Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Special Seminar
Year 2006

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor David Damanik, Caltech; Title: Structures of intermediate complexity and quantum dynamics
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 6, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm: Professor Frank Calegari, Harvard University; Title: Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00 pm: Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn; Title: The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Maria G. Reznikof, Princeton University; Title: Slow Motion of Gradient Flows
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago; Title: Combinatorial differential manifolds: Oriented matroids in topology
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 23, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Jason Starr, MIT; Title: Solutions of families of polynomial equations
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 27, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Florian Herzig, Harvard University; Title: The weight in Serre's Conjecture for GL_3
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm: Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago; Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homotopy Frobenius algebras
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU; Title: Singularities of smooth maps and isoperimetric inequalities
Special Note: Professor Gromov is a Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
Contact info here

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm: Eric Friedlander, Bryna Kra, Amie Wilkinson and Eric Zaslow; Title: Panel: How to apply for a grant
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 5:00 pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University; Title: The Mathematics of Doodling
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU; Title: "Protein Problems" or how a mathematician may think of proteins
Special Note: This is a joint seminar with ESAM
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm: See http://math.northwestern.edu/graduate/events.html for further information.,; Title: Graduate Student Forum - Ethics and Mathematics Research
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