Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 1997-1998

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?"
Contact info here

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
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 14, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT; Title: Representation theory and special functions: a new approach
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 21, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University; Title: Regularity and Break-down in Geometric Field Theories
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 5, 1997

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University; Title: Flat connections on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 14, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm: Professor Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington; Title: Hot Bodies
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 23, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester; Title: Morava K-theory and generalized characters for finite groups revisited
Special Note: This is a bonus talk for the Midwest Algebraic Topology Seminar on Saturday.
Contact info here

Monday, February 9, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Persi Diaconis, Cornell University; Title: Card Shuffling and Hyperplane Rearrangements
Contact info here

Wednesday, February 18, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Eric Zaslow, Harvard University; Title: Categorical Mirror Symmetry: The Elliptic Curve
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 4, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University; Title: Symplectic quotients and moduli spaces of flat connections
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 13, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor John Lott, University of Michigan; Title: The Zero-in-the-Spectrum Question
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 17, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm: Professor Ofer Zeitouni, Electrical Engineering, Technion; Title: Asymptotics for random combinatorial structures
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 22, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm: Professor Barry Simon, Caltech; Title: A New Approach to Inverse Spectral Theory
Contact info here

Wednesday, May 6, 1998

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:30pm: Professor Chris Woodward, Harvard University; Title: Eigenvalue Inequalities and Quantum Cohomology of the Grassmannian
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

Colloquium Tech Bldg. Lecture Room 6, 4:30pm: Professor David Ruelle, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques; Title: New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Special Note: Joint Physics & Astronomy / Mathematics Colloquium
Contact info here

Display Previous Entries for Colloquium From Year:

Display Entries for Colloquium by Academic Year: