loyola University of Chicago Title: Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems that Exhibit Hyperbolic Behavior Abstract and details available

Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar

9:00am Professor , The PDE conference will be held in Leve Title: Update information can be found in our webpage http://math.nwu.edu/~gqchen/index.html Details of the talk

Thursday, February 26, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: God help the state of Maine when mathematics reach for her Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Hans Kaper, Argonne National Laboratory Title: The Ginzburg-Landau Equations of Superconductivity Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Norman Lebovitz, The University of Chicago Title: Nonlinear Methods for Elliptical Instabilities in Fluids Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar Contact Info here

Friday, February 27, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz , Northwestern U. Title: Phase Segregation in Ternary Polymer Blends Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction at 1:30 in M416 Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Henghui Zou, University of Alabama Title: On positive solutions of degenerate $p$-Laplacian equations on $R^n$. Contact Info here

Monday, March 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor R. Lande , U. Oregon Title: Anthropogenic, ecological and genetic factors in extinction Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Lev Rozansky, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Burau representation of the braid group and the structure of the colored Jones polynomial Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marlies Gerber, Indiana University Title: Horocycle foliations on surfaces of nonpositive curvature Contact Info here

Wednesday, March 4, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University Title: Symplectic quotients and moduli spaces of flat connections Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 5, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Scott G. Moar, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Mariko Arisawa, University of Wisconsin Title: On some homogenization problems for second-order elliptic P.D.Es. Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Clarence Wilkerson, Purdue University Title: Lie groups and friends at the prime 2 Special Note: The talk is not in the usual place and day of the week. Abstract and details available

Friday, March 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, M416, 2:00pm Professor Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center Title: Ionic Channels in Biological Membranes: Natural Nanotubes Described by the Drift-diffusion Equations Abstract and details available

Monday, March 9, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor John Klein, University of Bielefeld Title: a compression theorem for embeddings Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Scott Thatcher, Northwestern University Title: Hecke operators on vector bundles over elliptic curves Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Youngna Choi , Northwestern University Title: Attractors for Lorenz-like maps Contact Info here

Thursday, March 12, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm David Richeson, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt, 3:00pm Professor Omar Gil, University of Minnesota Title: The focusing problem for the p-Laplacian evolution equation Contact Info here

Friday, March 13, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor John Lott, University of Michigan Title: The Zero-in-the-Spectrum Question Abstract and details available

Workshops/Conferences, , Professor , Title: Contact Info here

Workshops/Conferences, , 2:00pm Professor C. Morawetz , Title: Contact Info here

Monday, March 16, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor S. Troian , Princeton U. Title: Novel instabilities in thin liquid films: the beauty and the beast Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 17, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Sen Hu, Princeton Title: On self-similarity of critical KAM curves Contact Info here

Nonlinear PDE and Applications

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

22 ProWorkshops/Conferences, Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation Title: tba Details of the talk

Wednesday, March 18, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, U. Chicago Eckhart 202 Refreshments at 3:30 in E209, 4:00pm Professor T.P. Liu, Stanford U. Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic parabolic PDE's: Recent progress and new challenges Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium Contact Info here

Thursday, March 19, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. M. Mineev-Weinstein , Los Alamos National Lab Title: Selection of the Saffman-Taylor finger width in the absence of surface tension: an exact resu Contact Info here

Saturday, March 21, 1998

PDE Seminar, Leverone, Coon Forum, 9:00am , Title: Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar Special Note: The PDE conference will be held in Leverone Hall, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston; March 21-24, 1998 Contact Info here

Nonlinear PDE and Applications

8:30-9:15 Registration/Coffee, Details of the talk

9:15-9:30 Open/Announcements, Details of the talk

9:30 Professor L. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin Title: Some Aspects of Homogenization Details of the talk

10:20 Professor B. Dacorogna, Ecole Polytech Federale, Switzerland Title: Existence of Lipschitz Solution for Some Nonlinear First Order PDEs and Systems Details of the talk

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

2:00pm Professor C. Morawetz , Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA Title: The Reflection of a Weak Shock from a Thin Wedge Details of the talk

2:50pm Professor P. Constantin, University of Chicago Title: Turbulent Heat Transport Details of the talk

4:00pm Professor S. Osher , University of California at Los Angeles, USA Title: The Level Set Method and Evolving Crystalline Shapes, Island Dynamics, and New Wulff Isoperimetric Inequalities for Convex Curves Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor Y. Zheng , Indiana University, USA Title: Convergence of the vanishing viscosity approximation for superpositions Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor L. Capogna , Courant Institute of mathematical Sciences, USA Title: The Dirichlet problem for sub-Laplacians Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor S.-H. Wang , Indiana University, USA Title: Structure Analysis of the 2D Incompressible Flows Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor P. Korman , University of Cincinnati, USA Title: Symmetry breaking for semilinear equations Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor W.-C. Wang, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, USA Title: Asymptotic Limit of the Initial Boundary Value Problems for Conservation Laws with Relaxational Extensions Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor L. Mou , Bradley University, USA Title: Estimates for biharmonic differential equations and some applications Details of the talk

6:15pm Professor S. Watson , Louisiana State University, USA Title: Unique global solvability for initial-boundary value problems in one-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity Details of the talk

6:15pm Professor B. Yan , Michigan State University, USA Title: Coercivity of certain integrals in Sobolev spaces. Details of the talk

8:00pm After-Dinner Party, 763 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette Details of the talk

Sunday, March 22, 1998

9:00am Professor J. Glimm , State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Title: Predictibility of Complex Phenomena Details of the talk

9:50am Professor Stefan Mueller, Max Planck Institute for Math. in the Sciences, Leipzig Title: Variational problems with multiple scales Details of the talk

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

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

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

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

2:00pm Professor A. Friedman , University of Minnesota, USA Title: Propagation of Crack in Elastic Media Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor S. Tahvildar-Zadeh , Princeton University, USA Title: Global existence of the equivariant Yang-Mills heat flow Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor D. Hoff, Indiana University, USA Title: The Zero-Mach Limit of Compressible Flows Details of the talk

3:35pm Professor P. Marcati, Universita' degli Studi dell' Aquila, Itali Title: Diffusive dynamics of the multi-D Nonlinear Wave Equations Details of the talk

3:35pm Professor M. Grillakis , University of Maryland, USA Title: The critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation has classical solutions Details of the talk

4:10pm Professor H. Frid, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Title: Divergence - Measure Fields and Conservation Laws Details of the talk

4:10pm Professor H. Smith , University of Washington, USA Title: Small data scattering for a nonlinear dampened wave equation Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor C. Huang , Wright State University, USA Title: On Non-Local Differential Equations and Applications to Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor Q. Zhang , University of Missouri, USA Title: A new critical behavior for semilinear wave equations Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor M. A. Sychev , Carnegie Mellon University, USA Title: Characterization of homogeneous scalar variational problems solvable for all boundary data Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor M. Kovalyov , University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Title: Nonlinear harmonics for Integrable Systems Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor A. M. Blazhierskiy , Khmelnitsky Institute of Regional Mngm@Law, Ukraine Title: Summation of functional series by the method of finite hybrid integral transforms Hankel 1-Hankel 2-Fourier Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor R. Cascaval, University of Memphis, USA Title: Global Well-posedness for Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations Details of the talk

7:30pm Conference Dinner Party, 1629 Chicago Avenue (Church&Chicago), Evanston Details of the talk

Monday , March 23, 1998

9:00am Professor A. Majda , Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA Title: A Model for Dispersive Wave Turbulence Details of the talk

9:50 Professor B. Matkowsky , Northwestern University, USA Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion Details of the talk

11:00am Professor R. Kupferman, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. and UC Berkeley, USA Title: Optimal prediction of underresolved dynamics Details of the talk

11:00am Professor P. Marcellini, Dipartimento di Matematica Title: Almost everywhere solutions of some nonlinear second order pdes and systems Details of the talk

11:35am Professor S. Chanillo , Rutgers University, USA Title: Symmetry of solutions of Non-linear PDE Details of the talk

11:35am Professor Weinan E, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA Title: Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation Details of the talk

2:00pm Professor R. Schoen , Stanford University, USA Title: The Plateau Problem for Lagrangian Submanifolds Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor D. Andreucci, University of Rome, Italy Title: Parabolic problems in domains narrowing at infinity: estimates and blow up Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor F. Otto , University of California Santa Barbara, USA Title: The lubrication approximation with prescribed non--zero contact angle Details of the talk

3:35pm Professor P. Bauman, Purdue University, USA Title: A Three Dimensional Superconductor in a Strong Magnetic Field Details of the talk

3:35pm Professor R. Jerrard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Title: Vortex Dynamics of Conservative Ginzburg-Landau Systems Details of the talk

4:10pm Professor C.-Y. Wang, University of Chicago, USA Title: Energy Minimizing Maps into Piecewise Uniformly Lipschitz Manifolds Details of the talk

4:10pm Professor M. Miksis, Northwestern University, USA Title: Stability and Evolution of Thin Solid Films Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor M. O'Leary , University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Title: Integrability and Boundedness of Local Solutions to Singular and Degenerate Quasilinear Parabolic Equations Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor B. Guan , University of Tennessee, USA Title: Curvature Estimates for Hypersurfaces of Constant Gauss Curvature with Boundary Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor G. Simonette, Vanderbilt University, USA Title: On the surface diffusion flow Details of the talk

5:25pm Professor L. Giaocomelli , University of Rome, Italy Title: A Degenerate Parabolic Equation from Plasma Physics Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor Y. Koo , University of Minnesota, USA Title: A fattening principle for fronts propagating by mean curvature plus a driving force Details of the talk

5:50pm Professor S. Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati, USA Title: Parabolic Equations of Monge-Ampere Type in Finance: Derivation and Computations Details of the talk

6:15pm Professor D. Knopf , University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, USA Title: Quasi-convergence of the Ricci flow Details of the talk

6:15pm Professor E. Kim, University of Connecticut Title: On the Existence of Positive Solutions of Quasilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems Details of the talk

Tuesday, March 24, 1998

9:00am Professor C. Dafermos, Brown University, USA Title: Structure of Solutions of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws Details of the talk

9:50am Professor B. Perthame, University of Paris 6, France Title: Compactness Averaging Lemmas and Applications Details of the talk

11:00am Professor S.-T. Yau , Harvard University, USA Title: Surfaces with Prescribed Mean Curvature Details of the talk

1:30pm Professor C. Kenig , The University of Chicago, USA Title: Well Posedness for Derivative Nonlinearity Schrodinger Equations, and for the Systems of Ishimori Details of the talk

2:00pm Professor G. Talenti , University of Florence, Italy Title: On Complex-Valued Solutions to a 2D Eikonal Equation Details of the talk

3:30pm Professor A. Chang , University of California at Los Angeles, USA Title: Regularity Results of Harmonic and Bi-harmonic Maps Details of the talk

4:20pm - 4:30pm Announcements/Close , Details of the talk

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor S. Morris, U. Toronto, Canada Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films Special Note: unusual day and time Abstract and details available

Monday, March 30, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor S. Solla , Northwestern U. Title: Connections between statistical physics and statistical inference: a Bayesian approach to learning theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University Title: On the homology of SL_2(Z[t]) Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University Title: Pointwise Fourier Inversion, the Wave Equation, and Fourier Bessel Series Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Viviane Baladi, University of Geneva Title: The spectrum of coupled map lattices: beyond the first gap Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 1:00pm Professor Steve Morris, U. Toronto, Canada Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films Special Note: unusal day and time Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 16, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 216, 10:30am Youngna Choi, Northwestern University Title: Thesis Defense: One Dimensional Lorenz-like Attractors Contact Info here

Friday, April 17, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:30pm Professor Ofer Zeitouni, Electrical Engineering, Technion Title: Asymptotics for random combinatorial structures Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Liz Bradley, University of Colorado Title: Chaos and Control Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Paul Shick, John Carroll University Title: Toward the stable homotopy of finite complexes Special Note: Special session, not in the standard time or day Contact Info here

Monday, April 20, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. G. McFadden, NIST Title: A Phase Field Model of Rapid Solidification of a Binary Alloy Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor William Richter, Title: Poincare surgery and nonfiberwise homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 21, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Dan Nakano, Utah State University Title: Representation type of Schur algebras Contact Info here

Wednesday, April 22, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:30pm Professor Barry Simon, Caltech Title: A New Approach to Inverse Spectral Theory Contact Info here

Thursday, April 23, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Robert Jerrard, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigh Title: Functions of bounded higher variation Contact Info here

Friday, April 24, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Alvin Bayliss, Northwestern U. Title: New Modes of Burning in Solid Fuel Combustion Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 2:00pm Professor Steven Brahms, New York University Title: Fair Division Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 28, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Barbara Fantechi, University of Trento Title: Obstructions for deformation functors and applications Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Walter Trebels, Title: On the Rate of a.e. Convergence of Poisson Type Means Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Predrag Cvitanovic', Northwestern, Department of Physics & Astronomy Title: Kneading theory for 2-dimensional maps: the pruning front conjecture Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 30, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor L. Mahadevan , MIT Title: Crescents and Cones in Crumpled Sheets Special Note: unusual day Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 216, 11:00am David Richeson, Northwestern University Title: Thesis Defense: TBA Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor David Hunter, North Central College Title: Characterizing spectra with $U$-injective cohomology which satisfy the Brown-Gitler property Special Note: The session is not in the usual time and place Contact Info here

Saturday, May 2, 1998

NU-UC Workshop on Nonlinear/Complex Systems

10:00 Professor David Grier, U. Chicago Title: Vortex interactions and pinning in Type-II superconductors Details of the talk

10:40 Professor Seth Lichter, Title: Size Matters in 1-d Lattices Details of the talk

11:20 Professor Jens Niemeyer, Title: Turbulent Thermonuclear flames in Type Ia Supernovae Details of the talk

1:00pm Professor Tom Nagylaki, U. Chicago Title: Diffusion approximations for migration models in population genetics Details of the talk

1:40pm Professor Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Title: How do we learn to move our arms? A neurobiological approach to nonlinear adaptive control Details of the talk

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

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

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

Monday, May 4, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Paul Goerss, University of Washington Title: Hopf rings, Dieudonn\'e modules, and E_\ast \Omega^2 S^3 Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 5, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Thomas Geisser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: K-theory in characteristic p Contact Info here

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Malgorzata Stawiska , Northwestern University Title: Chebyshev Polynomials on Equipotential Curves of a Quadratic Julia Set Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, TBA, TBA Antonio Garcia, Title: Thesis Defense: TBA Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 6, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:30pm Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University Title: Eigenvalue Inequalities and Quantum Cohomology of the Grassmannian Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 7, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 216, 11:00am John M. Alongi, Northwestern University Title: Thesis Defense: Rotation vectors on compact surfaces Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Yuan Lou, University of Chicago Title: The proof of a conjecture about the peturbed Gelfand problem. Contact Info here

Friday, May 8, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Chris Bendel, University of Notre Dame Title: Representations of restricted Lie algebras and powers of p-characters Special Note: This is not the usual time or day of the week! Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Alastair Rucklidge, Cambridge U., England Title: Bifurcations of periodic orbits with spatio-temporal symmetries Abstract and details available

Monday, May 11, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky Title: Formal groups obtained from \Theta functions Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 12, 1998

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor William Kath, Northwestern University Title: "Stability of Pulses with Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers" Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Kathy Alligood, George Mason University Title: Global Bifurcations of Chaotic Basic Sets Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 3:00pm Professor Piermarco Cannarsa, Universita di Roma Title: Singularities of solutions to H-J-B equations with application to optimal control Special Note: Time changed ! This is not the usual day ! Contact Info here

Thursday, May 14, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Lee Mosher, Rutgers -- Newark Title: Quasi-isometries and solvable groups Special Note: Note special time, date, and room Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Bob Jensen, Loyola University of Chicago Title: Cramer's Theorem via PDEs Contact Info here

Monday, May 18, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brooke Shipley, University of Chicago Title: Classification of stable model categories Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 19, 1998

Analysis Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University Title: Extremal Problems in Analysis (Green Functions, Heat Kernels,...) Arising from Probabilistic Considerations Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Hildeberto Carbral, TBA Title: Periodic solutions of symmetric perturbations of the Kepler problem Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

Colloquium, Tech Bldg. Lecture Room 6, 4:30pm Professor David Ruelle, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques Title: New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics Special Note: Joint Physics & Astronomy / Mathematics Colloquium Contact Info here

Thursday, May 21, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Robert McCann , Brown University Title: Shape Recognition, Optimal Transportation, and Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures Contact Info here

Friday, May 22, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Susan Friedlander, U. Illinois, Chicago Title: Nonlinear Instabilities in fluid flows Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 26, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Florence Newberger, University of Maryland Title: Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 27, 1998

Topology Seminar, Lunt 102, 4:10pm Professor Brayton Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: The EHP spectral sequence for V(0) Special Note: Special session. Note the different day. Contact Info here

Thursday, May 28, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. V. Kovanis, Phillips Labs Title: Instabilities of Coupled Diode Lasers Contact Info here

Friday, May 29, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Giles Novak, Northwestern U. Title: New observations of interstellar magnetic fields Abstract and details available

Tuesday, June 2, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Andrew Torok, Princeton University Title: "Density of stably ergodic diffeomorphisms around some non-ergodic ones" Contact Info here

Thursday, June 25, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France Title: A New Fluid Model of Traffic Flow Contact Info here

Wednesday, August 5, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:30pm Professor Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Beijing Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic systems with damping mechanism Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:30pm Professor M. Kratka, University of Chicago Title: Multidimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with free boundary and symmetryh Contact Info here

Thursday, August 27, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. J. Eggers, U. Essen Title: Coalescence of Two Spheres Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Gregory King, University of Warwick, UK Title: Recent results on the physics of chaotic advection in wavy Taylor vortex flow Contact Info here

Thursday, September 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 102, 4:10pm Professor Ionut Ciocan, Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, I Contact Info here

Monday, September 28, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Gang Wang, De Paul University Title: Some recent progress and open questions on the uniqueness of multiple trigonometric series Contact Info here

Thursday, October 1, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 102, 4:10pm Professor Ionut Ciocan, Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, II Contact Info here

Friday, October 2, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. H.P. Grimm, Northwestern U. Title: Steps, Kinetic Anisotropy, and Long--Wave Instabilities in Directional Solidification Abstract and details available

Monday, October 5, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University Title: Numerical Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in Ionic Channels of Cellular Membranes Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stephen Theriault, UIC Title: Anick's Spaces and the Double Loops on Odd Primary Moore Spaces Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 7, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Witten's Integral and the Kontsevich Integrals Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 8, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor J. Fineberg, Hebrew U., Israel Title: How things break: Instability in Dynamic Fracture Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Thy Tran, Northwestern University Title: n-widths and Optimal Recovery Contact Info here

Friday, October 9, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor J. Fineberg, Hebrew U., Israel Title: New Structures in a Shaking Fluid Abstract and details available

Monday, October 12, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Peter Kan, Northwestern University Title: Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brayton Gray, UIC Title: Composition methods in the homotopy groups of Moore spectra Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 13, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Chris Hoffman, University of Maryland Title: Rational maps of the Riemann sphere are Bernoulli. Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 14, 1998

3rd UC/NU Workshop on Nonlinear and Complex Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, October 15, 1998

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University Title: Comments on Kontsevich's Mirror Symmetry Conjecture Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Jason Holt , Northwestern University Title: Flat donuts and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem Contact Info here

Friday, October 16, 1998

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

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

Monday, October 19, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Miron Bekker , Northwestern University and Loyola University Title: Integral Representation for Continuous O(n)-Positive Defined Functions Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor J. Powers, U. Notre Dame Title: Ignition theory for shearing reactive solids Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Po Hu, University of Chicago Title: A geometric approach to spectra in the category of schemes Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman and Vaintrob) Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041 Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University Title: Double affine Hecke algebras and 2-dimensional local fields Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 21, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Density of rational points on algebraic varieties Contact Info here

Thursday, October 22, 1998

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 101, 10:30am Dimitry Tamarkin, Penn State University Title: Operadic proof of Kontsevich's formality theorem Special Note: CHANGE OF TIME!! Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Scott Moar, Northwestern University Title: Zeta Functions and Homology Contact Info here

Friday, October 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor N. Spruston, Northwestern U. Title: Cable properties of cortical neurons: theory and experiment Special Note: http://www.nwu.edu/neurobiology/Spruston/ Abstract and details available

Twentieth Midwest Probability Colloquium

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

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

Saturday, October 24, 1998

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

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

Monday, October 26, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Gilbert Walter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Title: Continuous non-negative wavelets and their use in probability density estimation Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. A. Neishtadt, Moscow Space Research Inst. Title: On the delay of stability loss for periodic trajectories in systems with slowly varying parameters Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Johnson, Northwestern University Title: Classifying models for the stable homotopy category Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman, Vaintrob) Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041 Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar

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

Thursday, October 29, 1998

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, Northwetsern University Title: Mass transfer in inhomogeneous media Contact Info here

Saturday, October 31, 1998

Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference

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

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

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

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

Sunday, November 1, 1998

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

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

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

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

Monday, November 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor A.K. Kapila, R.P.I. Title: Modeling the transition from deflagration to detonation in granular explosives Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Don Stanley, Berlin Title: Fibrewise stabalization and an application to a conjecture of Iwase Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor J.-B. Bost, CNRS and Institute for Advanced Study Title: Optimal estimates in Arakelov geometry Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern Title: Stable ergodicity and frame flows Contact Info here

Thursday, November 5, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Margaret Stawiska, Northwestern University Title: Iterations of Contractions and Analytic Maps Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Peiyong Wang, University of Texas at Austin Title: A Harnack Approach to The Regularity of The Free Boundaries for 2-phase Problems Contact Info here

Friday, November 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor H. Jaeger, U. Chicago Title: Compaction and Compression of Granular Matter Abstract and details available

Monday, November 9, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Eilon Solan , Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management) Title: Dynamical Systems in Stochastic Games Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor G. Tryggvason, U. Michigan Title: Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University Title: Kac-Moody groups and topology Contact Info here

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor , Title: Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Marshall Slemrod , University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: TBA Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 5:00pm Seva Joukhovitsky, Northwestern University Title: Characters and representations according to Frobenius, Wiles and Taylor Special Note: Note the unusual time: 5PM Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern Title: Robust ergodic properties of diffeomorphisms Contact Info here

Thursday, November 12, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: Introduction to Morse Theory Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:15pm Professor Nets Katz, University of Illinois At Chicago Title: Hexagons, distances, and Besicovitch sets Contact Info here

Friday, November 13, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Tom Hales, University of Michigan Title: The Kepler Conjecture Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor J. Houk, Northwestern U. Title: Distributed Modular Networks for Controlling Movement and Cognition Abstract and details available

Monday, November 16, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University Title: Entropy, Compactness, and Asymptotic Problems of Discontinuous Solutions Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor S.W. Joo, Yeungnam U. Korea Title: Interfacial Instabilities in Ferrofluids Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University Title: Finite Group Actions on Riemann Surfaces, G-Signature and Cobordism Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 17, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Patrick Brosnan, Northwestern Title: Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Sara Asher, Northwestern Title: Dynamics of Continuous Baker's Maps Contact Info here

Thursday, November 19, 1998

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Kamlesh Parvani, Northwestern University Title: Billiard Balls Contact Info here

Friday, November 20, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor R. Freeman, Northwestern U. Title: Robust Nonlinear Control Systems: Theory and Design Abstract and details available

Monday, November 23, 1998

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Alvin Bayliss, Northwestern University Title: Adaptive Pseudo-Spectral Methods and Computations of the Interaction of Counterpropagating Hot Spots in Solid Fuel Combustion Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Octavian Cornea, University of Lille Title: An extension of the Morse complex Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Sam Evens, University of Arizona Title: Poisson geometry and a theorem of Kostant Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Wilhelm Schlag, Princeton University Title: On uniformly distributed dilates of finite integer sequences Contact Info here

Monday, November 30, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, TBA, 3:00pm Professor Henk Bruin, Caltech Title: Interval Maps and Adic Transformations Special Note: One hour earlier than usual. Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor L. Kramer, U. Bayreuth, Germany Title: Patterns and Defects in the Anisotropic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation Contact Info here

Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Arek Goetz, Boston University Title: Return maps in piecewise affine and piecewise isometric systems Special Note: One hour earlier than usual. Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Wilhelm Schlag, Title: On uniformly distributed dilates of finite integer sequences Contact Info here

Wednesday, December 2, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Antti Kupiainen, University of Helsinki Title: KAM Theorem and Quantum Field Theory Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professors L. Kramer, U. Bayreuth, Germany Title: Secondary instabilities in anisotropic convection Special Note: Note unusual day! Contact Info here

Thursday, December 3, 1998

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University Title: Weighted Strichartz estimates and existence for nonlinear wave equations Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Yuan Che, Northwestern University Title: Symbolic Dynamics and Markov Partitions Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. M. van Hecke, CATS, Copenhagen, Denmark Title: Local Structures and Spatiotemporal Chaos Special Note: Note unusal day! Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 10, 1998

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Albrecht Klemm, The Institute for Advanced Study Title: Mirror Symmetry at Higher Loops Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M128, 12:00 noon Professor R. Kamm, M.I.T. Title: The role of mechanics in the biological remodeling of the asthmatic airway Special Note: Jointly sponsored by B.M.E. unusual location and time! Contact Info here

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