Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Year 1999
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Thursday, January 7, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Sandor Kovac, University of Chicago
- Title: Algebraic hyperbolicity of fine moduli spaces
Contact Info here
Friday, January 8, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M128, 12:00 noon
- Professor R. Kamm, M.I.T.
- Title: The role of mechanics in the biological remodeling of the asthmatic airway
Special Note: jointly sponsored with B.M.E. Unusal time and location!
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M 416, 2:00pm
- Professor V. Steinberg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
- Title: Elasticity and Turbulence in a polymeric flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 11, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Joseph Jerome , Northwestern University
- Title: Numerical Loss of Derivatives: Nash Iteration and Krasnosel'skii's Operator Calculus
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
U. Chicago Eckhart 202, 4:00pm
- Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U.
- Title: Dynamics of Coherent Structures
Special Note: This talk is sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium. It will be held at the University of Chicago in Eckhart 202
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Lee Nave, University of Washington
- Title: On the non-existence of Smith-Toda complexes
Contact Info here
Friday, January 15, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech LR 3, 2:00pm
- Professor A. Huebler, U. Illinois, Urbana
- Title: Harmonicity: Self-Adjusting Systems Avoid Chaos
Special Note: Note: unusual location
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 18, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
- Title: Conergence and localization of eigenfunction expansions
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor M. Silber, Northwestern U.
- Title: Parametric instabilities and pattern formation
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Laura Scull, U. of Chicago
- Title: Rational S^1-equivariant homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 19, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Philip Foth, Northwestern
- Title: Deformation theory of local systems
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10:00
- Misha Kapranov, Northwestern,
- Title: Background on dg-schemes
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Chris Connell, University of Michigan
- Title: Hyperbolic rank rigidity for homogeneous spaces
Contact Info here
Friday, January 22, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M 416, 2:00pm
- Professor P. Voorhees, Northwestern
- Title: Morphological Evolution of Alloy Thin Films
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 25, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor D. Muraki, Courant Inst. Math.Sci.
- Title: An interfacial wave treatment of tropopause dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Mike Mandell, MIT
- Title: Topological Andre-Quillen homology
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 26, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Gerbes and mirror symmetry (report on a talk of Hitchin)
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10:00
- Misha Kapranov ,
- Title: DG-schemes (contd.)
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 27, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Toby Colding, New York University
- Title: Minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 28, 1999
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Sara Asher, Northwestern University
- Title: Continuous Baker Maps
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Petri Juutinen, Northwestern University
- Title: The first eigenvalue of the $\infty$-Laplacian
Contact Info here
Friday, January 29, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. R. Grigoriev, U. Chicago
- Title: Symmetry in Chaos Control and Phase Space Reconstruction
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 1, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Xia Chen, Northwestern University
- Title: Some Limit Laws for Additive Functionals of Markov Chains
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor H. Levine, U. California San Diego
- Title: Pattern formation in Micro-organisms
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern
- Title: Obstructions to finding a space with specified homotopy groups (after Dwyer, Kan, and Stover)
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 2, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Lev Borisov, Columbia University
- Title: Vertex Algebras and Mirror Symmetry
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10:00
- Professor Ezra Getzler, NU ,
- Title: Formal dg-deformations
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Tatyana Foth, Northwestern University
- Title: Dynamics of the frame flow on a complex hyperbolic space and automorphic forms
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 3, 1999
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Robert Bauer, Georgia Tech
- Title: Stochastic parallel transport and Yang-Mills equations
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 4, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Gary Gutman, Northwestern University
- Title: Elliptic Curves II
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jason Holt , Northwestern University
- Title: Turing machines: an introduction
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Xiaozhou Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: A New Approach of Multi-Dimensional Riemann Problem
Contact Info here
Monday, February 8, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University
- Title: Norm inequalities for fractional integrals of Laguerre and Hermite expansions.
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Stephen Theriault, U. of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 9, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto U. and IAS, Princeton),
- Title: Moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces and affine Lie algebras
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Misha Kapranov (NU),
- Title: Derived Hilbert and Quot schemes
Contact Info here
Wednseday, February 10, 1999
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elana Kosygina, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Behavior of the relative entropy in the hydrodynamical scaling limit
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 11, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Julia Hartman , Northwestern University (Universitaet Goettingen)
- Title: Modular invariant theory / Dickson invariants
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Thy Tran, Northwestern University
- Title: It's just amazing, isn't it?
Contact Info here
Friday, February 12, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Ranee Brylinski, PennState
- Title: Star products and quantization of manifolds with symmetry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jean-Luc Brylinski, PennState
- Title: Equivariant K-theory for compact groups and Grothendieck differentials
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. I. Aranson, Argonne National Lab
- Title: Dynamics of axial segregation in a long rotating drum
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 15, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Brownian bridge and derivative estimates of the heat kernel on a compact Riemannian manifold
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
- Title: Localized Structures in pattern forming systems: worms in electroconvection
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Fred Cohen, Rochester (visiting Wisconsin-Madison)
- Title: On self-maps of double loop spaces, the gravity filtration, and a conjecture of Barratt
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 16, 1999
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU,
- Title: Derived Quot schemes (contd.)
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor John Franks, Northwestern
- Title: Regions of Instability for non-twist maps
Contact Info here
Wednseday, February 17, 1999
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Min Kang, Fields Institute and York University
- Title: Asymptotic behavior of solutions of parabolic SPDE's
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 18, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Seva Joukhovitski, Northwestern University
- Title: Quadratic Forms I
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kathy Phelps, Northwestern University
- Title: Julia sets of rational functions on the Riemann sphere
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Sanja Hukovic, University of Missouri
- Title: Sharp weighted inequalities for square function.
Contact Info here
Friday, February 19, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. K. Hill, Northwestern U.
- Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Signatures of Chaos in Tumbled Granular Materials
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 22, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor B. Pitman, S.U.N.Y
- Title: On a mechanical theory for fluid-particle beds at high solids volume fraction
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Adem, U. Wisconsin
- Title: Periodic Complexes, Euler Classes and Group Actions
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 23, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University
- Title: Relative Malcev Completions
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Philip Foth, NU,
- Title: Analytic theory of Z-graded dg-algebras
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 24, 1999
- Department Meeting
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Open meeting,
- Title: Discussion of MENU
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 25, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Patrick Brosnan, Northwestern University
- Title: Quadratic Forms II
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kamlesh Parwani, Northwestern University
- Title: A Solution to the Illumination Problem in a Square
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: The Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Contact Info here
Friday, February 26, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor G. Gunaratne, U. Houston
- Title: Characterization of natural patterns
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jason Fulman, Dartmouth
- Title: Shuffling cards and Lie theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 1, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Daou, Tech. Univ. Madrid
- Title: Flame propagation in nonuniform reactive gaseous mixtures
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Professor Jiaping Wang, Cornell University
- Title: Convex hull property of harmonic maps
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern
- Title: Quillen complexes, Mobius functions, and stable decompositions for compact Lie groups
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 2, 1999
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU,
- Title: (Weak) Lie algebras associated to dg-manifolds
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Ludmil Katzarkov, University of California, Irvine
- Title: Algebraic geometry techniques in symplectic geometry
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 4, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Bryan Schulte, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
- Title: Weighted ENO schemes on arbitrary triangulations
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University
- Title: Filtrations and the Conley Index
Contact Info here
Friday, March 5, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor S.-J. Chang, U Illinois Urbana
- Title: Chaos in Quantum Map
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 8, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor V. Entov, Russ. Acad. Science
- Title: Nonlinear interface dynamics in Hele-Shaw flows and porous media
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 9, 1999
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern
- Title: Arnold Diffusion, II
Contact Info here
Monday, March 15, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Professor Ioan Vrabie, University of Iasi, Romania
- Title: Domains of Viability for Nonlinear Evolution Equations in Bnach Spaces
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 18, 1999
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Tian-Jun Li, Yale University,
- Title: Lefschetz Fibrations and Symplectic 4-Manifolds
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Yuxi Zheng, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Title: A Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm
- Professor Rick Jardine,
- Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra
Special Note: Note special day
Contact Info here
Monday, March 29, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. B. Echebarria, U. Navarra, Spain
- Title: Stability of hexagonal patterns in rotating convection
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern
- Title: Examples of modular forms in homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 30, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Title: Arithmetic of rational varieties
Contact Info here
Friday, April 2, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. A. Tkachenko, U. Chicago
- Title: Sand Science: from Description to Understanding
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 5, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Konstantina Trivisa , Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- H. Grimm, E.P.F.L., Switzerland
- Title: Banded structures in alloys, nonlinear mode interactions and normal forms
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern
- Title: Homotopy uniqueness of BSO(3) x S^n
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 6, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Richard Thomas, Oxford University
- Title: Mirror Symmetry and the braid group
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Jozef Kacur, Commenius University, Slovakia
- Title: Solution of Degenerate Convection-Diffusion Preblems by the Method of Characteristics and Relaxation
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 8, 1999
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 10am
- Richard Thomas, Oxford University
- Title: A holomorphic Casson invariant
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University
- Title: Multivalued maps and epsilon-chains
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Tech
- Title: Uniqueness of Equilibrium Configurations in Solid Crystals
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Irene Gamba, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Kinetic-Fluid Interface Problem Under Strong Forcing Conditions
Contact Info here
Friday, April 9, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Y. Eliashberg, Stanford University
- Title: Introduction to symplectic field theory
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor Gregory Ryskin , Northwestern U.
- Title: On Markov processes and invariance
Abstract and details available
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
Details of the talk
- 11:30am Professor Stephen Theriault,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces
Details of the talk
- 2:30pm Professor Benson Farb,
University of Chicago
Title: The asymptotic geometry of groups
Details of the talk
- 4:00pm Professor Bill Dwyer,
University of Notre Dame
Title: Ohkawa's theorem
Details of the talk
Monday, April 12, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Viktor Losert, University of Vienna
- Title: Convergence of Convolution Powers
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Moukasian, U. Notre Dame
- Title: Reaction wave propagation mechanisms in gasless heterogeneous systems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 13, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine, Northwestern
- Title: The quantum Littlewood-Richardson rule
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Herbert Koch, University of Heidelberg
- Title: Singular integrals and the porous medium equation
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 15, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Luis Almeida, CMLA - Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
- Title: Level sets and excited states for Ginzburg-Landau energies.
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm
- Professor Rick Jardine,
- Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra
Special Note: SPECIAL DAY
Contact Info here
Friday, April 16, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jean-Pierre Aubin, Université de Paris
- Title: Set-valued solutions to boundary value problems for systems of first-order pdes
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor Gregory Luther, Northwestern U.
- Title: Understanding control strategies for resonant waves interactions using geometric techniques
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 19, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Gaspar Porta, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Title: The limit of the product of the parameterized exponential of two operators
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Tandia , Lab. Analyse des Systemes, CNRS, France
- Title: Thin-film deposition and the level-set method
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Brayton Gray, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Idempotents and coefficients
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr
- Title: Using the Finite Horizon Condition to create new examples of embedded surfaces with ergodic geodesic flow
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 22, 1999
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
- Title: Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Scott Moar, Northwestern University
- Title:
Contact Info here
Friday, April 23, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor D. Ferster, Northwestern U.
- Title: Assembly of receptive fields in cat visual cortex
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 26, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor D.S. Cohen, Caltech
- Title: Modeling bioremediation of TCE at DOE's Savannah River site
Special Note: sponsored by Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 27, 1999
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Philip Foth, Northwestern U.
- Title: Functors in formal deformation theory (after Hinich)
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: A stably Bernoullian diffeomorphism that is not Anosov
Contact Info here
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Boris Dubrovin, SISSA, Trieste
- Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov - Witten invariants.
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:10pm
- Professor Eleny Ionel, MIT
- Title:
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 29, 1999
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Yuan Che , Northwestern University
- Title: Small denominators in celestial mechanics
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 311, 10
- Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
- Title: Virtual fundamental classes
Contact Info here
Friday, April 30, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor C. Josserand, U. Chicago
- Title: Self-organisation in soliton wave turbulence
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor S. Jin, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Title: Nonlinear Focusing with Random Inhomogeneities
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Contact Info here
Monday, May 3, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Sandy Zabell, Northwestern University
- Title: The Lambda Calculus: An Expository Tutorial
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Another E-infinity operad
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
- Title: Virtual fundamental classes
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Annenberg G15, 4:00pm
- Professor Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
- Title: Quantum Computing
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 6, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota,
- Title: Infinite-dimensional linear algebra over an artinian local ring and the Contou-Carrere symbol
Special Note: Note the unusual day.
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Lizzie Burslem, NOrthwestern University
- Title:
Contact Info here
Friday, May 7, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Greg Arone, U of Chicago
- Title: Calculus of functors in topology
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. Chris Moore, Santa Fe Institute
- Title: Three- and Four-color Potts Models in the Plane: Vortices, Entropic Forces and Interfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 10, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor David Chopp, Northwestern University
- Title: Modelling Surface Diffusion with the Level Set Method
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor L. Pismen, Technion - Israel Inst. Technology
- Title: Quest for complex order
Special Note: Talk is an Eshbach Distinguished Lecture
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Benoit Fresse, Nice
- Title: The theory of Koszul operads and the homology of Poisson algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 11, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Boris Dubrovin, SISSA, Trieste
- Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov-Witten invariants.
Contact Info here
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Mikhail Kapranov, NU,
- Title: Derived Hilbert schemes
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State
- Title: Asymptotic Measures for dissipative systems in the plane.
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor C. Surko, U. California, San Diego
- Title: Phase Defect Description of Traveling-Wave Convection
Special Note: Note: unusual day!
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 13, 1999
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Vadim Meleshuk,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Friday, May 14, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Professor Gigliola Stafillani, Princeton University
- Title: Long time behaviour of Sobolev norms of solutions for dispersive equations
Contact Info here
Monday, May 17, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Ross Pinsky, Technion, visiting CIMS
- Title: Positive and bounded harmonic functions with mixed boundary conditions
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. D. Meinkohn, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Germany
- Title: Curvature-driven flow in thin liquid films
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Brooke Shipley, Purdue University / University of Chicago
- Title: Rational S^1 equivariant homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 18, 1999
- Deformation Theory Seminar
Lunt 216, 10AM
- Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine, NU,
- Title: Derived Hilbert schemes (cont.)
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Steve Batterson, Emory University
- Title: Steve Smale: The Path to the 1967 Bulletin "Survey" Article
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Ross Pinsky, Technion, Visiting CIMS
- Title: Decay of total mass for nonlinear parabolic equations
Special Note: SPECIAL TIME
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 20, 1999
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 3:00pm
- Professor Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel, MIT
- Title: Degenerations of Gromov-Witten invariants
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Panagiotis Souganidis, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Fully nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations: Theory and applications.
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Monday, May 24, 1999
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Benoit Fresse, Nice
- Title: On homotopy operations for simplicial algebras over an operad
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Wednesday, May 26, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Kari Vilonen, Brandeis University
- Title: Characteristic cycles and representaion theory
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Thursday, May 27, 1999
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Malgorzata Stawiska ,
- Title:
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Friday, May 28, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 3:00pm
- Dr. H. Chate, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Title: Phase-Ordering, Interface Dynamics, and Persistence Exponents in Spatially-Extended Dynamical Systems
Special Note: Note unusual time
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Friday, June 4, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor S. Morris, U. California, Berkeley
- Title: A simplified free-boundary problem for the evaporating wetting meniscus
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Thursday, June 17, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI, Berkeley California
- Title: Solving linear equations over polynomial rings and exterior algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, July 6, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 11:00am
- Dr. J.R.A. Pearson, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
- Title: Thin film rupture in high Reynolds number flows
Special Note: Note unusal time and date
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Thursday, July 22, 1999
- Topology Seminar
Annenberg G32, 2pm
- Professor Vincent Franjou, Nantes
- Title: Polynomial Mackey Functors
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Topology Seminar
- 3.30pm Professor Hans-Werner Henn,
Strasbourg
Title: Euler characteristics of Orthogonal groups over Z[1/2]
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- Topology Seminar
Annenberg G32, 3.30pm
- Professor Hans-Werner Henn, Strasbourg
- Title: Euler characteristics of Orthogonal groups over Z[1/2]
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Thursday, September 9, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Yue-Jun Peng, Universite Blaise Pascal, France
- Title: Asymptotic Analysis of a Hierarchy Model for Plasmas
Special Note: Special Time!!
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Monday, September 15, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Boundary Harnack Principle for Symmetric Stable Processes
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Thursday, September 16, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Jose' Miguel Urbano, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
- Title: Degenerate Elliptic Problems in a Class of Free Domains
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Wednesday, September 22, 1999
- Department Meeting
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- ,
- Title:
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Friday, September 24, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Andrei Suslin, Northwestern University
- Title: Singular Homology
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. Yi-Ju Chen,
- Title: Flow-Induced Morphology
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 27, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University
- Title: A Paley-Wiener theorem in white noise analysis
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Tuesday, September 28, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University
- Title: Derived Deformation Theory
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- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor ,
- Title:
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- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Professor ,
- Title:
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Friday, October 1, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University
- Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: History, Recent Progress and Future Challenges
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Monday, October 4, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
- Title: Extension problem for positive-definite generalized Toeplitz kernels
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Professor Iskander Taimanov, Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk
- Title: Integrable geodesic flow with positive topological entropy
Special Note: Please note unusual day and room! Prof Shklover's talk has been postponed to Oct 26.
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor T. Takeno, U. Nagoya
- Title: Impact of advances in numerical computation on combustion science and technology
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Vassily Gorbanov, University of Kentucky
- Title: Gerbes of Chiral Differential Operators
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Tuesday, October 5, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00 pm
- Gary Gutman , Northwestern University
- Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains
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- Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Professor Donald Saari,
- Title: Double Humped N-Body Problems.
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Wednesday, October 6, 1999
- Number Crunch Lunch Seminar
Tech M416, 1:00pm
- Professor Natarajan Sukumar,
- Title: The Natural Element Method
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Thursday, October 7, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Christian Haesemeyer, Northwestern University
- Title: The Grothendieck Group of projective space
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Friday, October 8, 1999
- Colloquium
Annenberg G15, 4:30pm
- Professor Howard Masur, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Periodic Orbits for Rational Billiards and Flat Surfaces
Special Note: Special Time and Place! Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 11, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Vladimir Shklover, Northwestern University
- Title: Schiffer Problem and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Fabien Morel, Universite Paris 7
- Title: An Introduction to A^1-Homotopy Theory
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Tuesday, October 12, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00 pm
- Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Testing M-Theory with local mirror symmetry
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- Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Professor Jaques Fejoz,
- Title: Secular Motion in the Planar Three-Body Problem.
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- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 102, 3:00pm
- Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University
- Title: Morse decompositions and connection matrices
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Wednesday, October 13, 1999
- Number Crunch Lunch Seminar
Tech M416, 1:00pm
- Dr. Natarajan Sukumar, NU Civil Engineering
- Title: Natural Element Method II
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 14, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Gary Gutman, Northwestern University
- Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Friday, October 15, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Fabien Morel, University of Paris 7
- Title: The Euler Class of an Algebraic Vector Bundle
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor Leslie Hocking, University College London
- Title: Spreading of a liquid drop with mass loss
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Monday , October 18, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University
- Title: Heisenberg's inequality in infinite dimensions
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor R. Kamien, U. Pennsylvania
- Title: Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations and all that
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
- Title: A_\infty ring spectra under MU
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Tuesday, October 19, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University
- Title: Semi-topological K-theory
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- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Kamlesh Parwani,
- Title: Something interesting
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor V. Steinberg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
- Title: Parametric Generation of Second Sound in Superfluid Helium
Special Note: Note unusual day and time. This seminar is jointly with the Physics Condensed Matter Seminar
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
- Number Crunch Lunch Seminar
Tech M416, 1:00pm
- Dr. Francisco Solis , Chem. Eng. Dept., NWU
- Title: A Level Set Approach for Multicomponent Fluid Flows
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Friday, October 22, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor John Pople (Nobel Laureate, 1998), Northwestern University
- Title: Quantum Chemistry and Mathematics
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Monday, October 25, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Quantization and reduction
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. I. Kliakhandler, Northwestern U.
- Title: Interfacial dynamics of film flows
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Po Hu, University of Chicago
- Title: Real and Algebraic Hopf invariant one elements
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor David Hoff, Indiana University at Bloomington
- Title: TBA
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Tuesday, October 26, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Alexander Scorichenko , Northwestern University
- Title: Functor (co)homology and stable K-theory over a field
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Vladimir Shklover, Northwestern
- Title: Conformal maps and straightening of curves
Contact Info here
- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Yuan Che, Northwestern University
- Title: Homoclinic intersections arising from exact symplectic maps
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 27, 1999
- Number Crunch Lunch Seminar
Tech M416, 1:00pm
- Jie Zhang, ESAM
- Title: A Method for Tracking Interfaces
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Thursday, October 28, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Justin Mauger, Northwestern University
- Title: Exact Couples and Spectral Sequences
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Friday, October 29, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech A230, 3:15pm
- Professor C. Roberts, N. Arizona U.
- Title: Modeling complex human-environment interactions: the Grand Canyon River Trip Simulation Project
Special Note: Unusual day and time. This Talk is jointly sponsored with the Transportation Center
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. M. van Hecke , CATS/Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen
- Title: Pattern Formation for Vortex Ripples: 1D theory and 2D experiments
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Nick Barron, Loyola University
- Title: Calculus of variations in L-infinity
Special Note: SPECIAL PDE SEMINAR
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Monday, November 1, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Rich Sowers, University of Illinois
- Title: Stochastic averaging with a flattened Hamiltonian: Markov process on a lollipop
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Amnon Neeman, Australian National University
- Title: Determinants, K_1, and recent improvements
Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar !
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Jean-Louis Loday, CNRS, Strasbourg, France and MSRI
- Title: Syzygies, Igusa's pictures and identities among relations
Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar !
Abstract and details available
- Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Professor Clark Robinson,
- Title: Symbolic dynamics from topological horseshoes
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Winfree, U. Arizona
- Title: Unsolved Problems of the Heart
Special Note: Note unusual day
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Jean-Louis Loday , MSRI (Berkeley) & CNRS at Strasbourg (France)
- Title: The Hopf Algebra of Binary Trees
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 5, 1999
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor S. Mussa-Ivaldi, Northwestern U.
- Title: Nonlinear Models of Motor Learning
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 8, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Uniqueness of reflecting Brownian motion in euclidean domains
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Bronski, U. Illinois
- Title: Estimates of long-tailed probability distribution functions in passive scalar transport
Special Note: UNFORTUNATELY THIS TALK HAD TO BE CANCELLED
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University
- Title: The p-chain spectral sequence and Whitehead groups of Fuchsian groups
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Tuesday, November 9, 1999
- Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Yuan Che,
- Title: Roberts' results on Central Configurations
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Chris Connell, UIC
- Title: Minimal entropy rigidity for finite volume manifolds
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- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Margaret Stawiska, Northwestern University
- Title: The Mandelbrot set
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Thursday, November 11, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Christopher Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Global Strichartz estimates for the wave equation with applications to nonlinear equations
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Friday, November 12, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor David Benson, University of Georgia
- Title: Some Platitudes on Flatness
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Professor M. Dennin, UC Irvine
- Title: Taming spatiotemporal chaos: periodic modulations of the control parameter.
Abstract and details available
Saturday, November 13, 1999
Midwest Group Cohomology Seminar
Monday, November 15, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois
- Title: Boundary Harnack principle for symmetric stable processes
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- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor P. Milewski, U. Wisconsin
- Title: Solitary and breaking waves in equatorial shallow water
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jesper Grodal, M.I.T
- Title: Higher limits, subgroup complexes and group cohomology
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Tuesday, November 16, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Brendan Hassett, University of Chicago
- Title: Rational points on symmetric products of surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Professor Don Saari,
- Title: The evolution of Newton's Universe
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Victoria Sadovskaya, Pennsylvania State University
- Title: "On pointwise dimension of non-hyperbolic measures"
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- Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Todd Fisher, Northwestern
- Title: Almost topological conjugacy
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Wednesday, November 17, 1999
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Boris Kalinin , Pennsylvania State University
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Unusual day and time!
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Thursday, November 18, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ugo Gianazza, University of Pavia and Northwestern University
- Title: Regularity for a degenerate Obstacle Problem
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Friday, November 19, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Jill Pipher , Brown University
- Title: The impact of harmonic analysis on problems in linear partial differential equations
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Athanasios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: TBA
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Athanasios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: TBA
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Profesor Athanasios Tzavaras , University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: TBA
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Profesor Athanasios Tzavaras , University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: TBA
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Monday, November 22, 1999
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Iterated Random Functions: A Token Problem
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Bernard Badzioch, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Algebraic theories in homotopy theory
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Tuesday, November 23, 1999
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Andrei Levin, Landau Institute (Moscow) and U of Chicago
- Title: Variations of real Hodge structures and Bernoulli numbers
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Monday, November 29, 1999
- Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Special Note: Unusual Time! Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor M. Slemrod, U. Wisconsin
- Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with the Department of Mathematics
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:10am
- Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University
- Title: Some Mathematical Issues of the Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere I
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
TBA, 2:00pm
- Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University
- Title: Some Mathematical Issues of the Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere II
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Brooke Shipley, University of Chicago
- Title: The uniqueness of stable homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Jerome Buzzi, Michigan State University
- Title: Thermodynamical formalism for multidimensional piecewise expanding maps
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. P. Thomas, U. Chicago
- Title: Modeling Pattern Formation in Primary Visual Cortex
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Professor Shouhong Wang, Indiana University
- Title: Theoretical Issues of Planetary Scale Ocean/Atmosphere Dynamics
Contact Info here
Thursday, December 2, 1999
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Richard Laugesen, University of Illinois, Urbana
- Title: Stability of Steady States for 'Thin Fluid Film' PDEs
Contact Info here
Friday, December 3, 1999
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
- Title: Free Boundary Regularity for Harmonic Measure
Contact Info here
International Conference on Celestial Mechanics
- 4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
Details of the talk
- 4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Yi-Sui Sun,
Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion
Details of the talk
- 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
Details of the talk
- 2:50 Glen Richard Hall,
Title: Some remarks on Epimethius and Janus (Co-orbital Moons)
Details of the talk
- 4:00 Richard Montgomery,
Title: A figure eight with three bodies
Details of the talk
- 4:50 Florin Diacu,
Title: TBA
Details of the talk
- 9:00 Alain Chenciner,
Title: Action minimizing periodic orbits of the n-body problem
Details of the talk
- 10:00 Carles Simo,
Title: New results on the classical Hill problem
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Clark Robinson,
Title: Topological decoupling near planar parabolic orbits
Details of the talk
Thursday, December 16, 1999
- 2:00 Jacques Laskar,
Title: TBA
Details of the talk
- 2:50 Christopher McCord,
Title: Topology & Dynamics in the Planar N-Body Problem
Details of the talk
- 4:00 Regina Martinez,
Title: On the regularity of simultaneous binary collisions
Details of the talk
- 4:50 Gareth Roberts,
Title: Interesting families of central configurations
Details of the talk
- 9:00 Paul Rabinowitz,
Title: Connecting orbits for a family of Hamiltonian systems
Details of the talk
- 10:00 Christian Marchal,
Title: From geocentricity to demographic transition : How die a scientific theory
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Alain Albouy,
Title: Why are the Keplerian orbits closed?
Details of the talk
Friday, December 17, 1999
- 2:00 Jaume Llibre,
Title: Periodic and quasi-periodic motions for the spatial isosceles 3-body problem
Details of the talk
- 2:50 Qiudong Wang,
Title: The Hill's region of the four-body problem
Details of the talk
- 4:00 Ernesto Perez Chevela,
Title: Central Configurations for Charged Problems
Details of the talk
- 4:50 Jacques Fejoz,
Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem
Details of the talk
- 9:00 Jerrold Marsden,
Title: Heteroclinic Orbits, Ballistic Capture and Optimal Control in Mission Design
Details of the talk
- 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
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Ernesto Lacomba Zamora,
Title: Global flow of Hamiltonian systems with cubic homogeneous potentials
Details of the talk
Saturday, December 18, 1999
- 2:00 Robert Devaney,
Title: Mandelbrot set and the Farey tree
Details of the talk
- 2:50 Hildeberto Cabral,
Title: TBA
Details of the talk
- 4:00 Rick Moeckel,
Title: Arnold diffusion, horseshoes, and the problem of the gaps
Details of the talk
- 4:50 Philippe Robutel,
Title: Frequency map and global dynamics in the Solar System : the short period dynamics
Details of the talk
- 9:00 Predrag Cvitanovic,
Title: Periodic orbit theory of kinematic dynamo
Details of the talk
- 10:00 Robert Easton,
Title: Symplectic Capacity
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Yi-Sui Sun,
Title: Diffusion in Comet Motion
Details of the talk
Sunday, December 19, 1999
- 9:00 Richard Cushman,
Title: New qualitative features of the hydorgen atom in orthogonal electric and magnetic fields
Details of the talk
- 10:00 Keith Burns,
Title: Magnetic Flows
Details of the talk
- 11:10 Carl Simon,
Title: Dynamic Models of Influenza
Details of the talk
Monday, December 20, 1999
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Henk Bruin, Caltech
- Title: Combinatorics, kneading theory and Hubbard trees for complex quadratic maps
Special Note: Please note unusual day.
Abstract and details available
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