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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Friday, January 14, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor John Mather,   Princeton University

Title: Variational Construction of Orbits
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Friday, January 28, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor John R. Birge,   Northwestern University

Title: Quasi-Random Sequences and Their Uses in Option Pricing
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Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Pierre Cartier,   Ecole Normale Suprieure et IHES, France

Title: Divergent Series 250 Years After Euler: Their Use for Manipulating Special Functions and Special Numbers
Special Note: Unusual Time!!
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Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Konstantina Trivisa,   Northwestern University

Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
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Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Jesper Grodal,   MIT

Title: Maps Between Classifying Spaces
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Friday, March 3, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor John H. Conway,   Princeton University and Northwestern University

Title: Tangles, Bangles, and Knots
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Friday, March 10, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Stefan Mueller,   Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences , Germany

Title: Rank-1 Convexity, Quasiconvexity, and Harmonic Analysis
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Wednesday, March 29, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Paul Rabinowitz,   University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: Heteroclinic and Chaotic Solutions for Double Pendulum Type Problem: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department
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Friday, April 7, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Mikhail Kaparanov,   Northwestern University

Title: Noncommutativization and Noncommutative Neighborhoods
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Friday, April 21, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor John Stillwell,   MIT, and Monash University (Australia)

Title: Exotic Symmetry
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Friday, May 5, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Laszlo Babai,   University of Chicago

Title: Probabilistic Proof of Existence Versus Explicit Construction
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Friday, May 12, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Predrag Cvitanovic,   Northwestern University

Title: Chaotic Field Theory: a Sketch
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Friday, May 19, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Peter Constantin,   University of Chicago

Title: Partial Differential Equations and Fluids
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Friday, May 26, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm

Professor Zhiming Ma,   Northwestern University and Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title: DIRICHLET FORMS AND RECENT APPLICATIONS
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