News: Mathematical Calendar

Previous Entries: Year 2000

Thursday, January 6, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
Title: Estimates for the Front Speeds in Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Equations
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Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 10, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
Title: Convergence of eigenfunction expansions on geodesic balls and rank one symmetric spaces
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.B. Grotberg, U. Michigan
Title: Liquid Plug Propagation in the Lung
Special Note: jointly sponsored with the Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Ted Belytschko, NWU
Title: Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering
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Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #1
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 13, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Hoff, Indiana University at Bloomington
Title: The Global Attractor for the Navier-Stokes Equations of One-Dimensional, Compressible Flow
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Friday, January 14, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John Mather, Princeton University
Title: Variational Construction of Orbits
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Monday, January 17, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Introduction to the theory of linear stationary dynamical systems
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. E. Izhikevich, Arizona State U.
Title: Canonical-Model Approach to Computational Neuroscience
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark W Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Title: Picard Groups and Stabilizations of Spaces
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Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Special Seminar, Tech LR 2, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway ,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Archimedes and His World
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #2
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 21, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Paul Bressloff, Loughborough University (Visiting U.Chicago)
Title: Nonlinear dynamics of synaptically coupled neural oscillators
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 24, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elena Kosygina , Northwestern University
Title: Hydrodynamical limit for Ginzburg-Landau models
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor P. Brazhnik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Title: Modeling Spatio-temporal Phenomena in Complex Biological Systems: Propagating Waves in Excitable Media
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: The cohomology of the Morava stabilizer group, following Lazard
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Tuesday, January 25, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Dmitry Kleinbock, Rutgers
Title: Dynamical Borel-Cantelli Lemmas
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 26, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Dr. Jean-Pierre Goux, NWU
Title: Solving large scale optimization problems on metacomputers
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Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Cantor's Infinities
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #3
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor , Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, cont'd.
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Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker , Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, finale
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Thursday, January 27, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech F235 (Physics Conference Room), 4:00pm
Professor Mogens H. Jensen, The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Title: A Hierarchical Description of Proteins: Thermodynamics, Critical, and Motor Properties
Special Note: jointly with Department of Physics (Condensed Matter seminar)
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Leo Butler, Queen's University
Title: TBA
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Friday, January 28, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John R. Birge, Northwestern University
Title: Quasi-Random Sequences and Their Uses in Option Pricing
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Ian Melbourne, University of Houston
Title: Brownian motion in deterministic dynamical systems with Euclidean symmetry
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Seva Joukhovitsky, Northwestern University
Title: K-Theory of the Weil transfer functor
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 31, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Min Kang, Northwestern University
Title: Growth rate of ballistic DLA (diffusion limited aggregation) on a strip
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Hosoi, M.I.T.
Title: Wine tears and other evaporatively driven instabilities in thin films
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk,
Title: TBA
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Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Pierre Cartier, Ecole Normale Suprieure et IHES, France
Title: Divergent Series 250 Years After Euler: Their Use for Manipulating Special Functions and Special Numbers
Special Note: Unusual Time!!
Abstract and details available

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Jim Wiseman ,
Title: Shift equivalence and topological conjugacy
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Wednesday, February 2, 2000

Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Surreal Numbers
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #4
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 4, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute (Visiting U.Chicago)
Title: Big islands in dispersing billiard like potentials.
Special Note: The talk by W. Pesch that was scheduled for this day, unfortunately, has to be cancelled for now.
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yitwah Cheung, UIC
Title: Failure of Ergodicity in a (Rational) Billiard
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Professor ,
Title:
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Monday, February 7, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, cont'd.
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Golovin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Title: Faceting and Roughening of Growing Crystal Surfaces
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Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University
Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 101, 4:00pm
Kamlesh Parwani,
Title: Ergodic Theory and Fourier Analysis
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Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Victoria Sadovskaya, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Multifractal formalism and dynamical systems
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Wednesday, February 9, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Boris Kalinin, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Measure-theoretic rigidity of higher-rank abelian actions
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Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Goedel and Undecidability
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #5
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 10, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Professor R. Clark Robinson,
Title: Moeckel's paper on Arnold Diffusion
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PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Athanasios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Variational Approximation of the Equations of Elastodynamics with Polyconvex Energy
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, IAS
Title: Rigid Homotopy Theory
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Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jesper Grodal, MIT
Title: Maps Between Classifying Spaces
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 11, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor I. Yu, Seoul National University
Title: What will happen if you rotate sand in a tilted spinning bucket?
Abstract and details available

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor David Chopp, NWU
Title: Applications of the Level Set Method
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 14, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems,cont'd.
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. G. Biondini, Northwestern U.
Title: Soliton communications and wavelength-division multiplexing
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Tuesday, February 15, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Mihnea Popa, University of Michigan
Title: Generalized theta linear series on moduli spaces of vector bundles on curves
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Malgorzata Stawiska, Northwestern
Title: TBA
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Wednesday, February 16, 2000

Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway , Nemmers Prize Lectures #6
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Geometry, Logic, and Physics
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 17, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y.J. Chen, Northwestern U.
Title: Flow-induced morphologies in directional solidification
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Friday, February 18, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. V. Kalatsky , Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Continuum field description of crack propagation
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 21, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, finale
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Rica, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Buckling and post-buckling of elastic plates and shells
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University
Title: A generalization of compact Lie groups after Kropholler
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Tuesday, February 22, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Seva Joukhovitski, Northwestern University
Title: K-theory of the Weil transfer functor
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Mikhail Grinberg, MIT
Title: Self-Indexing and Perverse Sheaves
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Peter Voorhees, NWU
Title: A Fast Multipole Method for Anisotropic Elasticity and its Application to Problems Involving Coarsening in Solids
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Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Escher and Symmetry
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #7
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 24, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 4:00pm
R. Clark Robinson,
Title: Arnold Drift by Moeckel: Part 2
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Norihiko Minami,
Title: On the mono-chromatic convergence conjecture
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Friday, February 25, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dan Goldman , U. Texas, Austin
Title: Lattice oscillations of square patterns in a vertically vibrated granular layer
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Martina Bode, Wellesley College
Title: Presentation on Calculus Teaching
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Monday, February 28, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alexander Bendikov, Cornell University
Title: Ultracontractivity of convolution semigroups on R^n and T^n
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. K. Swanson, U. Washington
Title: A Quantitative Model for Brain Tumor Growth and Invasion
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Tuesday, February 29, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
Title: Absolutely singular dynamical foliations
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Wednesday, March 1, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Nicolas Moes, Mech Eng, NWU
Title: A finite element method for crack growth without remeshing
Special Note: Last meeting for winter quarter
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Special Seminar, Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Finally, Fun
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #8
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 2, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yuan Che,
Title: A description of some of Jeff's Xia's recent work
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PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame
Title: Biharmonic Functions and Crack Propagations
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela, Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
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Friday, March 3, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John H. Conway, Princeton University and Northwestern University
Title: Tangles, Bangles, and Knots
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Tuesday, March 7, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University
Title: S-Duality Conjecture and Eisenstein Series
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Viviane Baladi, CNRS, Orsay
Title: Almost sure rates of mixing for random unimodal maps
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 10, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Stefan Mueller, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences , Germany
Title: Rank-1 Convexity, Quasiconvexity, and Harmonic Analysis
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Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 2pm
Timothy Comar ,
Title: Presentation on Calculus
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Saturday, March 11, 2000

Northwestern Centennial PDE Conference

10am Professor Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: A-Quasiconvexity: Relaxation and Homogenization
Details of the talk

11:30am Professor Gang Tian, MIT
Title: Ellitic Yang-Mills Equations
Details of the talk

2:00pm Professor William Minicozz , Johns Hopkins University
Title: Estimates for Embedded Minimal Surfaces
Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Existence and Uniqueness in the Monge Mass Transport Problem
Details of the talk

4:20pm Professor Claude Bardos, University of Paris 7, France
Title: From Hamiltonian Systems to Kenetic and Macroscopic Dynamics
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor ERnesto Perez-Chavela, UAM-I Mexico
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
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Monday, March 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S.H. Chung, National Seoul University
Title: Propagation Characteristics of Tribrachial Flames
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Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University (and RIMS)
Title: A Darboux theorem for Hamiltonian systems in infinite dimensions
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 17, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor W. van Saarloos, U. Leyden, Netherlands
Title: The remarkable simple and universal properties of "pulled" fronts propagating into an unstable state
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi, Aberdeen
Title: TBA
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Monday, March 27, 2000

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi, Aberdeen
Title: The automorphism space of BG^_p
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Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
Title: Localization and Genus-Zero Gromov-Witten Invariants
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela, UAM-I Mexico
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
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Wednesday, March 29, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Heteroclinic and Chaotic Solutions for Double Pendulum Type Problem: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department
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ESAM Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Mathematics Department
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Thursday, March 30, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor William Bray, University of Maine
Title: TBA
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Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group, Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela,
Title: Central Configurations for Charged Particles
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Monday, April 3, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Cora Sadosky, Howard University
Title: Hankel operators and Carleson measures in the polydisc
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
Title: Localized and disordered structures in fluid flow
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Wisconsin
Title: On Complexes Associated to the Commutative Structure of a Group
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Tuesday, April 4, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Herbert Koch, Heidelberg University
Title: Strong unique continuation for elliptic pde's
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Wednesday, April 5, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Yuan-Nan Young, U. of Chicago
Title: Micsible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: 2D and 3D
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Friday, April 7, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Mikhail Kaparanov, Northwestern University
Title: Noncommutativization and Noncommutative Neighborhoods
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
Title: Electrodiffusion Model Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in a Cell Membrane Channel
Special Note: Talk joint with the Mathematics Department
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M235, 3:30pm
Dr. Ronnie Mainieri, Theoretical Division, LANL & Institute for Physical Sciences
Title: Physical constraints on error correction
Special Note: Two seminars on 1 day. Rescheduling was unfortunately not possible any more
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 10, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.R. Birge, Northwestern University
Title: Pricing Options on Diffusion & Jump Processes with Applications in Energy & Weather Derivatives
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Matthew Ando, University of Illinois
Title: Equivariant elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
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Tuesday, April 11, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz, Northwestern University
Title: KAM tori in the planar three-body problem
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Monday, April 17, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
Title: A weighted Kolmogorov inequality for the Hilbert transform
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Yves Pomeau , Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Moving contact line: mathematical or physical problem?
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
Title: Constructing smashing localizations
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Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Thomas Hughes, Stanford U., Division of Mechanics and Computation
Title: Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Variational Mutltiscale Methods
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Thursday, April 20, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Rustum Choksi, Simon Fraser University
Title: Energy scaling laws in magnetic materials
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Friday, April 21, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John Stillwell, MIT, and Monash University (Australia)
Title: Exotic Symmetry
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 24, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University
Title: Using squares of real-valued functions to prove that the $\Xi^*(z)$ function has only real zeros
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kristine Baxter, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Title: Higher Hochschild homology and its decompositions
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Tuesday, April 25, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professors J. Davidov and O.Mushkarov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Geometry of twistor spaces
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
A. Lemaitre, Saclay, France
Title: Strongly coupled chaotic maps: collective behavior, universality, and models.
Special Note: Note unusual day
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Friday, April 28, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 3:00pm
Professor M. Johnson, Northwestern U.
Title: An Operational Test for Distinguishing between Complicated and Chaotic Behavior in Deterministic Systems
Special Note: Unusal time!!
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 1, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Ghosal, Northwestern U.
Title: A Simplified Theory of Triple Flames
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Robert Bruner, Wayne State University
Title: Varieties for connective K-theory of classifying spaces
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Wednesday, May 3, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Ed Wang, NWU Physics and Astronomy
Title: Loop Parallelization Techniques
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Friday, May 5, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
Title: Probabilistic Proof of Existence Versus Explicit Construction
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 8, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mr. Thomas Nystrom, Morthwestern University
Title: Multipliers for Generalized Tchebichef Polynomials
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Lizzie Burslem, Northwestern University
Title: The Ergodic Closing Lemma
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Tuesday, May 9, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Chicago
Title: Moduli Spaces and Vertex Algebras
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Wednesday, May 10, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Christopher Flannery, (NU Ph.D, '94),
Title: Life on the Outside
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Thursday, May 11, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Parimala, Tata Institute and Ohio State University
Title: Galois cohomology of classical groups
Special Note: Note unusual day!
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Friday, May 12, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Predrag Cvitanovic, Northwestern University
Title: Chaotic Field Theory: a Sketch
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 15, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor H. H.Kuo, Louisiana State University
Title: Recent Progress in White Noise Analysis
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor D. McLaughlin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Don Davis, Lehigh University
Title: Nonimmersions of real projective spaces implied by eo_2
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Tuesday, May 16, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Alexander Braverman, MIT
Title: Gamma-functions of representations
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor S. Wiggins, CalTech
Title: TALK CANCELLED
Special Note: Unfortunately, the talk by S. Wiggins has to be cancelled.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 17, 2000

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jeff Smith, Purdue University
Title: The higher order Deligne conjecture
Special Note: Note unusual day!
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Friday, May 19, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
Title: Partial Differential Equations and Fluids
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Peter Andresen, Northwestern U.
Title: Instabilities in Open Flow Chemical Systems
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 22, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. B. Rubinstein, Northwestern U.
Title: Automated symbolic nonlinear anlaysis
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Tuesday, May 23, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Chris Bendel, University of Wisconsin
Title: Projectivity and cohomology of modules for finite group schemes
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Gregory Galperin, Eastern Illinois University
Title: Calculus of the number of periodic billiard orbits in a polygon
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 24, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Shaoping Xiao, Dept. of Mech. Eng., NWU
Title: Stability of the Particle Method
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Friday, May 26, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Zhiming Ma, Northwestern University and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: DIRICHLET FORMS AND RECENT APPLICATIONS
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 1, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech MG28, 4:00pm
Professor Anthony T. Patera, MIT
Title: Output Bounds for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations: A General Formulation
Special Note: Note special time and place of the meeting
Abstract and details available

Friday, June 2, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Ehud Meron, Ben Gurion Univerisity, Israel
Title: Phase patterns in forced oscillatory systems: theory vs. experiment
Abstract and details available

Friday, June 9, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State U.
Title: Snap, Jump, and Wiggle: Motion in Micellar Fluids
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 12, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 1:30pm
Daniel Lathrop, U. Maryland
Title: Toward a Self-generating Magnetic Dynamo: the Role of Turbulence
Special Note: Note unusal date and time!
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Bang-He Li,
Title: Embedding surfaces with minimal genera in 4-manfolds
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Wednesday, June 14, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar, Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Deborah Sulsky, University of New Mexico
Title: Effect of Microstructure on the Mechanical Response of 'Soft' Metallic Alloys
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 19, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Hans Peter Grimm, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: Cell Motility: Modeling of Actin Distribution and Shape of Advancing Lamellipodia
Special Note: Note unusal day!
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Tuesday, August 0, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Professor , test
Title: test
Special Note: test
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Henry Warchall , National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Through the Eyes of a Mathematics Program Director
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacob Palis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
Title: Recent Results in Global Dynamics
Special Note: The lecture is supported by a generous gift from Ms Susie Adams
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Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, MIT
Title:
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Monday, September 25, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor B. Sandstede, Ohio State U.
Title: Super-spiral structures of spiral waves
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University
Title: The Morava K-Theory of BSpin
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Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Lev Borisov, Columbia University
Title: Elliptic genera of singular varieties
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jim Wiseman ,
Title: Symbolic Dynamics and the Conley Index
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Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 216, 10am
E. Getzler,
Title: Mirror symmetry seminar: A_infty
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ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanik, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
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Thursday, September 28, 2000

Voevodsky's Program, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: An overview of motivic cohomology
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Friday, September 29, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor E. Knobloch, UC Berkeley
Title: Simulations of Oscillatory Binary Fluid Convection in Large Aspect Ratio Containers
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 2, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Andreas Eberle, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld
Title: Spectral gaps on loops spaces - A counterexample
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor David Blanc, Northwestern University and Haifa University
Title: Higher homotopy operations in model categories
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Tuesday, October 3, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Eugene Plotkin, Bar Ilan University
Title: Two-variable equations in linear groups
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Chris Connell, UIC
Title: The degree of maps in higher rank
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 216, 1.30pm-3pm
Professor E. Getzler,
Title: Mirror symmetry II: The A_infty structure on the harmonic forms
Special Note: Seminar is 90 minutes long. Note new time.
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Special Seminar, Lunt Hall 105, 3:00-4:00pm and 4:30-5:30pmpm
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Title: Backward and forward-backward stochastic differential equations
Special Note: Coffee will be served between the talks
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 5, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4.15pm
Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A journey from gauge theory to quantum cohomology
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Friday, October 6, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz, Northwestern
Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 9, 2000

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Vadim Meleshuk,
Title: Aperiodic flows
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Vincent Franjou, Universite' de Nantes and Northwestern
Title: Homotopy localization of polynomial functors, after Renaudin
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Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia
Title: Endotrivial modules and categorical equivalences
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Francois Ledrappier, Northwestern
Title: Ergodic properties of some linear actions
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Voevodsky's Program, Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Further remarks concerning Bloch-Kato
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Thursday, October 12, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elena Kosygina, Northwestern University
Title: On the Cauchy Problem for Generalized Porous Medium Equations
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Voevodsky's Program, Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Continuation of Bloch-Kato background
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Friday, October 13, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor C. Chandre, CEA Saclay
Title: Renormalization for the analysis of stability in Hamiltonian flows
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 16, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Vadim Linetsky, Dept of Industrial Engineering, NU
Title: Eigenfunction Expansion Methods in Asset Pricing
Special Note: Seminar sponsored jointly be Statistics Dept and IEMS Dept
Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y. Young, Northwestern University
Title: Stratified Kolmogorov Shear FLow
Abstract and details available

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Kamlesh Parwani,
Title: Measuring Cantor Sets
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: Realization spaces of algebras in spectra
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Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Nikolai Vavilov, Northwestern University
Title: A third look at weight diagrams
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alex Furman, UIC
Title: Orbit equivalence rigidity
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 216, 1:30pm
Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University
Title: An A-infinity category from Morse theory
Contact Info here

Thursday, October 19, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt Hall 105, 3:00-4:00pm and 4:30-5:30pm
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Title: Backward and forward-backward stochastic differential equations
Special Note: Coffee will be served between the talks.
Abstract and details available

Voevodsky's Program, Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Motivic cohomology
Contact Info here

Friday, October 20, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
Title: Moduli of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Swift Hall 107, 12:00pm
Professor Pat MacDonald, University of South Florida
Title: Diffusions, exit time moments and spectral geometry
Abstract and details available

22nd Midwest Probability Colloquium

3:00pm Professor Richard Bass, University of Connecticut
Title: Harnack inequalities: proofs and applications, I
Place: Swift Hall 107
Abstract and details available

4:30pm Professor Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati
Title: Basic tools for weak-dependent sequences and their applications to limit theorems
Place: Swift Hall 107
Abstract and details available

Saturday, October 21, 2000

9:30am Professor Richard Bass, University of Connecticut
Title: Harnack inequalities: proofs and applications, II
Place: Swift Hall 107
Abstract and details available

1:30pm Professor Timo Seppalainen, Iowa State University
Title: The variational coupling method for hydrodynmaical limits
Place: Swift Hall 107
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 23, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Higuera, Northwestern University
Title: Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of Liquid Bridges
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Todd Fisher,
Title: TBA
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
Title: Homotopy Theory of homotopy theory and representable functors
Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Title: Semi-topological K-theory of real varieties
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Scott Moar, Northwestern
Title: Attractors in the plane: an existence proof
Contact Info here

Friday, October 27, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri
Title: Distribution of lattice points in convex domains and related problems
Contact Info here

Monday, October 30, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Weinstein, Eastman Kodak
Title: Modeling of Planar Liquid Curtains
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dan Isaksen, University of Notre Dame
Title: Realization Functors on A^1-Homotopy
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
Title: The Bernstein problem for affine maximal hypersurfaces
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Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Denis Kosygin, Northwestern
Title: Statistical properties of Laplace-Beltrami operators on Liouville surfaces
Special Note: joint with dynamics seminar
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Friday, November 3, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Title: Inside Out: Inverse Boundary Problems
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 6, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanikatis, Northwestern University
Title: Mathematical and Computational Biotechnology
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jim Wiseman, Northwestern
Title: Introduction to the discrete Conley index
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Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nick Kuhn, University of Virginia
Title: Periodic homology of infinite loop spaces
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, MIT
Title: Branched covers of the projective line and the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Talk postponed, until 11/28
Leo Butler's talk will now be on 11/28, since there is an interesting talk at U.of Chicago
Title: Large sets of exceptional geodesics
Special Note: Talk is by S. G. Dani at U of Chicago at 2:30
Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Colloquium, Tech L211, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Studies
Title: Quark Confinement And Black Holes
Special Note: Reception in Tech F235
Contact Info here

Friday, November 10, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor G.M. Homsy, Stanford University
Title: Interfacial fluid mechanics in microgeometries
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. J. Porter, Northwestern University
Title: Heteroclinic Dynamics in 1:n Steady-State Mode Interactions
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Special Seminar, Tech L211, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and string theory: Lecture I
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 216, 1:30pm
Professor M. Kapranov,
Title: Vertex algebras and the formal loop space
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and string theory: Lecture II
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and String theory: Lecture III
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here

Friday, November 17, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor S. G. Dani, Tata Institute, Bombay
Title: Flows on homogeneous spaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Daniel Howell, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Stress Structure and Fluctuation in Granular Matter
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:10 pm
Professor Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University
Title: On the models of Skyrme and Faddeev
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 20, 2000

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Y. Kevrekidis, Princeton U.
Title: "Coarse" Stability and Bifurcation Analysis using Time Steppers
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Tuesday, November 21, 2000

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago
Title: L-functions of p-adic sheaves in characteristic p
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Fernando Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil/ Penn State University
Title: On the existence of homoclinic points
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 28, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Leo Butler, Northwestern
Title: A necessary condition for integrability and its implications
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 30, 2000

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Athanasis Fokas , Imperial College (London)
Title: A New Method for Solving Boundary Value Problems
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Friday, December 1, 2000

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Hart Smith, University of Washington
Title: Harmonic Analysis and the Wave Equation
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Wednesday, December 6, 2000

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Sharon Hollander, MIT
Title: A Homotopy Theory for Stacks
Special Note: Unusual day
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