Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 2004-2005

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Algebraic Cycles, K-Theory, and Modular Representation Theory Conference

10:00am Professor David Cox, Amherst College
Title: Etale homotopy theory and simplicial schemes
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11:30am Professor H. Blaine Lawson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Title: Boundaries of varieties in projective manifolds
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2:00pm Professor William Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
Title: Cohn localization sequences in K-theory
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4:00pm Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraka, Lincoln
Title: The twisted total Chern class map
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Friday, September 17, 2004

10:00am Professor Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia
Title: Support varieties for Weyl modules
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11:30am Professor Brian Parshall, University of Virginia
Title: Some results in the cohomology of algebraic groups
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2:00pm Professor Michael Hopkins, Massachusetss Institute of Technology
Title: TBA
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3:30pm Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: TBA
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5:00pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky,
Title: A categorical approach to probability theory
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Saturday, September 18, 2004

10:00am Professor David Benson, University of Georgia
Title: Varieties and injective modules over cohomology
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11:30am Professor Wilberd van der Kallen, Utrecht University
Title: Invariant theory, cohomology and good filtration dimension
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2:00pm Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard University
Title: Selmer modules and p-adic variation of motives
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4:00pm Professor Spencer Bloch, University of Chicago
Title: Periods and epsilon factors associated to differential equations
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Sunday, September 19, 2004

10:00am Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
Title: Wild kernels and higher K-theory
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11:30am Professor Steven Lichtenbaum, Brown University
Title: The Weil-etale topology for number rings
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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Midwest Probability Colloquium: Thursday's Program

1:30pm Professor Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Introduction to random matrices, I
Abstract and details available
2:45pm Professor Peter Miller, University of Michigan
Title: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach to Orthogonal Polynomials
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4:10pm Professor Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Introduction to random matrices, II
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Friday, October 15, 2004

Midwest Probability Colloquium

3:00pm Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Title: Secrets of Stein's Method Explained, I
Abstract and details available
4:30pm Professor Francesco Russo , University of Paris XIII
Title: Stochastic Calculus and Generalized Dirichlet Processes
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Saturday, October 16, 2004

9:30am Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Title: Secrets of Stein's Method Explained, II
Abstract and details available
1:30pm Professor Zhen-Qing Chen, University of Washington
Title: Boundary Trace of a Markov Process
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