Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2001-2002

Friday, October 19, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor K. Soundararajan, University of Michigan; Title: Real zeros of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions
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Friday, October 26, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor John Lott, University of Michigan; Title: Collapsing, Differential Forms and Spinors
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Thursday, November 1, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Oded Schramm, Microsoft; Title: Brownian motion, percolation and loop-erased random walk
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Thursday, November 8, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University; Title: Lie algebras of trees, complexes of graphs and automorphisms of free groups
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Friday, November 30, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Peter Li, University of Califronia, Irvine; Title: Laplace Operator and the Topology of Complete Manifolds
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Tuesday, December 4, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley; Title: A q-analogue of the algebra of symmetric functions in infinitely many variables
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Tom Graber, Harvard University; Title: Rationally Connected Varieties
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Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University; Title: Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology
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Friday, January 25, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Alexander Kiselev, University of Chicago; Title: Enhancement and Quenching of Combustion by Fluid Flow
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Monday, January 28, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Elena Mantovan, Harvard University; Title: Certain unitary Shimura varieties
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Friday, February 1, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jinho Baik, Princeton University and IAS; Title: The Longest Increasing Subsequences of Random Symmetrized Permutations
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Monday, February 18, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin; Title: Plane Like Solutions of Minimal Surfaces in Periodic Media
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard; Title: Rational points, rational curves and higher dimensions
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Thursday, February 28, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Dmitri Tamarkin, Harvard University; Title: Quantization of Lie bialgebras and operads
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Friday, March 1, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Rebecca Herb, University of Maryland; Title: Representation Theory - An Elementary Introduction
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Monday, March 4, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Jared Wunsch,; Title: Diffraction of waves on conic manifolds
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Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Paul Seidel, Institute for Advanced Study; Title: Real and complex Morse theory
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Alex Eskin, University of Chicago; Title: Billiards and Lattices
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