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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jingzhou Sun, Johns Hopkins

Title: Expected Euler characteristic of excursion sets of random holomorphic sections on complex manifolds
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Peter Smereka, University of Michigan

Title: Modeling and Computation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth using
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

David Gepner,

Title: Brauer groups of commutative ring spectra
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

John Francis, Northwestern University

Title: Factorization homology of topological manifolds
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Denis Auroux, Berkeley

Title: Mirror symmetry in complex dimension 1
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Zhiwei Yun, MIT

Title: Motives and the Inverse Galois Problem
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Gigliola Staffilani, MIT

Title: Dispersive equations and their role beyond PDE
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Ted Stadnik, Northwestern

Title: Tilting sheaves in characteristic zero via positive characteristic geometry
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ted Stadnik, Northwestern

Title: Azumaya algebras on symplectic quotients
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Antonio Auffinger, University of Chicago

Title: Landscape of random functions in many dimensions.
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Jeffrey Beck, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London

Title: Biologically Plausible Probabilistic Reasoning in Neural Circuits
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Frank Calegari, Northwestern University

Title:
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Title: Genericity of non-uniform hyperbolicity in dimension 3
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Christopher Sogge , (Johns Hopkins)

Title: Problems related to the concentration of eigenfunctions.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Sergey Shadrin, University of Amsterdam

Title: Introduction to the Givental theory (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Xinwen Zhu, Harvard University

Title: Adelic unformization of moduli of G-bundles
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Sergey Shadrin, University of Amsterdam

Title: Applications of the Givental theory
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM

Michael Davis, Northwestern University

Title: Dynamics of metal foam solidification
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Gino Biondini, State University of New York at Buffalo, Abstract Many physical

Title: Solitons, boundary value problems and web structure
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Simon Marshall, Northwestern University

Title: Multiplicities of automorphic forms on GL_2
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kathryn Hess, EPFL

Title: Homotopic descent over monoidal model categories
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Richard Moy, 1st Year

Title: Szemeredi's Theorem, Stanley Sequences, Erdos, and a Greedy Algorithm
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Vladimir Itskov, University of Nebraska

Title: Memory encoding and continuous attractors in recurrent networks
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Liang Xiao, University of Chicago

Title: On the parity conjecture for Selmer groups of modular forms
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM

John Griesmer, Ohio state University

Title: Sumsets with one dense summand
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Cathy O'Neil,

Title: Math in Business
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Mike Skirvin, Northwestern

Title: Geometry of algebraic curves
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Mike Skirvin, Northwestern

Title: Global Springer theory for SL_2
Abstract and details available

Analysis Reading Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Elton Hsu, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm

Antti Knowles, Harvard

Title: Spectral statistics of large random matrices
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm

Dapeng Zhan, MSU

Title: Conformally invariant random shapes and Schramm-Loewner evolution
Special Note: Note unusual time.
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Samuel Isaacson, Boston University

Title: Stochastic reaction-drift-diffusion methods for studying the
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Matthew Morrow, University of Chicago

Title: Adelic resolutions for K-theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM

Ayse Sahin, DePaul University

Title: A Low Complexity Alpern Decomposition of R^d Actions
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Marc Hoyois, 3rd Year Graduate Student

Title: What is the etale fundamental group?
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kevin Costello, Northwestern

Title: Mathematical aspects of supersymmetric gauge theories
Abstract and details available

Analysis Reading Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University

Title: TBA
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ionel Popescu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: The one dimensional free Poincare inequality
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

George Schaeffer, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Hecke Stability Method
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Dustin Clausen, MIT

Title: A homotopical refinement of the quadratic reciprocity law
Abstract and details available

Analysis Reading Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Boris Hanin, Northwestern University

Title: Correlations between zeroes and critical points of Gaussian random polynomials
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Eric Kostelich, Arizona State University

Title: Short-term Forecasting of Weather and Cancer: Finding the Initial
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario

Title: Dynamical systems and diagrams
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM

Song Shao, University of Science and Technology

Title: Higher order Bohr_0 sets and related topics
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Ian Le, Northwestern

Title: Higher Laminations and Affine Buildings
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ian Le, Northwestern

Title: Higher Laminations and Affine Buildings
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Sam Gunningham, 4th Year Graduate Student

Title: What is a topological field theory?
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Alex Eskin, UChicago

Title: Rational billiards and the SL(2,R) action on modui space.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alex Eskin, UChicago

Title: Rational billiards and the SL(2,R) action on modui space.
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ouyang Cheng, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Concentration property, Sobolev inequality and Gaussian upper bound for SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Paul K. Newton, University of Southern California

Title: Metastatic pathway diagrams for cancer progression via Markov chain
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Niles Johnson, University of Georgia, Athens

Title: Modeling Stable One-Types
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM

Bernard Host, University of Paris Est - Marne la Vallee

Title: Trying to find a nilsystem
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Thomas Nikolaus, Universitat Regensburg

Title: Algebraic K-theory of dendroidal sets
Special Note: Note unusual day.
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Thomas Nikolaus, Universitat Regensburg

Title: Smooth models for the String group
Special Note: Joint with the Geometry and Physics Seminar. Note unusual date and room.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Helge Ruddat, Mainz

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Helge Ruddat, Mainz

Title: Towards mirror symmetry for varieties of general type
Abstract and details available

Midwest Topology Seminar

• 10:00AM Emily Riehl, Harvard University
  Title: Lifting properties and the small object argument
  Place: Swift Hall
  Abstract and details available

• 11:30AM John Francis, Northwestern University
  Title: Factorization homology and low-dimensional topology
  Details of the talk

• 2:30PM Mark Behrens, MIT
  Title: Exotic Spheres via Topological Modular Forms
  Place: Swift Hall 107
  Abstract and details available

• 4:00pm Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
  Title: Equivariant multiplicative closure
  Details of the talk

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Chi Li, Princeton

Title: Partial C^0 estimate on toric Fano manifolds
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kyle Ormsby, MIT

Title: Tate normal form in level resolutions of the K(2)-local sphere
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Alexei Oblomkov, UMass Amherst

Title: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:30pm

Alexei Oblomkov, UMass Amherst

Title: Khovanov-Rozansky invariants of knots, plane curve singularities and Cherednik algebras
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm

Kay Kirkpatrick, UIUC

Title: Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum many-body systems, and a central limit theorem
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Mason Porter, University of Oxford

Title:  Community Structure in Networks
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Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 10, 3:00pm

Chris Schommer-Pries, MIT

Title: On the unicity of the homotopy theory of higher categories.
Special Note: This is an unusual time and place.
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM

Michael Schraudner, University of Chile

Title: Entropies realizable in block gluing Z^d shifts of finite type
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

David Jerison, MIT

Title: Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Alberto Cattaneo, University of Zurich

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries I
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alberto Cattaneo, University of Zurich

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries II
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Dr. James Bagrow, Northwestern University

Title: Human Dynamics Through the Lens of Modern Data
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Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Eddie Herman, University of Chicago

Title: Beyond Endoscopy for the Symmetric Cube L-function
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Mike Hill, University of Virginia

Title: Equivariant Symmetric Monoidal Categories
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Van Cyr, Northwestern University

Title: A Z^2 generalization of the Morse-Hedlund theorem
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Mark Bowick, Syracuse University

Title:  Facets of Order
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Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM

Mike Boyle, University of Maryland

Title: Path methods for strong shift equivalence, following Kim and Roush
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Deepam Patel, Indiana University

Title: Motivic Structures on higher homotopy theory
Special Note: Note special day
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Pavel Mnëv,

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries III
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Pavel Mnëv,

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries IV
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Hermann Eberl, University of Guelph

Title:   Bacteria Yelling: Yet another mathematical view on inter-colony
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Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM

Jing Hoelscher, UIC

Title: Infinite class towers
Special Note: Seminar now meets at 4 pm
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kate Ponto, University of Kentucky

Title: Multiplicativity of fixed point invariants
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Kiran Parkhe, Northwestern University

Title: Distortion for Diffeomorphisms of Surfaces with Boundary
Abstract and details available

Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford

Title: Canonical metrics on singular spaces
Special Note: First Yamabe Lecture
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dan Abramovich, Brown University

Title: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
Abstract and details available

Yamabe Lecture , 3:00pm

Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford

Title: Canonical metrics on singular spaces, continued
Special Note: Second Yamabe Lecture
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Dan Abramovich, Brown

Title: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 11:00AM

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Title:
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Jonathan Weare, University of Chicago

Title:   Accurate rare event simulation and an application to geophysical
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kári Ragnarsson, Google, Inc.

Title: A homotopy characterization of p-completed classifying spaces of finite groups
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Arun Ram, Melbourne

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Arun Ram, Melbourne

Title: Generalized equivariant cohomology of flag varieties
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Terry Tao, UCLA

Title: Approximate groups and Hilbert's fifth problem
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Francesco Cellarosi, Princeton University

Title: On the Ergodic Properties of Square-Free Numbers
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech

Title: Moduli spaces, noncommutative geometry and characteristic classes.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech

Title: Compactifications of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and a noncommutative BV-formalism
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Lashi Bandara, ANU

Title: The Kato square root problem on vector bundles with generalized bounded geometry
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Stuart Rice, University of Chicago   There will be a reception following the

Title: Confined Colloid Suspensions: Some Equilibrium Properties
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM

Nike Vatsal, University of British Columbia

Title: Some number theory associated to automorphic forms on SL_2
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Quasi-isometry of nilpotent groups: an ergodic theory approach?
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Stuart Rice, University of Chicago   Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.  

Title:  Confined Colloid Suspensions: Some Out-of-Equilibrium Properties
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Brendan Hassett, Rice

Title: Rational points on K3 surfaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Gabriel Kerr, Miami

Title: Subdivisions of polytopes
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel Kerr, Miami

Title: Symplectomorphism group relations and mirrors of birational maps
Abstract and details available

Evolution Equations Workshop

• 9:30am Thomas Alazard, Ecole Normale Superieure
  Title: On the Cauchy problem for the water-waves equations
  Details of the talk

• 11:00 Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago
  Title: Global regularity versus finite time blow-up in supercritical active scalar equations
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Title: Almost sure existence of global weak solutions for the supercritical Navier-Stokes equations
  Details of the talk

• 2:30pm Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
  Title: Global wellposedness and scattering for 3D-energy critical NLS outside a unit ball with radial assumption
  Details of the talk

• 4:00pm Aynur Bulut, Institute for Advanced Study
  Title: TBA
  Details of the talk

• 4:30pm Monica Visan, UCLA
  Title: The quintic NLS outside a convex obstacle
  Details of the talk

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  Saturday, May 5, 2012

• 9:30am Pierre Raphael, Toulouse
  Title: On the flow near the ground state for the mass critical (gKdV)
  Details of the talk

• 11:00am Zaher Hani, Courant Institute
  Title: The asymptotic behavior of nonlinear Schrodinger equations on various geometries
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Tetsu Mizumachi, Kyushu University
  Title: Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in the Benney-Luke model of water waves
  Details of the talk

• 2:30pm Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto
  Title: Coupling between internal and surface waves in a two-layers fluid
  Details of the talk

• 4:00pm Gustav Holzegel, Princeton University
  Title: Stability and Instability of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter black holes
  Details of the talk

• 4:30pm Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
  Title: A case study for critical non-linear dispersive equations: the energy critical wave equation
  Details of the talk

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  Sunday, May 6, 2012

• 9:30am Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania
  Title: The Boltzmann equation, Besov spaces, and optimal time decay rates in the whole space
  Details of the talk

• 11:00am Jonathan Luk, Princeton University
  Title: Impulsive gravitational waves
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Semyon Dyatlov, UC Berkeley
  Title: Quasi-normal modes for Kerr-de Sitter black holes
  Details of the talk

• 12:00pm Mihalis Dafermos, University of Cambridge
  Title: TBA
  Details of the talk

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jacob Bernstein, Stanford University

Title: Characterizing the Catenoid
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor James Kozloski, IBM

Title: The Neural Tissue Simulator: An Ultrascalable Solution to Arbitrary
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Bert Guillou, UIUC

Title: Equivariant categories with multiplication and G-spectra
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard

Title: Outline of the proof of Geometric Langlands for GL(2)
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Elton Hsu, Northwestern

Title: Analysis and Geometry of the Path space over a Riemannian Manifold
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sam Gunningham, NU

Title: Spin Hurwitz Numbers and TQFT
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Panel Discussion, Martina Bode, Mehdi Khorami, Daniel Visscher, Jamie Wolf

Title: Technology in the Classroom: Using an eBook in a Calculus Class
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Artem Pulemotov, University of Chicago

Title: Prescribed Ricci Flow on a Solid Torus
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor W.E. Sherwood, University of Utah

Title:  Global phase response and multiple time-scale dynamics
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM

Tetsushi Ito, Kyoto

Title: Endoscopy and the l-adic cohomology of the Rapoport-Zink space for GSp(4)
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Angélica Osorno, University of Chicago

Title: Cohomology with coefficients in Picard groupoids
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vesselin Petkov, Bordeaux

Title: Semi-classical estimates for the cut-off resolvent and the resonance states for trapping perturbations
Special Note: Note unusual date and time
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

John Franks, Northwestern

Title: Some subgroups of the group of analytic symplectic diffeomorphisms of $S^2$ which are virtually abelian
Abstract and details available

Special Event Swift Hall 107, 5:00 pm

Frank Morgan, Williams College, http://math.williams.edu/morgan/bio/

Title: Optimal Tilings
Special Note: annual undergraduate prize lecture and awards ceremony
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Hubert Bray, Duke University

Title: On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Prof. G. Orosz, University of Michigan  

Title:   From Delayed Nodes to Delayed Networks: Applications in
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM

Nick Ramsey, DePaul

Title: Interpolation of square-roots of central L-values of modular forms
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Teena Gerhardt, Michigan State University

Title: Cyclotomic spectra and computations in algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM

Anthony Quas, University of Victoria

Title: Universality of topological models for measure-preserving systems
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 1:00PM

Yasuhide Fukumoto, Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan

Title:   Kinematic variational principle for vortical structure of Euler
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Alejandro Maass, University of Chile

Title: Systems without topological nilfactors and complexity
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt TBA, 3:00pm

Clark Barwick, MIT

Title: Waldhausen K-theory as a Goodwillie Derivative
Special Note: note unusual day and time!
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia

Title: Differential graded schemes via curved differential graded Lie algebras
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 11:00am

Dominic Verity, Macquarie University

Title: Homotopy Coherent Adjunctions
Special Note: This is the first part of a two-part series.
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 01:00pm

Emily Riehl, Harvard University

Title: Homotopy Coherent Adjunctions
Special Note: This is the second part of a two-part series.
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Henry Abarbanel, UCSD

Title: Building Nervous Systems from the Bottom Up
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Majid Haidan, UIC

Title: On a motivic method in diophantine geometry
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jack Ullman, MIT

Title: The Regular Slice Spectral Sequence
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Aaron Naber, MIT

Title: The Geometry of Ricci Curvature
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jun Yin, University of Wisconsin

Title: Some recent results on random matrix theory
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

H. Pirouz Kavehpour, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Physics of Coalescing Drops at Planar Interfaces
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Tonghai Yang, Wisconsin

Title: Rankin-Selberg L-function and height pairing for unitary Shimura variety of type (n-1, 1).
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Will Abram, University of Michigan

Title: The equivariant complex cobordism ring of a finite abelian group
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Kiran Parkhe, Northwestern University

Title: Actions of the Heisenberg group on Surfaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Tristan Collins, Columbia University

Title: The singularities of the Yang-Mills flow
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the actual talk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Tristan Collins, Columbia University

Title: Introduction to Yang-Mills and the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the pre-talk.
Abstract and details available

The Thirty Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium

• 1:30PM Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Mathematical Perspectives on the Evolution of Aging, I
  Details of the talk

• 2:45PM Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Mathematical Perspectives on the Evolution of Aging, II
  Details of the talk

• 4:10PM David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford, Austin
  Title: Asymptotics of Killed Processes with Some Applications to the Biology of Aging
  Details of the talk

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  Friday, October 12, 2012

• 3:00PM Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
  Title: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and its Universality Class, I
  Details of the talk

• 4:30PM Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Title: Projections of Probability Distributions: A Measure-Theoretic Dvoretsky Theorem
  Details of the talk

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  Saturday, October 13, 2012

• 9:30AM Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
  Title: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and its Universality Class,II
  Details of the talk

• 1:30PM Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
  Title: On the Existence of Paths Between Points in High Level Excursion Sets of Gaussian Random Fields
  Details of the talk

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego

Title: Liberation of Random Projections
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Srevatsan Muralidharan, Northwestern

Title:  Multilayer Thin Film Growth on Crystalline and Quasicrystalline
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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Matthew Stover, Michigan

Title: Fuchsian subgroups and Albanese varieties of arithmetic quotients of SU(2, 1) / U(2).
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Carolyn Yarnall, University of Virginia

Title: Determining Slice Towers
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Dan Thompson, Ohio State

Title: Intrinsic ergodicity, orbit gluing and S-gap shifts
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Pavel Safronov, UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Pavel Safronov, UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ben Weinkove, UCSD / Northwestern

Title: Parabolic flows in complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Johan Konter, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Induction
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Matthew Tirrell University of Chicago ,

Title: Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte
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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Stefan Patrikis, IAS

Title: Variations on a theorem of Tate
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Rune Haugseng, MIT

Title: Enriched Infinity-Categories
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Todd Fisher, Brigham Young University

Title: Equilibrium states for robustly transitive systems
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Johan Konter, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems in Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Gentle introductions to toric geometry and Morse theory
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University

Title: Hodge theory and unitary representations of reductive Lie groups
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Andrew Reiser, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involding the Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Betsy Stovall, Wisconsin

Title: Uniform Lp improving for weighted averages on curves
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Q. Du Penn State University ,

Title: How to Search for Transition States/Saddle Points
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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Junehyuk Jung, Princeton

Title: An upper bound for intersection of nodal lines with a fixed horocycle
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jonathan Campbell, Stanford

Title: Topological Hochschild Homology and Koszul Duality
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Dan Lior, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems in Probability
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:15pm

Emily Peters, Northwestern University

Title: Examples of factors and a subfactor or two
Special Note: Note the unusual starting time for the pretalk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Emily Peters, Northwestern University

Title: The classification of small subfactors
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Karsten Grove, University of Notre Dame

Title: Positive Curvature, Symmetry and Tits Geometry
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Yuguang Zhang, Visiting Researcher from UCSD

Title: Introduction to Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence
Special Note: This will be a kind of pre-talk for the 11/5 Analysis Seminar
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Yuguang Zhang, Capital Normal University (Beijing) / UCSD

Title: Degenerations of Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Michael Shelley, New York University

Title: How Flexible, Motile, and Erodible Bodies Interact with Fluids
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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Abhinav Kumar, MIT

Title: Abelian surfaces with everywhere good reduction
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ilya Grigoriev, Stanford

Title: Relations in the cohomology of classifying spaces of manifold bundles.\
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vadim Vologodsky, University of Oregon

Title: Noncommutative local monodromy theorem
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Valentino Tosatti,

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

John Francis, Northwestern University

Title: What is .... factorization homology?
Special Note: First in New Faculty Member Talks. Note Special Time/Day.
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Nabil Kahouadji, Northwestern University

Title: On the isometric immersion of pseudo-spherical surfaces via evolution and hyperbolic equations
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Peter Stewart, University of Oxford

Title: Solidification of Molten 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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Romyar Sharafi, Arizona

Title: On Galois groups of pro-p extensions with restricted ramification
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Irakli Patchkoria, Universitat Bonn

Title: Rigidity in equivariant stable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Kamlesh Parwani, Eastern Illinois University

Title: Symmetric random walks on the line
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Joey Hirsh,

Title: Deformations with noncommutative parameters
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM

Andreas Class, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
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

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Andreas Class, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
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 101, 2:00pm

Scott Morrison, Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for links
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the pre-talk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Scott Morrison, Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for 4-manifolds
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the actual talk.
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Simon Marshall, Northwestern

Title: Geodesic restrictions of arithmetic eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Nicolas Brunel, University of Chicago

Title: Dynamics of Large Networks of Neurons: Asynchronous and Synchronous
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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Florian Herzig, Toronto

Title: Adequate subgroups
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Luis Alexandre Pereira, MIT

Title: The Goodwillie tower of the identity in Alg_O(Sp) (with a side helping of general context for Goodwillie Cauculus)\r\n
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

David Aulicino, University of Chicago

Title: Teichmueller Discs with Completely Degenerate Kontsevich-Zorich Spectrum
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Polynomials
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jamison Wolf, Northwestern University

Title: Hausdorff Dimensions of Random Fractals Determined by Levy Processes
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Zev Klagsbrun, Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Selmer groups of elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kristen Mazur, University of Virginia

Title: A G-Symmetric Monoidal Structure on the Category of G-Mackey Functors
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00pm

Laura DeMarco, UIC

Title: Combining complex and arithmetic dynamics: a study of critically-finite maps
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Kelly Yancey, University of Illinois

Title: On Rigidity Sequences
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Dan Lior, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Continued Fractions
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Vladimir Kotov, Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vladimir Kotov, Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Elton Hsu, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Calculus
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Siu's invariance of plurigenera
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Nick Haber, Stanford University

Title: Microlocal analysis of radial points
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Nicolas Templier, Princeton

Title: Sup-norms of automorphic forms
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Sean Tilson, Wayne State University

Title: Power operations and the Kunneth spectral sequence
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin, Harvard University

Title: Ooguri-Vafa Metric, Holomorphic Discs and SYZ Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin, Harvard University

Title: Open Gromov-Witten Invariants on K3 Surfaces and Wall-Crossing
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Miklos Abert,

Title: The measurable Kesten theorem
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Thomas Nevins, UIUC

Title: Geometry of (quantum) symplectic varieties
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Siu's invariance of plurigenera
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Ionel Popescu, Georgia Tech and Romanian Academy

Title: Stochastic Target Approach to Ricci Flow on Surfaces
Special Note: Note the special time of the seminar for this talk.
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Sug Woo Shin, MIT

Title: Families of automorphic L-functions
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 11:00am

Paul Bressler, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Deformation quantization algebroids
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Quasi-classical limits of deformation quantization algebroids
Abstract and details available

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