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Thursday, January 7, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Sandor Kovac, University of Chicago Title: Algebraic hyperbolicity of fine moduli spaces Contact Info here

Friday, January 8, 1999

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 with B.M.E. Unusal time and location! Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M 416, 2:00pm Professor V. Steinberg, Weizmann Institute, Israel Title: Elasticity and Turbulence in a polymeric flow Abstract and details available

Monday, January 11, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Joseph Jerome , Northwestern University Title: Numerical Loss of Derivatives: Nash Iteration and Krasnosel'skii's Operator Calculus Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, U. Chicago Eckhart 202, 4:00pm Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U. Title: Dynamics of Coherent Structures Special Note: This talk is sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium. It will be held at the University of Chicago in Eckhart 202 Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Lee Nave, University of Washington Title: On the non-existence of Smith-Toda complexes Contact Info here

Friday, January 15, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech LR 3, 2:00pm Professor A. Huebler, U. Illinois, Urbana Title: Harmonicity: Self-Adjusting Systems Avoid Chaos Special Note: Note: unusual location Abstract and details available

Monday, January 18, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University Title: Conergence and localization of eigenfunction expansions Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor M. Silber, Northwestern U. Title: Parametric instabilities and pattern formation Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Laura Scull, U. of Chicago Title: Rational S^1-equivariant homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 19, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Philip Foth, Northwestern Title: Deformation theory of local systems Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10:00 Misha Kapranov, Northwestern, Title: Background on dg-schemes Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Chris Connell, University of Michigan Title: Hyperbolic rank rigidity for homogeneous spaces Contact Info here

Friday, January 22, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M 416, 2:00pm Professor P. Voorhees, Northwestern Title: Morphological Evolution of Alloy Thin Films Abstract and details available

Monday, January 25, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor D. Muraki, Courant Inst. Math.Sci. Title: An interfacial wave treatment of tropopause dynamics Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mike Mandell, MIT Title: Topological Andre-Quillen homology Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 26, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern Title: Gerbes and mirror symmetry (report on a talk of Hitchin) Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10:00 Misha Kapranov , Title: DG-schemes (contd.) Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 27, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Toby Colding, New York University Title: Minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds Contact Info here

Thursday, January 28, 1999

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

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Petri Juutinen, Northwestern University Title: The first eigenvalue of the $\infty$-Laplacian Contact Info here

Friday, January 29, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. R. Grigoriev, U. Chicago Title: Symmetry in Chaos Control and Phase Space Reconstruction Abstract and details available

Monday, February 1, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Xia Chen, Northwestern University Title: Some Limit Laws for Additive Functionals of Markov Chains Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor H. Levine, U. California San Diego Title: Pattern formation in Micro-organisms Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern Title: Obstructions to finding a space with specified homotopy groups (after Dwyer, Kan, and Stover) Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 2, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Lev Borisov, Columbia University Title: Vertex Algebras and Mirror Symmetry Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10:00 Professor Ezra Getzler, NU , Title: Formal dg-deformations Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Tatyana Foth, Northwestern University Title: Dynamics of the frame flow on a complex hyperbolic space and automorphic forms Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 3, 1999

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Robert Bauer, Georgia Tech Title: Stochastic parallel transport and Yang-Mills equations Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 4, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Gary Gutman, Northwestern University Title: Elliptic Curves II Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jason Holt , Northwestern University Title: Turing machines: an introduction Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Xiaozhou Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: A New Approach of Multi-Dimensional Riemann Problem Contact Info here

Monday, February 8, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University Title: Norm inequalities for fractional integrals of Laguerre and Hermite expansions. Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stephen Theriault, U. of Illinois at Chicago Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto U. and IAS, Princeton), Title: Moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces and affine Lie algebras Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Misha Kapranov (NU), Title: Derived Hilbert and Quot schemes Contact Info here

Wednseday, February 10, 1999

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elana Kosygina, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Behavior of the relative entropy in the hydrodynamical scaling limit Contact Info here

Thursday, February 11, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Julia Hartman , Northwestern University (Universitaet Goettingen) Title: Modular invariant theory / Dickson invariants Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Thy Tran, Northwestern University Title: It's just amazing, isn't it? Contact Info here

Friday, February 12, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Ranee Brylinski, PennState Title: Star products and quantization of manifolds with symmetry Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jean-Luc Brylinski, PennState Title: Equivariant K-theory for compact groups and Grothendieck differentials Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. I. Aranson, Argonne National Lab Title: Dynamics of axial segregation in a long rotating drum Abstract and details available

Monday, February 15, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Brownian bridge and derivative estimates of the heat kernel on a compact Riemannian manifold Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U. Title: Localized Structures in pattern forming systems: worms in electroconvection Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Fred Cohen, Rochester (visiting Wisconsin-Madison) Title: On self-maps of double loop spaces, the gravity filtration, and a conjecture of Barratt Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 16, 1999

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU, Title: Derived Quot schemes (contd.) Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor John Franks, Northwestern Title: Regions of Instability for non-twist maps Contact Info here

Wednseday, February 17, 1999

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Min Kang, Fields Institute and York University Title: Asymptotic behavior of solutions of parabolic SPDE's Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 18, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Seva Joukhovitski, Northwestern University Title: Quadratic Forms I Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Kathy Phelps, Northwestern University Title: Julia sets of rational functions on the Riemann sphere Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Sanja Hukovic, University of Missouri Title: Sharp weighted inequalities for square function. Contact Info here

Friday, February 19, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. K. Hill, Northwestern U. Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Signatures of Chaos in Tumbled Granular Materials Abstract and details available

Monday, February 22, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor B. Pitman, S.U.N.Y Title: On a mechanical theory for fluid-particle beds at high solids volume fraction Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Alex Adem, U. Wisconsin Title: Periodic Complexes, Euler Classes and Group Actions Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University Title: Relative Malcev Completions Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Philip Foth, NU, Title: Analytic theory of Z-graded dg-algebras Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern Title: TBA Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 24, 1999

Department Meeting, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Open meeting, Title: Discussion of MENU Contact Info here

Thursday, February 25, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Patrick Brosnan, Northwestern University Title: Quadratic Forms II Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Kamlesh Parwani, Northwestern University Title: A Solution to the Illumination Problem in a Square Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: The Chapman-Enskog Expansion Contact Info here

Friday, February 26, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor G. Gunaratne, U. Houston Title: Characterization of natural patterns Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jason Fulman, Dartmouth Title: Shuffling cards and Lie theory Abstract and details available

Monday, March 1, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor J. Daou, Tech. Univ. Madrid Title: Flame propagation in nonuniform reactive gaseous mixtures Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00 pm Professor Jiaping Wang, Cornell University Title: Convex hull property of harmonic maps Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern Title: Quillen complexes, Mobius functions, and stable decompositions for compact Lie groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 2, 1999

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU, Title: (Weak) Lie algebras associated to dg-manifolds Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Ludmil Katzarkov, University of California, Irvine Title: Algebraic geometry techniques in symplectic geometry Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 4, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 2:00pm Bryan Schulte, Northwestern University Title: TBA Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University Title: Weighted ENO schemes on arbitrary triangulations Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: Filtrations and the Conley Index Contact Info here

Friday, March 5, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor S.-J. Chang, U Illinois Urbana Title: Chaos in Quantum Map Abstract and details available

Monday, March 8, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor V. Entov, Russ. Acad. Science Title: Nonlinear interface dynamics in Hele-Shaw flows and porous media Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 9, 1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern Title: Arnold Diffusion, II Contact Info here

Monday, March 15, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Ioan Vrabie, University of Iasi, Romania Title: Domains of Viability for Nonlinear Evolution Equations in Bnach Spaces Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Contact Info here

Thursday, March 18, 1999

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Tian-Jun Li, Yale University, Title: Lefschetz Fibrations and Symplectic 4-Manifolds Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Yuxi Zheng, Indiana University-Bloomington Title: A Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm Professor Rick Jardine, Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra Special Note: Note special day Contact Info here

Monday, March 29, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. B. Echebarria, U. Navarra, Spain Title: Stability of hexagonal patterns in rotating convection Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern Title: Examples of modular forms in homotopy theory Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 30, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Arithmetic of rational varieties Contact Info here

Friday, April 2, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. A. Tkachenko, U. Chicago Title: Sand Science: from Description to Understanding Abstract and details available

Monday, April 5, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Konstantina Trivisa , Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm H. Grimm, E.P.F.L., Switzerland Title: Banded structures in alloys, nonlinear mode interactions and normal forms Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern Title: Homotopy uniqueness of BSO(3) x S^n Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 6, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Richard Thomas, Oxford University Title: Mirror Symmetry and the braid group Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jozef Kacur, Commenius University, Slovakia Title: Solution of Degenerate Convection-Diffusion Preblems by the Method of Characteristics and Relaxation Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Contact Info here

Thursday, April 8, 1999

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 101, 10am Richard Thomas, Oxford University Title: A holomorphic Casson invariant Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: Multivalued maps and epsilon-chains Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Tech Title: Uniqueness of Equilibrium Configurations in Solid Crystals Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Irene Gamba, University of Texas at Austin Title: Kinetic-Fluid Interface Problem Under Strong Forcing Conditions Contact Info here

Friday, April 9, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Y. Eliashberg, Stanford University Title: Introduction to symplectic field theory Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Gregory Ryskin , Northwestern U. Title: On Markov processes and invariance Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 10, 1999

Midwest Topology Seminar

10:00am Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University Title: Finite group actions on Riemann surfaces, G-equivariant bordism and G-signature Details of the talk

11:30am Professor Stephen Theriault, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces Details of the talk

2:30pm Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago Title: The asymptotic geometry of groups Details of the talk

4:00pm Professor Bill Dwyer, University of Notre Dame Title: Ohkawa's theorem Details of the talk

Monday, April 12, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Viktor Losert, University of Vienna Title: Convergence of Convolution Powers Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. A. Moukasian, U. Notre Dame Title: Reaction wave propagation mechanisms in gasless heterogeneous systems Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 13, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine, Northwestern Title: The quantum Littlewood-Richardson rule Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Herbert Koch, University of Heidelberg Title: Singular integrals and the porous medium equation Contact Info here

Thursday, April 15, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Luis Almeida, CMLA - Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan Title: Level sets and excited states for Ginzburg-Landau energies. Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm Professor Rick Jardine, Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra Special Note: SPECIAL DAY Contact Info here

Friday, April 16, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jean-Pierre Aubin, Université de Paris Title: Set-valued solutions to boundary value problems for systems of first-order pdes Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Gregory Luther, Northwestern U. Title: Understanding control strategies for resonant waves interactions using geometric techniques Abstract and details available

Monday, April 19, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Gaspar Porta, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: The limit of the product of the parameterized exponential of two operators Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. A. Tandia , Lab. Analyse des Systemes, CNRS, France Title: Thin-film deposition and the level-set method Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brayton Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Idempotents and coefficients Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 20, 1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr Title: Using the Finite Horizon Condition to create new examples of embedded surfaces with ergodic geodesic flow Contact Info here

Thursday, April 22, 1999

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn Title: Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces Contact Info here

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

Friday, April 23, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor D. Ferster, Northwestern U. Title: Assembly of receptive fields in cat visual cortex Abstract and details available

Monday, April 26, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor D.S. Cohen, Caltech Title: Modeling bioremediation of TCE at DOE's Savannah River site Special Note: sponsored by Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Philip Foth, Northwestern U. Title: Functors in formal deformation theory (after Hinich) Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern Title: A stably Bernoullian diffeomorphism that is not Anosov Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Boris Dubrovin, SISSA, Trieste Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov - Witten invariants. Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:10pm Professor Eleny Ionel, MIT Title: Contact Info here

Thursday, April 29, 1999

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Yuan Che , Northwestern University Title: Small denominators in celestial mechanics Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 311, 10 Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia Title: Virtual fundamental classes Contact Info here

Friday, April 30, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor C. Josserand, U. Chicago Title: Self-organisation in soliton wave turbulence Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor S. Jin, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: Nonlinear Focusing with Random Inhomogeneities Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Contact Info here

Monday, May 3, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Sandy Zabell, Northwestern University Title: The Lambda Calculus: An Expository Tutorial Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: Another E-infinity operad Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 4, 1999

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia Title: Virtual fundamental classes Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Annenberg G15, 4:00pm Professor Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn Title: Quantum Computing Contact Info here

Thursday, May 6, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota, Title: Infinite-dimensional linear algebra over an artinian local ring and the Contou-Carrere symbol Special Note: Note the unusual day. Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Lizzie Burslem, NOrthwestern University Title: Contact Info here

Friday, May 7, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Greg Arone, U of Chicago Title: Calculus of functors in topology Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Chris Moore, Santa Fe Institute Title: Three- and Four-color Potts Models in the Plane: Vortices, Entropic Forces and Interfaces Abstract and details available

Monday, May 10, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor David Chopp, Northwestern University Title: Modelling Surface Diffusion with the Level Set Method Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor L. Pismen, Technion - Israel Inst. Technology Title: Quest for complex order Special Note: Talk is an Eshbach Distinguished Lecture Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Benoit Fresse, Nice Title: The theory of Koszul operads and the homology of Poisson algebras Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 11, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Boris Dubrovin, SISSA, Trieste Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov-Witten invariants. Contact Info here

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU, Title: Derived Hilbert schemes Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State Title: Asymptotic Measures for dissipative systems in the plane. Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor C. Surko, U. California, San Diego Title: Phase Defect Description of Traveling-Wave Convection Special Note: Note: unusual day! Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 13, 1999

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Vadim Meleshuk, Title: Contact Info here

Friday, May 14, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Gigliola Stafillani, Princeton University Title: Long time behaviour of Sobolev norms of solutions for dispersive equations Contact Info here

Monday, May 17, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Ross Pinsky, Technion, visiting CIMS Title: Positive and bounded harmonic functions with mixed boundary conditions Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. D. Meinkohn, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Germany Title: Curvature-driven flow in thin liquid films Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brooke Shipley, Purdue University / University of Chicago Title: Rational S^1 equivariant homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 18, 1999

Deformation Theory Seminar, Lunt 216, 10AM Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine, NU, Title: Derived Hilbert schemes (cont.) Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Steve Batterson, Emory University Title: Steve Smale: The Path to the 1967 Bulletin "Survey" Article Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Ross Pinsky, Technion, Visiting CIMS Title: Decay of total mass for nonlinear parabolic equations Special Note: SPECIAL TIME Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 20, 1999

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 3:00pm Professor Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel, MIT Title: Degenerations of Gromov-Witten invariants Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Panagiotis Souganidis, University of Wisconsin Title: Fully nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations: Theory and applications. Contact Info here

Monday, May 24, 1999

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Benoit Fresse, Nice Title: On homotopy operations for simplicial algebras over an operad Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 26, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Kari Vilonen, Brandeis University Title: Characteristic cycles and representaion theory Contact Info here

Thursday, May 27, 1999

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Malgorzata Stawiska , Title: Contact Info here

Friday, May 28, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 3:00pm Dr. H. Chate, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Title: Phase-Ordering, Interface Dynamics, and Persistence Exponents in Spatially-Extended Dynamical Systems Special Note: Note unusual time Abstract and details available

Friday, June 4, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor S. Morris, U. California, Berkeley Title: A simplified free-boundary problem for the evaporating wetting meniscus Contact Info here

Thursday, June 17, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI, Berkeley California Title: Solving linear equations over polynomial rings and exterior algebras Abstract and details available

Tuesday, July 6, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 11:00am Dr. J.R.A. Pearson, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Title: Thin film rupture in high Reynolds number flows Special Note: Note unusal time and date Contact Info here

Thursday, July 22, 1999

Topology Seminar, Annenberg G32, 2pm Professor Vincent Franjou, Nantes Title: Polynomial Mackey Functors Contact Info here

Topology Seminar

3.30pm Professor Hans-Werner Henn, Strasbourg Title: Euler characteristics of Orthogonal groups over Z[1/2] Details of the talk

Topology Seminar, Annenberg G32, 3.30pm Professor Hans-Werner Henn, Strasbourg Title: Euler characteristics of Orthogonal groups over Z[1/2] Contact Info here

Thursday, September 9, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Yue-Jun Peng, Universite Blaise Pascal, France Title: Asymptotic Analysis of a Hierarchy Model for Plasmas Special Note: Special Time!! Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: Boundary Harnack Principle for Symmetric Stable Processes Contact Info here

Thursday, September 16, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jose' Miguel Urbano, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Title: Degenerate Elliptic Problems in a Class of Free Domains Contact Info here

Wednesday, September 22, 1999

Department Meeting, Lunt 105, 4:00pm , Title: Contact Info here

Friday, September 24, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University Title: Singular Homology Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. Yi-Ju Chen, Title: Flow-Induced Morphology Abstract and details available

Monday, September 27, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University Title: A Paley-Wiener theorem in white noise analysis Contact Info here

Tuesday, September 28, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University Title: Derived Deformation Theory Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor , Title: Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor , Title: Contact Info here

Friday, October 1, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: History, Recent Progress and Future Challenges Contact Info here

Monday, October 4, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University Title: Extension problem for positive-definite generalized Toeplitz kernels Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Iskander Taimanov, Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk Title: Integrable geodesic flow with positive topological entropy Special Note: Please note unusual day and room! Prof Shklover's talk has been postponed to Oct 26. Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor T. Takeno, U. Nagoya Title: Impact of advances in numerical computation on combustion science and technology Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Vassily Gorbanov, University of Kentucky Title: Gerbes of Chiral Differential Operators Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 5, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00 pm Gary Gutman , Northwestern University Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains Contact Info here

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 2:00pm Professor Donald Saari, Title: Double Humped N-Body Problems. Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 6, 1999

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 1:00pm Professor Natarajan Sukumar, Title: The Natural Element Method Contact Info here

Thursday, October 7, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Christian Haesemeyer, Northwestern University Title: The Grothendieck Group of projective space Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Friday, October 8, 1999

Colloquium, Annenberg G15, 4:30pm Professor Howard Masur, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Periodic Orbits for Rational Billiards and Flat Surfaces Special Note: Special Time and Place! Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar Abstract and details available

Monday, October 11, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Vladimir Shklover, Northwestern University Title: Schiffer Problem and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Fabien Morel, Universite Paris 7 Title: An Introduction to A^1-Homotopy Theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 12, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00 pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University Title: Testing M-Theory with local mirror symmetry Contact Info here

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 2:00pm Professor Jaques Fejoz, Title: Secular Motion in the Planar Three-Body Problem. Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 102, 3:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: Morse decompositions and connection matrices Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 13, 1999

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 1:00pm Dr. Natarajan Sukumar, NU Civil Engineering Title: Natural Element Method II Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 14, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Gary Gutman, Northwestern University Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Friday, October 15, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Fabien Morel, University of Paris 7 Title: The Euler Class of an Algebraic Vector Bundle Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor Leslie Hocking, University College London Title: Spreading of a liquid drop with mass loss Contact Info here

Monday , October 18, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University Title: Heisenberg's inequality in infinite dimensions Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor R. Kamien, U. Pennsylvania Title: Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations and all that Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University Title: A_\infty ring spectra under MU Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 19, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University Title: Semi-topological K-theory Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Kamlesh Parwani, Title: Something interesting Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor V. Steinberg, Weizmann Institute, Israel Title: Parametric Generation of Second Sound in Superfluid Helium Special Note: Note unusual day and time. This seminar is jointly with the Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 20, 1999

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 1:00pm Dr. Francisco Solis , Chem. Eng. Dept., NWU Title: A Level Set Approach for Multicomponent Fluid Flows Contact Info here

Friday, October 22, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor John Pople (Nobel Laureate, 1998), Northwestern University Title: Quantum Chemistry and Mathematics Contact Info here

Monday, October 25, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame Title: Quantization and reduction Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Dr. I. Kliakhandler, Northwestern U. Title: Interfacial dynamics of film flows Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Po Hu, University of Chicago Title: Real and Algebraic Hopf invariant one elements Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Hoff, Indiana University at Bloomington Title: TBA Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 26, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Alexander Scorichenko , Northwestern University Title: Functor (co)homology and stable K-theory over a field Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Vladimir Shklover, Northwestern Title: Conformal maps and straightening of curves Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Yuan Che, Northwestern University Title: Homoclinic intersections arising from exact symplectic maps Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 27, 1999

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 1:00pm Jie Zhang, ESAM Title: A Method for Tracking Interfaces Contact Info here

Thursday, October 28, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Justin Mauger, Northwestern University Title: Exact Couples and Spectral Sequences Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar Contact Info here

Friday, October 29, 1999

ESAM Colloquium, Tech A230, 3:15pm Professor C. Roberts, N. Arizona U. Title: Modeling complex human-environment interactions: the Grand Canyon River Trip Simulation Project Special Note: Unusual day and time. This Talk is jointly sponsored with the Transportation Center Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. M. van Hecke , CATS/Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen Title: Pattern Formation for Vortex Ripples: 1D theory and 2D experiments Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Nick Barron, Loyola University Title: Calculus of variations in L-infinity Special Note: SPECIAL PDE SEMINAR Contact Info here

Monday, November 1, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Rich Sowers, University of Illinois Title: Stochastic averaging with a flattened Hamiltonian: Markov process on a lollipop Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Amnon Neeman, Australian National University Title: Determinants, K_1, and recent improvements Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar ! Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 2, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Jean-Louis Loday, CNRS, Strasbourg, France and MSRI Title: Syzygies, Igusa's pictures and identities among relations Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar ! Abstract and details available

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 2:00pm Professor Clark Robinson, Title: Symbolic dynamics from topological horseshoes Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor A. Winfree, U. Arizona Title: Unsolved Problems of the Heart Special Note: Note unusual day Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 3, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Jean-Louis Loday , MSRI (Berkeley) & CNRS at Strasbourg (France) Title: The Hopf Algebra of Binary Trees Abstract and details available

Friday, November 5, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor S. Mussa-Ivaldi, Northwestern U. Title: Nonlinear Models of Motor Learning Abstract and details available

Monday, November 8, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Uniqueness of reflecting Brownian motion in euclidean domains Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor J. Bronski, U. Illinois Title: Estimates of long-tailed probability distribution functions in passive scalar transport Special Note: UNFORTUNATELY THIS TALK HAD TO BE CANCELLED Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University Title: The p-chain spectral sequence and Whitehead groups of Fuchsian groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 9, 1999

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 2:00pm Yuan Che, Title: Roberts' results on Central Configurations Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Chris Connell, UIC Title: Minimal entropy rigidity for finite volume manifolds Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Margaret Stawiska, Northwestern University Title: The Mandelbrot set Contact Info here

Thursday, November 11, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University Title: Global Strichartz estimates for the wave equation with applications to nonlinear equations Contact Info here

Friday, November 12, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor David Benson, University of Georgia Title: Some Platitudes on Flatness Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Professor M. Dennin, UC Irvine Title: Taming spatiotemporal chaos: periodic modulations of the control parameter. Abstract and details available

Saturday, November 13, 1999

Midwest Group Cohomology Seminar

various speakers, Title: Midwest Group Cohomology Seminar Place: Lunt 105 Abstract and details available

Monday, November 15, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois Title: Boundary Harnack principle for symmetric stable processes Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor P. Milewski, U. Wisconsin Title: Solitary and breaking waves in equatorial shallow water Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jesper Grodal, M.I.T Title: Higher limits, subgroup complexes and group cohomology Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Brendan Hassett, University of Chicago Title: Rational points on symmetric products of surfaces Abstract and details available

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 2:00pm Professor Don Saari, Title: The evolution of Newton's Universe Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Victoria Sadovskaya, Pennsylvania State University Title: "On pointwise dimension of non-hyperbolic measures" Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Todd Fisher, Northwestern Title: Almost topological conjugacy Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 17, 1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Boris Kalinin , Pennsylvania State University Title: TBA Special Note: Unusual day and time! Contact Info here

Thursday, November 18, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ugo Gianazza, University of Pavia and Northwestern University Title: Regularity for a degenerate Obstacle Problem Contact Info here

Friday, November 19, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Jill Pipher , Brown University Title: The impact of harmonic analysis on problems in linear partial differential equations Contact Info here

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

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

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Profesor Athanasios Tzavaras , University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: TBA Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Profesor Athanasios Tzavaras , University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: TBA Contact Info here

Monday, November 22, 1999

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University Title: Iterated Random Functions: A Token Problem Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Bernard Badzioch, University of Notre Dame Title: Algebraic theories in homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 23, 1999

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Andrei Levin, Landau Institute (Moscow) and U of Chicago Title: Variations of real Hodge structures and Bernoulli numbers Contact Info here

Monday, November 29, 1999

Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion Special Note: Unusual Time! Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor M. Slemrod, U. Wisconsin Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion Special Note: Joint Colloquium with the Department of Mathematics Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 11:10am Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University Title: Some Mathematical Issues of the Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere I Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, TBA, 2:00pm Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University Title: Some Mathematical Issues of the Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere II Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brooke Shipley, University of Chicago Title: The uniqueness of stable homotopy theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 30, 1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jerome Buzzi, Michigan State University Title: Thermodynamical formalism for multidimensional piecewise expanding maps Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm Dr. P. Thomas, U. Chicago Title: Modeling Pattern Formation in Primary Visual Cortex Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 1:00pm Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University Title: Theoretical Issues of Planetary Scale Ocean/Atmosphere Dynamics Contact Info here

Thursday, December 2, 1999

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Richard Laugesen, University of Illinois, Urbana Title: Stability of Steady States for 'Thin Fluid Film' PDEs Contact Info here

Friday, December 3, 1999

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago Title: Free Boundary Regularity for Harmonic Measure Contact Info here

International Conference on Celestial Mechanics

4:00 Regina Martinez, Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions Details of the talk

4:00 Regina Martinez, Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions Details of the talk

11:10 Yi-Sui Sun, Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion Details of the talk

2:00 Robert Devaney, Title: Mandelbrot set and the Farey tree Details of the talk

Wednesday, December 15, 1999

2:00 John Mather, Title: TBA Details of the talk

2:50 Glen Richard Hall, Title: Some remarks on Epimethius and Janus (Co-orbital Moons) Details of the talk

4:00 Richard Montgomery, Title: A figure eight with three bodies Details of the talk

4:50 Florin Diacu, Title: TBA Details of the talk

9:00 Alain Chenciner, Title: Action minimizing periodic orbits of the n-body problem Details of the talk

10:00 Carles Simo, Title: New results on the classical Hill problem Details of the talk

11:10 Clark Robinson, Title: Topological decoupling near planar parabolic orbits Details of the talk

Thursday, December 16, 1999

2:00 Jacques Laskar, Title: TBA Details of the talk

2:50 Christopher McCord, Title: Topology & Dynamics in the Planar N-Body Problem Details of the talk

4:00 Regina Martinez, Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions Details of the talk

4:50 Gareth Roberts, Title: Interesting families of central configurations Details of the talk

9:00 Paul Rabinowitz, Title: Connecting orbits for a family of Hamiltonian systems Details of the talk

10:00 Christian Marchal, Title: From geocentricity to demographic transition : How die a scientific theory Details of the talk

11:10 Alain Albouy, Title: Why are the Keplerian orbits closed? Details of the talk

Friday, December 17, 1999

2:00 Jaume Llibre, Title: Periodic and quasi-periodic motions for the spatial isosceles 3-body problem Details of the talk

2:50 Qiudong Wang, Title: The Hill's region of the four-body problem Details of the talk

4:00 Ernesto Perez Chevela, Title: Central Configurations for Charged Problems Details of the talk

4:50 Jacques Fejoz, Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem Details of the talk

9:00 Jerrold Marsden, Title: Heteroclinic Orbits, Ballistic Capture and Optimal Control in Mission Design Details of the talk

10:00 Ed Belbruno, Title: A Survey of Some Applications of Resonance Transitions and Capture in the Three and Four Body Problems, and Solar System Details of the talk

11:10 Ernesto Lacomba Zamora, Title: Global flow of Hamiltonian systems with cubic homogeneous potentials Details of the talk

Saturday, December 18, 1999

2:00 Robert Devaney, Title: Mandelbrot set and the Farey tree Details of the talk

2:50 Hildeberto Cabral, Title: TBA Details of the talk

4:00 Rick Moeckel, Title: Arnold diffusion, horseshoes, and the problem of the gaps Details of the talk

4:50 Philippe Robutel, Title: Frequency map and global dynamics in the Solar System : the short period dynamics Details of the talk

9:00 Predrag Cvitanovic, Title: Periodic orbit theory of kinematic dynamo Details of the talk

10:00 Robert Easton, Title: Symplectic Capacity Details of the talk

11:10 Yi-Sui Sun, Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion Details of the talk

Sunday, December 19, 1999

9:00 Richard Cushman, Title: New qualitative features of the hydorgen atom in orthogonal electric and magnetic fields Details of the talk

10:00 Keith Burns, Title: Magnetic Flows Details of the talk

11:10 Carl Simon, Title: Dynamic Models of Influenza Details of the talk

Monday, December 20, 1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Henk Bruin, Caltech Title: Combinatorics, kneading theory and Hubbard trees for complex quadratic maps Special Note: Please note unusual day. Abstract and details available

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