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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Stephane Genet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Title: Cellular basis for time computations in the cerebellum: multi- threshold model of electric activation in cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Livio Flaminio, Université de Lille

Title: Quantitative equidistribution for nilflows
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Yanyan Li, Rutgers University

Title: On some conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Lee E. Miller, Northwestern University

Title: Predicting limb EMG from neurons recorded in the central nervous system
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 2:10pm

Professor Mark Kisin, University of Munster

Title: Geometric deformations of modular Galois representations
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University

Title: The homology of invariant group chains
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Sigrid Wortmann, University of Heidelberg

Title: Motives and automorphic forms
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Maria Bertolim, Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Lyapunov graph continuation
Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 12-2pm

Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University

Title: An introduction to Langlands' philosophy
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University

Title: Self Focusing of Circularly-polarized Beams
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• 3:10pm Professor Peter Lax, New York University
  Title: Dispersive Equations and the Zero Dispersion Limit
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 4:10pm Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University (Canberra)
  Title: Boundary Value Problems for the Affine Maximal Surface Equation
  Details of the talk

• 5:05pm Professor Richard Melrose, MIT
  Title: Elliptic Operators on Singular Spaces
  Details of the talk

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  Saturday, October 5, 2002

• 9:00am Professor Avner Friedman, Ohio State University
  Title: Mathematical Challenges in Cancer Models
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 9:50am Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Title: On Some Results of Moser and of Bangert
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 11:00am Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University
  Title: A new Approach to the Riemann Problem for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 11:50am Professor Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburg
  Title: Traveling Waves in a Competition Model
  Details of the talk

• 2:10pm Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Austin
  Title: Some PDE Problems in Periodic Media
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 3:00pm Professor Bjorn Engquist, Princeton University
  Title: Computing High Frequency Wave Propagation
  Details of the talk

• 4:10pm Professor James Glimm, University at Stony Brook
  Title: Uncertainty Quantification and Error Models for Numerical Solution Error
  Details of the talk

• 5:00pm Professor Salah Baouendi, University of California, San-Diego
  Title: Some Regularity Results for Mappings Between Real Submanifolds in Complex Space
  Details of the talk

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  Sunday, October 6, 2002

• 9:00am Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University
  Title: Energy Method for Boltzmann Equation
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 9:50am Professor Cathleen Morawetz, New York University
  Title: Linear Transonic Flow Problems
  Details of the talk

• 11:00am Professor Michael Crandall, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Title: Deriving the $L^\infty$ Euler Equation
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 11:50am Professor Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota
  Title: Shape Deformations and Analytic Continuation in Free Boundary Problems
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

• 2:10pm Professor Fanghua Lin, New York University
  Title: Some Thoughts on Born-Infeld-Einstein Equations
  Details of the talk

• 3:00pm Professor Jerry Bona, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Title: Stability, Instability, and Singularities in Nonlinear Wave Equations
  Details of the talk

• 4:00pm Professor Bei Hu, Notre Dame University
  Title: A PDE Model from Angiogenesis
  Details of the talk

• 4:50pm Professor Carlos Kenig, Chicago University
  Title: Full Regularity on 3-dimensions for Variational Solutions to Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems
  Place: Leverone Hall G40 ( Kellogg )
  Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. A. Berezhkovskii, NIH and Karpov Inst. Phys. Chem. (Moscow)

Title: Kinetics of diffusion controlled reactions: From traditional theories to new approaches
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University

Title: On an Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence in the theory of mixed Tate sheaves
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Kamlesh Parwani, Northwestern

Title: Monotone periodic orbits on surfaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, Boston University

Title: Biophysics of the DNA molecule
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 12-2pm

Professor D. Nadler, University of Chicago

Title: The geomteric Satake isomorphism
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jiangfeng Liang, Northwestern University

Title: Smoothing Effect at a Focal Point for Semilinear Wave Equations
Special Note: Special Time!
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Luigi Lugiato, Università dell'Insubria

Title: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators
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• 2:00pm Professor Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Critical percolation and minimal spanning forests
  Details of the talk

• 3:00pm Professor Balint Virag, MIT
  Title: Fast graphs for the random walker
  Details of the talk

• 4:30pm Professor Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Evolving sets, conductance and mixing
  Details of the talk

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  Friday, October 18, 2002

• 3:00pm Oded Schramm, Microsoft
  Title: Scaling limits of two-dimensional statistical physics: Percolation, uniform spanning trees and beyond, I
  Place: Swift 107
  Abstract and details available

• 4:30pm Professor Amir Dembo, Stanford University
  Title: Late points and cover times
  Place: Swift 107
  Abstract and details available

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  Saturday, October 19, 2002

• 9:30am Oded Schramm, Microsoft
  Title: Scaling limits of two-dimensional statistical physics: Percolation, uniform spanning trees and beyond, II
  Place: Swift 107
  Abstract and details available

• 1:00pm Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlon, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Kinetic limits for interacting particle systems
  Place: Swift 107
  Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. J. Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Title: Rossby waves in irregular basins
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Robet Pollack, University of Chicago

Title: Iwasawa theory: Class numbers to elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 12-2pm

Professor K. Vilonen, Northwestern University

Title: More Langlands
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Alan Perelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Title: Modeling Viral Infections in Humans
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: Existence and stability of multidimensional steady transonic shocks in the whole space
Special Note: Special Time!!
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor A. Polishchuk, Boston University

Title: Holomorphic vector bundles on noncommutative tori
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Nathan Wodarz, Northwestern University

Title: Polynomial homology theories
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jae-Suk Park,

Title: d-algebras, d-manifolds and quantum field theories
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 12-2pm

Professor D. Tamarkin, Northwestern University

Title: Tate's thesis
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Professor Isaac Kornfeld, North Dakota State University

Title: Coboundaries of measure preserving transformations, Rokhlin's lemma, and related problems
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Topology Seminar Lunt 216, 2:00pm

Daniel Davis, Northwestern University

Title: The Lubin-Tate spectrum E_n as a continuous G_n-spectrum and its homotopy fixed point spectra
Special Note: The talk is at 2:00 in the conference room.
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

John Tyson, Virginia Tech

Title: CyberYeast: Computational Models of Cell Cycle Regulation
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. K. Gurski, N.I.S.T.

Title: The effect of anisotropic surface energy and contact lines and the Rayleigh instability
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University

Title: Transitivity of action of the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group on the chain operad of little disks
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Christian Haesemeyer , Northwestern University

Title: Some computations in semitopological K-theory
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Special Seminar Leverone Hall G40, 4:00pm

Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University

Title: (3x+1) and Other Number-Theoretic Dynamical Systems
Special Note: Lecture for the general public.
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Professor Leo Butler, Northwestern University

Title: The Toda Lattice and Positive-Entropy Integrable Systems
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University

Title: 1D Burgers Equation with Random Forcing
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Alexander Grosberg, University of Minnesota

Title: Toy Proteins Functioning Like a Machine
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University

Title: A cohomological approach to automorphism group rings
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Chicago

Title: Solitons and D-modules
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor John Franks, Northwestern University

Title: Actions of lattices on low-dimensional manifolds
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Professor Lan Wen, Beijing University

Title: On the C^1 density conjecture of Palis
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago

Title: The local embedding problem for surfaces
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

M.L. Zeeman, University of Texas, San Antonio

Title: Title: Modeling the LH surge in the human menstrual cycle.
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Mark A. Pearson, Northwestern University

Title: The Morava K-theory of homotopy orbit spaces: some good results
Special Note: Note the unusual time and day
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. K. Elder, Oakland University

Title: Modeling elasticity with phase field crystals
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jim McClure, Purdue University

Title: Cosimplicial objects and little n-cubes
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Tom Bridgeland, Edinburgh University

Title: The Fourier-Mukai transform
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Yanyan Li, Rutgers University

Title: A Liouville theorem for solutions of the Monge-Ampere equation with periodic data
Special Note: Special Seminar, Special Time!
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Professor Yakov Sinai, Princeton University

Title: The Navier Stokes equation
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PDE Seminar Lunt 102, 2:00pm

Professor Antonio Sa Barreto, Purdue University

Title: Radiation fields on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
Special Note: Note unusual time, location.
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 104, 4-6pm

Professor W. Schmid, Harvard University

Title: Automorphic forms and L-functions
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University

Title: Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Luis Amaral, Northwestern

Title: Complex Networks in Nature
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Jeffrey Brock, University of Chicago

Title: The Weil-Petersson metric, pants decompositions, and volumes of hyperbolic surface bundles.
Special Note: Note special time and place
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. M. Khenner, SUNY Buffalo

Title: Models for selective area epitaxial crystal growth
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago

Title: p-compact groups and p-local groups
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Cheng Chong-Qing, Nanjing University

Title: Variational Construction of Connecting Orbits around Hyperbolic Torus
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Greg Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: Laminar flows of nematic polymers: molecular theory and averaged descriptions
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Archil Gulisashvili, Ohio University, Athens

Title: Nonautonomous classes of measures and Feynman-Kac propagators
Special Note: Joint with Analysis/Probability Seminar
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Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jaume Aguade , University of Barcelona

Title: Kac-Moody groups from a homotopy point of view
Special Note: Note the unusual day and room.
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Stephane JUNCA, University Nice (France)

Title: Geometric optics for one dimensional conservation laws with two scale in BV
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago

Title: The combinatorics of smooth manifolds
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Stephane JUNCA, University of Nice, France

Title: Geometric optics for one dimensional conservation laws with two scale in BV
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Dan Margalit, University of Chicago

Title: Topology vs. algebra in mapping class groups
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago

Title: The Calculus of Symmetry
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. D. L. Chopp, Northwestern University

Title: Modeling quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Boris Chorny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: Localization with respect to a class of maps
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4.10pm

Dan Margalit, University of Chicago

Title: Topology vs. algebra in mapping class groups
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 2-4pm

Professor E. Frenkel, Berkeley

Title: Local Langlands conjecture for Kac-Moody algebras I
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Yijen Lee, Princeton University

Title: Torsion invariants in symplectic Floer theories
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jeffrey Brock, University of Chicago

Title: The classification problem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech L211, 9:30AM

Prof. K. Showalter, W. Virginia University

Title: Chemical waves and patterns
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Cheol-Hyun Cho, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Floer Cohomology of the Clifford torus with various spin structures
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Feodor Borodich, Northwestern University

Title: Similarity and Fractals in Contact and Nano Mechanics
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. L. Ryzhik, University of Chicago

Title: Advection effects on reaction-diffusion problems
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 4:10pm

Tom Coates, University of California, Berkeley

Title: A new proof of the mirror theorem
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Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 102, 2-4pm

Professor E.Frenkel, Berkeley

Title: Local Langlands conjecture for Kac-Moody algebras II
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Recent advances in the geometric Langlands correspondence
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Harvard University

Title: Open Gromov-Witten Theory
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Yachun Li, Northwestern University & Shanghai Jiaotong University

Title: Stability of Riemann Solutions with Large Oscillations for the Euler Equations
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Leo Silbert, University of Chicago

Title: Gravity-driven dense granular flows
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. J. Bona, UIC

Title: Theory and applications of long wave models
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Brooke Shipley, Purdue University

Title: K-theory and derived equivalences
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Camil Muscalu, UCLA

Title: On some multilinear singular integrals in Fourier analysis
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jiun-Cheng Chen, Harvard

Title: Birational geometry and derived categories
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 3:00PM

Dr. D. Nykamp, UCLA

Title: Reconstructing the Coupling of Neurons from Spike Times
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Laura DeMarco, University of Chicago

Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Andras Vasy, MIT

Title: Scattering theory for symbolic potentials of degree zero
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Maximino Aldana, University of Chicago

Title: BBoolean Dynamics in Complex Networks with Scale-Free Topology
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. V. Backman, N.U.

Title: Light scattering from random media: From analytical theory to cancer diagnosis
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Eun Soo Lee, MIT

Title: A new structure on Khovanov's homology
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Brian Conrad, University of Michigan

Title: Prime values of polynomials
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. P. Voorhees, N.U.

Title: Coarsening of topologically complex two-phase structures
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mike Mandell, University of Chicago

Title: Equivariant E-infinity Ring Spectra and Spectral Sequences
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Wee Liang Gan, University of Chicago

Title: Koszul duality for dioperads
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: Applications of p-adic integrals
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Colloquium Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Charles Rezk, University of Illinois

Title: Topological modular forms, orientations, and Hecke operators
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion

Title: Feedback Control of Morphological Instabilities
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. S. Watson, N.U.

Title: Coarsening dynamics of faceted crystal growth in 3D: The Hamilton- Jacobi-Cahn-Hilliard equation
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Vahagn Minasian, University of Illinois

Title: On THH and TAQ of commutative S-algebras
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Christian Bonatti, Universite de Bourgogne

Title: Recurrence and genericity, Part I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Professor Albrecht Klemm, Humboldt University Berlin

Title: Matrix models for gauge theories and the\r\ntopological string
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh

Title: A free boundary problem for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Jeff Lagarias, AT&T Labs

Title: Trisecting the angle: Alain Connes' proof of Morley's theorem
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Stephen Hagen, University of Florida

Title: Drool of lizard, heart of horse...what goes into fast protein folding?
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. P. Wiegmann, Univ. of Chicago

Title: Novel Aspects of the Laplacian Growth Problem
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mark Behrens, University of Chicago

Title: Homotopy beta elements at the prime 3.
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Christian Bonatti, Universite de Bourgogne

Title: Recurrence and genericity, Part II
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Timothy Walsh, Sandia National Laboratories

Title: Some mathematical issues arrising in Acoustics
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Dmitry Kaledin, Steklov Institute and ITEP (Moscow)

Title: Orbifold cohomology multiplication in the symplectic case
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Brian Conrad, University of Michigan

Title: Prime Values of Polynomials
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Amy Shen, Washington University, St. Louis

Title: Granular Fingering
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. M. Gorman, U. Houston

Title: Spirals and Counterpropagating Spots in the Dynamics of Pulsating Flames
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Dmitry Kaledin, Steklov Institute and ITEP (Moscow)

Title: Orbifold cohomology multiplication in the symplectic case
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor David Hoff, Indiana University

Title: Dynamics of Singularity Surfaces for Compressible, Viscous Flows in Multidimension
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Paul Bressler, M.I.T.

Title: Intersection cohomology of convex polytopes
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Dr. James Gilchrist, UIUC

Title: Mixing and Segregation of Granular Materials in Spherical and Cubical Tumblers
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. I. Epstein, Brandeis Univ.

Title: Chemistry in Very Small Spaces: Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Sung Myung, Northwestern University

Title: Motivic Cohomology: Motivic regulators and their formulas
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Haitao Fan, Georgetown University

Title: Reactive Flows Involing Metastability Modeling Liquid/Vapour Phase Transitions, its Wave Patterns and Ring Formations
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 10:00AM

L. B. Freund, Brown University

Title: A description of strain-driven formation of semiconductor nanostructures
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Eric Weeks, Emory University

Title: The physics of the colloidal glass
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Robert Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: Discrete Loewner Evolution
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 3:00PM

Dr. Felix Otto, University of Bonn

Title: Scaling Laws in Coarsening and Spreading
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong

Title: Learning the topology of submanifolds and the problem of probability density estimation
Special Note: Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Luc Hillairet, ENS Lyon

Title: Contribution of periodic diffractive orbits in polygonal billiards
Special Note: Special joint PDE/Dynamics Seminar (note changed date)
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Colloquium Annenberg G21, 3:00pm

Professor Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong

Title: Learning the topology of submanifolds and the problem of probability density estimation
Special Note: Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Wouter Rappel, University of California-San Diego

Title: Cellular signaling networks in Dictyostelium discoideum:
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PDE Seminar , 4:10pm

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Title: 51th Midwest PDE Seminar
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. P. Gordon, U. Chicago

Title: Initiation of Subsonic Detonation and Structure of the Detonation Wave
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Special Seminar Ryan Auditorium, Tech, 4:00PM

Stephan Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc.

Title: A new kind of Science
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Driven Granular Media: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Vortices
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Ye. A. Rastigejev, N.U.

Title: Multiscale Computations with a Wavelet Decomposition Algorithm: Applications to Inert and Reactive Flow Simulations
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Craig Westerland, University of Michigan

Title: Cohomology of configuration spaces of surfaces and related mapping spaces
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ezra Getzler,

Title: Equivariant cohomology of quiver varieties and integrable systems (work of Losev, Marshakov and Nekrasov)
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Pierre Cartier, IHES

Title: Multiple zeta values and motives (report on the recent work of Deligne and Goncharov)
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Suzanne Hruska, Stony Brook

Title: Hyperbolicity in the complex Henon family.
Special Note: Note special time and place
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Daniel Davis,

Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 12:00PM

Prof. M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Plasticity of single-crystals at the micron level, a gradient theory that accounts for geometrically necessary dislocations
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Dave Benson, Desert Research Institute

Title: Aquifers and Streams as Fractal Filters: Fractal Calculus in Your Backyard
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University

Title: Pathwise Stochastic Control and Stochastic HJB Equations
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. X. Li, I.I.T.

Title: Drop Deformation in Shear Flow: The Effects of Walls and Surfactants
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor P. Cartier (IHES),

Title: Motivic Polylogarithm and mixed Tate motives (cont'd)
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Nicolas Burq, MSRI/Paris Sud

Title: Control of Schrodinger equations and eigenfunctions scarring
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Stephen Morris, University of Toronto

Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. S. Paolucci, U. Notre Dame

Title: Slow Manifolds in Chemically Reactive Flows
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Michael Batanin, Macquarie University, Sydney

Title: Higher nonsymmetric operads and symmetric operads
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Brooke Shipley, Purdue University

Title: Rings up to homotopy
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Colloquium Harris Hall 107, 4:00pm

Professor Yuri Manin, Northwestern University

Title: Georg Cantor, Set Theory, and Mathematics of the XXth Century
Special Note: Inaugural Lecture, Board of Trustees Chair
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Alan Hastings, University of California-Davis

Title: Biocomplexity in the Design of Marine Reserves
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Daniel Davis, Northwestern University

Title: The Lubin-Tate spectrum E_n and its homotopy fixed point spectra
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Boris Tsygan,

Title: Modular algebra and its Hopf symmetries (after Connes-Moscovici)
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Luc Tartar, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Beyond Partial Differential Equations
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Yann Brenier, University of Paris 6 and CNRS at Nice, France

Title: Applications and properties of the 3D Born-Infeld equations
Special Note: Joint with Analysis and Probability Semiar
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

David Westwick, University of Calgary

Title: Nonlinear system identification: A tool for modeling complex biosystems
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty, R.P.I.

Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 1. Fundamental Computational and Theoretical Properties
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Robert Bruner, Wayne State University

Title: Real connective K-theory of classifying spaces
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Lawrence Ein (UIC),

Title: Log canonical thresholds and birational rigidity
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty, R.P.I.

Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 2. A Posteriori Error Estimation and Superconvergence
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland

Title: Admissible Solutions to Hyperbolic Systems of Consevation Laws with General Flux
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Shearer, North Carolina State University

Title: Kinetics and Nucleation for Scalar Conservation Laws Related to the Flow of Thin Liquid Films
Abstract and details available

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Jack Dockery, Montana State University

Title: Finger Formation in Biofilm Layers
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Andrew Hassell, Australian National University

Title: The Schrodinger propagator on asymptotically Euclidian space
Special Note: Note special day and time
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. P. Holmes, Princeton U.

Title: Low Dimensional Models of Turbulent Plane Couette Flow
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PDE Seminar Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor Phil Holmes , Princeton University

Title: Low Dimensional Models of Plane Couette Flow
Special Note: Joint with ESAM Colloquium
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin

Title: Fixity and Group Actions
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Boris Tsygan,

Title: Modular Hecke Algebras and their Hopf symmetries (II)
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Martin Markl, Czech Academy of Sciences

Title: Homotopy bialgebras
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PDE Seminar Tech L211, 12:30pm

Professor Charles Peskin, Courant Institute, New York University

Title: Random Walks of Biomolecular Motors Involved in Chromosome Capture and Transport during Mitosis
Special Note: Special Time! Special Seminar joint with the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology, and the Department of Mechanical Engieering
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Leonid Friedlander , U. of Arizona

Title: Spectrum of periodic waveguides
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:10pm

Professor Charles Peskin, Courant Institute (New York University)

Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
Special Note: Special Time! Joint with ESAM Colloquium
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ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:10PM

Prof. C. Peskin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.

Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Stephen Morris, University of Toronto

Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Brad Werner, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Title: Self-organization and emergent behavior in natural systems: examples from permafrost terrain
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Thursday, June 12 --- Sunday, June 15, 2003

International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications

• 8:45am For more details, see http://www.math.nwu.edu/~gqchen/pde03/, or for program schedule only, see http://www.math.nwu.edu/~gqchen/pde03/PDEConfrn2003.htm
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor ,

Title:
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 11:00AM

Romulus Breban, University of Maryland

Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Romulus Breban, University of Maryland

Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 11:00AM

Zong-Hua Liu, Arizona State U.

Title: Transition to chaos in continuous-time random dynamical systems
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor ,

Title:
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor ,

Title:
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt Common room, 11am

Professor Andras Szenes, Mathematical Institute of the Budapest Technical University

Title: Toric reduction and mirror symmetry
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor tba,

Title:
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00 pm

Professor Siegfried Carl, Halle-Wittenberg University

Title: Comparison Results for Quasilinear Elliptic Equations and Inclusions
Special Note: This is a special Analysis-PDE seminar.
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. R. Krechetnikov, U. C. Santa Barbara

Title: On New Surfactant Driven Phenomena: A Reversed Saffman-Taylor Instability and Taylor Cones without Electric Field
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 9:00AM

Mark Asta (Northwestern), Jerry Floro (Sandia National Labs), A. Golovin (Northwestern), Max G. Lagally (University of Wisconsin), Lincoln J. Lauhon (Harvard / Northwestern), Dongqi Li (Argonne National Lab), Jerry Tersoff (IBM), Richard P. Van Duyne (Northwestern), .

Title: 2nd Annual Workshop on the Evolution and Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Walter Craig, McMaster University (Canada)

Title: Hamiltonian PDE and Small Divisors
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Walter Craig, McMaster University

Title: Hamiltonian PDE and Small Divisors
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