Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2011

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
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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

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Karen Vogtmann, Cornell; Title: On the geometry of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Sergei Gukov, Caltech; Title: Knots and Partitions (in color and 3D)
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00PM: John Smillie, Cornell; Title: Billiards in triangles
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Valentino Tosatti, Columbia; Title: Ricci curvature and complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mark Gross, UCSD; Title: Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Jason Miller, Microsoft Research; Title: Imaginary Geometry of the Gaussian Free Field
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Benson Farb, U Chicago; Title: Permutations and polynomiality in algebra and topology
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Mohammed Abouzaid, MIT/Clay; Title: The symplectic topology of Stein manifolds
Abstract and details available

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