Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2003-2004

Friday, October 10, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Yuri Manin, Northwestern University; Title: Diophantine Equations of Degree 3: Case of Cubic Surfaces
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Friday, October 24, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Sigurdur Helgason, MIT; Title: The Non-Euclidean World, History, Geometry and Analysis
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Monday, October 27, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Andras Vasy, MIT; Title: Scattering theory on symmetric spaces and for N-body Hamiltonians
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Thursday, October 30, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Bryna Kra, Penn State; Title: Non-conventional ergodic averages
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Michael Dafermos, MIT; Title: The Analysis and Geometry of Black Holes, Price's law, and the Cosmic Censorship Conjectures
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Thursday, November 13, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Melissa Chiu-Chu Liu, Harvard; Title: Virtual fundamental classes and virtual localization in open Gromov-Witten theory
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Friday, November 14, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford; Title: Positive scalar curvature and Poincare-Einstein fillings
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Friday, December 5, 2003

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Gang Tian, MIT; Title: Geometry of Complex Monge-Ampere Equations
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Friday, January 23, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Walter Craig, McMaster University; Title: Traveling Water Waves
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Tuesdat, February 24, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Alexander Braverman, Brown University; Title: Counting Instantons via affine Lie algebras
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor William Goldman, University of Maryland; Title: Flat Lorentz 3-Manifolds and 2-Dimensional Hyperbolic Geometry
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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Dr. Anna Talitskaya, Penn State; Title: Ergodicity and Hyperbolicity in Dynamical Systems
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Richard Melrose, MIT; Title: Index, determinant bundle and loop groups
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Kari Vilonen, NU; Title: Topology of algebraic varieties and the Langlands program
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Thursday, April 22, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Percy Deift, Courant Institute; Title: Universality for mathematical and physical systems
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research; Title: The densest lattice in twenty-four dimensions
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Alexei Kitaev, Caltech; Title: Topological quantum computation
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Friday, May 21, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Tom Bridgeland, Edinburgh; Title:
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Friday, June 4, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor K. C. Chang, Peking University and University of Wisconsin; Title: "Heat flow of the Plateau Problem for minimal surfaces"
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University; Title:
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago; Title: TBA
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