Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Algebra Seminar
Year 1998

Tuesday, January 13, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University; Title: Relative Completions of Linear Groups over Z[t] and Z[t,t^{-1}]
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Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3.00pm: Huazhang Luo , MIT; Title: Stability of Algebraic Manifolds
Special Note: Mr. Luo is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship
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Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University; Title: An introduction to Frobenius manifolds
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Tuesday, February 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University; Title: Noncommutative Geometry in the Perturbative Regime
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Tuesday, February 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Jim Bryan, UC, Berkeley; Title: Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces
Special Note: This talk complements a talk at U of C on Wednesday at 4.30.
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Tuesday, March 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Lev Rozansky, University of Illinois, Chicago; Title: Burau representation of the braid group and the structure of the colored Jones polynomial
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Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Scott Thatcher, Northwestern University; Title: Hecke operators on vector bundles over elliptic curves
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University; Title: On the homology of SL_2(Z[t])
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Tuesday, April 21, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Dan Nakano, Utah State University; Title: Representation type of Schur algebras
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Tuesday, April 28, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Barbara Fantechi, University of Trento; Title: Obstructions for deformation functors and applications
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Tuesday, May 5, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Thomas Geisser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Title: K-theory in characteristic p
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Friday, May 8, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Chris Bendel, University of Notre Dame; Title: Representations of restricted Lie algebras and powers of p-characters
Special Note: This is not the usual time or day of the week!
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Thursday, September 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 4:10pm: Professor Ionut Ciocan,; Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, I
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Thursday, October 1, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 4:10pm: Professor Ionut Ciocan,; Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, II
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Ezra Getzler,; Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman and Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
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Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University; Title: Double affine Hecke algebras and 2-dimensional local fields
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Tuesday, October 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Ezra Getzler,; Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman, Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
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Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor J.-B. Bost, CNRS and Institute for Advanced Study; Title: Optimal estimates in Arakelov geometry
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Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm: Seva Joukhovitsky, Northwestern University; Title: Characters and representations according to Frobenius, Wiles and Taylor
Special Note: Note the unusual time: 5PM
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Tuesday, November 17, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Patrick Brosnan, Northwestern; Title: Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry
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Tuesday, November 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Sam Evens, University of Arizona; Title: Poisson geometry and a theorem of Kostant
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