Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2010-2011


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Karen Vogtmann,   Cornell
Title: Maps into and out of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yuri Manin,   Northwestern University
Title: Mordell-Weil problem for cubic surfaces: a combinatorial approach
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Davesh Maulik,   MIT
Title: Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3.30pm
Hélène Esnault,   Universität Duisburg-Essen
Title: Rational Fixed Points
Abstract and details available


Friday, December 3, 2010

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3pm
Vladimir Markovic,   Warwick
Title: Immersing essential surfaces in closed hyperbolic manifolds
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Valentino Tosatti,   Columbia University
Title: Symplectic forms and almost-complex structures in 4 dimensions
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 7, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3PM
Anna Wienhard,   Princeton University
Title: Higher Teichmueller spaces -- from SL(2,R) to other Lie groups (tentative date)
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ngô Bảo Châu,   University of Chicago
Title: The endoscopy theory of automorphic forms
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Colloquium       Tech Lr3, 4:10pm
Terence Tao,   University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Single-scale ergodic theory
Special Note: Note the unusual location!
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 4, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Igor Rodnianski,   Princeton
Title: Evolution problem in General Relativity
Special Note: Note Friday colloquium, earlier time.
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mark Gross,   University of California, San Diego
Title: The tropical vertex
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Eric Rains,   CalTech
Title: Transformations of elliptic hypergeometric integrals
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Douglas,   Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Title: AdS/CFT for mathematicians
Contact info here


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
John Lott,   University of California, Berkeley
Title: The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dan Freed,   University of Texas, Austin
Title: Chern-Weil forms and model categories
Abstract and details available



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