Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Tech; Title: Where to Place a Hole to Achieve a Maximal Escape Rate
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 5pm: Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard; Title: Hilbert’s Tenth Problem and Elliptic Curves
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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Friday, May 8, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Howard Masur, University of Chicago; Title: Rational Billiards, translation surfaces and ergodicity
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jordan Ellenberg (U of Wisconsin),; Title: Geometric analytic number theory
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Alexander Goncharov, Brown University; Title: The quantum dilogarithm and quantization
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Hillel Furstenberg, Northwestern University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Title: From Prediction Theory to Arithmetic Progressions
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Yuri I. Manin, Northwestern; Title: Renormalization and computation
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mike Hill, University of Virginia; Title: On the Non-Existence of Kervaire Invariant One Manifolds
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Valentino Tosatti, Columbia University; Title: The Calabi Conjecture
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University; Title: The growth of cohomology in towers of manifolds
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois, Chicago; Title: The dynamical shape of a complex polynomial
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington; Title: 30 Years of Calder\'on's Problem
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