Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Spyros Alexakis, Princeton University; Title: The decomposition of global conformal invariants: On a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Natasa Sesum, Columbia University; Title: The Ricci flow and precise asymptotics of a type II singularity on R^2.
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Monday, March 3, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Title: CANCELLED A nonlinear PDE model for "lakes" and "rivers"
Special Note: CANCELLED
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Artur Avila, CNRS and IMPA; Title: Quasiperiodic cocycles and the almost Mathieu operator
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University; Title: Nodal hypersurfaces, ergodicity and complex analysis
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 5:00pm: Professor Benedict Gross, Harvard; Title: On the irreducible representations of compact simply-connected Lie groups
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 5:00pm: Professor Mark Behrens, MIT; Title: Modular Forms in Topology
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University; Title: On the Higher Order Yamabe Problem
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Rowan Killip , UCLA; Title: Some operators with random matrix eigenvalue statistics
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Monica Visan, Chicago; Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations at critical regularity
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ken Golden, University of Utah; Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
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