Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 1998-1999

Wednesday, October 14, 1998

3rd UC/NU Workshop on Nonlinear and Complex Systems

3:30 D. Mogul, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern U.
Title: Chaos and Control of Epilepsy in the Brain
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4:20 A. Neisthadt, Mathematics, U. Chicago and Space Research Institute, Moscow
Title: On the Calculation of Stability Loss Delay Time for Dynamical Bifurcation
Abstract and details available
5:10 V. Putkaradze , James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
Title: Selective Withdrawal in Oil/Water System
Abstract and details available
6:00 H. Riecke, Applied Mathematics, Northwestern U.
Title: Localized Structures in Pattern-forming Systems
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7:45 D. Saari, Mathematics, Northwestern U.
Title: Chaos and stability. But, in "voting"?
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8:40 L. Kadanoff, James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
Title: Generic Behavior of Reversible Dynamical Systems
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Friday, October 23, 1998

Twentieth Midwest Probability Colloquium

3:00 PM Professor Ioannis KARATZAS , Columbia
Title: Probabilistic Aspects of Finance I
Abstract and details available
4:30 PM Professor Horng-Tzer YAU, Courant
Title: Hydrodynamical limit and relaxation rate for lattice gases
Abstract and details available

Saturday, October 24, 1998

9:30 AM Professor Ioannis KARATZAS , Columbia
Title: Probabilistic Aspects of Finance II
Abstract and details available
11:00 AM Professor Horng-Tzer YAU, Courant
Title: Potential Theory and the Brownian Sheet
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Saturday, October 31, 1998

Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference

10:30am Burt Totaro, University of Chicago
Title: Real manifolds with good complexifications
Abstract and details available
12:00 noon Dick Hain, Duke University
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3:00pm Jean-Benoît Bost, Université de Paris-Sud
Title: Intersection theory on arithmetic surfaces and metrics with L^2_1 regularity
Abstract and details available
4:30pm Lucia Caporaso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sunday, November 1, 1998

9:30am Alexander Polishchuk, Harvard University
Title: Fourier transform in algebraic geometry
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11:00am Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Gröbner deformations of hypergeometric differential equations
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1:15pm Hélène Esnault, Universität Essen
Title: Riemann-Roch theorem for flat bundles with values in the Chern-Simons theory
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2:30pm Alexander Beilinson, University of Chicago
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Saturday, April 10, 1999

Midwest Topology Seminar

10:00am Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University
Title: Finite group actions on Riemann surfaces, G-equivariant bordism and G-signature
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11:30am Professor Stephen Theriault, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces
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2:30pm Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago
Title: The asymptotic geometry of groups
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4:00pm Professor Bill Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
Title: Ohkawa's theorem
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