Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2000

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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Thursday, October 5, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4.15pm: Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Title: A journey from gauge theory to quantum cohomology
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Friday, October 20, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University; Title: Moduli of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space
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Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University; Title: The Bernstein problem for affine maximal hypersurfaces
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Friday, November 3, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington; Title: Inside Out: Inverse Boundary Problems
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Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Colloquium Tech L211, 4:00pm: Professor Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Studies; Title: Quark Confinement And Black Holes
Special Note: Reception in Tech F235
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Friday, November 17, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm: Professor S. G. Dani, Tata Institute, Bombay; Title: Flows on homogeneous spaces
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Friday, December 1, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Hart Smith, University of Washington; Title: Harmonic Analysis and the Wave Equation
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