Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2007-2008

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Title: A recent update on the existence of extremal K\"ahler metrics in K\"ahler surfaces
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Rowan Killip, UCLA; Title: From the circular moment problem to random matrices
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ciprian Manolescu, Columbia University; Title: Combinatorial Floer homology
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Friday, November 2, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Robert Langlands, Institute of Advanced Study; Title: TBA
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Robert Langlands, Institute of Advanced Study; Title: TBA
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Ben Green, University of Cambridge and IAS; Title: Nilsequences in Additive Combinatorics
Special Note: Note unusual time
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Klainerman, Princeton University; Title: On the Uniqueness of Black Holes
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University; Title: Solving PDE, Green's Function Approach.
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin; Title: Integral Diffusions: Fluids, Free Boundaries, and Optimal Control
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Christian Bonatti, University de Bourgogne (Dijon); Title: C^1 generic dynamics
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Friday, November 30, 2007

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ben Weinkove, Harvard University; Title: Symplectic forms, Kahler metrics and the Calabi-Yau equation
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Monday, January 14, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Spyros Alexakis, Princeton University; Title: The decomposition of global conformal invariants: On a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Natasa Sesum, Columbia University; Title: The Ricci flow and precise asymptotics of a type II singularity on R^2.
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Monday, March 3, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Title: CANCELLED A nonlinear PDE model for "lakes" and "rivers"
Special Note: CANCELLED
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Artur Avila, CNRS and IMPA; Title: Quasiperiodic cocycles and the almost Mathieu operator
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University; Title: Nodal hypersurfaces, ergodicity and complex analysis
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 5:00pm: Professor Benedict Gross, Harvard; Title: On the irreducible representations of compact simply-connected Lie groups
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Colloquium Lunt 105, 5:00pm: Professor Mark Behrens, MIT; Title: Modular Forms in Topology
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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