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Monday, January 7, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. H. Levine, Iowa State Univ. Title: A New Mathematical Model for Tumor Angiogenesis: From the Onset of Necrosis to Tumor Vascularization Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Thursday, January 10, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Northwestern Title: Lecture 1: Topological K-theory. Different definitions for algebraic K-theory. Abstract and details available

Friday, January 11, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Technological Institute - Room M416, 2:00PM Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University Title: Vortices and clustering in anisotropic and cohesive granular matter Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, January 14, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. T. Savina, Northwestern University Title: The Law of Reflection for Solutions of Elliptic Equations Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Brayton Gray , University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Costable homotopy of periodic spaces Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Tom Graber, Harvard University Title: Rationally Connected Varieties Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 17, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Northwestern Title: Lecture 2: Some properties of algebraic K-theory. Abstract and details available

Friday, January 18, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Technological Institute - Room M416, 2:00PM Shankar Venkataramani, Universityof Chicago Title: Crumpled sheets as a model system for studying multiple-scale behviors Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, January 21, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. N. Peters, Stanford University Title: Modification of the Turbulent Burning Velocity by Gas Expansion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 3pm Professor Mike Roth, University of Michigan Title: TBA Contact Info here

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University Title: Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 24, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Northwestern Title: Lecture 3: The homotopy category of simplicial sheaves of Joyal and Jardine. The unstable A^1-homotopy category of Morel and Voevodsky. Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Benoit Perthame, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), France Title: The Helholtz Equation: High Frequency Limit Contact Info here

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Peter Schneider, University of Muenster Title: TBA Contact Info here

Friday, January 25, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Alexander Kiselev, University of Chicago Title: Enhancement and Quenching of Combustion by Fluid Flow Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago Title: Thread pinch-off: asymmetric cones in viscous flow. Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, January 28, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Elena Mantovan, Harvard University Title: Certain unitary Shimura varieties Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. D. Terman, Ohio State Univ. Title: A Model for Synchronous Parkinsonian Rhythms Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Natasa Pavlovic, University of Illinios at Chicago Title: Partial regularity results for the Navier-Stokes equations with hyper-dissipation Abstract and details available

Representation Theory, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern Title: The basic theory of (Ug,K)-modules Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dan Isaksen, University of Notre Dame Title: Hypercovers in topology Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 31, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Northwestern Title: Lecture 4: A^1-representability of algebraic K-theory. Voevodsky's stable A^1-homotopy category. Abstract and details available

Friday, February 1, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jinho Baik, Princeton University and IAS Title: The Longest Increasing Subsequences of Random Symmetrized Permutations Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Ken Miller, University of California San Francisco Title: Modeling the function and development of a piece of the cerebral cortical circuit: Cat V1 layer 4 Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 4, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. R. Scott, Univ. of Chicago Title: Models for Dispersive Fluid Flow Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Christina Inwon Kim, University of Texas at Austin Title: The Uniqueness ane Existence Results on Viscosity Solutions of the Hele-Shaw and the Stefan Problem Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Justin Mauger , Northwestern University Title: The cohomology of Hopf algebras associated with p-groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 5, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ernesto Lupercio, University of Wisconsin -- Madison Title: Orbifolds, K-theory and Deligne cohomology Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor K. Vilonen, Northwestern University Title: Representation theory of Lie groups, an introduction Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 7, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Jens Hornbostel, Northwestern Title: Lecture 5: Hermitian K-theory. Morel's conjecture about certain A^1-homotopy groups of spheres. Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Manuel Blickle, Essen Title: The intersection homology D-module in finite characteristic Abstract and details available

Friday, February 8, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Henry Greenside, Duke University Title: The Existence and Properties of Spatiotemporal Chaos in a 2D Excitable Medium Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Monica Torres, University of California at Berkeley and University of Texas at Austin Title: Plane-like minimal surfaces in periodic media with inclusions Abstract and details available

Monday, February 11, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. I. Rubinstein, Indiana University Title: New Differential Equations Related to Refraction Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jean-Louis Loday, University of Strasbourg Title: On a duality between standard simplices and Stasheff polytopes Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Bruce Williams, Notre Dame Title: Hermitian K-theory Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern Title: Induction (in all its guises) Abstract and details available

Friday, February 15, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Technological Institute - Room M416, 2:00PM Rustem Ismagilov, University of Chicago Title: Spatial Localization of Chemical Reactions with Microfluidics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 18, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin Title: Plane Like Solutions of Minimal Surfaces in Periodic Media Contact Info here

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard Title: Rational points, rational curves and higher dimensions Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 101, 2:00 pm Professor Manuel Blickle, Essen Title: The intersection homology D-module in finite characteristic Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 21, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Kathy Phelps, Northwestern Title: TBA Contact Info here

Friday, February 22, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland Title: Observing Intense Turbulent Vorticity and Strain Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, February 25, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Alex Eskin, University of Chicago Title: TBA Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. A. Scheel, Univ. of Minnesota Title: Do Turing Spots Move on a Wavy Background Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Kyungwoo Song, Indiana University at Bloomington Title: Existence of Solutions to the Pressure-Gradient Equation in an Elliptic Domain Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University Title: The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture for Fuchsian groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jean-Louis Loday, Strasbourg Title: Hopf algebras and arithmetic based on planar trees Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor M.Emerton, Northwestern University Title: Induction and geometry Contact Info here

Thursday, February 28, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Dmitri Tamarkin, Harvard University Title: Quantization of Lie bialgebras and operads Contact Info here

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Graham Herrick, Northwestern Title: Weil Conjectures for Elliptic Curves Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 105, 2-4pm Professor Becky Herb, University of Maryland Title: The Plancherel formula Contact Info here

Friday, March 1, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Rebecca Herb, University of Maryland Title: Representation Theory - An Elementary Introduction Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Jared Bronski, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Title: Passive Scalar Intermittency, Eigenvalue Asymptotics, and Small Ball Estimates for Fractional Brownian Motions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Steve Halperin, University of Maryland Title: Homotopy Groups and Lusternik Schnirelmann Category Special Note: Please note the unusual day, time and room. Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University Title: Beilinson-Bernstein localization Contact Info here

Monday, March 4, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Professor Jared Wunsch, Title: Diffraction of waves on conic manifolds Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM F. Rasio, Northwestern University Title: Particle Methods in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Peter Schneider, University of Muenster Title: Representation theory and algebras of p-adic distributions Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University Title: Beilinson-Bernstein localization Contact Info here

Thursday, March 7, 2002

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Sema Salur, Cornell University Title: Special Lagrangian Submanifolds in Mirror Symmetry Abstract and details available

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Graham Herrick, Northwestern Title: Weil conjectures for elliptic curves Abstract and details available

Friday, March 8, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Matt Nicol, Surrey Title: Euclidean extensions of dynamical systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, March 11, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. S. Tsynkov, Tel Aviv University Title: Optimization of Acoustic Strength in Problems of Active Noise Control Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kevin Lee, Purdue University Calumet Title: Equivariant Lubin-Tate formal group laws Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Edward Witten, IAS Title: Gauge Theory and its Quantum Analogue for Two-Forms Contact Info here

Friday, March 15, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM Lev Tsimring, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego Title: Noise-induced dynamics in bistable systems with delay Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, March 18, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. G. Karniadakis, Brown Univ. Title: Multiscale modeling of microfluidics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Thursday, March 21, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Shuxing Chen, Fudan University (Shanghai) Title: New Development of the Theory on Multidimensional Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems Contact Info here

Friday, April 5, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland Title: Control of binary alloy crystal growth patterns Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor , Title: A class of processes on the path space over a compact Riemannian manifold with unbounded diffusion Contact Info here

Monday, April 8, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Michael Schlosser, visiting Northwestern University Title: Inversion of bilateral basic hypergeometric series Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Clarence Wilkerson , Purdue University Title: Binary Linear Codes and the Classification of Exceptional 2-Compact Groups Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Alexander Kleschev, University of Oregon Title: Modular representation theories via Kac-Moody algebras Abstract and details available

Friday, April 12, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Douglas Heggie, University of Edinburgh Title: Exponential Divergence Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, April 15, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jorg-Uwe Loebus, Northwestern University Title: A class of processes on the path space over a compact Riemannian manifold with unbounded diffusion Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM S. Brandon, Technion Title: Modeling Facet Formation during Crystal Growth from the Melt Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Lars Hesselholt, MIT Title: Topological Hochshild homology of the algebraic closure of a local field: a new Fontaine ring? Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Wojciech Gajda, Poznan University Title: On the support problem for the intermediate jacobians of l-adic representations Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern Title: localisation revisited Abstract and details available

Friday, April 19, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM David Merritt, Rutgers University Title: Non-Integrable Galactic Dynammics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, April 22, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Stein's Method for Lindberg's Central Limit Theorem Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. S. A. Campbell, Univ. of Waterloo Title: Stability and bifurcations of a ring of oscillators with delayed coupling Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University Title: Homology of the mapping class groups and homology stability Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern Title: Localisation revisited Abstract and details available

Friday, April 26, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Hans G. Othmer, University of Minnesota Title: Signal transduction and behavioral response in E. Coli: a model system for understanding macroscopic patterns from microscopic rules Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, April 29, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ahmed Zayed, De Paul University Title: A q-analogue of the Whittaker-Shannon Kotelnikov sampling theorem Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. C.K.R.T. Jones, Brown Univ. Title: Injecting Lagrangian elements into the ocean modeling process Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jim Borger, University of Chicago Title: Conductors and the moduli of residual perfection Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Title: Localisation continued Contact Info here

Thursday, May 2, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Stuart S. Antman, University of Maryland Title: Analytic Consequences of Incompressibility in Solid Mechanics Contact Info here

Friday, May 3, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM James Bower, The Research Imaging Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio and the Cajal Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Texas- San Antonio Title: How does the cerebellum compute? Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, May 6, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elena Kosygina, Title: Homogenization of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. J. Keener, Univ. of Utah Title: The dynamics of defibrillation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University Title: Homotopy Gerstenhaber and BV structures on Hochschild complexes Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Paul Seidel, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Tensor construction and the mirror quintic, after Kontsevich and Douglas Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 103, 2-4pm Professor D. Milicic, University of Utah Title: Asymptotics of representations and their localization Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Paul Seidel, Institute for Advanced Study Title: Real and complex Morse theory Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 103, 2-4pm , Title: Discussion Contact Info here

Friday, May 10, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Anna Lin, Duke University Title: Frequency locking of reaction-diffusion patterns Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, May 13, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Andrew Comech, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Title: L^p-L^q regularity of Fourier integral operators Special Note: There are two analysis and probability seminars today Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Burgess Davis, Purdue University Title: Reinforced Random Walk Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dave Benson, University of Georgia Title: Phantom maps in algebra and topology Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor R Clark Robinson, Northwestern University Title: Definition of a Chaotic Attractor Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 103, 2-4pm All, Northwestern University Title: Discussion Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Alex Eskin, University of Chicago Title: Billiards and Lattices Contact Info here

Friday, May 17, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona Title: Chaos and Stability in Planetary Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, May 20, 2002

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Joe Jerome, Northwestern University Title: A semi-classical drift-diffusion model with thresholds for recombination and boundary flux Special Note: There are two analysis and probability seminars today Contact Info here

Analysis and Probability Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Second class particles in asymmetric exclusion processes Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. S. Shvartsman, Princeton Univ. Title: Modeling and computation of cell communication in drosophila egg development Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet Title: Modelling connective spectra using permutative categories Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Giovanni Felder, ETH Title: Semiclassical quantization and the third fundamental theorem for Lie algebroids Contact Info here

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:00pm Todd Fisher, Title: Blenders Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 103, 2-4pm Professor Frank Calegari, Berkeley Title: Modular forms, representations of Galois groups, and p-adic interpolation Contact Info here

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Graduate Algebra Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:10pm Professor Wojciech Gajda, Poznan University, POLAND Title: Primes and Riemann's zeta Abstract and details available

Friday, May 24, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech Institute - Room 416, 2:00PM Robert Ecke, Los Alamos National Lab Title: Granular Chains - Geometric Constraints, Entropy, and More 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: More then you want to know about \pi_* ( L_K(2) S^0 ). Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Yelena Klimenko, Northwestern Title: 2-generator hyperbolic orbifolds with real parameters Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 103, 2-4pm All, Title: Discussion Contact Info here

Thursday, May 30, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Tong Yang, City University of Hong Kong Title: Nonlinear Boundary Layers of the Boltzmann Equation Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Misha Brin, University of Maryland Title: Dynamical coherence Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Misha Brin , University of Maryland Title: Dynamical coherence Contact Info here

Friday, May 31, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Eugene Chiang, University of California-Berkeley Title: Winding and Unwinding a Clockwork Universe Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech L211 - Note special time and location, 4:00PM Eugene Chiang, University of California-Berkeley Title: Winding and Unwinding a Clockwork Universe Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, June 3, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis, Northwestern Univ. Title: Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex biopolymerization networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University Title: More then you want to know about pi_* ( L_K(2) S^0 ) Contact Info here

Wednesday, June 5, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech Institute Room M416 - Note special day (Wednesday), 2:00PM Norm Murray, University of Toronto Title: Chaos in the Solar System Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Special Seminar, Annenberg G15, 4:10pm Professor Michael Brin , University of Maryland Title: The mathematics of Google Abstract and details available

Tuesday, June 6, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Misha Brin , University of Maryland Title: Dynamical coherence Contact Info here

Friday, June 7, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech Institute Room M416, 2:00PM Norm Murray, University of Toronto Title: Chaos in the Solar System Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, August 26, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion Title: Vortex-Type and Dipole-Type Solitons in Nonlinear Optical Media Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Friday, September 20, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Stephane Genet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Title: Cellular basis for time computations in the cerebellum: multi- threshold model of electric activation in cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Livio Flaminio, Université de Lille Title: Quantitative equidistribution for nilflows Contact Info here

Friday, September 27, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Yanyan Li, Rutgers University Title: On some conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Lee E. Miller, Northwestern University Title: Predicting limb EMG from neurons recorded in the central nervous system Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, September 30, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 102, 2:10pm Professor Mark Kisin, University of Munster Title: Geometric deformations of modular Galois representations Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University Title: The homology of invariant group chains Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Sigrid Wortmann, University of Heidelberg Title: Motives and automorphic forms Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Maria Bertolim, Universidade de São Paulo Title: Lyapunov graph continuation Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 12-2pm Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University Title: An introduction to Langlands' philosophy Abstract and details available

Friday, October 4, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University Title: Self Focusing of Circularly-polarized Beams Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Northwestern Nonlinear PDE Conference

3:10pm Professor Peter Lax, New York University Title: Dispersive Equations and the Zero Dispersion Limit Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

4:10pm Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University (Canberra) Title: Boundary Value Problems for the Affine Maximal Surface Equation Details of the talk

5:05pm Professor Richard Melrose, MIT Title: Elliptic Operators on Singular Spaces Details of the talk

Saturday, October 5, 2002

9:00am Professor Avner Friedman, Ohio State University Title: Mathematical Challenges in Cancer Models Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

9:50am Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: On Some Results of Moser and of Bangert Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

11:00am Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University Title: A new Approach to the Riemann Problem for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

11:50am Professor Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburg Title: Traveling Waves in a Competition Model Details of the talk

2:10pm Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Austin Title: Some PDE Problems in Periodic Media Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

3:00pm Professor Bjorn Engquist, Princeton University Title: Computing High Frequency Wave Propagation Details of the talk

4:10pm Professor James Glimm, University at Stony Brook Title: Uncertainty Quantification and Error Models for Numerical Solution Error Details of the talk

5:00pm Professor Salah Baouendi, University of California, San-Diego Title: Some Regularity Results for Mappings Between Real Submanifolds in Complex Space Details of the talk

Sunday, October 6, 2002

9:00am Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University Title: Energy Method for Boltzmann Equation Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

9:50am Professor Cathleen Morawetz, New York University Title: Linear Transonic Flow Problems Details of the talk

11:00am Professor Michael Crandall, University of California at Santa Barbara Title: Deriving the $L^\infty$ Euler Equation Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

11:50am Professor Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota Title: Shape Deformations and Analytic Continuation in Free Boundary Problems Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

2:10pm Professor Fanghua Lin, New York University Title: Some Thoughts on Born-Infeld-Einstein Equations Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor Jerry Bona, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Stability, Instability, and Singularities in Nonlinear Wave Equations Details of the talk

4:00pm Professor Bei Hu, Notre Dame University Title: A PDE Model from Angiogenesis Details of the talk

4:50pm Professor Carlos Kenig, Chicago University Title: Full Regularity on 3-dimensions for Variational Solutions to Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg ) Abstract and details available

Monday, October 7, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. A. Berezhkovskii, NIH and Karpov Inst. Phys. Chem. (Moscow) Title: Kinetics of diffusion controlled reactions: From traditional theories to new approaches Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University Title: On an Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence in the theory of mixed Tate sheaves Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Kamlesh Parwani, Northwestern Title: Monotone periodic orbits on surfaces Contact Info here

Friday, October 11, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, Boston University Title: Biophysics of the DNA molecule Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 12, 2002

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 12-2pm Professor D. Nadler, University of Chicago Title: The geomteric Satake isomorphism Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 16, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jiangfeng Liang, Northwestern University Title: Smoothing Effect at a Focal Point for Semilinear Wave Equations Special Note: Special Time! Contact Info here

Thursday, October 17, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Luigi Lugiato, Università dell'Insubria Title: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

The Twenty-Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium

2:00pm Professor Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley Title: Critical percolation and minimal spanning forests Details of the talk

3:00pm Professor Balint Virag, MIT Title: Fast graphs for the random walker Details of the talk

4:30pm Professor Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley Title: Evolving sets, conductance and mixing Details of the talk

Friday, October 18, 2002

3:00pm Oded Schramm, Microsoft Title: Scaling limits of two-dimensional statistical physics: Percolation, uniform spanning trees and beyond, I Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

4:30pm Professor Amir Dembo, Stanford University Title: Late points and cover times Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

Saturday, October 19, 2002

9:30am Oded Schramm, Microsoft Title: Scaling limits of two-dimensional statistical physics: Percolation, uniform spanning trees and beyond, II Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

1:00pm Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlon, University of California, Berkeley Title: Kinetic limits for interacting particle systems Place: Swift 107 Abstract and details available

Monday, October 21, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. J. Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Title: Rossby waves in irregular basins Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Robet Pollack, University of Chicago Title: Iwasawa theory: Class numbers to elliptic curves Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 12-2pm Professor K. Vilonen, Northwestern University Title: More Langlands Contact Info here

Friday, October 25, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Alan Perelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Modeling Viral Infections in Humans Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: Existence and stability of multidimensional steady transonic shocks in the whole space Special Note: Special Time!! Contact Info here

Special Seminar, Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor A. Polishchuk, Boston University Title: Holomorphic vector bundles on noncommutative tori Contact Info here

Monday, October 28, 2002

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nathan Wodarz, Northwestern University Title: Polynomial homology theories Contact Info here

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jae-Suk Park, Title: d-algebras, d-manifolds and quantum field theories Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 101, 12-2pm Professor D. Tamarkin, Northwestern University Title: Tate's thesis Contact Info here

Thursday, October 31, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Isaac Kornfeld, North Dakota State University Title: Coboundaries of measure preserving transformations, Rokhlin's lemma, and related problems Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 216, 2:00pm Daniel Davis, Northwestern University Title: The Lubin-Tate spectrum E_n as a continuous G_n-spectrum and its homotopy fixed point spectra Special Note: The talk is at 2:00 in the conference room. Abstract and details available

Friday, November 1, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM John Tyson, Virginia Tech Title: CyberYeast: Computational Models of Cell Cycle Regulation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, November 4, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. K. Gurski, N.I.S.T. Title: The effect of anisotropic surface energy and contact lines and the Rayleigh instability Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University Title: Transitivity of action of the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group on the chain operad of little disks Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Christian Haesemeyer , Northwestern University Title: Some computations in semitopological K-theory Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

Special Seminar, Leverone Hall G40, 4:00pm Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University Title: (3x+1) and Other Number-Theoretic Dynamical Systems Special Note: Lecture for the general public. Contact Info here

Thursday, November 7, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Leo Butler, Northwestern University Title: The Toda Lattice and Positive-Entropy Integrable Systems Abstract and details available

Friday, November 8, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University Title: 1D Burgers Equation with Random Forcing Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Alexander Grosberg, University of Minnesota Title: Toy Proteins Functioning Like a Machine Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Monday, November 11, 2002

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University Title: A cohomological approach to automorphism group rings Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Chicago Title: Solitons and D-modules Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor John Franks, Northwestern University Title: Actions of lattices on low-dimensional manifolds Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Lan Wen, Beijing University Title: On the C^1 density conjecture of Palis Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago Title: The local embedding problem for surfaces Contact Info here

Friday, November 15, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM M.L. Zeeman, University of Texas, San Antonio Title: Title: Modeling the LH surge in the human menstrual cycle. Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 3:00pm Mark A. Pearson, Northwestern University Title: The Morava K-theory of homotopy orbit spaces: some good results Special Note: Note the unusual time and day Contact Info here

Monday, November 18, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. K. Elder, Oakland University Title: Modeling elasticity with phase field crystals Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jim McClure, Purdue University Title: Cosimplicial objects and little n-cubes Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Algebra Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Tom Bridgeland, Edinburgh University Title: The Fourier-Mukai transform Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Yanyan Li, Rutgers University Title: A Liouville theorem for solutions of the Monge-Ampere equation with periodic data Special Note: Special Seminar, Special Time! Contact Info here

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 103, 4:00pm Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University Title: The Navier Stokes equation Contact Info here

PDE Seminar, Lunt 102, 2:00pm Professor Antonio Sa Barreto, Purdue University Title: Radiation fields on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds Special Note: Note unusual time, location. Contact Info here

Representation Theory Seminar, Lunt 104, 4-6pm Professor W. Schmid, Harvard University Title: Automorphic forms and L-functions Contact Info here

Friday, November 22, 2002

Colloquium, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University Title: Voronoi Summation for GL(3) Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Luis Amaral, Northwestern Title: Complex Networks in Nature Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 3:00pm Jeffrey Brock, University of Chicago Title: The Weil-Petersson metric, pants decompositions, and volumes of hyperbolic surface bundles. Special Note: Note special time and place Contact Info here

Monday, December 2, 2002

ESAM Colloquium, Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. M. Khenner, SUNY Buffalo Title: Models for selective area epitaxial crystal growth 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: p-compact groups and p-local groups Contact Info here

Thursday, December 5, 2002

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Cheng Chong-Qing, Nanjing University Title: Variational Construction of Connecting Orbits around Hyperbolic Torus Contact Info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science, Tech M416, 2:00PM Greg Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: Laminar flows of nematic polymers: molecular theory and averaged descriptions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Archil Gulisashvili, Ohio University, Athens Title: Nonautonomous classes of measures and Feynman-Kac propagators Special Note: Joint with Analysis/Probability Seminar Contact Info here

Friday, December 6, 2002

Topology Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jaume Aguade , University of Barcelona Title: Kac-Moody groups from a homotopy point of view Special Note: Note the unusual day and room. Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Stephane JUNCA, University Nice (France) Title: Geometric optics for one dimensional conservation laws with two scale in BV Contact Info here

Monday, December 9, 2002

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago Title: The combinatorics of smooth manifolds Contact Info here

Thursday, December 12, 2002

PDE Seminar, Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Stephane JUNCA, University of Nice, France Title: Geometric optics for one dimensional conservation laws with two scale in BV Contact Info here

Wednesday, December 15, 2002

Topology Seminar, Lunt 104, 4:10pm Dan Margalit, University of Chicago Title: Topology vs. algebra in mapping class groups Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 3pm Dan Margalit, University of Chicago Title: Topology vs. algebra in mapping class groups Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar, Lunt 103, 3pm Dan Margalit, University of Chicago Title: Contact Info here

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