Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 1997

Friday, April 4, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Ulrich Krengel , University of Gottingen; Title: On the history of probability theory
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Friday, April 11, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Albrecht Dold, University of Heidelberg; Title: Indexes, traces, and other stable fixed point invariants
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Wednesday, April 16, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ed Saff, University of South Florida; Title: Distributing Many Points on a Sphere
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Friday, April 25, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Elwyn Berlekamp, MSRI and UC Berkeley; Title: An overview of Mathematical Games
Special Note: A detailed abstract will be posted on the bulletin board
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Friday, May 9, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Richard Hamilton, UCSD; Title: The free-boundary problem for the porous medium equation
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
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Friday, September 26, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Michael Shub, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Title: A Lefschetz principle for the problem "Does P equal NP?"
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Thursday, October 23, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Paul Goerss, University of Washington; Title: Spaces of Continuous Maps and the Cohomology of Commutative Rings
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Friday, November 14, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT; Title: Representation theory and special functions: a new approach
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Friday, November 21, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University; Title: Regularity and Break-down in Geometric Field Theories
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Friday, December 5, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University; Title: Flat connections on Riemann surfaces
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