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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Thursday, January 18, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Matthew Emerton,   University of Chicago

Title: P-adic interpolation in representation theory and arithmetic
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Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Irena Peeva,   Cornell University

Title: Toric Hilbert Schemes
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Friday, January 26, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15 pm

Professor Curt McMullen,   Harvard University

Title: Dynamics on K3 surfaces
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Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Michael Hutchings,   Stanford University

Title: Three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory, Reidemeister torsion in Morse theory, and pseudoholomorphic curves
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Friday, February 2, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Jeff Xia,   Northwestern University

Title: Instabilities in Hamiltonian Dynamics
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Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor James Colliander,   Berkeley

Title: Almost conservation laws and global wellposedness
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Thursday, February 8, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Professor Roman Bezrukavnikov,   University of Chicago

Title: Towards the local geometric Langlands correspondence
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Friday, February 9, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Francois Ledrappier,   Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Title: Local Characteristics in Smooth Ergodic Theory
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Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Giovanni Forni ,   Princeton University

Title: Invariant distributions and ergodic theory of some `parabolic' systems
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Friday, February 23, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Fred Diamond ,   Brandeis University

Title: Modularity of elliptic curves
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Marty Golubitsky,   University of Houston

Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Eng. Science and Applied Math.
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Thursday, March 29, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Shing-Tung Yau,   William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Title: Existence of Black Holes
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Friday, March 30, 2001

Colloquium       Annenberg G15, 4:30pm

Morris Hirsch,   University of California, Berkeley

Title: Finite orbits and fixed points for solvable groups of surface homeomorphisms
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Friday, April 6, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Benson Farb,   University of Chicago

Title: Group Actions and Helly's Theorem
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Friday, April 13, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Alexander Lipton ,   Director of Deutsche Bank

Title: Past, present and future interactions between mathematics and finance
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Friday, April 20, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Marc Levine,   Northeastern University

Title: Topological and Algebraic Cohomology
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Thursday, April 26, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor M. Gursky,   Indiana University

Title: Hessian equations and quadratic Riemannian functionals
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Friday, April 27, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Ivar Ekeland,   University of Paris-Dauphine

Title: Partial differential equations arising from economic theory
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Friday, May 4, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Denis Serre,   Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

Title: Stability of Stationary Patterns of $L^1$-Contracting Semi-Groups
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Monday, May 7, 2001

Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor M. Gurtin,   Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Configurational Forces, Gradient Flows and the Motion of Interfacial Curves and Surfaces
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM
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Friday, May 18, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Cranston,   University of Rochester

Title: Transport by stochastic flows and random velocity field
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Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Lai-Sang Young,   Courant Institute

Title: Mixing and Chaos
Special Note: This is Professor Young's Kreeger-Wolf Lecture
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