Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 1999

Thursday, January 7, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Sandor Kovac, University of Chicago; Title: Algebraic hyperbolicity of fine moduli spaces
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Wednesday, January 27, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Toby Colding, New York University; Title: Minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds
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Friday, February 12, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Ranee Brylinski, PennState; Title: Star products and quantization of manifolds with symmetry
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Friday, April 9, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Y. Eliashberg, Stanford University; Title: Introduction to symplectic field theory
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Friday, April 16, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Jean-Pierre Aubin, Université de Paris; Title: Set-valued solutions to boundary value problems for systems of first-order pdes
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Friday, May 7, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Greg Arone, U of Chicago; Title: Calculus of functors in topology
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Friday, May 14, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 103, 4:00pm: Professor Gigliola Stafillani, Princeton University; Title: Long time behaviour of Sobolev norms of solutions for dispersive equations
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Wednesday, May 26, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Kari Vilonen, Brandeis University; Title: Characteristic cycles and representaion theory
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Thursday, June 17, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI, Berkeley California; Title: Solving linear equations over polynomial rings and exterior algebras
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Friday, September 24, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University; Title: Singular Homology
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Friday, October 1, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University; Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: History, Recent Progress and Future Challenges
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Friday, October 8, 1999

Colloquium Annenberg G15, 4:30pm: Professor Howard Masur, University of Illinois at Chicago; Title: Periodic Orbits for Rational Billiards and Flat Surfaces
Special Note: Special Time and Place! Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar
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Friday, October 15, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Fabien Morel, University of Paris 7; Title: The Euler Class of an Algebraic Vector Bundle
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Friday, October 22, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor John Pople (Nobel Laureate, 1998), Northwestern University; Title: Quantum Chemistry and Mathematics
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Wednesday, November 3, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Jean-Louis Loday , MSRI (Berkeley) & CNRS at Strasbourg (France); Title: The Hopf Algebra of Binary Trees
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Thursday, November 11, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University; Title: Global Strichartz estimates for the wave equation with applications to nonlinear equations
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Friday, November 12, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor David Benson, University of Georgia; Title: Some Platitudes on Flatness
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Friday, November 19, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Jill Pipher , Brown University; Title: The impact of harmonic analysis on problems in linear partial differential equations
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Monday, November 29, 1999

Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm: Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Special Note: Unusual Time! Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department
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Friday, December 3, 1999

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago; Title: Free Boundary Regularity for Harmonic Measure
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