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Thursday, September 21, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Vasily Dolgushev,
- Title: Modular symmetry of Poisson manifolds and the Van den Bergh duality
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 25, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago
- Title: Singular Surfaces
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson, Northwestern University
- Title: A Segal conjecture for p-completed classifying spaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS
- Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- 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
Thursday, September 28, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gabriel Kerr, University of Chicago,
- Title: Weighted Blowups and Homological Mirror Symmetry of Toric Surfaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 29, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Misha Gromov, IHES, France
- Title: Entropy and Isoperimetry
Contact Info here
Monday, October 2, 2006
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
- Title: Picard spaces and Picard groups at chromatic level 2
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Howard Masur, UIC
- Title: Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity on translation surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 5, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Monica Torres, Purdue University
- Title: Normal traces and Gauss-Green formula for weakly differentiable\r\nvector fields and applications to conservation laws
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4pm
- Professor Sergiy Koshkin,
- Title: Large N Duality between 3-manifolds and Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Washek F. Pfeffer, University of California at Davis
- Title: The Gauss-Green Theorem, Removable Singularities , and the Equation div u =F
Contact Info here
Monday, October 9, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. C. Postlehwaite, Northwestern University
- Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- David McClendon, Northwestern University
- Title: On the identification of points by Borel semiflows
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
- Title: Negative K-theory: theorems and conjectures
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 12, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin,
- Title: Modular forms and topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
Contact Info here
Friday, October 13, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yong-Geun Oh, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: Floer cohomology, Lagrangian surgery and analysis of pseudo-holomorphic polygons
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 16, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Mark Newman, University of Michigan
- Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ben Schmidt, University of Chicago
- Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:15pm
- Marco Aldi,
- Title: Algebraic Geometry 101 and its Mirror
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Professor David Treumann,
- Title: Constructible stacks
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 1:30pm Professor Greg Lawler,
University of Chicago
Title: A Partition Function View of Schramm-Loewner Evolution I
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 2:45pm Professor Greg Lawler,
University of Chicago
Title: A Partition Function View of Schramm-Loewner Evolution II
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 4:10pm Professor Scott Sheffield,
Courant Institute
Title: TBA
Details of the talk
Friday, October 20, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Alexandre Karabegov, Abilene Christian University
- Title: A formal model of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization
Abstract and details available
Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 3:00pm Professor Ofer Zeitouni,
University of Minnesota and Technion
Title: Random Walks in Random Environments: Ergodic Properties, Homogenization, and Counterexamples I
Details of the talk
- 4:30pm Professor Balint Virag,
University of Toronto
Title: Scaling Limits of Random Matrices
Place: Annenberg, rm. G15
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 21, 2006
- 9:30am Professor Ofer Zeitouni,
University of Minnesota and Technion
Title: Random Walks in Random Environments: Ergodic Properties, Homogenization, and Counterexamples II
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Professor Alexander Holroyd,
University of British Columbia
Title: Random Sorting
Place: Swift Hall, Room 107
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 23, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies
- Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
- Title: Existence of physical invariant measures for some chaotic attractors
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:15pm
- Chenghao Chu,
- Title: Classical K-Theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 26, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Dima Tamarkin,
- Title: A category of microlocal sheaves on a symplectic manifold
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 27, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: Quantum resonances and quantum chaos
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 30, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor David Srolovitz, Yeshiva University
- Title: Curvature-Driven Growth in Polycrystalline Materials and Froths: Beyond von Neumann
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State University
- Title: The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University
- Title: Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 2, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Ludmil Katzarkov,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Vasily Pestun, Princeton University
- Title: Topological strings in generalized CY manifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 3, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Jeremy Marzuola, Berkeley
- Title: A stable class of perturbations for the minimal mass soliton of saturated nonlinear Schr\
Special Note: Note Friday seminar
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 105, 5:30PM
- Mike Johnson, Northwestern University
- Title: Frequency of the leading digit of 2^n
Contact Info here
Monday, November 6, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Horacio Rotstein, NJIT
- Title: Mechanistic Aspects of the Creation of Theta Rythmic Activity in the Hippocampus: A Modeling Study
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France
- Title: Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities and compensated compactness for scalar conservation laws
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago
- Title: Symplectic Anosov Structures on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Nora Ganter, University of Illinois
- Title: Hecke operators in elliptic cohomology and generalized Moonshine
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:15pm
- Scott Bailey,
- Title: The center of the endomorphism rings of some spectra
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 9, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Yan Soibelman,
- Title: Geometry and algebra of Calabi-Yau varieties
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University
- Title: Continuous Dependence of Admissible Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Physical Parameters
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 10, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
- Title: Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 13, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
- Title: Computer Simulations
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Grace Lyo , University of California, Berkeley
- Title: Galois Representations and Descent in Algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Anthony Quas, University of Victoria
- Title: Global behaviour of piecewise isometries
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Igor Pak, M.I.T.
- Title: The nature of partition bijections
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 16, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Laura Spinola, Northwestern University
- Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 20, 2006
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Fuzhou Gong, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Title: Exponential Ergodicity, Spectral Gap, and Their Applications
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Adilson Motter, Department of Physics, Northwestern University
- Title: On a Dynamical Systems Problem in Theoretical Physics
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Joachim Krieger, Harvard University
- Title: Singular Wave Maps in the critical dimension
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Title: Steep billiard potentials and the Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis
Abstract and details available
- 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
Contact Info here
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 2:00pm
- Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
- Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 30, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dmitriy Boyarchenko, University of Chicago
- Title: Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields (Joint work with Vladimir Drinfeld)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ravi Vakil, Stanford
- Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 4, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu,
- Title: Positivity of Quasi-local Mass
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Laura DeMarco, University of Chicago
- Title: Complex dynamics and potential theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 11, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler,
- Title: Sheaves of differential graded Lie algebras and moduli spaces
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
- Title: Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction in 3D
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 12, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Michael Hochman, Hebrew University
- Title: Genericity in Topological Dynamics
Special Note: Unusual Time
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rich Schwartz, Brown University
- Title: Outer Billiards, the Penrose Kite, and the Neumann Problem
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Santiago Schnell, School of Informatics, Indiana University
- Title: Enzyme reactions within cells
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 19, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston
- Title: Multidimensional Conservation Laws - More Questions than Answers
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Andrew Belmonte, Penn. State University
- Title: Deep and Shallow Impact: Acoustic Ripples and Elastic Splashes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Brian Smithling, University of Chicago
- Title: Some structure results on the moduli stack of formal Lie groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- See http://math.northwestern.edu/graduate/events.html for further information,
- Title: Graduate Student Forum - How to Give a Seminar
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Katrin Wehrheim,
- Title: Lagrangian correspondences, holomorphic quilts, and a Floer field theory I
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 25, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Katrin Wehrheim,
- Title: Lagrangian correspondences, holomorphic quilts, and a Floer field theory II
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Honig, Northwestern University
- Title: Combined Channel Estimation and Power Control for Wireless Fading Channels
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 26, 2007
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Katherine Walker, University of Chicago
- Title: Some Results on Fundamental Groups of Moduli Spaces of Quadratic Differentials.
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 29, 2007
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Adrian Lim, Cornell University
- Title: Path Integral Quantization
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Brayton Gray, UIC
- Title: Anick's fibrations revisited
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State University
- Title: Ergodic Theory on Foliations
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Anne Thomas, University of Chicago
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Vivek Dhand,
- Title: Classification of Real Semi-Simple Lie Algebras
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Gabriel Kerr,
- Title: Organizing Critical Values and the Directed Fukaya Category
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 1, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Mohammed Abouzaid, University of Chicago
- Title: Fukaya Categories of Riemann Surfaces
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Susan Friedlander, UIC
- Title: A dyadic model for turbulence
Contact Info here
Monday, February 5, 2007
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Unstable homotopy theory of fusion systems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:30pm
- Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
- Title: Ergodic theory and Dimension Conservation for Fractals
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University
- Title: Boundaries of Groups, Harmonic Functions and Random Walks: a Survey
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dmitri Volfson, UC San Diego
- Title: The Role of Population Dynamics in Phenotypic Variability
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Javier Zuniga,
- Title: Cellular Models of Compactified Moduli Spaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jian Song, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Canonical Kähler metrics and the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 12, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Angela Yu, Princeton
- Title: To Spike or Not to Spike: Optimal Change-Detection in Single
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Stable homotopy theory of fusion systems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jon Aaronson, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Entropy of conservative endomorphisms
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Riemann-Roch for real varieties
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Randy Qian,
- Title: Pseudo-Differential operators and the Regularity of Solutions to the Laplacian
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
- Title: Tensor categories in non-commutative geometry
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 16, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Paolo Cascini, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Title: On the Minimal Model Program
Contact Info here
Monday, February 19, 2007
- Special Event
Common Room, 3.45
- ,
- Title: Special Afternoon Tea for Chinese New Year
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Elizabeth Torres, CALTECH
- Title: Dynamics without movement
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson,
- Title: Stable Homotopy Theory of Saturated Fusion Systems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: Pathological foliations, revisited
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Paul Krapivsky, Department of Physics-Boston University
- Title: The Motion of Molecular Spiders
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
- Title: Deligne's conjecture and Drinfeld's double
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Cheng Ouyang,
- Title: Introduction to Stochastic Analysis and Brownian Motion on Manifolds
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Kevin Costello ,
- Title: Renormalisation and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wilson Truccolo, Brown University-Neuroscience Department
- Title: Stochastic Modeling of Neural Point Processes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 23, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
- Title: Cycles in dense digraphs
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 26, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Max Planck Institute for ynamics and Self Organization
- Title: Topological superdiffusion: from target localization on folding
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Vladimir Matveev, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Title: Degree of mobility and its applications: Lie Problem, Beltrami Problem and Schouten Problem
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Operads revisited
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor Kevin Costello,
- Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homological algebra
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 1, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wei Ji Ma, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences-University of Rochester
- Title: Neural variability and optimal computation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
- Title: Hopf bifurcation and galloping instability of detonation waves
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ketty de Rezende, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
- Title: Continuation Theorems for Lyapunov Graphs
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3-5PM
- Professor David Nadler, Northwestern University
- Title: Loop spaces and Langlands parameters
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor Frank Calegari,
- Title: Ramification
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 8, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nadine Even, University of Wuerzburg and Northwestern University
- Title: Entropy Solutions to Conservation Laws with Discontinuous Fluxes via Microscopic Interacting Particle Systems
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 22, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
- Title: On the validity of Chapman-Enskog expansions
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 26, 2007
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Hydodynamic limits for Ginzburg-Landau Models
Special Note: Joint with PDE Seminar
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: First of series
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Moment bounds for Smoluchowski Equation
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: Entropy and the localization of eigenfunctions
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 29, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: second in series; note time
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Pavel Mnev,
- Title: On simplicial BF theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: third in series
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Jeff Allotta,
- Title: Modular Symbols - Cohomology in Number Theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 5, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Nalini Anantharaman , Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: The localization of eigenfunctions and entropy
Special Note: fourth in series; note time
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Renzo Cavalieri,
- Title: The orbifold GW theory of C^3/Z_3
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 9, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Hsiang-Wei Lu, UCLA
- Title: Electrowetting in a Hele-Shaw Cell
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zoran Vondracek, University of Zagreb
- Title: On infima of Levy processes and application in risk theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
- Title: (Very) preliminary remarks on multiple correlations
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Sasha Getmanenko,
- Title: Introduction to Hyperasymptotic Analysis
Contact Info here
Friday, April 13, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- David Salac, University of Michigan
- Title: Investigations of Directed Self-Assembled Systems using the Level
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 16, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Paul Baum, Penn State
- Title: Trees, buildings, elliptic operators, and K-theory for group C* algebras
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Erifc Choate, University of North Carolina
- Title: Linear viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystal polymers in small
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic points for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms
Contact Info here
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Professor Paul Baum, Penn State
- Title: Geometric structure in the representation theory of p-adic groups
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Rob Nendorf,
- Title: Model Categories
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Michael Westdickenberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Title: Finite Energy Solutions to the Isentropic Euler Equations with Geometric Effects
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth
- Title: Constructing manifolds with the same spectral data in the compact and noncompact settings
Contact Info here
Friday, April 20, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Richard Kenyon, University of British Columbia
- Title: Branched polymers in 2D and 3D
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Bimodule deformations, Picard groups and contravariant connections
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Shaowei Su,
- Title: Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian Manifolds into Euclidean Space
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University, Israel
- Title: Resolvent estimates and global regularity for divergence-type operators
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
- Title: The Calabi-Yau equation and symplectic geometry
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 26, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
- Title: Energy functionals and canonical Kahler metrics
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Bruno Vallette, University of Nice
- Title: Deformation theory of representations of prop(erad)s
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 30, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt Common Room, 1:00pm
- Professor Pavel Etingof, MIT
- Title: Topology of the moduli space of real curves of genus 0 with n labeled points
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Yi-Ju Chen, 454 Corp.
- Title: Massively-Parallel Genome Sequencing in Microfabricated Picoliter
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- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Denis Bell, University of North Florida
- Title: Quasi-invariant Measures on Path Space
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Anne Thomas, University of Chicago
- Title: Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in R3 (I): Overview
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Professor Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Microlocal sheaves on elliptic curve
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Graduate Students,
- Title: General Meeting
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in $R^3$((II): Local Theory
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 3, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Masoud Kamgarpour, U of Chicago
- Title: Stacky abelianization of a connected algebraic group and Serre duality
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Isometric Embedding of 2-dim Riemannian Manifolds in $R^3$ (III): Global Theory
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Robert Penner, USC
- Title: Fatgraphs and stable curves
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yoichiro Mori, University of British Columbia
- Title: Convergence proof of a Stokes flow immersed boundary method
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 4, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Ionescu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: A uniqueness property of Kerr spacetimes
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. S. Abarji, I.I.T.
- Title: Influence of parametric forcing on the non-equilibrium dynamics of
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- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Pierre Villermott, Institut Elie Carton, Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy, France
- Title: Holder-Sobolev Regularity of Solutions For a Class of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
- Special Event
Annenberg 101, 1:00
- Michael Johnson, Northwestern University
- Title: Results on polynomial ergodic averages
Special Note: Dissertation Defense for Michael Johnson
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Danijela Damjanovic, Harvard
- Title: TBA
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- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Sum-product estimates and expanders
Special Note: Please note special time
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 102, 3-4:30PM
- Professor Bruno Vallette, University of Nice
- Title: Manin's products and Deligne's conjecture
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Expanders: from number theory to combinatorics and back again
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 10, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
- Title: Multicomponent reactive flows
Special Note: Special Time
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Yuri Manin,
- Title: Modular shadows
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Pierre Vuillermot, Institut Elie Cartan, University Henri-Poincare, Nancy (France)
- Title: Variational Solutions for a Class of Partial Differetnial Equations Driven by a Fractional Noise
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Friday, May 11, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
- Title: Fermi acceleration
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 14, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields I
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor C. O'Hern, Yale University
- Title: Are Mechanically Stable Hard Particle Packings Equally Likely?
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields II
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Colin Guillarmou, University of Nice
- Title: Resolvent at low energy for asymptotically conic spaces with applications to the Riesz transform
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Kal Nanes,
- Title: Hyperbolicity and the Hopf Argument
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields III
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- Undergraduate Math Society
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Professor Don Saari, University of California at Irvine
- Title: Mathematics is everywhere!
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 17, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields iV
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Joe Jerome, Northwestern University
- Title: Analysis and approximation of complex systems via fixed point formulations
Contact Info here
Friday, May 18, 2007
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Gianluca Crippa, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Title: The Flow Associated to Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields V
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 21, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Alexander Yarin, Univ. Illinois Chicago
- Title: Electrospinning of Nanofibers and Nanotubes
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Andrew Blumberg, Stanford and IAS
- Title: Approximation and localization in THH
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Allen Cheng,
- Title: Global Class Field Theory
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mike Shub, University of Toronto
- Title: Smale's 17th Problem: Recent progress
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 31, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Nadya Shirokova,
- Title: On the classification of Floer-type theories
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 4, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. J. Klafter, Tel Aviv University
- Title: From Diffusion to Anomalous Diffusion: Subdiffusion and Levy Walks
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Polarization Fingerprints in the Clear Blue Sky
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Abstract and details available
Friday, June 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Physics of Non-Hermitian Degeneracies
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, August 2, 2007
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, tba
- Professor Kai Behrend, UBC
- Title: Donaldson-Thomas Type Invariants via Microlocal Geometry
Abstract and details available
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