Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Year 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Andrei Jorza, Caltech
- Title: Symmetric powers of Hilbert modular forms and p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
- Title: Generalized and equivariant multicategories
Special Note: CANCELLED
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Pengfei Zhang, UMass Amherst
- Title: Volume of the set of transitive points of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Kate Juschenko, Vanderbilt University
- Title: On simple amenable groups
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 10, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Vivek Shende, MIT
- Title: Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
- Title: The twisted Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 14, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Baoping Liu, University of Chicago
- Title: Low regularity solution for Chern-Simons-Schrodinger system
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Simon Marshall, Northwestern
- Title: Endoscopy and cohomology growth on U(3)
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
- Title: Operads and embedding spaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern University
- Title: Positive vector bundles and vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern University
- Title: Positivity and vanishing theorems for ample vector bundles
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 17, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: The Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Paul Bourgade, Harvard University
- Title: Universality for beta ensembles
Special Note: This seminar is on Tuesday because of the holiday on Monday.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Vasily Pestun, IAS
- Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Vasily Pestun, IAS
- Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 24, 2013
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Justin Noel, Bonn/MPI
- Title: Equivariant homology of representation spheres and computations indexed by Picard groups
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 28, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
- Title: Â A Tale of Waving Tails: Calcium-Driven Dynamics of Undulatory
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, 3:00PM
- Derek Garton, Northwestern
- Title: Random matrices and the Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet heuristics
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kathryn Mann, University of Chicago
- Title: Extension problems for groups of diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri, Northwestern University
- Title: Affine Stratification Number and Moduli Space of Curves
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri,
- Title: Cohomological Excess and compactified Moduli Space of Curves
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
, 2:00pm
- Xuhua He,
- Title: Affine Weyl groups, affine Hecke algebras and affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 31, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: The Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 4, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Kristin Swanson, Northwestern University
- Title:  Patient-Specific Mathematical Neuro-Oncology: Driving a
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, 3:00PM
- Frank Calegari, Northwestern
- Title: The stable cohomology of congruence subgroups
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dmytro Arinkin, University Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 7, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 8, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
102, 1:00pm
- Danny Calegari, University of Chicago
- Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
107, 3:00pm
- Danny Calegari, University of Chicago
- Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 11, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- George Karniadakis, Brown University
- Title:  Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Physical and
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, 3:00PM
- Dustin Belt, Northwestern
- Title: The holomorphy of exterior square L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Geoffroy Horel, MIT
- Title: Operads, modules and topological field theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Leo Butler, Central Michigan University
- Title: Obstructions to integrability
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Emily Peters,
- Title: The Morita equivalence class of the Haagerup subfactor
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mark Behrens, MIT
- Title: Exotic spheres and topological modular forms
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 14, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 18, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Sara Solla, Northwestern University
- Title:  Generalized Linear Models of Spiking Neurons Â
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, 3:00PM
- Patrick Allen, Northwestern
- Title: Modularity of nearly ordinary 2-adic residually dihedral Galois representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis
- Title: Topology of continuous cluster categories
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Ailsa Keating, MIT
- Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ailsa Keating, MIT
- Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Noah Snyder,
- Title: The Space of Fusion Categories
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 21, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 25, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Christof Sparber, UIC
- Title: On Wigner and Bohmian measures in semi-classical quantum dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Rob Harron, Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Computing Hida families
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Ismar Volic, Wellesley
- Title: Calculus of functors and knot and link spaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
- Title: BPS algebras,knot invariants,framed instantons and canonical bases
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Ting Xue,
- Title: Nilpotent orbits and the Springer correspondence
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon
- Title: A-infinity structures associated with curves
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 28, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 03:00pm
- Gueo Grantcharov, Florida International University
- Title: Indefinite metrics on complex surfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 4, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Talagrand's Mass Transportation Inequality on a Riemannian Manifold
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Brent Doiron, Â University of Pittsburgh
- Title: Variability in the Dynamics of the Idling Brain
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
- Nick Rozenblyum, Northwestern University
- Title: From higher categories to manifold topology
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Jacques Distler, UT Austin
- Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Jacques Distler, UT Austin
- Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Nir Avni,
- Title: Special Values of Witten Zeta Functions
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Formality, Quantization, and Matrix Factorizations
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Mike Reed, Duke University
- Title: Mathematics, Cell Metabolism, and Public Health
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, March 7, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Daniel Berwick-Evans, UC Berkeley
- Title: Supersymmetric sigma models, elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
Special Note: Note the unusual day!
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
- Title: Approximation of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 11, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- William Bray, Missouri State University
- Title: Growth properties and integrability of Fourier transforms
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School
- Title: Â Overcoming Molecular Complexity in Biological Systems
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, 3:00PM
- Michael Larsen, Indiana
- Title: Fuchsian generation of simple groups
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University
- Title: K-Theory of Formal Power Series
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Andrei Caldararu,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 14, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 02:40pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
- Title: Approximation of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 18, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- John Guckenheimer, Â Cornell University
- Title: Â Mixed Mode Oscillations
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 19, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Josh Batson, MIT
- Title: TBA
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Josh Batson, MIT
- Title: Nonorientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
, 2:00pm
- David Jordan,
- Title: Surface braid groups, quantum groups, and quantum D-modules
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 5, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Alessio Figalli, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: A stability result for the semisum of sets in R^n
Special Note: Please note the unusual date and time
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 8, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Andrew Comech, Texas A&M
- Title: Linear instability of solitary waves in nonlinear Dirac equation
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Carl Bender, Washington University
- Title: Â PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
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
- Craig Westerland, University of Melbourne
- Title: An analogue of K-theory for higher chromatic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- John Griesmer, University of Denver
- Title: Configurations in sumsets
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 1:00PM
- Professor Michael Shelley, New York University's Courant Institue Â
- Title: Â 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
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Northwestern University
- Title: A-infinity algebras
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Northwestern University
- Title: Homotopy algebra and probability theory
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
, 2:00pm
- Peter Tingley,
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
- Title: Dissimilarity distances between surfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 15, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Austin Ford, Stanford
- Title: Progress towards the trace of a diffracting wave group
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Angelo Caccuito, Columbia University
- Title: Â The Ugly, the Fluid, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle
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, 3:00PM
- Keerthi Madapusi, Harvard
- Title: The Tate conjecture for K3 surfaces in odd characteristic
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Brian Munson, US Naval Academy
- Title: Spaces of link maps
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
linguistics seminar room (2nd floor, 2016 sheridan), 2:00pm
- Ivan Loseu, Northeastern University
- Title: Classification of Procesi bundles
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
- Title: Rotation of invariant tensors and geometric representation theory
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics
Special Note: Note new time and place
Contact Info here
Friday, April 19, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Matt Blair, University of New Mexico
- Title: L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 22, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Peter Hislop, University of Kentucky
- Title: Scattering theory in even dimensions: resonances and the scattering matrix
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Thomas Pence, Michigan State University
- Title: Â Boundary Value Problems for Soft Materials that Exhibit Swelling
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, 3:00PM
- Kai-Wen Lan, Minnesota
- Title: Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties and Kuga families with ordinary loci
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Soren Galatius, Stanford University
- Title: Homological stability of moduli spaces of manifolds.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
linguistics seminar room (2nd floor, 2016 sheridan), 2:00pm
- Dave Penneys, University of Toronto
- Title: Planar Algebras at index 3+\sqrt{5}
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Harris Hall 107, 4:00pm
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
- Title: "The Master’s hand": can image analysis detect the hand of the master?
Special Note: Public Lecture
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 26, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Zhenqing Chen, University of Washington
- Title: Non-local operators and Jump-diffusions
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 3:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 29, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor S. Jon Chapman, University of Oxford
- Title: Â Beyond All Orders: The Future of Asymptotics?
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, 3:00PM
- Alina Cojocaru, UIC
- Title: Frobenius fields for elliptic curves
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor S. Jon Chapman, University of Oxford
- Title: Â Localised Pattern Formations and Snaking Bifurcation Diagrams
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, 11:00am
- Dario Beraldo, UC Berkeley
- Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dario Beraldo, UC Berkeley
- Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Statistics seminar room (2006 sheridan), 2:00pm
- Peter Tingley, Loyola University
- Title: Kashiwara's crystals for affine Lie algebras
Abstract and details available
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University
- Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 2, 2013
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University
- Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
Contact Info here
Friday, May 3, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 03:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: Geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University
- Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
Contact Info here
Monday, May 6, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Irina Nenciu, UIC
- Title: On confining potentials and essential self-adjointness for Schrödinger operators
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor John Wettlaufer, Yale University
- Title: Â Collisional Cosmogony
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, 3:00PM
- Jacob Tsimerman, Harvard
- Title: Arithmetic families of torsors
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Eli Grigsby, Boston College
- Title: Categorified invariants and the Artin braid group
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 11:00am
- Andy Neitzke, UT Austin
- Title: Spectral networks
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andy Neitzke, UT Austin
- Title: Spectral networks
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Statistics seminar room (2006 sheridan), 2:00pm
- Rinat Kedem,
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Some segregation models, local and long range
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 9, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Andras Vasy, Stanford University
- Title: The local inverse problem for the geodesic X-ray transform
Special Note: NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 10, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Chris Elliott, Northwestern University
- Title: From Quantum Field Theory to Topology
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 13, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
- Title: The Lovely Bones: discrete differential geometry (??) with biological applications
Special Note: Note the unusual time
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Doctor E. Martens, Technical University of Denmark Â
- Title: Â Chimera States in Mechanical Oscillator Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Matthew Young, Texas A&M
- Title: Heegner points in the level aspect and hybrid subconvexity
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Angelica Osorno, University of Chicago
- Title: On equivariant infinite loop space machines
Special Note: NOTE UNUSUAL TIME
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm
- Amir Mohammadi,
- Title: The orbits of SL(2,R) action on homogeneous spaces and moduli space
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- William P. Minicozzi II, MIT
- Title: Rigidity of generic singularities of mean curvature flow
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 17, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
- Title: The Kahler-Ricci flow
Special Note: New Faculty Talk
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 3:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 20, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Aleksander Donev, New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Title: Â Coupling an Incompressible Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended
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, 3:00PM
- Davide Reduzzi, Chicago
- Title: Galois representations and torsion in the cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
- Title: Generalized and equivariant multicategories
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Analytic Microlocal Analysis, Northwestern University, May 20-24, 2013
- 9:00am see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html,
see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html
Title: see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html
Place: Garrett Theological Seminary, Room 205, 2121 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Zhenqi Wang, Yale
- Title: TBA
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Clay Cordova, Harvard University
- Title: Quivers and Quantum Field Theory
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
- Special Event
Swift 107, 5:00 pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University
- Title: Metric Sociology
Special Note: annual undergraduate prize lecture and awards ceremony
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Robert Calderbank, Duke University
- Title: Golay, Heisenberg and Weyl
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm
- Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
- Title: Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt Theorems and group actions in positive characteristic
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Tom Goodwillie, Brown University
- Title: The idea of functor calculus
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 30, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Paul VanKoughnett, Northwestern University
- Title: Abelian Groups
Contact Info here
Friday, May 31, 2013
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 03:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 3, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Andrew Lawrie, University of Chicago
- Title: Relaxation of exterior wave maps to harmonic maps
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
- Title: Descent for n-Bundles
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 11:00am
- Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
- Bellow Lecture Series
, 4:10pm
- Alice Guionnet, MIT
- Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Alice Guionnet, MIT
- Title:
Special Note: (Combined Bellow Lecture/Colloquium)
Contact Info here
Thursday, June 6, 2013
- Bellow Lecture Series
, 4:10pm
- Alice Guionnet, MIT
- Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 7, 2013
- Bellow Lecture Series
, 4:10pm
- Alice Guionnet, MIT
- Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Ben Knudsen,
- Title: Singularities and exotic spheres
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 3:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm
- Michael Friedman, Institute Fourier, Grenoble
- Title: Conjugation-free geometric presentations of fundamental groups of arrangements.
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Miniconference
- 9:30am Boris Tsygan,
Northwestern University
Title: New operations on Hochschild complexes
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 10:45am Vasily Dolgushev,
Temple University
Title: A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 12:00pm Jesse Wolfson,
Northwestern University
Title: Determinants, delooping and reciprocity
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm Ben Davison,
Max-Planck Institute, Bonn
Title: Refined DT invariants for real 3-folds
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 3:15pm Ryszard Nest,
Copenhagen University
Title: Functorial properties of local index, determinant and torsion of commuting n-tuples of operators
Details of the talk
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 10:00am
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Higher analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the first of two talks: the second will be at 1.30pm.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 11:30am
- Paul Bressler, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota
- Title: Chern-Weil construction for transitive Lie algebroids
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 2:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Derived analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the second of two talks: no prerequisites are required.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 10:00am
- Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,
- Title: Algebraic Index Theory, I
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 11:00am
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Derived analytic stacks
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 2:00pm
- Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,
- Title: Algebraic Index Theory, II
Contact Info here
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 11:00AM
- Ehud Meron, Benu-Gurion University, Israel
- Title: Pattern formation aspects of desertification and rehabilitation of
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Contact Info here
Monday, September 30, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Yuan-nan Young, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Title: Â Dynamics of an Elastic Membrane in Stokes Flow
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Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Emily Riehl, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic perspectives on (generalized) Reedy categories
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 4, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center ITW Room, 1:00PM
- Dean Julio Ottino, Northwestern University
- Title: Â Henri Poincaré: The Last Universalist, His Life and Work
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Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Eric Zaslow, Northwestern
- Title: Some remarks relating symplectic geometry to sheaf theory
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Yu Wang, Northwestern
- Title: The Krylov-Safonov Harnack estimate
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 7, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University
- Title: Fine Properties of Gaussian Random Fields
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor David Saintillan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Â Elastic Filaments in Viscous Fluids
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- David Yuen, Lake Forest College
- Title: Modularity in Genus Two
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Aaron Royer, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Generalized String Topology and Derived Koszul Duality
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Zhiren Wang, Yale University
- Title: Multi-invariant measures and subsets on nilmanifolds
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 10, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 2:00pm
- Theo Johnson-Freyd, Northwestern
- Title: A properad action on homology that fails to lift to the chain level
Special Note: Please note the unusual time
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Theo Johnson-Freyd, Northwestern University
- Title: Poisson AKSZ theory, properads, and quantization
Abstract and details available
35th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Friday, October 11, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Chris Elliott, Northwestern
- Title: Path Integrals in Quantum Field Theory: A Friendly Introduction
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine
- Title: Szego kernels and Poincare series
Abstract and details available
35th Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 03:00pm Martin Barlow,
University of British Columbia
Title: Random Walks and the Geometry of the Uniform Spanning Tree, I
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 04:30pm Lionel Levine,
Cornell University
Title: Scaling Limit of the Abelian Sandpile
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 12, 2013
- 09:30am Martin Barlow,
University of British Columbia
Title: Random Walks and the Geometry of the Uniform Spanning Tree, II
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 01:30pm Dmietry Panchenko,
Texas A&M University
Title: Ultrametricity in Spin Glass Models
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 14, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor in Preventative Medicine Northwestern University
- Title: Â Hearing the Shape of Cancer
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Stefan Patrikis, Harvard
- Title: Potential automorphy of regular self-dual motives
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Greg Arone, University of Virginia
- Title: On spaces of link maps
Special Note: CANCELLED
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Diana Davis, Northwestern University
- Title: Cutting sequences on Bouw-Möller surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Induction and Recurrences
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
- Title: Character rigidity for lattices in higher rank groups
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 17, 2013
- Analysis Reading Seminar
Common Room, 1:00pm
- Boris Hanin, Graduate Student
- Title: Nodal Sets of Random Eigenfunctions of the Harmonic Oscillator
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 18, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Vlad Serban, Northwestern
- Title: Climbing up a tower to get a glimpse of BSD
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Yu Wang, Northwestern
- Title: The Krylov-Safonov Harnack estimate
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 21, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Xuehua Chen, Northwestern University
- Title: Eigenfunction restriction estimates for nonpositive curvature manifolds
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Shravan Veerapaneni from University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics
- Title: Â Simulating Dense Suspensions of Soft Particulate Flows
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- David Roberts, Minnesota
- Title: Hypergeometric motives and their wild ramification
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Yifei Zhu, Northwestern University
- Title: A formal group of height 2 over F_9
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Francesco Cellarosi, University of Illinois
- Title: Ergodic properties of k-free integers in number fields
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Tsachik Gelander, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Title: On the growth of Betti numbers of arithmetic groups
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 24, 2013
- Analysis Reading Seminar
Common Room, 1:00pm
- Melissa Tacy,
- Title: Eigenfunction doubling estimates and semiclassical methods?
Contact Info here
Friday, October 25, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Dimitry Todorov, Saint Petersburg
- Title: Lipschitz inverse shadowing and structural stability
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:30pm
- Aaron Naber, Northwestern
- Title: An introduction to geometry, analysis, and the nonlinear harmonic map equation
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: The openness conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 28, 2013
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Jerry Wang, Princeton
- Title: Pencils of quadrics and 2-Selmer groups of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Cary Malkiewich, Stanford University
- Title: Coassembly maps, gauge groups, and Novikov conjectures
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Ronen Mukamel, University of Chicago
- Title: The remarkable arithmetic of Teichmuller curves and some applications to billiards
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00
- Dan Rutherford, University of Arkansas
- Title: TBA
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dan Rutherford, University of Arkansas
- Title: Rulings polynomials and augmentations of Legendrian links
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
- Title: Yamabe Lecture 1: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 31, 2013
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
- Title: Yamabe Lecture 2: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 1, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:30pm
- Boris Hanin, Northwestern
- Title:
Special Note: Postponed to Friday, November 8
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
- Title: Yamabe Lecture 3: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 4, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Gabor Szkeleyhidi, Notre Dame
- Title: The partial C^0 estimate along the continuity method
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Wei Ho, Columbia
- Title: Families of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Rolf Hoyer, University of Chicago
- Title: Cellular methods and TAQ
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Sara Lapan, Northwestern University
- Title: Attracting domains for holomorphic maps tangent to the identity
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago
- Title: Robust mechanisms for chaotic dynamics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 7, 2013
- Analysis Reading Seminar
Common Room, 11:15am
- Aaron Naber,
- Title: Nodal and Critical Sets of Elliptic Equations
Contact Info here
Friday, November 8, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Swift 107, 2:00pm
- Steven Sam,
- Title: Twisted commutative algebras
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Swift 107, 01:00pm
- Zbigniew Blocki, Jagiellonian University and Indiana University
- Title: Bergman kernel and pluripotential theory
Special Note: Note unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Harris Hall Auditorium, 3:00 PM
- Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
- Title: Investiture ceremony honoring Bryna Kra, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professors of Mathematics
Special Note: Investiture ceremony honoring Bryna Kra, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professors of Mathematics
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 11, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Swift 107, 12:00pm
- Tsachik Gelander,
- Title: Lattices in amenable groups
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Jesse Gell-Redman, Toronto
- Title: Asymptotic distribution of phase shifts in semiclassical potential scattering
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Haruzo Hida, UCLA
- Title: Transcendence of Hecke operators
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Robert Hank, University of Minnesota
- Title: Higher multiplicative structure in homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Ioannis Konstantoulas, University of Illinois,
- Title: Effective multiple mixing for semisimple group actions
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Johan Konter, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on The Pingeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 14, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Rafael Potrie, CMAT (Universidad de la República-Uruguay)
- Title: Global stability for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms isotopic to Anosov
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 15, 2013
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 5:15pm
- Prof. Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Analysis
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Michael Couch,
- Title: Grad student funding
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Tristan Collins, Columbia University
- Title: K-stability for Sasakian manifolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 18, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Title: Vanishing theorems and holomorphic one-forms
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Richard Rand, Cornell University, Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace
- Title: Â Evolutionary Dynamics and Parametric Excitation
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
- Title: Fuchsian groups and generalized Bowen-Series maps
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Generating Functions, Telescoping, and Symmetries
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- John Lind, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Equivariantly Twisted Cohomology Theories
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Robert McCann, University of Toronto
- Title: Optimal transport: old and new
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 22, 2013
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Boris Hanin,
- Title: Oscillatory Integrals and the Method of Stationary Phase
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 03:00pm
- Steve Zelditch, Northwestern
- Title: Lower bounds on the Hausdorff measure of nodal sets
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 25, 2013
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Drew Heard, University of Melbourne
- Title: Exotic elements in the K(n)-local Picard group
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Joanna Furno, Dickinson College
- Title: Ergodic Properties and Dynamics of p-adic Transformations
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Complex Numbers, Probability, Combinatorics, and other miscellaneous subjects.
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 2, 2013
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Hans-Joachim Hein, University of Nantes
- Title: The geometry of noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Katherine Newhall, New York University
- Title: Â Dynamics of Ferromagnets:Â Averaging Methods, Bifurcation
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Benjamin Howard, Boston College
- Title: Supersingular points on some orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mona Merling, University of Chicago
- Title: Equivariant algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 103, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems: A review of the easiest Putnam problems from recent years.
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh
- Title: Theoretical Models of Shape Formation: Analysis, Geometry and Energy Scaling Laws
Special Note: Note that the talk starts 4pm, not at 4.10pm!
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
- Darren Creutz,
- Title: Character Rigidity for Lattices and Commensurators
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 5, 2013
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00
- Emmy Murphy, MIT
- Title: The plastikstufe and connect sums of contact manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Emmy Murphy, MIT
- Title: Lagrangian caps in high dimensional symplectic manifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, December 6, 2013
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Dave Richeson, Dickinson College
- Title: The history of Euler's polyhedron formula and the Euler characteristic
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- ,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Monday, December 9, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Jay Newby, Ohio State University
- Title: Â Stochastic Modeling of Cellular Processes
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
- Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar,
- Title: Rigidity of groups of diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
- Robin Tucker-Drob,
- Title: Shift-minimal groups, fixed price 1, and the unique trace property
Special Note: Note special time
Abstract and details available
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