Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Academic Year 2008-2009
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Friday, September 26, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- Professor Catharina Stroppel, Bonn
- Title: Cohomology of Springer fibres in representation theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 29, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern
- Title: What is an arithmetic group?
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Ehud Yariv, Technion
- Title: Electroconvection about Conducting Bodies in the Thick Debye Layer
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- Professor Catharina Stroppel, Bonn
- Title: Finite dimensional modules for super gl(m|n) via diagrams
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Kal Nanes, Northwestern University
- Title: On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic group actions
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 3:00PM
- S.H. Davis, P. Voorhees, A. Nepomnyashchy, Northwestern University
- Title: The Research Career of Alexander A. Golovin
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 Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University
- Title: Dynamics of a density discontinuity in compressible viscous flows
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 6, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UCSC/Northwestern
- Title: Sum-product, expanders, and sieving
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- James Brasseur, Penn State
- Title: Discovery of a Mechanical Mechanism for Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
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 Benson Farb, University of Chicago
- Title: Hidden symmetry
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Polynomials
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Rupert Venzke, Northwestern
- Title: Braid Forcing and Hyperbolic Geometry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor John Francis, Northwestern
- Title: En-geometry
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- David Nadler, Northwestern
- Title: Stability conditions for vector bundles on low genus curves
Contact Info here
Monday, October 13, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash, UIC
- Title: Gross-Prasad for GSp(4)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- William Schultz, NSF
- Title: Fish Swimming Stability
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
- Teena Gerhardt , Indiana University
- Title: Algebraic K-theory of the dual numbers
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:00PM
- Professor Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 10:00AM
- Dr. William Schultz, National Science Foundation
- Title: What's the Buzz at NSF?
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
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Chris Connell, Indiana University
- Title: Leafwise entropy rigidity for foliations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor John Francis,
- Title: En-geometry, II -- POSTPONED
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Senior Faculty,
- Title: Meeting of Tenured Faculty
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 17, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Anthony Anderson, Northwestern University
- Title: Dynamics and Stability of Freezing Metallic Foams
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
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
- Title: On the Higher Order Yamabe Problem
Contact Info here
Monday, October 20, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: Elliptic curves and modular forms
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Edward Ott, University of Maryland
- Title: Dynamics of Large Systems of Many Coupled Oscillators: Low
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
- Dan Ramras, Vanderbilt
- Title: Gauge theory and homotopical representation theory
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Puzzle Problems
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 1
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Piotr Oprocha, AGH University of Science and Technology
- Title: Coherent lists and chaotic sets
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Austin Ford,
- Title: A Brief Introduction to Microlocal Analysis
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 2
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
- Title: Integrable hierarchies and singularity theory
Abstract and details available
Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 4:10PM-5:10PM Professor Fabrice Baudoin,
Purdue University
Title: Some Properties of SDE's Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 24, 2008
- 3:00PM-4:00PM Professor Jean-Francois Le Gall,
University of Paris
Title: The Continuous Limit of Large Random Planar Graphs, I
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 4:30PM-5:30PM Professor Alexei Borodin,
California Institute of Technology
Title: Growth of Random Surfaces
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 25, 2008
- 9:30AM-10:30AM Professor Jean-Francois Le Gall,
University of Paris
Title: The Continuous Limit of Large Random Planar Graphs, II
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 1:30PM-2:30PM Professor Savas Dayanik,
Princeton University
Title: Sequential Change Detection and Identification Problems for Stochastic Processes
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 27, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 3
Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor John Flynn, Northwestern
- Title: Galois groups and the image size of rational maps
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- John C. Bischof, University of Minnesota
- Title: Bioheat and Mass Transfer Measurement and Modeling in Cryobiology
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
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Recurrences
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 4
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor David Damanik, Rice University
- Title: Schrödinger cocycles over the skew-shift
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Kal Nanes,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 5
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- John Francis,
- Title: T-structures
Special Note: www.math.northwestern.edu/~nadler/wedseminarfall2008.html
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 30, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Daniel Thompson, Warwick Mathematics Institute
- Title: The irregular set for the Beta-shift has full topological entropy
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
Contact Info here
Monday, November 3, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Mark Reeder, Boston College
- Title: Simple supercuspidal representations and simple wild parameters
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Cheng Ouyang, Northwestern University
- Title: Introduction to Fractional Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- David Gepner, U of I Chicago
- Title: Multiplicative structure on Thom R-module spectra
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Joshua Shadlen, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Probability and Statistics
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Mike Todd, University of Porto
- Title: Multifractal analysis for multimodal maps
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Zhiwei Yun, Princeton
- Title: A global analogue of Springer representations
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 102, 5PM-6PM
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Analysis
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- John Francis,
- Title: T-structures and slicings
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 6, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jin Feng , University of Kansas
- Title: Stochastic scalar conservation laws
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 10, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Tong Liu, Purdue
- Title: Lattices in semi-stable representations
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Integral Representation of Fractional Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Vigleik Angeltveit , University of Chicago
- Title: Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:00PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: The Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Katrin Gelfert, Northwestern
- Title: Multifractal analysis in nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rowan Killip , UCLA
- Title: Some operators with random matrix eigenvalue statistics
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 6:00pm
- Evgeny Shinder,
- Title: Cohomology Theories of Algebraic Varieties and the Milnor Conjecture
Contact Info here
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 5-6pm
- Professor Sophie Morel, IAS
- Title: On the cohomology of some non-compact Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Kevin Costello,
- Title: Stability conditions
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Monica Visan, Chicago
- Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations at critical regularity
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 13, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Ken Golden, University of Utah
- Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
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
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ken Golden, University of Utah
- Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 14, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alexander Skubachevskii, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
- Title: Elliptic Functional Differential Equations and Applications
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Stephen Kudla, Toronto
- Title: Arithmetic cycles for unitary groups
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University
- Title: From Target Search to Travel Bugs
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
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- A. L. Skubachevskii, Moscow, Russia
- Title: The Feller Semigroups
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor John Francis, Northwestern University
- Title: E_n-deformation theory
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Liouville property on regular covers
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- A. J. Tolland, UC Berkeley
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Dan Visscher,
- Title: Cohomological Equations in Dynamical Systems
Contact Info here
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 5-6pm
- Professor Sophie Morel, IAS
- Title: On the cohomology of some non-compact Shimura varieties, part 2
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Kevin Costello, Northwestern
- Title: Spaces of stability conditions
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 102, 5PM-6PM
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Integrals
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 20, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
- Title: TBA
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton
- Title: Computing Heegaard Floer Homology
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Title: Zero Viscosity Limit for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Navier Boundary Conditions
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 2:00PM
- Genevieve Brown, Northwestern University
- Title: Time Delayed Feedback Control of Subcritical Limit Cycles
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
Monday, November 24, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf,
- Title: Meeting with the Dean of WCAS
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Fucheng Tan, MIT
- Title: Galois eigenvarieties
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Graph Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Pierre Py, University of Chicago
- Title: Quasi-morphisms continuous for the C^0-topology on groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of surfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 1, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor David Helm, UT Austin
- Title: On p-adic families of admissible representations of GL_2(Q_l).
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Fractional Brownian Motion and its Representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson, DePaul
- Title: Fusion in the Burnside ring
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegary, Northwestern University
- Title: How to write up a solution
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:30pm
- Professor Dmytro Shklyarov,
- Title: Equivariant Topological Field Theories
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota
- Title: Multiscale Analysis in Biology
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, December 5, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Willi Jaeger, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Title: Derivation of a Macroscopic Model System for Flow, Chemical and Mechanical Processes in Tissue
Contact Info here
Monday, January 5, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Alina Cojocaru, UIC
- Title: Twin primes for elliptic curves
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Gregory Arone, University of Virginia
- Title: Operads, their modules, and the chain rule.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Yongxia Hua, Northwestern
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Xinwen Zhu, Berkeley
- Title: Background pre-seminar
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Xinwen Zhu, Berkeley
- Title: Every flat bundle on the punctured disc has an oper structure
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 12, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Nathan Dunfield, UIUC
- Title: Increasing the number of fibered faces of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Cheng Ouyang, Northwestern University
- Title: Representation of Fractional Brownian Motion on a Fionite Interval
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ana Rechtman, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
- Title: Existence of periodic orbits of geodesible vector fields on closed 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Kobi Kremnizer,
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University
- Title: Sparse time
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, 4:00pm
- Kobi Kremnizer, University of Chicago
- Title: Tate spaces and central extensions
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nabil Kahouadji , Universite Paris Diderot (France)
- Title: Conservation Laws and Generalized Isometric Embeddings
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 15, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Mike Skirvin,
- Title: Topology of Complex Hypersurfaces with Singularities
Contact Info here
Monday, January 19, 2009
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Department Meeting,
- Title: Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- PakWing Fok, California Institute of Technology
- Title: Acceleration of enzyme repair of DNA by charge transport:
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
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Fernando Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Title: Some results on the existence of homoclinic orbits
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Erik Carlsson,
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Erik Carlsson, Northwestern
- Title: Vertex Operators and Hilbert Schemes
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Craig WESTERLAND , University of Melbourne
- Title:
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 22, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Yongxia Hua,
- Title: Topological Entropy and Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms
Contact Info here
Monday, January 26, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Emmanuel Breuillard, Paris 11
- Title: Diophantine geometry and the Tits alternative
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Ching-Shan Chou, University of California Irvine
- Title: Spatial dynamics of cell signaling
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 Matthew Ando, U of I Urbana-Champaign
- Title: A quasicategorical approach to Thom spectra and twisted Umkehr maps
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech L361, 2:00pm
- Professor Maria Jose Pacifico, Institute of Mathematics - UFRJ
- Title: Pre-Talk: Survey on the Lorenz chaotic attractor
Special Note: Pre-talk. Note special place.
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Maria Jose Pacifico, Institute of Mathematics - UFRJ
- Title: Lorenz systems: decay of correlations for its Poicaré map and a logarithm law for its recurrence time.
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Abhishek Banerjee, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Periodicity in Cyclic Cohomology and Monodromy at Archimedean Infinity
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 29, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Jeffrey Fox, Cornell University
- Title: Multi-scale modeling of cardiac electrophysiology: dynamic
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 Vera Mikyoung Hur , MIT
- Title: Dispersive properties of surface water waves
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Josh Shadlen,
- Title: When is the Fundamental Group Not a Group?
Contact Info here
Monday, February 2, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Ben Howard, Boston College
- Title: Intersection theory on Shimura surfaces
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Shawn Shadden, Stanford University
- Title: A dynamical systems approach to transport
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 3, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Fang Wang, Northwestern
- Title: Some Topics on Mather Theory
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford Univeristy
- Title: Pinsky Lecture I: Basic Shuffling
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 5, 2009
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford Univeristy
- Title: Pinsky Lecture II: Hyperplane Arrangements
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Denis Tsygankov, University of North Carolina
- Title: The Theory of Biological Nanomachines
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
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Justin Thomas,
- Title: Hochschild Cohomology
Contact Info here
Friday, February 6, 2009
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford Univeristy
- Title: Pinsky Lecture III: Adding Up a List of Numbers
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 9, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 12:00PM
- Joe Paris, Northwestern University IT This talk is part of the RTG Project.
- Title: New High Performance Computing Initiatives at NU and Beyond
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
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Suh-Hyun Choi, Harvard
- Title: Deformation lifting spaces of mod l representations and their properties
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Petia Vlahovska, Dartmouth College
- Title: Complex dynamics of red blood cells and vesicles in viscous flows
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
- Timothy Clark, Northwestern University
- Title: CW Complexes and Poset Resolutions
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Daniel H. Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Title: Growth of a Dendritic Channel Network
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
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Fernando Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Title: Prime ends and area preserving homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 12, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Randy Qian,
- Title: Microlocal Analysis and the Propagation of Singularities
Contact Info here
Friday, February 13, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Jill Klentzman, Southern Methodist University
- Title: The Effect of Evaporation on Fingering Instabilities
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
Monday, February 16, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Professor Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
- Title: Towards a slope filtration theorem with nondiscrete coefficients
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Daniel Abrams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Title: Synchronous Lateral Excitation on London's Millennium Bridge
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 17, 2009
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University
- Title: Correlators, graphs and cyclic operads (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University
- Title: Stabilization and semi-simplicity
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor John Greenlees, University of Sheffield,
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Different day of the Week.
Contact Info here
Friday, February 20, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Yuliya Peet, University of Pierre and Marie Curie
- Title: Prediction and Manipulation of Skin Friction in High-Reynolds
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Abstract and details available
Monday, February 23, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Professor Jay Pottharst, Boston College
- Title: Selmer groups over eigenvarieties
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Finite Time Interval Representation of Fractional Brownian Motions
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Christian Rosendal, UIC
- Title: Descriptive Kakutani equivalence
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Professor Michael Harris, Paris 7
- Title: Automorphic realization of residual Galois representations
Special Note: Special Session
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 26, 2009
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Ben Webster, MIT
- Title: Introductory pre-seminar
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ben Webster, MIT
- Title: Representation theory and a strange duality for symplectic varieties
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Amanda Potts,
- Title: Sets of Recurrence and Some Applications to Additive Combinatorics
Contact Info here
Monday, March 2, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Professor Sug Woo Shin, Chicago
- Title: Construction of automorphic Galois representations
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Sergei Yakovenko, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, and Fields Institute, Toronto
- Title: Infinitesimal Hilbert 16th problem
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- ,
- Title:
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech L168, 1:00pm
- Professor Ana Rodrigues, IUPUI
- Title: Pre-Talk
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
- Title: Clouds and Climates
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
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ana Rodrigues, IUPUI
- Title: Kneading sequences for double standard maps
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Boris Tsygan,
- Title: Oscillatory Modules
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 5, 2009
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wurzburgh, Germany
- Title: New Numerical Solvers for Hydro- and Magnetohydrodynamics
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Zhe Xu,
- Title: Littlewood-Offord Problems
Contact Info here
Friday, March 6, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 3:00PM
- Matthew Miklius, Northwestern University
- Title: Quantifying Geometric Order in Epithelial Tissues
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
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Fourth Chicago Area PDE Workshop
- 9:00am Professor Irina Nenciu ,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: On confining potentials and essential self-adjointness for Schroedinger operators on bounded domains
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL.
Abstract and details available
- 10:00 Professor Monica Visan,
University of Chicago
Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations at critical regularity
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL
Abstract and details available
- 11:00 Professor Peter Constantin ,
University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL.
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm Professor Charlie Doering,
University of Michigan
Title: Heat Rises: Energy transport in Rayleigh-Benard convection
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL.
Abstract and details available
- 3:00pm Professor Andrej Zlatos ,
University of Chicago
Title: Speed-up of reaction-diffusion fronts by flows
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL.
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Professor Gui-Qiang Chen,
Northwestern University
Title: Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Free Boundary Problems, and Nonlinear PDEs of Mixed Hyperbolic-Elliptic Type
Place: SEO 636, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 9, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Professor Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford
- Title: Recent progress on Quantum Unique Ergodicity
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Gregory Lawler, University of Chicago
- Title: Multifractal Analysis of the Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Andrew Salch, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: A computational motivation for topological Langlands correspondences.
Special Note: Different Room
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Tanya Yarmola, University of Maryland
- Title: Degenerate Random Perturbations of Anosov Diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Bohan Fang, Northwestern University
- Title: T-duality and the coherent-constructible correspondence for toric varieties
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Qing Nie, University of California - Irvine
- Title: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling
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, March 17, 2009
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
, 3:00pm
- Professor Michael Movshev,
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Michael Movshev, Stony Brook University
- Title: An L-infinity extension of Atiyah-Ward correspondence
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Microlocal Miniconference
Monday, March 30, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Dick Gross, Harvard
- Title: Restriction problems for classical groups.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Tom Krejcie, Northwestern University
- Title: Mathematical Modelling: A Physiologically-Based Recirculatory
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, March 31, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 1:00PM
- Morgan Stanley ,
- Title: Quantitative Finance Program and Job Opportunities
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
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
- Student Mathematical Physics Seminar
Tech M166, 10:30AM
- Professor André de Gouvêa, NU -- Physics
- Title: Path integrals in quantum mechanics
Contact Info here
Friday, April 3, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Jay D. Humphrey, Texas A
- Title: On the Mechanical and Biological Stability of Intracranial
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
Monday, April 6, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Brian Conrad, Stanford
- Title: Pseudo-reductive groups
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor G. Nicolis, University Libre de Bruxelles There will be a reception following
- Title: Frontiers in Complex Systems Research
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, April 7, 2009
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Valerio Toledano Laredo, Northeastern University
- Title: Hall Algebras (Pre-talk)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor G. Nicolis, University Libre de Bruxelles Refreshments will be served at 3:30
- Title: Kinetics of Transitions Across a Barrier in the Presence of Time
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Valerio Toledano Laredo, Northeastern University
- Title: Stability conditions and Stokes factors
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
- Student Mathematical Physics Seminar
Tech M166, 10:30AM
- Professor Ezra Getzler, NU -- Math
- Title: Gaussian integrals and random matrix theory
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Professor Kevin Costello, NU
- Title: Rozansky-Witten Theory
Special Note: http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~jshadlen/rw/
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 9, 2009
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Tech
- Title: Where to Place a Hole to Achieve a Maximal Escape Rate
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Tom Dunlap,
- Title: Representation Theory and M-V Polytopes
Contact Info here
Monday, April 13, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard
- Title: Elliptic Curves and Hilbert's Tenth problem
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Jinglai Li, Northwestern University
- Title: A SVD-based method for determining large deformations in optical
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, April 14, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Alexander Fish, Ohio State
- Title: Expander phenomena for Bohr sets
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler,
- Title: Topological field theory in two dimensions and Teichmuller space
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 5pm
- Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard
- Title: Hilbert’s Tenth Problem and Elliptic Curves
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- Special Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Kevin Costello, Northwestern
- Title: Perturbative quantization of Rozansky-Witten theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 16, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Chuangxun Cheng,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, April 20, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory --- an introduction
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Paul Steen, Cornell University
- Title: Dynamics and Stability of Volume Scavenging Drop Arrays: Coarsening
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, April 21, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
- Title: Counting closed geodesics in a stratum.
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Geometric Langlands and non-abelian Hodge theory
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Special Seminar
Lunt 103, 3:00pm
- Josh Shadlen, Northwestern
- Title: Rozansky-Witten invariants and the Atiyah class
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 23, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, April 27, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory --- an introduction, part II
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Michael Ward, University of British Columbia
- Title: Self-Replicating Spot Patterns and Spot Instabilities for Reaction-
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, April 28, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Title: Abnormal behavior in periodic Lorentz gases with infinite horizon
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 1, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
- Larry Aagesen, Northwestern University
- Title: Self-Similar Pinch-Off of Liquid Tubes in Dendritic Aluminum-Copper
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
Monday, May 4, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Mark Kisin, Chicago
- Title: The Grothendieck-Katz conjecture for certain locally symmetric varieties
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. A. Podolny, Northwestern University
- Title: Marangoni convection in binary liquids and nanofluids in the
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
Thursday, May 7, 2009
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Emma Smith Zbarsky, U Chicago
- Title: Families of A-infinity algebras and homotopy group actions
Special Note: Different Day of the Week.
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Dan Visscher,
- Title: Volume Entropy and Mostow Rigidity
Contact Info here
Friday, May 8, 2009
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Howard Masur, University of Chicago
- Title: Rational Billiards, translation surfaces and ergodicity
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 11, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Tom Barnet-Lamb, Harvard
- Title: Potential automorphy for certain Galois representations to GL(n)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Tom Solomon, Bucknell University
- Title: Front propagation and synchronization in reactive flows with
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
- Justin Noel, U of Chicago
- Title: H-\infty Orientations and p-Typicality
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Sergey Tikhomirov, Saint Petersburg University
- Title: Shadowing in smooth flows and structural stability.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- Professor Susan Tolman, University of Illinois
- Title: Pre-talk: Morse Theory and Moment Maps
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Susan Tolman, University of Illinois
- Title: Hamiltonian circle actions with minimal fixed sets
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 5:00 pm
- Professor Brian Conrey, American Institue of Mathematics
- Title: The Riemann Hypothesis - A million dollar mystery
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:15pm
- Owen Gwilliam,
- Title: 3-Manifold Invariants and the Kontsevich Integral
Abstract and details available
- Undergraduate Math Society
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Brian Conrey, American Institue of Mathematics
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 14, 2009
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Maria Stadnik,
- Title: Class Field Theory
Contact Info here
Friday, May 15, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
- Juergen Vollmer, Max-Planck Institute
- Title: Rain in a test tube?
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, 3:00pm
- Hiro Tanaka, Northwestern
- Title: The Casson invariant and the LMO invariant
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 18, 2009
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Jordan Ellenberg, Madison
- Title: Stable topology of Hurwitz spaces and arithmetic counting problems
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Michael Gratton, Northwestern University
- Title: Transient and self-similar dynamics in thin film coarsening
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
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jordan Ellenberg (U of Wisconsin),
- Title: Geometric analytic number theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 22, 2009
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alexander Goncharov, Brown University
- Title: The quantum dilogarithm and quantization
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 25, 2009
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Chris Douglas,
- Title: Canceled. See TFT Conference.
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Artur Avila, CNRS, IMPA, Clay
- Title: Convergence of renormalization (and Sullivan's program)
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 28, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Joseph Bull, University of Michigan
- Title: Gas embolotherapy: a vascular microbubble approach for tumor
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
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Zhe Xu,
- Title: On the Singularity Probability of Random Bernoulli Matrices
Contact Info here
Monday, June 1, 2009
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Young Heon Kim, UBC and IAS
- Title: Optimal Transportation (Pre-talk)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. J. Wilkening, Berkeley University
- Title: Computation of time-periodic solutions of nonlinear PDE
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, 4:00pm
- Professor Young-Heon Kim, UBC and IAS
- Title: Geometry and regularity of optimal transportation
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Sunil Chebolu , Illinois State math
- Title: Quotients of absolute Galois groups which determine Galois cohomology.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Amanda Potts, Northwestern
- Title: Nonconventional Polynomial Ergodic Averages and Flows
Abstract and details available
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