Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 2011-2012

Thursday, October 13, 2011

The 33rd Midwest Probability Colloquium

1:30pm Karl-Theodor Sturm, Bonn University
Title: Optimal transportation in geometry, analysis, and probability, I
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2:45pm Karl-Theodor Sturm, Bonn University
Title: Optimal transportation in geometry, analysis, and probability, II
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4:10pm Alessio Figalli, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Optiomal transport and isoperimetric inequalities
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Friday, October 14, 2011

3:00pm Russell Lyons, Indiana University
Title: Some aspects of determinantal probability measures, I
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4:30pm Armajit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Some varitional formlas for space-time Brownian motions and Poisson measures
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

9:30am Russell Lyons, Indiana University
Title: Some aspects of determinantal probability measures, II
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11:30am Elena Kosygina, Baruch College, CUNY
Title: Crossing velocities of random walks in a random potential
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2:00pm Eric Carlen, Rutgers University
Title: Recent progress in Mark Kac's probabilistic program in kinetic theory
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Microlocal methods in spectral and scattering theory

9:00am David Borthwick, Emory University
Title: Spectral asymptotics for hyperbolic scattering
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10:30am Tanya Christiansen, University of Missouri
Title: Schrödinger operators and the distribution of resonances in sectors
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11:30am Gabriel Rivière, Université Lille 1
Title: Eigenmodes of the damped wave equation and subsets of small topological pressure
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2:30pm Antônio Sá Barreto, Purdue University
Title: A support theorem for the radiation fields on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds.
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4:00pm Hamid Hezari, MIT
Title: Volume of nodal sets of eigenfunctions
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5:00pm Andrew Hassell, Australian National University
Title: A modified scaling method for accurate computation of Dirichlet eigenfunctions and eigenvalues on smooth starshaped domains
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

9:00am Stéphane Nonnenmacher , CEA-Saclay
Title: Damped chaotic waves: exponential stabilization in absence of geometric control
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10:30am Fabricio Macià, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Title: Resonances and semiclassical measures for the Schrödinger flow on the torus
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11:30am Richard Melrose , MIT
Title: Small eigenvalues of collapsing triangles
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2:30pm Colin Guillarmou, Ecole Normale Superieure
Title: Semiclassical measures for Eisenstein series on convex co-compact manifolds
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4:00pm Kiril Datchev, MIT
Title: Resonance free regions for nontrapping manifolds with cusps
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5:00pm Peter Perry, University of Kentucky
Title: Generic lower bounds on the resonance counting function for manifolds hyperbolic near infinity
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

9:00am Pierre Albin, UIUC
Title: Inverse boundary problems for systems in two dimensions
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10:30am Plamen Stefanov, Purdue University
Title: Microlocal analysis of the geodesic X-ray transform with conjugate points of fold type
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11:30am Melissa Tacy , Northwestern University
Title: Obtaining improved Lp estimates for spectral clusters of decaying window width
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2:30pm Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Resonance free strips in scattering with hyperbolic trapped sets
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Midwest Topology Seminar

10:00AM Emily Riehl, Harvard University
Title: Lifting properties and the small object argument
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11:30AM John Francis, Northwestern University
Title: Factorization homology and low-dimensional topology
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2:30PM Mark Behrens, MIT
Title: Exotic Spheres via Topological Modular Forms
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4:00pm Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Equivariant multiplicative closure
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Friday, May 4, 2012

Evolution Equations Workshop

9:30am Thomas Alazard, Ecole Normale Superieure
Title: On the Cauchy problem for the water-waves equations
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11:00 Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago
Title: Global regularity versus finite time blow-up in supercritical active scalar equations
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11:30am Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Almost sure existence of global weak solutions for the supercritical Navier-Stokes equations
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2:30pm Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
Title: Global wellposedness and scattering for 3D-energy critical NLS outside a unit ball with radial assumption
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4:00pm Aynur Bulut, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: TBA
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4:30pm Monica Visan, UCLA
Title: The quintic NLS outside a convex obstacle
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

9:30am Pierre Raphael, Toulouse
Title: On the flow near the ground state for the mass critical (gKdV)
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11:00am Zaher Hani, Courant Institute
Title: The asymptotic behavior of nonlinear Schrodinger equations on various geometries
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11:30am Tetsu Mizumachi, Kyushu University
Title: Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in the Benney-Luke model of water waves
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2:30pm Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto
Title: Coupling between internal and surface waves in a two-layers fluid
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4:00pm Gustav Holzegel, Princeton University
Title: Stability and Instability of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter black holes
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4:30pm Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
Title: A case study for critical non-linear dispersive equations: the energy critical wave equation
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

9:30am Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Boltzmann equation, Besov spaces, and optimal time decay rates in the whole space
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11:00am Jonathan Luk, Princeton University
Title: Impulsive gravitational waves
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11:30am Semyon Dyatlov, UC Berkeley
Title: Quasi-normal modes for Kerr-de Sitter black holes
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12:00pm Mihalis Dafermos, University of Cambridge
Title: TBA
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