Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 1997
Saturday, January 25, 1997
Winter Midwest Topology Seminar
- 9:30am Coffee and Donuts,
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- 10:00am Ezra Getzler,
Northwestern University
Title: Intersection theory in moduli spaces of pointed elliptic curves
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- 11:30am Mike Slack,
Western Michigan Univeristy
Title: Explorations into the adjointness of loops and suspensions
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- 2:30pm Nick Kuhn,
University of Virginia
Title: Looking back 20 years: Brown-Gilter spectra and Mahowald's construction
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- 4:00pm Bill Dwyer,
University of Notre Dame
Title: The undiscovered cohomology of $GL_n(Z[1/2])$
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- 5:30pm Party at Eric and Susan Friedlander's home ,
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Saturday, April 19, 1997
Great Lakes K-theory Conference
- 10:30am Professor Kevin Knudson,
Northwestern University
Title: The homology of linear groups over polynomial and power series rings
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- 2:00pm Professor Marc Levine,
Northwestern University
Title: Relating motivic cohomology to K-theory
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- 4:00pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky,
Northwestern University
Title: On the norm residue homomorphism K3M ---> H3(--,Z/3)
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Sunday, April 20, 1997
- 9:30am Professor Mark Walker,
Univ. of Nebraska and Northwestern Univ
Title: A filtration of K-theory and rational motivic complexes
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- 11:00am Professor Michael Weiss,
Univ. of Notre Dame
Title: An index theorem for the algebraic K-theory Stiefel-Whitney class
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Sunday, October 12, 1997
Nonlinear and Complex Systems
- 10:30am B.J. Matkowsky,
Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU
Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion
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- 11:00 Professor T. Dupont,
Dept. of Computer Science, UC
Title: Drying coffee drops
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- 11:30 Professor M. Silber ,
Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU
Title: Superlattice Wave Patterns
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- 13:30 Dr. F. Cattaneo ,
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC
Title: Magnetic fields and convection
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- 14:00 Professor Z. Xia,
Dept. of Mathematics, NWU
Title: Hamiltonian dynamical systems
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- 14:30 Dr. S. Venkataramani,
James-Franck Inst., UC
Title: Attraction, diffusion and collapse
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- 15:30 Professor D. Margoliash,
Dept. of Organismal Biol. & Anat., UC
Title: A myopic view of neural population coding in bird song
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- 16:00 Dr. S. Waters,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NWU
Title: Biomedical applications of non-linear mathematics
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Thursday, October 23, 1997
Conference on Probability, Ergodic Theory and Analysis
- 10:30am Professor Donald Burkholder,
University of Illinois at Urbana
Title: Noncommutative martingale theory: recent progress and some open problems
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- 1:30pm Professor Amos Nevo,
Technion University
Title: A Spectral transfer principle and the ergodic theory of semi-simple groups
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- 2:45pm Professor Paul Malliavin,
University of Paris
Title: Faithful ergodic representations versus Haar measure
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- 4:00pm Professor Earl Berkson,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Title: Transference methods in spectral theory and ergodic operator theory
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Friday, October 24, 1997
- 3:00 p.m. Professor Tom Liggett ,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees I
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- 9:30am Professor Marjorie Hahn,
Tufts University
Title: Self-normalization: Why?
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- 11:00am Professor Joseph Rosenblatt,
University of Illinois at Urbana
Title: Convergence of averages in ergodic theory
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- 4:30pm Professor Robin Pemantle ,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Urn schemes and reinforced random walks, old and new
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Saturday, October 25, 1997
Nineteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 9:30am Professor Tom Liggett,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees II
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- 1:30pm Professor Richard Sowers,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Title: Some probabilistic aspects of motion by mean curvature
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- 3:30pm Professor Ulrich Krengel,
University of Gottingen
Title: Some highlights in the work of A. Bellow
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Sunday, October 26, 1997
- 9:30am Professor Arkady Tempelman,
Penn State
Title: Topics in Fractal Dimension
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- 11:00am Professor Hillel Furstenberg,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Stationary Group Actions
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- 1:30pm Professor Donald Ornstein,
Stanford University
Title: Invariant curves for maps of surfaces
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