Past Conferences
The Ergodic Method in Group Theory- Celebrating the Mathematics of Alex Furman
- May 26-30, 2025 at Northwestern University
- Summer School on Arithmetic and Random Groups
- May 19–23, Northwestern University
- Mini-courses by Michael Chapman, Michelle Chu, Yair Glasner, and Matthew Stover.
- Following the school, there was a conference honoring Alex Furman’s 60th birthday.
- Organizers: Nir Avni, Uri Bader, and Tsachik Gelander.
Mini-course on Continuous Schrödinger Operators
- Simon Becker (ETH Zurich) gave a three lecture minicourse May 19-May 22, 2024 on spectral properties of continuous Schrödinger operators in the positive Lyapunov exponent regime.
45TH Midwest Probability Colloquium
- MPC 2024 was held at Northwestern University on October 10-12, 2024. Probability theory has been the most applicable branch of pure mathematics. During the last decade it has seen a clear surge in popularity of probabilistic tools and methods in other branches of pure and applied mathematics. The Midwest Probability Colloquium has been an annual event for several decades. It brings together a wide-breadth of knowledge in the field of probability. Sponsors of the 43rd Midwest Probability Colloquium are the National Science Foundation and Northwestern University.
NUET 2024
- NU Trends in Ergodic Theory 2024 was supported by the RTG “Dynamics: Classical, Modern, and Quantum”. Its Summer School was held July 29-August 2, 2024 and its conference was held August 5-9, 2024. All events were held on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. The Summer School introduced early graduate students to modern ergodic theory and prepares them for the conference NU Trends in Ergodic Theory. The school covered several aspects of modern ergodic theory at a level suitable for those with a background in analysis. The conference brought together researchers working on many aspects of ergodic theory, aimed to encourage interactions between young researchers and research leaders, and communicated new techniques to the community.
- Microlocal Analysis and Quantum Dynamics was held on NU's Evanston campus June 17-21, 2024 (summer school) and June 24-28, 2024 (conference). It focused on recent developments in applications of the tools of semiclassical microlocal analysis, with a focus on quantum dynamics. Areas of applications included quantum chaos, scattering resonances and Ruelle resonances, and solid state physics. The conference also honored the mathematics and legacy of Steve Zelditch.
- The 10th annual Gone Fishing conference, for the presentation and discussion of new ideas and results in Poisson geometry, was held from 2pm April 11--April 14, 2024 on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University.
Asymptotics in Complex Geometry: A Conference in Memory of Steve Zelditch
- This conference was hosted by Northwestern University March 7-10, 2024.
2023 Midwest Probability Colloquium
- The 44th Midwest Probability Colloquium (MPC44) was held at Northwestern University on October 12-14, 2023.
2023 RTG Summer School and REU
- Summer School 2023 on Dynamical Systems took place June 20–June 30, 2023 on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. It featured preparatory courses (including courses appropriate for advanced undergraduates) as well as advanced courses. Mini-courses were presented by Alena Erchenko, Mikolaj Fraczyk, Nicholas Miller, Amir Mohammadi, Kurt Vinhage, and Daren Wei. The Summer School 2023 organizers were Nir Avni, Aaron Brown, Osama Khalil, Bryna Kra, and Homin Lee. It was funded primarily through the following NSF grants: DMS-2136217 (RTG: Dynamics: Classical, Modern, and Quantum) and DMS-2020013 (CAREER: Rigidity of Group Actions on Manifolds). Additionally funding was provided by Northwestern University’s Department of Mathematics.
- REU Summer 2023 took place June 20–Aug 11, 2023 on the Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. Mentors for the summer 2023 REU included NU Mathematics faculty members Nir Avni, Aaron Brown, Keith Burns, Solly Coles, Tsachik Gelander, Aaron Peterson, Jeff Xia. This program was made possible by the National Science Foundation and was funded by the RTG Dynamics: Classical, Modern, and Quantum.
- This was the first post-pandemic installment of a (usually) biennial meeting on microlocal analysis and quantum dynamics. The meeting was partly supported by Northwestern's NSF RTG in Dynamics.
- MMMM 2023 was held May 20-21, 2023.
Algebraic Geometry and Cohomology in Mixed Characteristic 2023
- The 2022 Nemmers Prize recipient, Bhargav Bhatt (U-M and Princeton/IAS), visited Northwestern University Mathematics in May 2023. We held a conference for him May 15-19, 2023.
- The Homotopy 2023 conference, in part to honor NU Mathematics faculty member Prof. Paul Goerss and his contributions to the field, was hosted by Northwestern University March 20-24.
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Midwest Probability Colloquium
- The Midwest Probability Colloquium has been an annual event for several decades. It brings together a wide-breadth of knowledge in the field of probability.
- NU Math Dept hosted this colloquium on October 20-22, 2022.
Dynamics Day 2022
Laplacians on Random Hyperbolic Surfaces and on Random Graphs
- This conference was held at Northwestern University, in coordination with the 2020 Nemmers Prize ceremony for Prof. Anantharama, May 30-June 3, 2022. The conference co-organizers were NU faculty members Nir Avni and Steve Zelditch.
Homotopical Methods in Geometry and Physics
- In honor of NU Mathematics faculty member Ezra Getzler’s sixtieth birthday, the Homotopical Methods in Geometry and Physics conference took place March 21–25, 2022 at Northwestern University. It was preceded by a mini-school on Open-Closed Field Theories.
- The Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference is one of the most influential, diverse, and longest running conference series in dynamical systems. This conference series has met uninterruptedly since the early 1970s, and it has received continuous support from the National Science Foundation since 1988.
- NU Math Dept hosted this conference Nov 12-14, 2021
Modern Trends in Non-commutative Geometry (in honor of Boris Tsygan's 60th Anniversary)
- This May 2019 conference was supported by a combination of funds from the Mathematics Department at Northwestern University, and the National Science Foundation.
- The 'Chicago Action Now!' Conference is a dynamics conference held three times per year that rotates between Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities for Women) Conference
- Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW) is a conference for women-identified students interested in graduate school in the mathematical sciences.
- Saturday April 11, 2015.
- Saturday February 21, 2015.
- October 25, 2014
- This was be held at Northwestern University on October 9-11, 2014.
- Workshop: May 12-16, 2014
- Conference: May 19-23, 2014.
- Organizers: Kevin Costello, Xinwen Zhu and Eric Zaslow.
- This was held12 April 2014.
- In honor of John Franks and Clark Robinson: December 7, 2013
- October 10-12, 2013
- June 12, 2013
- May 20-24, 2013
- April 24, 2013
- April 20-21, 2013
- March 25-29, 2013
- October 11-13, 2012
- June 18-30, 2012
- 5/14/12 - 5/26/12
Workshop on Evolution Equations
- 5/4/12-5/6/12
- 3/23/12
- 3/10/12
- 1/9/12-1/13/12
Microlocal Methods in Spectral and Scattering Theory
- October 28-30, 2011
- April 27 - May 1, 2011
- February 24-25, 2011
- October 29-31, 2010
- June 21-July 2, 2010
- June 10-11, 2010
- April 24, 2010
- March 20-24, 2010
- In honor of the winner of the 2008 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
- October 24-27, 2009.
- Workshop: May 18-22, 2009
- Conference: May 25-29, 2009
Midwest Topology Seminar
- May 3, 2008.
- May 10-14, 2008
- This conference was in honor of Robert Langlands, winner of the 2006 Nemmers prize in mathematics. The goal of conference is to report on some of the recent progress in the Langlands program.
- May 18-24, 2007
- March 2007
- October 20-21, 2006
- May 17-22, 2006
- February 25, 2006
- October 21-22, 2005
- October 21-23, 2005
- June 26-30, 2005
- May 27-30, 2005
- April 9-10, 2005
- September 16-19, 2004
- May 23-27, 2004
- February 21, 2004
- October 17-18, 2003
- October 11, 2003
- June 12-15, 2003
- October 4-6, 2002
- April 28-29, 2001
- April 21-22, 2001
- March 30 - April 1, 2001