Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2010-2011

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Karen Vogtmann, Cornell; Title: Maps into and out of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Yuri Manin, Northwestern University; Title: Mordell-Weil problem for cubic surfaces: a combinatorial approach
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Davesh Maulik, MIT; Title: Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3.30pm: Hélène Esnault, Universität Duisburg-Essen; Title: Rational Fixed Points
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 3, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3pm: Vladimir Markovic, Warwick; Title: Immersing essential surfaces in closed hyperbolic manifolds
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Valentino Tosatti, Columbia University; Title: Symplectic forms and almost-complex structures in 4 dimensions
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 7, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3PM: Anna Wienhard, Princeton University; Title: Higher Teichmueller spaces -- from SL(2,R) to other Lie groups (tentative date)
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Ngô Bảo Châu, University of Chicago; Title: The endoscopy theory of automorphic forms
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Colloquium Tech Lr3, 4:10pm: Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles; Title: Single-scale ergodic theory
Special Note: Note the unusual location!
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 4, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Igor Rodnianski, Princeton; Title: Evolution problem in General Relativity
Special Note: Note Friday colloquium, earlier time.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mark Gross, University of California, San Diego; Title: The tropical vertex
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Eric Rains, CalTech; Title: Transformations of elliptic hypergeometric integrals
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Michael Douglas, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics; Title: AdS/CFT for mathematicians
Contact info here

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: John Lott, University of California, Berkeley; Title: The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin; Title: Chern-Weil forms and model categories
Abstract and details available

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