Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Year 1997
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Thursday, January 6, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Youngna Choi, Northwestern University
- Title: Chaos and Topological Entropy
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Hilbert schemes of surfaces
Contact Info here
Friday, January 14, 1997
- Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor T. Shinbrot, Northwestern University
- Title: Predictive models for granular convection and pattern formation
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 21, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Title: A filtration of K(R) using projective lines
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Thomas Nystrom, Northwestern University
- Title: Multipliers for generalized Tchebycheff polynomials
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 23, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Professor Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
- Title: On regularity of solutions of non-linear parabolic systems
Contact Info here
Saturday, January 25, 1997
Winter Midwest Topology Seminar
- 9:30am Coffee and Donuts,
Details of the talk
- 10:00am Ezra Getzler,
Northwestern University
Title: Intersection theory in moduli spaces of pointed elliptic curves
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Mike Slack,
Western Michigan Univeristy
Title: Explorations into the adjointness of loops and suspensions
Details of the talk
- 2:30pm Nick Kuhn,
University of Virginia
Title: Looking back 20 years: Brown-Gilter spectra and Mahowald's construction
Details of the talk
- 4:00pm Bill Dwyer,
University of Notre Dame
Title: The undiscovered cohomology of $GL_n(Z[1/2])$
Details of the talk
- 5:30pm Party at Eric and Susan Friedlander's home ,
Details of the talk
Monday, January 27, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University
- Title: Graphing integral cycles and Poincare duality
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 28, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Title: Saturated varieties
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic orbits and local variational principle
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 30, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University
- Title: Konstevich's approach to Rozansky-Witten invariants (concluded)
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Tifei Qian, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic tangencies and Henon-like area-preserving diffeomorphisms, Part II
Contact Info here
Friday, January 31, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Bryna Kra, University of Michigan
- Title: The conjugating map for commutative groups of circle diffeomorphisms
Special Note: Note unusual day of the week
Contact Info here
- Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor M. Brenner, MIT
- Title: Illuminating Sonoluminescence
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Fedor Nazarov, Michigan State University
- Title: Little level theorem and Zero-Khinchin inequality for sums of independent random variables
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor W. Kang, U. Chicago
- Title: tba
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Richard Laugesen, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, February 3, 1997
- Tech Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A.C. Morlet, Northern Illinois University and Cleveland State University
- Title: What can regularization do for you?
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University
- Title: Essential Cohomology of Finite Groups
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 4, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
- Title: Algebraic aspects of double-loop Lie algebras and their quantizations
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Eckhard Meinrenken, MIT
- Title: Symplectic reduction and the equivariant index
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 6, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.M. Restrepo, UC Los Angeles
- Title: Wave-generated mass transport and sand bars
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Hilbrt schemes of points
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
- Title: Title to be announced
Contact Info here
Friday, February 7, 1997
- ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor F. Cattaneo, U. Chicago
- Title: Linear and Nonlinear Dynamos
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 9, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. M. Short, U. Illinois
- Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves
Contact Info here
Monday, February 10, 1997
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Richard Laugesen, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Extremal Eigenvalues of Laplacians and Bi-Laplacians
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor John Klein, University of Bielefeld and Purdue University
- Title: Recent progress in the theory of embedding
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan
- Title: Computation of the metaplectic kernel
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Path Space
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Viorel Nitica, Indiana University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 13, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Dr. G. Luther, Hewlett-Packard Labs
- Title: Towards a systems theory for nonlinear optics
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gary Gutman,
- Title: Overview of Symplectic Cobordism
Contact Info here
Friday, February 14, 1997
- ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor T. Shinbrot, Northwestern University
- Title: Predictive models for granular convection and pattern formation
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Chengbo Yue, Penn State University
- Title: Rigidity and Dynamics on Manifolds of Negative Curvature
Contact Info here
Monday, February 17, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Yanni Zeng, SUNY at Stony Brook
- Title: Nonlinear Systems of Conservation Laws in Composite Type
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jeff Strom, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: A Special Case of Ganea's Conjecture
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 18, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Steve Doty, Loyola University
- Title: A class of finite-dimensional algebras associated with tensor products of representations
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 20, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Stable ergodicity and extra regularity of invariant foliations
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor T. Witelski, MIT
- Title: Lubrication theory for gas bearing sliders in disk drives
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jay Kovats, University of Minnesota
- Title: Regularity of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Dani Condition
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Changyou Wang, U Chicago
- Title: Harmonic and Quasi-Harmonic Spheres
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 21, 1997
- ESAM Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor I. Aranson, Argonne Natl. Lab and Bar-Ilan U.
- Title: Dynamic transitions in moving vortex system subject quenched disorder
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ping Xu, Penn State University
- Title: Symplectic realization of Poisson manifolds
Contact Info here
Monday, February 24, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A.A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion, Israel
- Title: Marangoni Patterns and Waves
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor L. Nicolaescu, University of Michigan
- Title: Adiabatic Limits of 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten Equations
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Professor Ian Grojnowski,
- Title: Hecke algebras and their representations
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dev Sinha, Stanford University
- Title: Computations of Equivariant Bordism Rings: A Geometric Approach
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 25, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Elton Hsu , Northwestern University
- Title: Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Path Space
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of California at Berkeley
- Title: Mass Transfer and Nonlocal Geometric Motion
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 26, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
, 4:00pm
- Gary Gutman,
- Title: Overview of Symplectic Cobordism
Special Note: Note the unusual date (Wednesday, not Thursday!)
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 27, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Tomboulides, Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.
- Title: Numerical Simulation of Low-Mach-Number Combustion
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Sara Asher, Northwestern University
- Title: Zeta Functions
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice
- Title: Measure Solutions to the Linear Multi-Dimensional Transport Equation with Non-smooth Coefficients
Contact Info here
Friday, February 28, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor R. Almgren, U. Chicago
- Title: Phase-Field Asymptotics for Unequal Diffusivities
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 0, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor James Milgram,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Laurent Piriou, Northwestern University
- Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space"
Contact Info here
Monday, March 3, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech LR 4, 12:00
- Professor H. Huppert, Cambridge U.
- Title: Violent Volcanic Eruptions and Gigantic Landslides
Special Note: joint colloquium with Mechanical Engineering
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Katsumi Shimomura, Tottori University
- Title: The Adams Novikov $E_2$ term for $\pi_*(L_2M)$ at the prime 2
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 4, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Thomas Ilmanen, Northwestern University
- Title: The 1/H Flow and the Hawking-Penrose Conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor John Franks, Northwestern University
- Title: Surface diffeomorphisms with infinitely many periodic points
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 6, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Youngna Choi , Northwestern University
- Title: Chaos and Topological Entropy
Contact Info here
Friday, March 7, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Dr. C. Dettmann, Northwestern U.
- Title: Crisis in the Lorentz gas
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor James Milgram, Stanford University
- Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor James Milgram, Stanford University
- Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jim Milgram, Stanford University
- Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jim Milgram, Stanford University
- Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Monday, March 10, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Laurent Piriou, Northwestern University
- Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space"
Contact Info here
Tuesday , March 11, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:00pm
- Professor R. Dorfman, U. Maryland
- Title: Some Applications of Chaos Theory to Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Special Note: Note unusual day and time
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 14, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor W. Kang, U. Chicago
- Title: Magneto-sonoluminescence: interplay of light and sound in magnetic fields
Contact Info here
Monday, March 17, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Carnegie Mellon University
- Title: A Priori Estimates in Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 18, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Erik Doeff, Montana State University
- Title: Pseudo-Anosov and the Mapping Class Group
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 19, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Hans-Werner Henn, Max Plank Inst. Bonn
- Title: The L_2 localization of V(1) for P=3
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 0, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:20pm
- Professor Tom Seidman, UMBC
- Title: Some Asymptotic Problems for a Reaction-Diffusion System
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Richard Hamilton, UCSD
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
Contact Info here
Friday, April 4, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Ulrich Krengel , University of Gottingen
- Title: On the history of probability theory
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor G. Vattay, Eotvos U., Budapest, Hungary
- Title: Periodic orbit theory in quantum and mesoscopic physics
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 7, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor James Milgram, Stanford University
- Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 8, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Indecomposables in the symmetric algebra of a kG-module
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yongmin Zhang, University of Chicago
- Title: Numerical Solution of Two Free Boundary Problems
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Clark Robinson, Northwestern
- Title: Bifurcation to Lorenz attractor
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 10, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor S. Tanveer, Ohio State U.
- Title: Dendrites and Complex Singularities
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ezra Getzler,
- Title: Topological gravity in two dimensions (work of Witten, ...)
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- John M. Alongi, Northwestern University
- Title: Twist maps from elliptic fixed points
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Professor Elisabeth Logak, Ecole Normale Superieure at Paris
- Title: Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Modified Motion by Mean Curvature
Contact Info here
Friday, April 11, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Albrecht Dold, University of Heidelberg
- Title: Indexes, traces, and other stable fixed point invariants
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor U. Mueller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
- Title: Can the magnetic field of the earth be simulated in a laboratory experiment?
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 14, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor S.I. Hariharan, U. Akron
- Title: On Exterior Problems in Unbounded Domains
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 15, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Gregory Fasshauer, Northwestern University
- Title: Multistep Approximation Algorithms: Improved Convergence Rates through Postconditioning with Smoothing Kernels
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: Stably ergodic skew products
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 16, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ed Saff, University of South Florida
- Title: Distributing Many Points on a Sphere
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 17, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 3:00pm
- Professor C. Menyuk, U Maryland Baltimore County
- Title: New Approaches for High Data Rate Fiber Transmission: 100Gbits/sec and Beyond
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Eric Zaslow, Harvard University
- Title: Rational curves on K3
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jason Holt, Northwestern University
- Title: Flat doughnuts
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:20pm
- Professor Thomas Seidman, University of Maryland
- Title: Some Asymtotic Problems for a Reaction/Diffusion System
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 104, 10:30am
- Ming-Chia Li , Northwestern University
- Title: Structural Stability for Numerical Methods
Special Note: Ph.D thesis defense
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Professor Robert Oliver, University of Paris 13
- Title: Equivariant K-theory for propoer actions of infinite groups
Contact Info here
Friday, April 18, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor J.D. Crawford, U. Pittsburgh
- Title: Weakly unstable systems in the presence of neutrally stable modes
Abstract and details available
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
Details of the talk
- 2:00pm Professor Marc Levine,
Northwestern University
Title: Relating motivic cohomology to K-theory
Details of the talk
- 4:00pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky,
Northwestern University
Title: On the norm residue homomorphism K3M ---> H3(--,Z/3)
Details of the talk
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
Details of the talk
- 11:00am Professor Michael Weiss,
Univ. of Notre Dame
Title: An index theorem for the algebraic K-theory Stiefel-Whitney class
Details of the talk
Monday, April 21, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
- Title: Formal group of height 2 over F_4
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 22, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Roza Galeeva, UNAM, Cuernavaca
- Title: Stability of densities of invariant measures of interval maps
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 24, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Yarin, Technion, Israel
- Title: Impact of Drops on Solid Surfaces: Capillary and Shock Waves, and Shocks
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Topological Gravity in Two Dimensions continued.
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- David Richeson , Northwestern University
- Title: Geodesics on S^2 and Annulus Homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 3:00pm
- Professor Mei-Chi Shaw, Notre Dame
- Title: The d-bar Neumann problem on pseudoconvex Lipschitz domains
Contact Info here
Friday, April 25, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Elwyn Berlekamp, MSRI and UC Berkeley
- Title: An overview of Mathematical Games
Special Note: A detailed abstract will be posted on the bulletin board
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor A. Bernoff, Northwestern U.
- Title: Longwave Models of Solidification: Self-similar Blow-up and its Regularization
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 28, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor L. Redekopp, U. Southern California
- Title: The Interaction of Convection and Internal Waves: a Natural Codimension-3 Problem
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Mark Feshbach, University of Minnesota
- Title: The mod 2 cohomology rings of the symmetric groups
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 29, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Brian Parshall , University of Virginia
- Title: Tilting Module
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Roger Jones, DePaul University
- Title: Oscillation Inequalities in Analysis and Ergodic Theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 0, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Professor ,
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern Univesrsity
- Title: Introduction to MAGMA
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 1, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Eckhart 106, U of C, 4:30pm
- K. Fukaya, University of Kyoto
- Title: C^\infty analogue of Schemes and Stacks and Arnold's Conjecture
Special Note: This talk is not ours, but is at the U of Chicago!
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Margaret Stawiska , Northwestern University
- Title: Complex dynamics
Contact Info here
Friday, May 2, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor C. Doering, U. Michigan
- Title: Convection, Stability and Turbulence
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 5, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Dr. G. Merchant, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
- Title: Application of Stochastic Models to Financial Derivatives
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Bill Richter,
- Title: A Cartan formula for $\Omega U(n)$ and double coset formulas from the point of view of Dold's work
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 6, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Peko Hosoi, University of Chicago
- Title: Axial Instabilities of Free-Surface Flows in a Horizontal Rotating Cylinder
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 8, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor D.S. Cohen, CalTech
- Title: New Asymptotic Scales for Moving Boundary Diffusion Problems
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 3:00pm
- Professor Bennett Chow, Minnesota
- Title: Geometric Interpretation of the Harnack Inequalities for the Ricci Flow
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Professor Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Hole-Filling in Porous Media
Contact Info here
Friday, May 9, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Richard Hamilton, UCSD
- Title: The free-boundary problem for the porous medium equation
Special Note: Yamabe Lecture
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor J. Franks, Northwestern U.
- Title: Periodic Points for Area Preserving Surface Homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 12, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rob Ghrist, U. of Texas
- Title: Flows and Contact Topology
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor H.-C. Chang, U. Notre Dame
- Title: Coherent Structure Description of Falling Film Waves
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Free group actions, extensions and cohomology
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 13, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Steve Smith, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Title: Quasithin Groups
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Nancy Stanton, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Real Hypersurfaces in C^{n}
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 3:00pm
- Prof. S. Dippel, FZ Juelich, Germany
- Title: Dissipation in granular flow on a rough inclined plane
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 15, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M351, 4:30pm
- Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U.
- Title: Muscle Mechanics and Locomotion
Special Note: This is the Nemmers Prize Lecture. It is jointly hosted with the Mathematics Department
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Professor Todd Young, Northwestern University
- Title: Bifurcation to a Universal Link
Contact Info here
Friday, May 16, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor A. Skeldon, City University, London, UK
- Title: Generic stability results for steady periodic patterns and their application to convection problems
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 19, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.-M. Vandenbroeck, U. Wisconsin
- Title: Singular Free Surface Flows
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Gregory Arone, University of Chicago
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 20, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Chris Bendel, Northwestern University
- Title: Completely reducible homology complexes and (non)vanishing of cohomology for finite-dimensional Hopf algebras
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Stephen Fisher, Northwestern University
- Title: Asymptotic Distribution of Zeros of Minimal Blaschke Products
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Wednesday, May 21, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor R. Caflisch, UC Los Angeles
- Title: Theory and application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods
Special Note: this talk is jointly sponsored with the Mathematics Department
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor R. Caflisch, University of California at Los Angeles
- Title: Theory and Application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
Special Note: Joint Seminar with ESAM Colloquium
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor William Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Homology decompositions of classifying spaces
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Thursday, May 22, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Tech
- Title: From Time Series to Dynamics: Chaotic Dynamics in a Magnetoelastic beam
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- K. Fukaya, Kyoto University (visiting U of Chicago)
- Title: A-infinity categories and topological field theory
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Tuesday, May 27, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Miles, UIUC
- Title: A Fourier Series Method Applied to Growth Problems for Entire Functions
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Keith Burns,
- Title: Stable ergodicity for Anosov diffeomorphisms
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Thursday, May 29, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U.
- Title: Convective Pattern Theory
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Friday, May 30, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor T. Young, Northwestern U.
- Title: Triple collision in the Newtonian 3-body problem
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 2, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U.
- Title: Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions
Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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- Topology Seminar
105, 4:10pm
- Professor Dikran Karagueuzian, Northwestern University
- Title: Introduction to MAGMA
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Tuesday, June 3, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Steve Siegel, University of Massachusetts
- Title: The Hochschild cohomology ring of a finite group
Special Note: Special Time
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- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Galia Dafni, Northwestern University
- Title: Distributions in local Hp
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Howie Weiss, Penn State University
- Title: A complete Multifractal Analysis of Gibbs Measures and Applications to Ergodic Theory.
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Thursday, June 5, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dave Richeson, Northwestern
- Title: Connection matrix pairs
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Friday, June 6, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor P. Cvitanovic, Northwestern U.
- Title: Hopf's last hope: spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
Abstract and details available
Thursday, June 12, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rob Ghrist, U. of Texas
- Title: Flows and Contact Topology
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Monday, June 16, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 106, 4:00pm
- Professor Benoit Perthame, University of Paris 6 and Ecole Normale Superieure at Paris
- Title: Semi-Kinetic Equations and Averaging Lemmas
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Friday, July 25, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Helene Frankowska, University of Paris at Dauphine and CNRS
- Title: Optimal Synthesis and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
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Thursday, September 0, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
- Title: TBA
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Tom Graber, University of Chicago
- Title: Localization and enumerative geometry
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:15pm
- Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
- Title:
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Olga Oleinik, Moscow State University, Russia
- Title: Some Homogenization Problems in Perforated Domain with Nonperiodic Structure
Special Note: Chicago-Area PDE Colloquium
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Wednesday, September 17, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Youngna Choi , Northwestern University
- Title: One-dimensional Lorentz-like attractors
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Thursday, September 18, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Eli Liflyand, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Title: Lebesgue Constants of Multiple Fourier Series
Contact Info here
Monday, September 22, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor M. Velarde , Univ. Complutense de Madrid
- Title: Surface and internal waves driven by surfactant gradients and instability
Special Note: NOTE NEW LOCATION
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
- Title: Spaces of Natural Transformations
Special Note: The talk in not at the usual time
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Thursday, September 25, 1997
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Shub, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Title: Stable ergodicity and julienne quasiconformality T. J. Watson
Contact Info here
Friday, September 26, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Shub, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Title: A Lefschetz principle for the problem "Does P equal NP?"
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University
- Title: The Dynamics of Incremental Learning in Multilayered Neural Networks
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 29, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor William Richter,
- Title: The Segal conjecture and the multiplicativity of stable splittings of BSp and \Omega SU(n)
Contact Info here
Tuesday, September 30, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University
- Title: Finite Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and their Induced Homological Action
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dave Richeson,
- Title: Multivalued maps and the Conley index
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 0, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:15pm
- Professor ,
- Title:
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Wednesday, October 1, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- John M. Alongi, Northwestern University
- Title: Rotation numbers and transverse homoclinic points
Contact Info here
Friday, October 3, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Jonathan Robbins, U. Bristol and BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Labs
- Title: The spin-statistics relation from nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 6, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Unstable BP homology
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 7, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Mark Walker, Northwestern University
- Title: The Primitive Topology
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Renato Feres , Washington University, St Louis
- Title: Dynamical Systems and Semisimple Groups
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Wednesday, October 8, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Tifei Qian , Northwestern University
- Title: Cascade of elliptic periodic points with infintely many invariant curves
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 9, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Tom Graber, University of Chicago
- Title: Localization and enumerative geometry
Contact Info here
Friday, October 10, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Dr. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University
- Title: Effect of Anisotropy on Nonlinear Evolution of Morphological Instability in the Freezing of a Hypercooled Melt
Abstract and details available
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
Details of the talk
- 11:00 Professor T. Dupont,
Dept. of Computer Science, UC
Title: Drying coffee drops
Details of the talk
- 11:30 Professor M. Silber ,
Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU
Title: Superlattice Wave Patterns
Details of the talk
- 13:30 Dr. F. Cattaneo ,
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC
Title: Magnetic fields and convection
Details of the talk
- 14:00 Professor Z. Xia,
Dept. of Mathematics, NWU
Title: Hamiltonian dynamical systems
Details of the talk
- 14:30 Dr. S. Venkataramani,
James-Franck Inst., UC
Title: Attraction, diffusion and collapse
Details of the talk
- 15:30 Professor D. Margoliash,
Dept. of Organismal Biol. & Anat., UC
Title: A myopic view of neural population coding in bird song
Details of the talk
- 16:00 Dr. S. Waters,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NWU
Title: Biomedical applications of non-linear mathematics
Details of the talk
Monday, October 13, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. S.K. Wilson, U. Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- Title: On Lubrication with comparable viscous and inertia forces
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ib Madsen, Aarhus University
- Title: On the K-theory of local fields
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Tuesday, October 14, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Marcelo Aguiar, Northwestern University
- Title: Internal Categories and Quantum Groups
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- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Irwin Kra, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Title: Ramanujan's Partition Identities
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- John Alongi, Nothwestern
- Title: A pathwise intermediate value theorem for rotation vectors on compact surfaces
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 16, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Olga Oleinik, Moscow State University
- Title: Some Homogenization Problems in Perforated Domain with Nonperiodic Structures
Special Note: Chicago-Area PDE Colloquium
Contact Info here
Monday, October 20, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. D. Vaynblat, M.I.T.
- Title: Large Amplitude Nonlinear Resonant Acoustic Waves without Shock
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University
- Title: Stably decomposing products of classifying spaces
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 21, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
- Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Convection Dominated Problems
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3823, 2:00pm
- Professor Mark Saffman, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
- Title: Spatial dynamics in nonlinear optics: from disorder to control
Special Note: Please note unusual day and location!
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 22, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Clark Robinson , Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic Bifurcation to a Lorenz Attractor
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 23, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, University of Washington
- Title: Spaces of Continuous Maps and the Cohomology of Commutative Rings
Abstract and details available
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
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Professor Amos Nevo,
Technion University
Title: A Spectral transfer principle and the ergodic theory of semi-simple groups
Details of the talk
- 2:45pm Professor Paul Malliavin,
University of Paris
Title: Faithful ergodic representations versus Haar measure
Details of the talk
- 4:00pm Professor Earl Berkson,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Title: Transference methods in spectral theory and ergodic operator theory
Details of the talk
Friday, October 24, 1997
- 3:00 p.m. Professor Tom Liggett ,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees I
Details of the talk
- 9:30am Professor Marjorie Hahn,
Tufts University
Title: Self-normalization: Why?
Details of the talk
- 11:00am Professor Joseph Rosenblatt,
University of Illinois at Urbana
Title: Convergence of averages in ergodic theory
Details of the talk
- 4:30pm Professor Robin Pemantle ,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Urn schemes and reinforced random walks, old and new
Details of the talk
Saturday, October 25, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Professor David H. Wagner, University of Houston
- Title: Conservation Laws, Coordinate Transformations, and Differential Forms
Special Note: Special Lecture
Contact Info here
Nineteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 9:30am Professor Tom Liggett,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees II
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Professor Richard Sowers,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Title: Some probabilistic aspects of motion by mean curvature
Details of the talk
- 3:30pm Professor Ulrich Krengel,
University of Gottingen
Title: Some highlights in the work of A. Bellow
Details of the talk
Sunday, October 26, 1997
- 9:30am Professor Arkady Tempelman,
Penn State
Title: Topics in Fractal Dimension
Details of the talk
- 11:00am Professor Hillel Furstenberg,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Stationary Group Actions
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Professor Donald Ornstein,
Stanford University
Title: Invariant curves for maps of surfaces
Details of the talk
Monday, October 27, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor P. Ronney, Univ. Southern California
- Title: Front Propagation in Quasi-2d Channels
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Fred Cohen, University of Rochester
- Title: Free groups and self-maps of double loop spaces
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 28, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Serge Yagunov, Northwestern University
- Title: Geometrically Originated Complexes and the Homology of the Pair (GL_n,GM_n)
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Xian-Jin Li, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Trigonometric Polynomial Approximation and Some Trigonometric Extremal Problems
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Field, University of Houston
- Title: TBA
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Wednesday, October 29, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Jason Holt , Northwestern University
- Title: Billiards inside a pinched cusp
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 30, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mikhail Lavrentiev, Jr., Institute of Mathematic, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Title: Lyapunov Functionals for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations
Contact Info here
Friday, October 31, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Prem Kumar, Northwestern U.
- Title: Parametric Devices for Ultra-high-speed Systems
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 3, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. L. Jiang, U. Michigan
- Title: Nonlinear Water Waves: Wave Breaking and Capillary Effects
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
- Title: The Kervaire invariant and Minami's theorem
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Bernhard Koeck, University of Illinois at Urbana
- Title: Operations on Locally Free Classgroups
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- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Daniel Tataru, Northwestern University
- Title: Strichartz Estimates in the Hyperbolic Space and Global Solutions for the Semilinear Wave Equation
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Senatian Schreiber, Western Washington University
- Title: The growth rates of subadditive functions
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Wednesday, November 5, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- David Richeson , Northwestern University
- Title: Period doubling through creating a horseshoe
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Thursday, November 6, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Professor Andras Szenes, MIT
- Title: Iterated residues and hyperplane arrangements
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Friday, November 7, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Emily Stone, Utah State University
- Title: Using Archetypes to Analyze and Control Complex Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 10, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor V. Volpert, Northwestern U.
- Title: Mathematical Modeling of Frontal Polymerization
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ran Levi, Northwestern University
- Title: Loop structures on homotopy fibres of self maps of a sphere
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 11, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University
- Title: Lower Algebraic K-theory of Bianchi Groups
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- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University
- Title: Minimization of Energy Functionals Under Constraints
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Don Wang, UCLA (visiting NU)
- Title: The Hill's region of the 4-body problem
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Wednesday, November 12, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Antonio Garcia, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic maps in symplectic manifolds
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Thursday, November 13, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT
- Title: Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and canonical basis
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mikhail Feldman, MSRI at Bekerley and Northwestern University
- Title: Perron's Method for Convex Viscosity Solutions of Curvature Motion Equations
Contact Info here
Friday, November 14, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alexander Kirillov Jr., MIT
- Title: Representation theory and special functions: a new approach
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor W.L. Kath, Northwestern University
- Title: Controlling solitons in nonlinear optical fibers with phase-sensitive amplifiers
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J.B. Greenberg , The Technion, Israel
- Title: New Results in Laminar Spray Flame Theory
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor John Martino, University of Western Michigan
- Title: An Introduction to Topological Graph Theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 18, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professors Irena Peeva and Vaselin Gasharov, MIT
- Title: Cohomology of Subspace Arrangements via Minimal Free Resolutions (Peeva)/ A-graded Algebras (Gasharov)
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Victor Barcilon, University of Chicago
- Title: A Mathematical Theory of the Gulfstream
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor C. Q. Cheng, Nanjing University (visiting NU)
- Title: Lower dimensional tori in the regions of instability of Hamiltonian systems
Contact Info here
Wednesday, November 19, 1997
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- James Wiseman , Northwestern University
- Title: Symbolic dynamics and aggregation paradoxes
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 20, 1997
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3.00pm
- Professor Shadi Tashvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University
- Title: TBA
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Biao Ou , University of Toledo
- Title: Global Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 21, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University
- Title: Regularity and Break-down in Geometric Field Theories
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. P. Umbanhower , University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Wave patterns in shaken sand
Special Note: Note changed location because of video
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 24, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitri Orlov, Steklov Institute
- Title: Equivalences of derived categories of coherent sheaves
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Tuesday, November 25, 1997
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ronald Coifman, Yale University
- Title: Adapted Waveform Analysis, Efficient Numerical Transcription, and Fast Computation
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern
- Title: Positive curvature and chaotic dynamics for the geodesic flow
Contact Info here
Monday, December 1, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor G.A. Kriegsmann , N.J.I.T.
- Title: Growth and Stabilization of Hot Spots in Microwave-Heated Ceramic Fibers
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Jason Douma, Northwsetern University
- Title: Stably Decomposing B(PxQ): an Algebraic Perspective
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 2, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Burt Totaro, University of Chicago
- Title: Chern numbers for singular varieties and elliptic cohomology
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
- Title: The Smooth Quantum Hydrodynamic Model (for Semiconductor Devices)
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor André de Carvalho, U. of California, Berkeley
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Wednesday, December 3, 1997
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ioanid Rosu, MIT
- Title: The Rigidity Theorems of Witten via Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 4, 1997
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
- Title: Vanishing theorems in the cohomology of moduli spaces of flat connections on a Riemann surface
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Professor Victor Isakov,
- Title: Inverse Diffusion Problems
Contact Info here
Friday, December 5, 1997
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
- Title: Flat connections on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 8, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. Y.J. Chen, Cornell U.
- Title: Pinch-off Dynamics of a Collapsing Soap-Film Bridge
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 9, 1997
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor Brendan Hassett, University of Chicago
- Title: Limiting Plane Curves and the Minimal Model Program
Contact Info here
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