Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2004-2005

Friday, October 22, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Alexander Goncharov, Brown University; Title: Positivity and higher Teichmuller theory
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Monday, October 25, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University; Title: Boltzmann Equation and Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
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Friday, November 19, 2004

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas; Title: Real groups and Langlands duality
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Friday, January 7, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Inwon Kim, MIT; Title: The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Flow
Special Note: Professor Kim is a candidate for a tenure track position
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Friday, January 14, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor David Nadler, University of Chicago; Title: Loops spaces and Langlands duality
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Monday, January 17, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor William Stein, Harvard University; Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago; Title: Recent developments on the well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations
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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Angela Grant, University of Maryland; Title: Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems
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Friday, January 28, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mona Mocanasu, UCLA; Title: Borel-Moore Functors and Algebraic Oriented Theories
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University; Title: Murphy's Law in Algebraic Geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology; Title: The 2--Wasserstein metric and its applications to PDEs
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Friday, February 25, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jim Colliander, University of Toronto; Title: On rough blowup solutions of L² critical NLS
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Friday, April 1, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Terence Tao, UCLA; Title: Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Daniel Rudolph, Colorado Sate University; Title: Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Ergodic Theory
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Friday, April 15, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University; Title: Involutions and Polyconvexity in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Applications to Electromagnetism and Elastodynamics
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Monday, May 2, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhail Gromov, IHES; Title: From protein foldings to Morse theory
Special Note: Professor Gromov is the 2005 Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Dana Randall, Computer Science Department, Georgia Tech; Title: Algorithms for Finding a Random Needle in a Combinatorial Haystack
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Friday, May 27, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Werner Mueller, University of Bonn; Title: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces and scattering theory
Special Note: First talk of Scattering Theory and Singular Spaces conference
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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota; Title: Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and "obvious" theorems
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