Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Dmytro Arinkin, University Wisconsin-Madison; Title: Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mark Behrens, MIT; Title: Exotic spheres and topological modular forms
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon; Title: A-infinity structures associated with curves
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania; Title: Formality, Quantization, and Matrix Factorizations
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Alessio Figalli, University of Texas at Austin; Title: A stability result for the semisum of sets in R^n
Special Note: Please note the unusual date and time
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University; Title: Dissimilarity distances between surfaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto; Title: Rotation of invariant tensors and geometric representation theory
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin; Title: Some segregation models, local and long range
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University; Title: The Lovely Bones: discrete differential geometry (??) with biological applications
Special Note: Note the unusual time
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: William P. Minicozzi II, MIT; Title: Rigidity of generic singularities of mean curvature flow
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Tom Goodwillie, Brown University; Title: The idea of functor calculus
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Alice Guionnet, MIT; Title:
Special Note: (Combined Bellow Lecture/Colloquium)
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University; Title: Character rigidity for lattices in higher rank groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Tsachik Gelander, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Title: On the growth of Betti numbers of arithmetic groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago; Title: Robust mechanisms for chaotic dynamics
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 18, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois, Chicago; Title: Vanishing theorems and holomorphic one-forms
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Robert McCann, University of Toronto; Title: Optimal transport: old and new
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh; Title: Theoretical Models of Shape Formation: Analysis, Geometry and Energy Scaling Laws
Special Note: Note that the talk starts 4pm, not at 4.10pm!
Abstract and details available

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