News: Mathematical Calendar
Previous Entries: Year 2005
| Monday, January 3, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Jung Choi, Northwestern University Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories Contact Info here |
| Thursday, January 6, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago Title: The distance functionals for wave patterns in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws Contact Info here |
| Friday, January 7, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Inwon Kim, MIT Title: The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Flow Special Note: Professor Kim is a candidate for a tenure track position Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 10, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Baruch Meerson, The Hebrew University Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Sunder Sethuraman, Iow State University Title: Diffusive estimates for a tagged particle in zero-range particle Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm David Gepner, University of Illinois Title: The Thom Isomorphism in Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Youngna Choi, Montclair State University Title: Topology of Attractors from Expanding Maps with One Discontinuity Contact Info here |
| Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: Lagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic equations in physical space Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Michael Goldberg, Caltech Title: Dispersive Estimates for the Three-Dimensional Schrodinger Equation Abstract and details available |
| Friday, January 14, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Victoria Booth, University of Michigan Title: Mean theta phase of model CA1 pyramidal cell firing changes with location of synaptic stimuli Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Nadler, University of Chicago Title: Loops spaces and Langlands duality Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 17, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107 (or another room), 2:30pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, MIT Title: A simple algebraic proof of the algebraic index theorem Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Peter Carr, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Time Changed Levy Processes and Option Pricing Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Jonathan B. Freund, UIUC Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor William Stein, Harvard University Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 24, 2005 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Yimin Xiao, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University Title: Geometric Properties of the Brownian Sheet Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University Title: Every compact manifold carries a hyperbolic ergodic map Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University Title: Fukaya theory and string topology (after Fukaya) Contact Info here |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago Title: Recent developments on the well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Angela Grant, University of Maryland Title: Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Colin Guillarmou, Purdue Title: Scattering theory for hyperbolic manifolds Contact Info here |
| Friday, January 28, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mona Mocanasu, UCLA Title: Borel-Moore Functors and Algebraic Oriented Theories Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, February 1, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Rigidity for actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, February 2, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Zhu Chenchang, (ETH Zurich) Title: CANCELLED - Symplectic (stacky) groupoids of Poisson manifolds - CANCELLED Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University Title: Murphy's Law in Algebraic Geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 4, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Gary Blasdel, Northwestern University Title: Optical Imaging of non-vascular Intrinsic Signals in Monkey Visual Cortex Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 7, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Francois Blanchette, University of Chicago Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: Two-sided estimates on the density of Brownian Motion with singular drift Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University Title: Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, February 9, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm André Henriques, Title: A Lie algebra for the String group Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: The 2--Wasserstein metric and its applications to PDEs Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Volker Elling, Stanford University Title: Maximum principles in self-similar potential flow Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 11, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science, NYU Title: Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations in Communicating Fish Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 14, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Ziad Musslimani, University of Central Florida Title: Multiscale Asymptopic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham Title: Chaotic billiards with polynomial mixing rates Abstract and details available |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Boris Tsygan, Northwestern Title: Fukaya theory and string topology, II Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 18, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Richard Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 21, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Mary Silber, Northwestern University Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago Title: Stochastic Competition and First-Passage Percolation Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor C. Klingenberg, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany) Title: Conservation laws with discontinuous flux functions: well-posedness Contact Info here |
| Friday, February 25, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Chad Topaz, UCLA Title: Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and dynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jim Colliander, University of Toronto Title: On rough blowup solutions of L2 critical NLS Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 28, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Eric Carlen, George Institute of Technology Title: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Julie Bergner, University of Notre Dame Title: Three models for the homotopy theory of homotopy theories Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, March 1, 2005 |
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Representation Theory Seminar,
Lunt 101, 2-4pm Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan Title: An overview of spaces of arcs Contact Info here |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan Title: An overview of spaces of arcs, continued Contact Info here |
| Friday, March 4, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Daniel Grunbaum, University of Washington Title: Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish. Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, March 7, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley Title: Laser Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws Contact Info here |
| Friday, March 11, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame Title: On Multiscale Approaches to Three-Dimensional Modeling of Morphogenesis Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, March 14, 2005 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 2:30pm Professor Dayue Chen, Peking University Title: The anchored expansion constant of random graphs Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Jerrold Marsden, Caltech Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (2) Contact Info here |
| Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (3) Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (4) Contact Info here |
| Monday, March 28, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Lev Rozhansky (UNC at Chapel Hill), Title: Commutative algebra and the categorification of the SU(N) HOMFLY Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories Special Note: CANCELLED Contact Info here |
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
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Yamabe Lecture,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Terence Tao, UCLA Title: Geometric Renormalization of Wave Maps Contact Info here |
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Yamabe Lecture,
Lunt 105, 4:30pm Professor Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University Title: Einstein Geometry and Nonlinear Waves Contact Info here |
| Friday, April 1, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Andre Levchenko, Johns Hopkins University Title: Quantification of NF-kappaB: marriage of genetics, biochemistry and mathematical modeling Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Terence Tao, UCLA Title: Long arithmetic progressions in the primes Contact Info here |
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Yamabe Lecture,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor tba, Title: tba Contact Info here |
| Monday, April 4, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Andrew Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, April 5, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Mark Pollicott, University of Warwick Title: Sierpinski Gaskets with Overlaps Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, April 6, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Pancoe 1-401 (2000 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus), 5:00PM Daniel Stouffer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering and NSF /IGERT Dynamics of Complex Systems , Northwestern University Title: A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Natural Ecosystems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 8, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University Title: Physical Limits to Biochemical Signaling Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, April 11, 2005 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Sunil Chebolu, University of Washington Title: A K-theoretic approach for refining the chromatic towers Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State Title: Mixing, disjoint factors and isometric extensions Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Daniel Rudolph, Colorado Sate University Title: Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Ergodic Theory Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Thomas Mason, UCLA Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Andrew Hassell, Australian National University Title: The Riesz transform on manifolds with Euclidean ends Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College Title: A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres Contact Info here |
| Friday, April 15, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University Title: Involutions and Polyconvexity in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Applications to Electromagnetism and Elastodynamics Contact Info here |
| Monday, April 18, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Fred Hickernell, IIT Title: Fast Spline Methods for High Dimensional Problems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University Title: Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 1 of 2 talks) Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Feimin Huang, Academia Sinica (Beijing, PRC) Title: Convergence of Viscosity Solutions for Isothermal Gas Dynamics Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ya-Guang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Title: A Microlocal Approach in Studying Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 22, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM John Maddocks, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - EPRL Title: TBA Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, April 25, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. James Grotberg, University of Michigan Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Robert Neel, Columbia University Title: The Behavior of the Heat Kernel at the Cut Locus Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Chris Dwyer, University of Wisconsin Title: Twisted equivariant K-theory and twisted Bredon cohomology Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame Title: Unique ergodicity for nonuniquely ergodic horocycle flows (Joint work with Omri Sarig) Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 2 of 2 talks) Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 29, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Title: Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical Systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 2, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. John Bush, MIT Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Gromov, IHES Title: From protein foldings to Morse theory Special Note: Professor Gromov is the 2005 Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, May 3, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jacques Fejoz, University Paris 6 Title: TBA Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University, Nijmegen Title: Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 3 of 3 talks) Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 5, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM Prof. John Hudson, University of Virginia Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 6, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dante R. Chialvo, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Title: Critical Brain Networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 9, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen Watson, Northwestern University Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Omri Sarig, Penn State University Title: Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier) Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Howard Weiss, Pennsylvania State University Title: How smooth is your wavelet? A dynamical systems approach Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 13, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Robert Buchler, University of Florida Title: Chaos in the Music of the Stars Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 16, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois- Champaign/Urbana Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Rochelle Pereira, University of Chicago Title: Higher Order Cohomology Operations and Minimal Atomicity Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Matthew Nicol, University of Houston Title: An almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 103, 2:00pm Professor Anupam Garg, Northwestern University (Physics Department) Title: Path Integral Approach to Spin Semiclassics Special Note: Note special time, location Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 20, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Tim Elston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Title: Regulation of MAP kinase activity revealed by mathematical modeling and experimental analysis Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 23, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University Title: Bifurcations and Geometry Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Soren Galatius, Stanford University Title: Classifying spaces of cobordism categories Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Nikos Frantzikinakis, Penn State University Title: Counting polynomial configurations in dense subsets of the integers. Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:00pm Alissa Crans, UC Riverside Title: From Loop Groups to 2-Groups Abstract and details available |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Paul Bressler, University of Arizona Title: Riemann-Roch for circle bundles Contact Info here |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Dana Randall, Computer Science Department, Georgia Tech Title: Algorithms for Finding a Random Needle in a Combinatorial Haystack Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Title: Extensions of hyperbolic systems of balance laws Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Frederic Rochon, MIT Title: Bott Periodicity for fibred cusp operators Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 27, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Werner Mueller, University of Bonn Title: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces and scattering theory Special Note: First talk of Scattering Theory and Singular Spaces conference Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, June 1, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota Title: Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and "obvious" theorems Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, June 2, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10 Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Title: Zero-Viscosity Limit of the Linearized Navier-Stokes Equations with Highly Oscillatory Forces in the Half-Plane Contact Info here |
| Friday, June 3, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Werner Pesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany Title: Rayleigh-Benard convection with modulated acceleration Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Friday, June 10, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Marc Barthelemy, CEA, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France Title: Heterogeneity and predictability of global epidemics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Andres Navas-Flores, IHES and Universidad de Chile Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Tom Graber, California Institute of Technology Title: Towards a quantum McKay correspondence Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University Title: Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties Abstract and details available |
| Friday, September 23, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Nail Akhmediev, The Australian National University Title: Dissipative solitons in life and science Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, September 26, 2005 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Craig Westerland, University of Wisconsin - Madison Title: Equivariant operads and string topology Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category Abstract and details available |
| Friday, September 30, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Title: Multi-Scale Models of Sequence-Dependent DNA Mechanics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 3, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Alex Nepomnyashchy, Technion Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Evaporating Binary Mixtures Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 4, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor John Franks, Northwestern University Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces Contact Info here |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia Title: Counting blocks Contact Info here |
| Thursday, October 6, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University Title: Characterizing projective spaces Contact Info here |
| Friday, October 7, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Iain Couzin, Oxford University Title: Collective animal behavior Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech L211, 4:00PM Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology Title: How Flies Fly Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 10, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Katja Lindenberg, UCSD Title: Reactions of Subdiffusive Particles and Subdiffusive Traps Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Alex Stokolos, De Paul University Title: On Gurov-Reshetnyak property Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jacek Graczyk, Universite de Paris-Sud Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University Title: Cyclic homology, $cdh$-cohomology and negative $K$-theory Contact Info here |
| Monday, October 17, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Andrew Norris, Rutgers Title: Stability of Propagating Cracks and Front Waves using Matched Asymptotic Expansions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Steffen Sagave, Mathematisches Institut Bonn Title: Universal Toda brackets of ring spectra Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Christian Bonatti, Université de Bourgogne Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows Contact Info here |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University Title: Homology of linear groups via cycles in BG x X Contact Info here |
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics Title: Enumerative Geometry on Enriques Surfaces Contact Info here |
| Friday, October 21, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Thierry Emonet, U Chicago Title: Towards a digital bacterium Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 24, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Steven Roper, Northwestern University Title: Fluid Driven Fracture in Geophysics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Homotopy decompositions at p =2 of sporadic simple groups Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Tech M166, 11am-12:30pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University Title: Formality of the Lie algebra of polyvector fields and Frobenius manifold Special Note: Topics in Mirror Symmetry Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky Title: Elliptic genus test for the mirror of some complete intersection Abstract and details available |
| Friday, October 28, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell Title: Energetics of Walking Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 31, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. David Dunand, Northwestern University Title: Metallic Foams Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, November 1, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes". Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, November 2, 2005 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 3pm Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University Title: Is chaotic behavior typical among dynamical systems? Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, November 3, 2005 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Tech M166, 11:30am-12:30pm Melissa Liu, Northwestern University Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry I Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Nan-Kuo Ho, The Fields Institute (Canada) and National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan) Title: On the volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a non-orientable 2-manifold Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Henri Berestycki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Title: Reaction-diffusion equations and propagation phenomena in heterogeneous environment Special Note: co-sponsored with FIG Abstract and details available |
| Friday, November 4, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM George Lauder, Harvard University Title: How fishes swim: experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Workshop |
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| Monday, November 7, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Sahraoui Chaieb, U of Illinois Title: Large Deformations in Biomembranes: From the Golgi to Drug Delivery Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, November 8, 2005 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Swift 107, 4:00pm Professor Michael Entov , Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology Title: "Almost homomorphisms", "almost linear" functionals and "almost measures" in symplectic topology Special Note: Special time and location Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Jonathon Alperin, University of Chicago Title: Unipotent conjugacy in general linear groups Contact Info here |
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm Melissa Liu, Northwestern University Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry II Contact Info here |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10 pm Yoichiro Mori , Courant Institute, New York University Title: A Three Dimensional Model of Cellular Electrical Activity: mathematical analysis and numerical simulation Special Note: Special PDE seminar Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title: Difference operators, Hilbert schemes, and the Ruijsenaars-Schneider system Contact Info here |
| Friday, November 11, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Tasso Kaper, Boston University Title: Dynamics of patterns in activator-inhibitor systems Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, November 14, 2005 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Kenneth Schweizer, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana Title: Microscopic Theories of Hybrid Soft Materials: Structure, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Steve Hurder, UIC Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Steven Doty, Loyola University Title: Is there a twisted tensor product theorem for indecomposable modules? Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University Title: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and Gromov-Witten theory Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Lev Borisov , University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Analytic continuation of solutions of GKZ system and homological mirror symmetry Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland Title: Stability and convergence of efficient Navier-Stokes solvers via a commutator estimate Abstract and details available |
| Friday, November 18, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. M. Grae Worster, Cambridge, UK Title: The interior of mushy layers revealed Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern University Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem Abstract and details available |
| Monday, November 28, 2005 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3:00pm Mike Hill, MIT Title: A New Hopf Algebra for Computing tmf Homology and the tmf Homology of B\Sigma_3 Special Note: Note the time change: this talk is at 3 pm, not 4:10 pm Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin- Madison Title: Transition, turbulence and drag reduction in flowing polymer solutions: the role of self-sustained coherent structures Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Thursday, December 1, 2005 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh Title: On Some Two-Dimensional Problems of Conservation Laws Contact Info here |
| Friday, December 2, 2005 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dr. Eva Kanso, University of Southern California Title: An Articulated Fish Swimming with Point Vortices Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, December 5, 2005 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Tyler Lawson, MIT Title: Ring spectra associated to Shimura varieties and the K(n)-local sphere Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, December 6, 2005 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory Abstract and details available |
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