Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 1999-2000

Saturday, November 13, 1999

Midwest Group Cohomology Seminar

various speakers,
Title: Midwest Group Cohomology Seminar
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 0, 1999

International Conference on Celestial Mechanics

4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
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4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
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11:10 Yi-Sui Sun,
Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion
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2:00 Robert Devaney,
Title: Mandelbrot set and the Farey tree
Details of the talk

Wednesday, December 15, 1999

2:00 John Mather,
Title: TBA
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2:50 Glen Richard Hall,
Title: Some remarks on Epimethius and Janus (Co-orbital Moons)
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4:00 Richard Montgomery,
Title: A figure eight with three bodies
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4:50 Florin Diacu,
Title: TBA
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9:00 Alain Chenciner,
Title: Action minimizing periodic orbits of the n-body problem
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10:00 Carles Simo,
Title: New results on the classical Hill problem
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11:10 Clark Robinson,
Title: Topological decoupling near planar parabolic orbits
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Thursday, December 16, 1999

2:00 Jacques Laskar,
Title: TBA
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2:50 Christopher McCord,
Title: Topology & Dynamics in the Planar N-Body Problem
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4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
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4:50 Gareth Roberts,
Title: Interesting families of central configurations
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9:00 Paul Rabinowitz,
Title: Connecting orbits for a family of Hamiltonian systems
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10:00 Christian Marchal,
Title: From geocentricity to demographic transition : How die a scientific theory
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11:10 Alain Albouy,
Title: Why are the Keplerian orbits closed?
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Friday, December 17, 1999

2:00 Jaume Llibre,
Title: Periodic and quasi-periodic motions for the spatial isosceles 3-body problem
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2:50 Qiudong Wang,
Title: The Hill's region of the four-body problem
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4:00 Ernesto Perez Chevela,
Title: Central Configurations for Charged Problems
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4:50 Jacques Fejoz,
Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem
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9:00 Jerrold Marsden,
Title: Heteroclinic Orbits, Ballistic Capture and Optimal Control in Mission Design
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10:00 Ed Belbruno,
Title: A Survey of Some Applications of Resonance Transitions and Capture in the Three and Four Body Problems, and Solar System
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11:10 Ernesto Lacomba Zamora,
Title: Global flow of Hamiltonian systems with cubic homogeneous potentials
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Saturday, December 18, 1999

2:00 Robert Devaney,
Title: Mandelbrot set and the Farey tree
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2:50 Hildeberto Cabral,
Title: TBA
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4:00 Rick Moeckel,
Title: Arnold diffusion, horseshoes, and the problem of the gaps
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4:50 Philippe Robutel,
Title: Frequency map and global dynamics in the Solar System : the short period dynamics
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9:00 Predrag Cvitanovic,
Title: Periodic orbit theory of kinematic dynamo
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10:00 Robert Easton,
Title: Symplectic Capacity
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11:10 Yi-Sui Sun,
Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion
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Sunday, December 19, 1999

9:00 Richard Cushman,
Title: New qualitative features of the hydorgen atom in orthogonal electric and magnetic fields
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10:00 Keith Burns,
Title: Magnetic Flows
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11:10 Carl Simon,
Title: Dynamic Models of Influenza
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Saturday, March 11, 2000

Northwestern Centennial PDE Conference

10am Professor Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: A-Quasiconvexity: Relaxation and Homogenization
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11:30am Professor Gang Tian, MIT
Title: Ellitic Yang-Mills Equations
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2:00pm Professor William Minicozz , Johns Hopkins University
Title: Estimates for Embedded Minimal Surfaces
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3:00pm Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Existence and Uniqueness in the Monge Mass Transport Problem
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4:20pm Professor Claude Bardos, University of Paris 7, France
Title: From Hamiltonian Systems to Kenetic and Macroscopic Dynamics
Abstract and details available

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