Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2017

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Nathan Dunfield,; Title: Fun with finite covers of 3-manifolds: connections between topology, geometry, and arithmetic
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Omri Sarig, Weizmann Institute of Science; Title: Symbolic dynamics for chaotic maps
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Melanie Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Title: Random groups from generators and relations
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Duong Phong, Columbia University; Title: Supersymmetric string vacua and complex geometry
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Peter Hintz, UC Berkeley; Title: Stability of black holes
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Vesna Stojanoska, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Title: The homotopy theory of invertible objects
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Ben Elias, University of Oregon; Title: Categorical Diagonalization
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Maciej Zworski, Berkeley; Title: Microlocal methods in dynamical systems
Special Note: (First Bellow Lecture)
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: John Lott,; Title: Long-time behavior in geometric flows
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Moon Duchin, Tufts; Title: Metric geometry and gerrymandering
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mihalis Dafermos,; Title:
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Friday, November 3, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University; Title: Geometry and Arithmetic of Crystallographic Packings
Special Note: Note the unusual day
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research; Title: Gravitational allocation to uniform points on the sphere
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Michael Gröchenig, Freie Universität Berlin; Title: Mirror symmetry for Higgs bundles and the fundamental lemma
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