Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Special Seminar
Year 1999-2000

Wednesday, January 0, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures
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Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #1
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Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 2, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway ,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Archimedes and His World
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #2
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Wednesday, January 26, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Cantor's Infinities
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #3
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Wednesday, January 27, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Leo Butler, Queen's University; Title: TBA
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Wednesday, February 2, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Surreal Numbers
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #4
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Friday, February 4, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Yitwah Cheung, UIC; Title: Failure of Ergodicity in a (Rational) Billiard
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Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Victoria Sadovskaya, Pennsylvania State University; Title: Multifractal formalism and dynamical systems
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Wednesday, February 9, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm: Boris Kalinin, Pennsylvania State University; Title: Measure-theoretic rigidity of higher-rank abelian actions
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Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Goedel and Undecidability
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #5
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Wednesday, February 16, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway , Nemmers Prize Lectures #6; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Geometry, Logic, and Physics
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Tuesday , February 22, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm: Professor Mikhail Grinberg, MIT; Title: Self-Indexing and Perverse Sheaves
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Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Escher and Symmetry
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #7
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Friday, February 25, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Martina Bode, Wellesley College; Title: Presentation on Calculus Teaching
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Wednesday, March 1, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm: Professor John H. Conway,; Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Finally, Fun
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #8
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Friday, March 10, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 2pm: Timothy Comar ,; Title: Presentation on Calculus
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Wednesday, May 10, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Christopher Flannery, (NU Ph.D, '94),; Title: Life on the Outside
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Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Henry Warchall , National Science Foundation; Title: NSF Through the Eyes of a Mathematics Program Director
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