News: Mathematical Calendar
Previous Entries: Year 2006
| Wednesday, January 4, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Damanik, Caltech Title: Structures of intermediate complexity and quantum dynamics Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, January 5, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Roman Shvydkoy, UIC Title: Shortwave instabilities of ideal fluid and the cocycle theory Abstract and details available |
| Friday, January 6, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 2:00pm Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and Frobenius manifolds in higher genus Contact Info here |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Chao Tang, UCSF Title: On Function and Form Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3pm Professor Frank Calegari, Harvard University Title: Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn Title: The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin - Stout Title: Cohomology of Lie algebras and quantum groups Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Monica Visan, UCLA Title: The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Special Note: Special PDE Seminar Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Maria G. Reznikof, Princeton University Title: Slow Motion of Gradient Flows Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Joseph Johns, Univesity of Chicago Title: The directed Fukaya category and Morse theory Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhail Pereplitsa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Title: The existence of weak, small energy solutions for the equations of motion of 3D compressible, viscous fluid flows with the no-slip boundary conditions Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 103, 5:30pm Justin Thomas, Title: Quadratic Forms and Closed Geodesics in the Modular Space Abstract and details available |
| Friday, January 13, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Hoff, Indiana University Title: Uniqueness of Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations of\nMultidimensional, Compressible Flow Special Note: Special PDE Seminar Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 16, 2006 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University Title: Eigenvalue Distributions for Gaussian Unitary Ensembles Special Note: This is the first meeting of the Random Matrix Theory seminar Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3pm Vigleik Angeltveit, MIT Title: The cyclic (co)bar construction on A-infinity objects and THH Special Note: Note the time. Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Martin Bazant, MIT Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis 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 Jeff Viaclovsky, M.I.T. Title: Moduli Spaces in Riemannian Geometry Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Curt McMullen, Harvard University Title: Topology of numbers Contact Info here |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Chris Novak, Title: Thurston's Classification of Surface Automorphisms Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 3:00pm Teruji Thomas, University of Chicago Title: The Maslov class as a quadratic space Contact Info here |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago Title: Combinatorial differential manifolds: Oriented matroids in topology Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jane McDougall, Colorado College Title: Harmonic Maps onto Polygonal Domains and Minimal Surfaces Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Peter Storm, Stanford University Title: Topological lower volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds Special Note: Special Colloquium Abstract and details available |
| Friday, January 20, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dr. Thierry Emonet, University of Chicago Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI Title: Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon). Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 23, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Jason Starr, MIT Title: Solutions of families of polynomial equations Abstract and details available |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Jeff Allotta, Title: Arithmetic Geometry, Rational Points, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem Contact Info here |
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University Title: Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI Title: Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon). Abstract and details available |
| Friday, January 27, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Greg Lawler, Cornell University Title: Conformal Invariance and Two-dimensional Statistical Physics Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M345, 3:00PM Prof. Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Florian Herzig, Harvard University Title: The weight in Serre's Conjecture for GL_3 Abstract and details available |
| Monday, January 30, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 3:00pm Oren Ben Bassat, Title: Noncommutative tori and the Fourier-Mukai transform Contact Info here |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Elizabeth Meckes, Stanford University Title: Random matrices and infinitesimal rotations Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Alexander Bufetov, University of Chicago Title: Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich induction map on the space of interval exchange transformations Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Julie Rowlett, Stanford University Title: Spectral Geometry and Asymptotically Conic Convergence Contact Info here |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Professor David Nadler, Title: Morse Theory and Graphs Contact Info here |
| Thursday, February 2, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University Title: Barannikov's construction of Frobenius manifolds versus BV-infinity algebras Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Vera Hur, Brown University Title: Rotational Stokes waves: construction via degree/bifurcation theory Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Title: Cluster Algebras, Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 3, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 2:00pm Professor Young-Heon Kim, The Fields Institute, University of Toronto Title: The determinant of the Laplacian and the quasifuchsian space Abstract and details available |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Renato Feres, Washington University, St. Louis Title: Random billiards and diffusion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 6, 2006 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices II Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Donald Yau, Ohio State University Title: Gerstenhaber structure and Deligne's conjecture for Loday algebras Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, February 7, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee Title: Gowers's norms in combinatorial number theory and in ergodic theory Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Mike Johnson, Title: Applications of Ergodic Theory in the field of Combinatorics Contact Info here |
| Thursday, February 9, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University Title: Relative formality theorem and quantization of coisotropic submanifolds Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 10, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Peter S. Dodds, Columbia University Title: Models of social and biological contagion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dr. P. S. Dodds, Columbia University Title: Models of Social and Biological Contagion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 3:00pm Sergiy Koshkin, Kansas State University Title: Conormal bundles to knots and Large N duality Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 13, 2006 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Chris Hoffman, University of Washington Title: Coexistence for Richardson type competing spatial growth models Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3pm Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee Title: Multiple recurrence and convergence along the primes Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 101, 12:30-2pm Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT II Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Alexandra Pettet, University of Chicago Title: Finiteness properties of subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups Abstract and details available |
| Friday, February 17, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dr. Roger Guimera, Northwestern University Title: Modules and roles: towards a cartography of complex networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, February 20, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Jacob Rubinstein, Indiana University Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle 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 Teena Gerhardt, MIT Title: Towards an RO(S^1)-graded Witt complex Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Alexander Fish, Hebrew University Title: Solvability of Linear Equations within Weak-Mixing Sets Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute Title: TBA Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:00pm Panel and Audience Discussion, Title: Graduate Course Meeting Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:45pm Professor Melissa Liu, Title: Marino-Vafa formula of one-partition Hodge integrals Contact Info here |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute Title: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks and a Model of Birdsong Learning Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University Title: Mirror symmetry for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov) Contact Info here |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Oleg Igoshin, University of California- Davis Title: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial development: Insights from Mathematical Modeling Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Paul Seidel, University of Chicago Title: Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo Abstract and details available |
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 |
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| Monday, February 27, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation 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 Tom Fiore, University of Chicago Title: Double Categories and Double Structures Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern Title: Centralizers of C^1 generic diffeomorphisms Contact Info here |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Joshua Weitz, Princeton University Title: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral communities: from microstates to macrodynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at CHampaign-Urbana Title: K-theory of singularities Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Marco Aldi, Title: What is a ... String? Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, March 1, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3pm Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homotopy Frobenius algebras Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, March 2, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University Title: Test of the homological mirror conjecture for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov) Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Mohammed Abouzaid, University of Chicago Title: On Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Wolfgang Staubach, University of Chicago Title: Estimates for pseudodifferential operators with low regularity and applications Contact Info here |
| Monday, March 6, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Keith Promislaw, Michigan State University Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano 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 Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University Title: Semicircle Law and Logarithmic Potential Contact Info here |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona Title: Factoring the Becker-Gottlieb Transfer through the Trace map Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, March 7, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3pm Professor Chris Leininger, University of Illinois Title: Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and homology Abstract and details available |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Stefano Boccaletti, CNR- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Vivek Dhand, Title: Outer Automorphisms of Categories Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, March 8, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU Title: Singularities of smooth maps and isoperimetric inequalities Special Note: Professor Gromov is a Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics Contact Info here |
| Thursday, March 9, 2006 |
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Topics in Mirror Symmetry,
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Title: TBA Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Mihnea Popa, University of Chicago Title: GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing theorems Abstract and details available |
| Friday, March 10, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Michael F. Schatz, Center for Nonlinear Science and School of Physics, Georgia Tech Title: Homological Characterization of Spiral Defect Chaos Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Ben Green, Unversity of Bristol & MIT Title: Generalising the Hardy-Littlewood method for primes Abstract and details available |
| Monday, March 27, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Jens O.M. Karlsson, Georgia Tech Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Amos Nevo, IAS and Technion University Title: Ergodic theory and lattice points Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:00pm Professor Juan Souto, University of Chicago Title: Geometry of Heegaard splittings and rank of the fundamental group Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago Title: Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany) Title: Numerical methods for equations of fluid mechanics Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4.15pm Professor Alexey Bondal, Steklov Institute, Moscow Title: Derived categories of toric varieties Contact Info here |
| Friday, March 31, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University Title: Statistical Analysis for Network Science Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, April 3, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann, NJIT Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media 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 Jozsef Fritz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Title: Compensated Compactness and Stochastic Models of Hydrodynamics Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, April 4, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University Title: A criterion for unique ergodicity of a translation flow Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, April 6, 2006 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3pm Professor Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario Title: Cocycle categories Special Note: Unusual day and time Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Davesh Maulik, Princeton University Title: Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of A_n resolutions Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 3 (evening) and depart on April 7 (morning). Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 7, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Professor Daniel Segre', Boston University Title: Learning about the evolution of biochemical networks from topology, fluxes and perturbations Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3pm Eric Friedlander, Bryna Kra, Amie Wilkinson and Eric Zaslow Title: Panel: How to apply for a grant Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Madhav Nori, University of Chicago Title: Hyperplane arrangements, mixed Tate motives, and a theorem of Suslin Contact Info here |
| Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Marco Gualtieri , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: D-branes in generalized complex manifolds Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 13 (morning) and depart on April 14 (night). Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 14, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin - Madison Title: Towards Estimating the Risk of Cascading Failure Blackouts Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Fedor Malikov, University of South California Title: From Lagrangians to sheaves of vertex algebras Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor David Griffeath, Univ of Wisconsin Title: MODELING SLOW CRYSTAL GROWTH Abstract and details available |
| Monday, April 17, 2006 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Charlie Doering, University of Michigan Title: Heat transport bounds for Rayleigh-Benard convection in an infinite Special Note: This is a joint analysis/probability and PDE seminar Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Daomin Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Title: Nonsymmetric Positive Solutions for Symmetric Dirichlet Elliptic Problems Special Note: This is a joint PDE and Analysis/Probability Seminar Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor David Fisher, Indiana University Title: Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries and rigidity for lattices in solvable Lie groups Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Dmitry Kaledin, Title: A categorical definition of the cyclic differential Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:00pm Sasha Getmanenko, Title: Divergent series and quantum tunneling Contact Info here |
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Renzo Cavalieri, University of Michigan Title: Hurwitz numbers and Admissible Covers Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 19 (night) and depart on April 21 (evening). Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 21, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: A generalized Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg isomorphism Special Note: The speaker will arrive between 11-11:30am on April 21 and depart on the same day. Abstract and details available |
| Monday, April 24, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Yefim Brun, DuPont Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers 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 Corbett Redden, Notre Dame University Title: The adiabatic limit of a string structure Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Vladimir Guletski, Title: Zeta functions in motivic stable categories Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Title: Natural differential operators and graph complexes Abstract and details available |
| Friday, April 28, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Greg Huber, University of Connecticut Title: Dominos, first-passage problems, and dynamic binding in flagellar motor statistics Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 1, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Adilson Motter, Northwestern University Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems 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 Robert (Bob) Bruner, Wayne State University Title: The homological approach to computing algebraic K-theory Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 4, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor David Nadler, Northwestern University Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 5, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Jane Wang, Cornell Title: Efficiency of flapping flight Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 8, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Eric Lauga, MIT Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales 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 Kathleen (Kate) Ponto, University of Chicago Title: Fixed Point Theory and Bicategories Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, May 9, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University Title: Cantor minimal models for ergodic transformations and topological orbit equivalence. Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:00pm Andrea Carter, Title: Brauer-Manin Obstructions and Del-Pezzo Surfaces Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame Title: Fully Nonlinear Equations From Conformal Geometry Contact Info here |
| Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 104, 3:00pm Professor Christopher Woodward, Rutgers University Title: Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory and TQFT Special Note: The speaker will arrive on May 10 (night) and depart on May 12 (morning). Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Hongjie Dong , University of Chicago Title: Regularity of solutions to the heat equations near singular boundary points Abstract and details available |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Boolean models for genetic regularity networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films 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 Michael Batanin, Macquarie University Title: Recognition of n-fold loop spaces and symmetrisation of n-operads Abstract and details available |
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Elementary Math Challenges,
Lunt 107, 5:00PM Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University Title: Packing boxes into boxes, squaring rectangles, and other challenging elementary problems Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Marcelo Viana, IMPA Title: Dynamics in the moduli space of abelian differentials Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:30pm Jeremiah Heller, Title: Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 5:00 pm Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University Title: The Mathematics of Doodling Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Lev Rozansky, University of North Carolina Title: Soergel bimodules and the categorification of the 2-variable HOMFLY-PT polynomial Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Joachim Krieger, Harvard Title: Recent developments on global existence and breakdown of Wave Maps in the critical dimension Contact Info here |
| Friday, May 19, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. Bertrand Duplantier, Theoretical Physics, CEA- Saclay Title: Brownian Motion Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern Unversity Title: Formality of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra of Hochschild cochains of a regular algebra Abstract and details available |
| Monday, May 22, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Daniel Davis, Purdue University Title: The Homotopy Orbit Spectrum for Profinite Groups Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight. Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:00pm Matt Salomone, Title: 101 things to do with N bodies Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki Title: On a problem of Calderon and the mathematics of medical imaging Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University Title: On Mukai conjecture for singular varieties Contact Info here |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Laura Spinolo, SISSA ( Italy) Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Ethan Devinatz, University of Washington Title: Finiteness properties for the homotopy groups of certain homotopy fixed point spectra Special Note: This seminar is on Thursday! Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Pat Hooper, SUNY Stony Brook Title: Stable Periodic Billiard Paths in Triangle Abstract and details available |
| Friday, June 2, 2006 |
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science,
Tech M416, 2:00PM Prof. John White, Boston University Title: Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
| Monday, June 5, 2006 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor James (Jim) Turner, Calvin College Title: On topological lifts of algebraic diagrams Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Vasily Dolgushev, Title: Modular symmetry of Poisson manifolds and the Van den Bergh duality Abstract and details available |
| Monday, September 25, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Professor Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago Title: Singular 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 Professor Kari Ragnarsson, Northwestern University Title: A Segal conjecture for p-completed classifying spaces Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10PM Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Abstract and details available |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU Title: "Protein Problems" or how a mathematician may think of proteins Special Note: This is a joint seminar with ESAM Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Gabriel Kerr, University of Chicago, Title: Weighted Blowups and Homological Mirror Symmetry of Toric Surfaces Abstract and details available |
| Friday, September 29, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Misha Gromov, IHES, France Title: Entropy and Isoperimetry Contact Info here |
| Monday, October 2, 2006 |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University Title: Picard spaces and Picard groups at chromatic level 2 Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 3, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Howard Masur, UIC Title: Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity on translation surfaces Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, October 5, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Monica Torres, Purdue University Title: Normal traces and Gauss-Green formula for weakly differentiable\nvector fields and applications to conservation laws Abstract and details available |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4pm Professor Sergiy Koshkin, Title: Large N Duality between 3-manifolds and Calabi-Yau 3-folds Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Washek F. Pfeffer, University of California at Davis Title: The Gauss-Green Theorem, Removable Singularities , and the Equation div u =F Contact Info here |
| Monday, October 9, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. C. Postlehwaite, Northwestern University Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm David McClendon, Northwestern University Title: On the identification of points by Borel semiflows Abstract and details available |
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Algebra Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:05pm Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University Title: Negative K-theory: theorems and conjectures Contact Info here |
| Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin, Title: Modular forms and topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau manifolds Contact Info here |
| Friday, October 13, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Yong-Geun Oh, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Floer cohomology, Lagrangian surgery and analysis of pseudo-holomorphic polygons Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 16, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Professor Mark Newman, University of Michigan Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Ben Schmidt, University of Chicago Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:15pm Marco Aldi, Title: Algebraic Geometry 101 and its Mirror Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 101, 3:00pm Professor David Treumann, Title: Constructible stacks Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
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Midwest Probability Colloquium |
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| Friday, October 20, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 3:00pm Professor Alexandre Karabegov, Abilene Christian University Title: A formal model of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization Abstract and details available |
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Midwest Probability Colloquium |
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| Saturday, October 21, 2006 |
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| Monday, October 23, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University Title: Existence of physical invariant measures for some chaotic attractors Abstract and details available |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:15pm Chenghao Chu, Title: Classical K-Theory Contact Info here |
| Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Dima Tamarkin, Title: A category of microlocal sheaves on a symplectic manifold Abstract and details available |
| Friday, October 27, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley Title: Quantum resonances and quantum chaos Abstract and details available |
| Monday, October 30, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Professor David Srolovitz, Yeshiva University Title: Curvature-Driven Growth in Polycrystalline Materials and Froths: Beyond von Neumann Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University Title: The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces. Abstract and details available |
| Wednesday, November 1, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University Title: Elliptic Cohomology Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, November 2, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 2:30pm Professor Ludmil Katzarkov, Title: TBA Contact Info here |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Vasily Pestun, Princeton University Title: Topological strings in generalized CY manifolds Abstract and details available |
| Friday, November 3, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Jeremy Marzuola, Berkeley Title: A stable class of perturbations for the minimal mass soliton of saturated nonlinear Schr\ Special Note: Note Friday seminar Contact Info here |
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Elementary Math Challenges,
Lunt 105, 5:30PM Mike Johnson, Northwestern University Title: Frequency of the leading digit of 2^n Contact Info here |
| Monday, November 6, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Horacio Rotstein, NJIT Title: Mechanistic Aspects of the Creation of Theta Rythmic Activity in the Hippocampus: A Modeling Study 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 Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France Title: Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities and compensated compactness for scalar conservation laws Special Note: Special PDE Seminar Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, November 7, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago Title: Symplectic Anosov Structures on Riemann surfaces Abstract and details available |
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Topology Seminar,
Lunt 104, 4:10pm Professor Nora Ganter, University of Illinois Title: Hecke operators in elliptic cohomology and generalized Moonshine Contact Info here |
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Graduate Student Seminar,
Lunt 107, 5:15pm Scott Bailey, Title: The center of the endomorphism rings of some spectra Contact Info here |
| Thursday, November 9, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Professor Yan Soibelman, Title: Geometry and algebra of Calabi-Yau varieties Abstract and details available |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University Title: Continuous Dependence of Admissible Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Physical Parameters Abstract and details available |
| Friday, November 10, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Benny Sudakov, Princeton University Title: Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics Abstract and details available |
| Monday, November 13, 2006 |
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ESAM Colloquium,
Tech M416, 4:00PM Prof. Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago Title: Computer Simulations 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 Grace Lyo , University of California, Berkeley Title: Galois Representations and Descent in Algebraic K-theory Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Anthony Quas, University of Victoria Title: Global behaviour of piecewise isometries Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Igor Pak, M.I.T. Title: The nature of partition bijections Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
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PDE Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Laura Spinola, Northwestern University Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity Abstract and details available |
| Monday, November 20, 2006 |
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Analysis and Probability Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Professor Fuzhou Gong, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Title: Exponential Ergodicity, Spectral Gap, and Their Applications Abstract and details available |
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Adilson Motter, Department of Physics, Northwestern University Title: On a Dynamical Systems Problem in Theoretical Physics Abstract and details available |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 4:10pm Joachim Krieger, Harvard University Title: Singular Wave Maps in the critical dimension Contact Info here |
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
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Dynamical Systems Seminar,
Lunt 105, 3:00pm Professor Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science Title: Steep billiard potentials and the Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis Abstract and details available |
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Special Seminar,
Lunt 105, 4:00pm See http://math.northwestern.edu/graduate/events.html for further information., Title: Graduate Student Forum - Ethics and Mathematics Research Contact Info here |
| Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
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Colloquium,
Lunt 105, 2:00pm Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule Abstract and details available |
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
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Geometry/Physics Seminar,
Lunt 107, 4:00pm Dmitriy Boyarchenko, University of Chicago Title: Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields (Joint work with Vladimir Drinfeld) Abstract and details available |
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