Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 1997


Friday, April 4, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Ulrich Krengel ,   University of Gottingen
Title: On the history of probability theory
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Friday, April 11, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Albrecht Dold,   University of Heidelberg
Title: Indexes, traces, and other stable fixed point invariants
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Wednesday, April 16, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ed Saff,   University of South Florida
Title: Distributing Many Points on a Sphere
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Friday, April 25, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Elwyn Berlekamp,   MSRI and UC Berkeley
Title: An overview of Mathematical Games
Special Note: A detailed abstract will be posted on the bulletin board
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Friday, May 9, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Richard Hamilton,   UCSD
Title: The free-boundary problem for the porous medium equation
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
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Friday, September 26, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Shub,   IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Title: A Lefschetz principle for the problem "Does P equal NP?"
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Thursday, October 23, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss,   University of Washington
Title: Spaces of Continuous Maps and the Cohomology of Commutative Rings
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Friday, November 14, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr.,   MIT
Title: Representation theory and special functions: a new approach
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Friday, November 21, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh,   Princeton University
Title: Regularity and Break-down in Geometric Field Theories
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Friday, December 5, 1997

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Lisa Jeffrey,   McGill University
Title: Flat connections on Riemann surfaces
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