Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2000-2001


Thursday, October 5, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4.15pm
Professor Yongbin Ruan,   University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A journey from gauge theory to quantum cohomology
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Friday, October 20, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Rafe Mazzeo,   Stanford University
Title: Moduli of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Neil Trudinger,   Australian National University
Title: The Bernstein problem for affine maximal hypersurfaces
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Friday, November 3, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Gunther Uhlmann,   University of Washington
Title: Inside Out: Inverse Boundary Problems
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Colloquium       Tech L211, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten,   Institute for Advanced Studies
Title: Quark Confinement And Black Holes
Special Note: Reception in Tech F235
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Friday, November 17, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor S. G. Dani,   Tata Institute, Bombay
Title: Flows on homogeneous spaces
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Friday, December 1, 2000

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Hart Smith,   University of Washington
Title: Harmonic Analysis and the Wave Equation
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Thursday, January 18, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Matthew Emerton,   University of Chicago
Title: P-adic interpolation in representation theory and arithmetic
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Irena Peeva,   Cornell University
Title: Toric Hilbert Schemes
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Friday, January 26, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:15 pm
Professor Curt McMullen,   Harvard University
Title: Dynamics on K3 surfaces
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Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Michael Hutchings,   Stanford University
Title: Three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory, Reidemeister torsion in Morse theory, and pseudoholomorphic curves
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Friday, February 2, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Jeff Xia,   Northwestern University
Title: Instabilities in Hamiltonian Dynamics
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Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor James Colliander,   Berkeley
Title: Almost conservation laws and global wellposedness
Abstract and details available


Thursday, February 8, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Professor Roman Bezrukavnikov,   University of Chicago
Title: Towards the local geometric Langlands correspondence
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Friday, February 9, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Francois Ledrappier,   Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Title: Local Characteristics in Smooth Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Giovanni Forni ,   Princeton University
Title: Invariant distributions and ergodic theory of some `parabolic' systems
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Friday, February 23, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Fred Diamond ,   Brandeis University
Title: Modularity of elliptic curves
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marty Golubitsky,   University of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Eng. Science and Applied Math.
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Thursday, March 29, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Shing-Tung Yau,   William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
Title: Existence of Black Holes
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Friday, March 30, 2001

Colloquium       Annenberg G15, 4:30pm
Morris Hirsch,   University of California, Berkeley
Title: Finite orbits and fixed points for solvable groups of surface homeomorphisms
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Friday, April 6, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Benson Farb,   University of Chicago
Title: Group Actions and Helly's Theorem
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 13, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alexander Lipton ,   Director of Deutsche Bank
Title: Past, present and future interactions between mathematics and finance
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Friday, April 20, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marc Levine,   Northeastern University
Title: Topological and Algebraic Cohomology
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Thursday, April 26, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor M. Gursky,   Indiana University
Title: Hessian equations and quadratic Riemannian functionals
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Friday, April 27, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Ivar Ekeland,   University of Paris-Dauphine
Title: Partial differential equations arising from economic theory
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 4, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Denis Serre,   Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Title: Stability of Stationary Patterns of $L^1$-Contracting Semi-Groups
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Monday, May 7, 2001

Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor M. Gurtin,   Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Configurational Forces, Gradient Flows and the Motion of Interfacial Curves and Surfaces
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM
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Friday, May 18, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Cranston,   University of Rochester
Title: Transport by stochastic flows and random velocity field
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Lai-Sang Young,   Courant Institute
Title: Mixing and Chaos
Special Note: This is Professor Young's Kreeger-Wolf Lecture
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