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Thursday, January 4, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Camil Muscalu, UCLA Title: Multilinear singular integrals Contact Info here

Monday, January 5, 2001

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Halvard Fausk, University of Chicago Title: TBA Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 9, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Wei-Dong Ruan, UIC Title: Lagrangian torus fibrations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry Abstract and details available

Monday, January 15, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts Title: Invariant foliations Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Christopher French, University of Chicago Title: The Equivariant J-homomorphism Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Dmirty Arinkin, Harvard University and University of Chicago Title: Connections with a small parameter on a curve Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 2-3:30pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Title: Open strings and A-infinity algebras (continued) Contact Info here

Thursday, January 18, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago Title: P-adic interpolation in representation theory and arithmetic Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Kevin Whyte, U. of Chicago Title: The large scale geometry of groups of tree automorphisms Contact Info here

Monday, January 22, 2001

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University Title: Transfer and the Morava K-theory of homotopy orbit spaces Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: Crystalline Differential Operators Special Note: Note unusual time Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Harris 107, 4:30pm Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University Title: Mathematical Personality Special Note: Reception in Harris 108 to follow the lecture Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Irena Peeva, Cornell University Title: Toric Hilbert Schemes Contact Info here

Thursday, January 25, 2001

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

Friday, January 26, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:15 pm Professor Curt McMullen, Harvard University Title: Dynamics on K3 surfaces Contact Info here

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Michael Hutchings, Stanford University Title: Three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory, Reidemeister torsion in Morse theory, and pseudoholomorphic curves Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Stephen Quake, Caltech Title: Single Molecule Biophysics: FemtoNewton Force Spectroscopy, Microfluidics, and Nanophotonics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, January 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM E. Shaqfeh, Stanford University Title: The Dynamics of DNA in flow Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ilia Binder, Harvard University Title: Harmonic measure and polynomial Julia sets Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Dr Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University and University of Muenster Title: Perturbations of homotopy types and Mixed Tate Categories Special Note: Joint algebra/topology talk Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Viorel Nitica, Notre Dame Title: Chaotic skew-products Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 2.00-3.30pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Title: The fundamental class of orbifolds (after Fukaya and Ono) Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech L211, 4:30PM John J. Hopfield, Princeton University Title: Collective Dynamics for Brain Decisions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 1, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech L211, 12:00PM Prof. A. Prosperetti, Johns Hopkins University Title: Gas and vapor bubbles in microfluidics systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University Title: Nonexistence of minimal homeomorphisms of the punctured sphere via the Conley index Contact Info here

Friday, February 2, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University Title: Instabilities in Hamiltonian Dynamics Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Suzanna Becker, McMaster University Title: A neural model of hippocampal-parietal interactions in spatial memory Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 5, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. D. Egolf, Georgetown University Title: A sampling of nonlinear dynamics: from low-dimensional systems to extensive chaos Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Halvard Fausk, University of Chicago Title: Observations on Artin induction for compact Lie groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor James Colliander, Berkeley Title: Almost conservation laws and global wellposedness Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Bryna Kra, Pennsylvania State University Title: Dimension, Denjoy maps and Diophantine numbers Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 107, 2:00-3.30pm Ezra Getzler, Title: Euler class for orbifolds Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, MLS 2058, 4:30PM Dr. Matteo Carandini, University of Zurich Title: Mechanisms of Gain Control in the Primary Visual Cortex Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. D. Egolf, Georgetown University Title: Toward a Predictive Theory of Far-from-equilibrium, Spatially Extended, Chaotic Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 8, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 2:00pm Professor Roman Bezrukavnikov, University of Chicago Title: Towards the local geometric Langlands correspondence Contact Info here

Friday, February 9, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Francois Ledrappier, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Title: Local Characteristics in Smooth Ergodic Theory Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Gene Wayne, Boston University Title: Counter-propagating waves on fluid surfaces and the continuum limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M345, 4:00PM Professor Timothy W. Secomb , University of Arizona, Dept. Physiology Title: Mechanics of Red Blood cell motion in capillaries Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Ward 5-315, Chicago Campus, 12:00PM Roger N. Lemon, University College of London Title: Pathways for Cortical Commands in Primates Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 12, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Giovanni Forni, Princeton University Title: On the Lyapunov exponents of the Teichmuller flow Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Michael Jackson, Purdue University Title: Finding Effective Euler Class of Finite Groups Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Giovanni Forni , Princeton University Title: Invariant distributions and ergodic theory of some `parabolic' systems Contact Info here

Thursday, February 15, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Todd Fisher, Northwestern University Title: Pesin Theory Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor Joe Jerome , Northwestern University Title: Local Smooth Solutions of a Navier-Stokes/Charge Transport System Contact Info here

Friday, February 16, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Carson C. Chow, University of Pittsburgh Title: Collective dynamics of coupled neurons Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 19, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Vel Jurdjevic, University of Toronto Title: Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Tops and Elastic Curves Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM V. Linetsky, Northwestern University Title: Spectral Methods in Derivative Pricing Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor David Eisenbud, MSRI, Berkeley Title: Chow forms and resultants, old and new Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 22, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00PM Prof. John C. K. Chu, Columbia Univ. Title: Revisit of the Unified Numerical Treatment of Hyperbolic-Elliptic Equations Special Note: More current information may be available at Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:15pm Professor John C.K. Chu, Columbia University Title: Revisit of the Unified Numerical Treatment of Hyperbolic-Elliptic Equations Special Note: This talk has been CANCELED and will be re-scheduled later!! Contact Info here

Friday, February 23, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Fred Diamond , Brandeis University Title: Modularity of elliptic curves Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester Title: Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech Institute - Room M345, 4:00PM john Kessler, University of Arizona Title: Dynamics of swimming bacteria and their fluid habitat Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. N. Patankar, Northwestern University Title: Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Byungik Kahng, University of Illinois Title: Dynamics of kaleidoscopic maps Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 101, 1.30pm-3pm Professor David Blanc, Northwestern and Haifa Title: The Euler class for Fredholm bundles on orbifolds Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mara Neusel, University of Notre Dame Title: Steinberg's Theorem, Lannes's T-Functor and Noether's Bound Special Note: unusual day Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marty Golubitsky, University of Houston Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Eng. Science and Applied Math. Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00PM Prof. M. Golubitsky, Univ. of Houston Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Lunt 105, 4:00PM M. Golubitsky, University of Houston Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 1, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Todd Fisher, Northwestern University Title: Pesin theory Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00PM Joshua Socolar, Duke University Title: Stabilization (or not) of periodic orbits via time-delay feedback Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Hermano Frid, IMPA (Brazil) and Northwestern University Title: Extended Divergence-Measure Fields and Applications to Gas Dynamics I Contact Info here

Friday, March 2, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Bassam Fayad , Pennsylvania State University Title: Time change of irrational flows and mixing Contact Info here

Monday, March 5, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Howard Weiss , Pennsylvania State University Title: The dynamics of Schelling-like segregation models Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. T. Driscoll, University of Delaware Title: Wavenumber-dependent time stepping for semilinear evolution Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh Title: From Bowers House to our House: Simplifying neural networks. Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University Title: Some interesting elements in the Picard group for L_{K(1)} objects at p = 2 Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 6, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University Title: Versal Deformations of Formal Arcs Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM E. Bodenschatz, Cornell University Title: Why would a mosquito care about turbulence? Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Hermano Frid, IMPA (Brazil) and Northwestern University Title: Extended Divergence-Measure Fields and Applications to Gas Dynamics II Special Note: Special Time Contact Info here

Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00PM Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh Title: Coupled oscillator arrays Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Friday, March 9, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh Title: The excited cortex: phosphenes and other visual confections Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, March 12, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. A. Karma, Northeastern University Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. A. Karma, Northwestern University Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 15, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Lishang Jiang, University of Iowa and Tongji University (Shanghai) Title: Convergence of Binomial Tree Methods for American Path- Dependent Options Abstract and details available

Monday, March 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. J. Vinals, Florida State University Title: Defect motion and domain coarsening of layered phases Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 27, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Title: Brownian motion on open manifolds with big ends Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 29, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University Title: Existence of Black Holes Contact Info here

Yamabe Lecture, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University Title: EXISTENCE OF BLACK HOLES Contact Info here

Friday, March 30, 2001

Colloquium, Annenberg G15, 4:30pm Morris Hirsch, University of California, Berkeley Title: Finite orbits and fixed points for solvable groups of surface homeomorphisms Contact Info here

Monday, April 2, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Wenbo Li, University of Delaware Title: Exit time, principal eigenvalue and small deviation probability Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. D. Pelinovsky, McMaster Univ. Title: Dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime: Instabilities, resonances, and PMD reduction Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Univesity of Paris VII Title: Localization in Hermetian K-theory Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 3, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 1:00pm Professor Natasa Pavlovic, U of Illinois -Chicago Title: A Cheap Caffarelli-Kohn -Nirenberg Inequality for the Navier Stokes Equation with Hyperdissipation Special Note: Very unusual time ! Contact Info here

Thursday, April 5, 2001

Faculty Lectures Series, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University Title: Breaking apart and putting together topological spaces Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00 pm Professor Herbert Koch, University of Dortmund Title: Viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations Contact Info here

Friday, April 6, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago Title: Group Actions and Helly's Theorem Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Larry Abbott, Brandeis University Title: The effects of noisy synaptic input on neuronal responses Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, April 9, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University Title: The Hausdorff-Young inequality in white noise analysis Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. D. Chopp, Northwestern University Title: Coupling the level set method and the extended finite element method Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Friday, April 13, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Alexander Lipton , Director of Deutsche Bank Title: Past, present and future interactions between mathematics and finance Contact Info here

Monday, April 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia Title: Differential graded schemes Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University Title: Random matrices, Fejer asymptotics and the Hilbert transform Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Patrice LeCalvez, University of Paris 13 Title: Generalized Aubry-Mather sets for non twist maps of the annulus and the torus. Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. L. Levitov, M.I.T. Title: Conformal models of Laplacian growth Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 17, 2001

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Johnson, University of Notre Dame Title: Model structures on the category of ex-spaces Contact Info here

Thursday, April 19, 2001

Faculty Lectures Series, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Who Needs Brownian Motion? Contact Info here

Friday, April 20, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marc Levine, Northeastern University Title: Topological and Algebraic Cohomology Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Boris Shraiman, Bell Labs Title: Model Genetic Networks and Principles of Robust Transcription Control Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 21, 2001

Great Lakes K-theory Conference, VII

11:00am Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University Title: Algebraic and Real K-theory of Real Varieties Details of the talk

1:30pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Cohomological operations of non-positive weight Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University Title: On the Grayson spectral sequence Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor Ivan Panin, St. Petersburg University Title: Oriented cohomology theories and a general Riemann-Roch theorem Details of the talk

Sunday, April 22, 2001

10:00am Professor J. F. Jardine, University of Western Ontario Title: The separable transfer Details of the talk

11:30am Professor Marc Levine, Northeastern University Title: Algebraic cobordism and divisibility of Chern classes Details of the talk

Monday, April 23, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Min Kang, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Viktor Schroeder, University of Zurich (visiting Northwestern) Title: Hyperbolic rank and subexponential co-rank of metric spaces Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. T. Dupont, Univ. of Chicago Title: Simple models for simple flows Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nodar Berikashvili, Academy of Science, Tiblisi (Georgia) Title: Obstruction Theory in the Stable Range Contact Info here

Tuesday , April 24, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: Transonic shocks in steady potential flows and free boundary problems Contact Info here

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Edward Witten, IAS and Caltech Title: String theory and the derived category 1 Contact Info here

Thursday, April 26, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor M. Gursky, Indiana University Title: Hessian equations and quadratic Riemannian functionals Contact Info here

Friday, April 27, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Ivar Ekeland, University of Paris-Dauphine Title: Partial differential equations arising from economic theory Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech Institute - room 345, 12:00PM Dr. Chris Wiggins, Courant Institute of Math. Sci, NYU Title: Biophysical Modes of Polymer Dynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago Title: Jamming Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 28, 2001

Great Lakes Geometry Conference

10:30am Yu. I. Manin, MPI, Bonn Title: Quantum theta functions and abelian varieties Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

12:00pm Y.-G. Oh, UW, Madison Title: Chain level Floer theory and Hofer's geometry of Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group Details of the talk

2:30pm R. Thomas, Imperial College and Oxford Title: Mirror symmetry and special Lagrangians Details of the talk

4:00pm M. Hopkins, MIT Title: Twisted K-theory and the Verlinde algebra Details of the talk

Sunday, April 29, 2001

9:30am M. Marino, Rutgers Title: New invariants for links from string theory Details of the talk

10:45am L. Katzarkov, UC, Irvine Title: New braid invariants of symplectic 4 folds and applications Details of the talk

12:00pm E. Witten, IAS and Caltech Title: M-theory on a manifold of G_2 holonomy Details of the talk

Monday, April 30, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Lizzie Burslem , Northwestern Title: Centralizers of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. G. Huber, Univ. of Massachusetts - Boston Title: cancelled Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Christian Haesemeyer, Northwestern University Title: Stacks - definition based on examples Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 1, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Yuri Manin, Title: The distribution of continued fractions and modular symbols Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor A. Shnirelman, Tel-Aviv University Title: ON THE ENERGY DISSIPATION IN TURBULENT FLOWS Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 2, 2001

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Edward Witten, IAS and Caltech Title: String theory snd the derived category 2 Contact Info here

Thursday, May 3, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France) Title: Generic Types and Transitions in Hyperbolic Initial-Boundary Value Problems Contact Info here

Friday, May 4, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon Title: Stability of Stationary Patterns of $L^1$-Contracting Semi-Groups Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Eberhard Fetz, University of Washington Title: Neural computation in dynamic recurrent networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Alexandru Ionescu, MIT & Wisconsin Title: Singular integrals on symmetric spaces Contact Info here

Monday, May 7, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elena Kosygina, Northwestern University Title: On coupled Brownian motion with jumps Contact Info here

Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00pm Professor M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Configurational Forces, Gradient Flows and the Motion of Interfacial Curves and Surfaces Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat, Pennsylvania State University Title: Probabilistic stability of dynamical systems Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Title: Configurational forces, gradient flows, and the motion of interfacial curves and surfaces Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Michael Mandell, University of Chicago Title: Integral Cochains Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Christopher Bendel, Title: Extensions for finite Chevalley groups and Frobenius kernels Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Vadim Kaloshin, Courant Institute and AIM Title: Superexponential growth of number of periodic points is generic Contact Info here

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Julia Pevtsova, Northwestern University Title: Support varieties for finite groups Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Laverne Chambers, Northwestern University Title: Chaos! Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm nobody - just videos, Title: Geometry videos screening Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 10, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 101, 9:30pm Vadim Kaloshin , Courant Institute and AIM Title: Newton interpolation polynomials and growth of number of periodic points Special Note: This talk will last 2-2 1/2 hours Contact Info here

Faculty Lectures Series, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University Title: Using algebraic topology in algebraic geometry Contact Info here

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

Friday, May 11, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Title: Synaptic mechanisms underlying computation in the auditory cortex in vivo: The cocktail party problem Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Saturday, May 12, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Norris Center Michigan Room, 12:00pm Professors Bodenschatz, Lynch, Lee, Ferster, Balkovsky, Ottino, Title: 2001 U Chicago Northwestern U. Nonlinear Workshop Special Note: More information at http://www.complex-systems.northwestern.edu Abstract and details available

Monday, May 14, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor George Gasper, Title: Multivariable q-Racah polynomials Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Lai-Sang Young , Courant Institute Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, I Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. H. B. Keller, Caltech and UCSD Title: Continuation, bifurcation and homotopy in scientific computation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Duane Randall, Loyala University Title: Some Remarks on the Triangulation Conjecture Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Tech M349, 2:00pm Professor Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University Title: Non-commutative differential calculus and applications Special Note: Click here to find the location of the talk (enter at front of Tech and go to third floor). Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Lai-Sang Young , Courant Institute Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, II Special Note: This talk will last 1 1/2-2 hours Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. H. B. Keller, Caltech and UCSD Title: The recursive projection method: Stabilization and acceleration of iterative processes Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Mark Pearson, Northwestern University Title: Introduction to Morava K-theory Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 4pm vcr, Title: geometry videos Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 17, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 101, 10:00am Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, III Special Note: This talk will last 1 to 1 1/2 hours Contact Info here

Faculty Lectures Series, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Daniel Tataru, Northwestern University Title: Linear and nonlinear waves Contact Info here

Friday, May 18, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Michael Cranston, University of Rochester Title: Transport by stochastic flows and random velocity field Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Javier Movellan, UCSD Title: The Morton-Massaro Law of Information Integration: Implications for Models of Perception Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, May 21, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Multiplicative Functionals Associated With Boundary Value Problems For Differential Forms Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Peter Trapa, Harvard University Title: Local Langlands conjecture for covering groups Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute Title: Mixing and Chaos Special Note: This is Professor Young's Kreeger-Wolf Lecture Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Tom Graber, Harvard University Title: Families of rationally connected varieties Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Boris Rozovskii, Director, the Center for Applied Mathematical Science, University of Southern California Title: On Equations of Stochastic Fluid Mechanics Special Note: This is a special analysis and probability seminar Abstract and details available

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Graham Herrick, Northwestern University Title: Lubin-Tate formal group laws Contact Info here

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 101, 9:00am Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr Title: New examples of embedded surfaces with Anosov geodesic flow Contact Info here

Faculty Lectures Series, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University Title: Mathematics in the physics metric Contact Info here

Friday, May 25, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Karim Shariff, NASA Ames Research Center Title: Non-linear Lessons from Axisymmetric Vortex Rings Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 29, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Transportation Center, 9:00pm Michael Shub , IBM Watson Research Center Title: Partial hyperbolcity as a tool Special Note: This is the first talk of a conference. The schedule can be found at http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~parthyp/schedule Contact Info here

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Graham Herrick, Northwestern University Title: Lubin-Tate formal group laws II Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, TBD, 4:00pm(?) Alex Yang, Northwestern University Title: The Arnold conjecture on the 2n-torus Contact Info here

Friday, June 1, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Transportation Center, 3:00pm Clark Robinson , Northwestern University Title: The work of Charles Pugh Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Transportation Center, 4:30pm Bill Bloch , Wheaton College Title: TBA Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Tobin Driscoll, University of Delaware Title: Fast simulation of semilinear time-dependent PDEs Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, June 4, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. B. Meerson, Hebrew University, Israel Title: Symmetry breaking instabilities in two dimensional granular flow Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, July 17, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 2:00PM M. Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology Title: Some recent results on the zero surface tension limit for Hele-Shaw Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy, The Technion Title: Convection in Layered Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Stephen J. Watson, Northwestern University and Max-Planck Institute at Leipzig, Germany Title: Temporal Asymptotics for the p'th Power Newtonian Fluid Special Note: This talk has been postponed. Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marta Lewicka, Max-Planck Institute at Leipzig, Germany Title: Stability Conditions for Patterns with Large Waves Special Note: This talk has been postponed. Contact Info here

Friday, September 14, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Stephen J. Watson, Northwestern University and Max-Planck Institute at Leipzig, Germany Title: Temporal Asymptotics for the p'th Power Newtonian Fluid Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Marta Lewicka, Max-Planck Institute at Leipzig, Germany Title: Stability Conditions for Patterns with Large Waves Contact Info here

Friday, September 21, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Wagner, University of Houston Title: Coordinate Transformations and Differential Forms for Systems of Conservation Laws Special Note: Special Time Contact Info here

Wednesday, September 26, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Yongqian Zhang, Fudan University (Shanghai) and Northwestern University Title: Steady Supersonic Flow Past a Curved wedge. Special Note: Special Time Contact Info here

Monday, October 1, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Joerg-Uwe Loebus, University of Jena, Germany, and Northwestern University Title: Change of Reference Measures of Classical and Stable Bilinear Forms Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nathalie Wahl, Northwestern University Title: Equivariant Recognition Principle and BV algebras Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 2, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Zaiyong (Alex)Yang, Northwestern Univ Title: Conley and Zehnder's proof of Arnold Conjecture Contact Info here

Monday, October 8, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Giovanni Forni, Northwestern Title: Quantitative equidistribution for horocycle flows and nilpotent flows Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. P. Linden, Univ. Calif., San Diego Title: Vortex Rings and Animal Propulsion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Po Hu, University of Chicago Title: Elliptic cohomology and moonshine Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University Title: On analogs of the motivic K(\pi,1)-conjecture for absolute Hodge (resp. etale) cohomology of the generic point of varieties Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jonathan Mattingly, Stanford University Title: Ergodic theory of the Navier-Stokes equation and dissipative PDE's: Infinite-dimensional coupling and Gibbs measures Contact Info here

Friday, October 12, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Cristian Huepe-Minoletti, University of Chicago Title: Finite-time blowup dynamics: A study on a "simple" system Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, October 15, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Quasi-invariance for Brownian motion on a non-compact manifold Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Kuo-Chang Chen, Northwestern Title: Constructing periodic solutions for the 4N-body problem by variational methods Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. A. Bertozzi, Duke Univ. Title: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Dynamics and Image and Video Inpainting Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Peter May, University of Chicago Title: Operadic categories, A_\infty categories, and n-categories Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University Title: Spanning spaces of modular forms by theta series Contact Info here

Friday, October 19, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor K. Soundararajan, University of Michigan Title: Real zeros of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Edward Spiegel, Columbia University Title: Macroscopic Equations for Rarified Gas Dynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Hailiang Liu, University of California at Los Angeles Title: Global Regularity vs. Finite Time Breakdown in Eulerian Flows Special Note: Special time Contact Info here

Monday, October 22, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Min Kang, Title: TBA Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Leo Butler, Northwestern Title: Integrable Hamiltonian Systems with Positive Lebesgue Metric Entropy Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor John Klein, Wayne State University Title: Embedding spaces in the theory of group actions Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Julia Pevtsova, Northwestern University Title: Support varieties for infinite dimensional modules Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College Title: TBA Contact Info here

Thursday, October 25, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Philippe LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique, France Title: Classical and nonclassical entropy solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws Contact Info here

Friday, October 26, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor John Lott, University of Michigan Title: Collapsing, Differential Forms and Spinors Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Federico Rodriguez Hertz, IMPA visiting Penn State Title: TBA Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Ralf Wittenberg, University of Michigan Title: Characterizing spatiotemporal chaos in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and related equations Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, October 29, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mark Pinsky, Title: Fejer-Lukacs-Zygmund theorems in the upper half plane Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. B. Rubinstein, Northwestern University Title: The Stability of Vertical Subcooled Boiling Films Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Edward Witten (2000 Nemmers Prize Winner), IAS Title: Singularities in String Theory Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:30pm Professor Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin Title: String theory and KO Special Note: The talk will start at 4:30 not 4:10. Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Yitwah Cheung, Northwestern Title: Fractal dimension of the set of divergent trajectories Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Esther Beneish, Northwestern University Title: Stable rationality of the center of the generic division ring Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 1, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Oded Schramm, Microsoft Title: Brownian motion, percolation and loop-erased random walk Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Concentration of the permanent estimators of certain large matrices Contact Info here

Monday, November 5, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Random Matrices Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm David Ruelle, IHES Title: Perturbation theory for Lyapunov exponents of a toral map: extension of a result of Shub and Wilkinson Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen J. Watson, L.S.U. Title: Coarsening Dynamics for the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon Title: Inverse limits of homology and the Segal conjecture Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 6, 2001

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Edward Witten (2000 Nemmers Prize Winner), IAS Title: String Theory and Manifolds of G_2 Holonomy Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 3:00PM Prof. David Ruelle, IHES, France Title: Positivity of Entropy Production for Quantum Spin Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 8, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University Title: Lie algebras of trees, complexes of graphs and automorphisms of free groups Contact Info here

Friday, November 9, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Baozhong Yang, Stanford University Title: Yang-Mills connections with isolated singularities Abstract and details available

Monday, November 12, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Vadim Linetsky, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science Title: Exact pricing of Asian options: interplay between finance, probability, analysis, geometry and physics Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Yitwah Cheung, Northwestern Title: Fractal dimension of the set of divergent trajectories Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. A. Class, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Title: A Unified Model of Flames as Gasdynamic Discontinuities Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College Title: The cohomology of symmetric groups and the Quillen map at odd primes Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago Title: Homotopy G-actions on spheres Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 13, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Christian Serpe, Muenster Title: On a triangulated category of equivariant motives Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 2:50pm Marcos Marino, Harvard University Title: Framed Knots and Topological Strings Abstract and details available

Friday, November 16, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Stefanella Boatto , Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Institute Henri Poincare, Paris Title: Dynamics of point vortices in the plane and on the sphere: the non- linear stability of relative equilibria Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Stefanella Boatto, Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Institute Henri Poincare, Paris Title: A Hydrodynamic Limit: diffusion approximation for a Knudsen gas Contact Info here

Monday, November 19, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Concentration of permanent estimators for certain large matrices Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm David Fisher , Yale University Title: Local Rigidity of Partially Hyperbolic and Isometric Lattice Actions Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Malkhaz Bakuradze, A. Razmadze Math. Institute Title: Characteristic classes and transfer relations in cobordism Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia Title: Support varieties for modules over Chevalley groups and classical Lie algebras Contact Info here

Monday, November 26, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Vadim Meleshuk , Northwestern Title: Embedding templates in flows Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. J. Sethian, Univ. of California, Berkeley Title: Ordered Upwind Methods: Computing Viscosity solutions to optimal control and non-viscosity solutions to wave propagation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago Title: Homotopy G-actions on spheres Contact Info here

Thursday, November 29, 2001

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Bo Su, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: Stationary Phase Transition Problems Contact Info here

Friday, November 30, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Peter Li, University of Califronia, Irvine Title: Laplace Operator and the Topology of Complete Manifolds Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Henry Abarbanel, University of California, San Diego Title: Biological and Electronic Neurons: Experiments and Theory Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, December 3, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Anton Zorich , University of Rennes Title: TBA Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. L. Gross, Univ. of Akron Title: Onset of Linear Instabilities in a Solid Combustion Model Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University Title: On the very local structure of stable homotopy groups Special Note: The lecture starts at 3:00 instead of 4:10 Contact Info here

Tuesday, December 4, 2001

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley Title: A q-analogue of the algebra of symmetric functions in infinitely many variables Abstract and details available

Friday, December 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM James A. Glazier, University of Notre Dame Title: Foams in Two and Three Dimensions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Moulay Tidriri, Iowa State University Title: Analysis of a coupled system of kinetic (Boltzmann) equations and their hydrodynamic limits (conservation laws): Rigorous derivation and existence theory via defect measures Contact Info here

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