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

• 10:00am Professor David Cox, Amherst College
  Title: Etale homotopy theory and simplicial schemes
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Professor H. Blaine Lawson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  Title: Boundaries of varieties in projective manifolds
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm Professor William Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
  Title: Cohn localization sequences in K-theory
  Details of the talk

• 4:00pm Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraka, Lincoln
  Title: The twisted total Chern class map
  Details of the talk

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  Friday, September 17, 2004

• 10:00am Professor Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia
  Title: Support varieties for Weyl modules
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Professor Brian Parshall, University of Virginia
  Title: Some results in the cohomology of algebraic groups
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm Professor Michael Hopkins, Massachusetss Institute of Technology
  Title: TBA
  Details of the talk

• 3:30pm Professor Andrei Suslin,
  Title: TBA
  Details of the talk

• 5:00pm Professor Vladimir Voevodsky,
  Title: A categorical approach to probability theory
  Details of the talk

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  Saturday, September 18, 2004

• 10:00am Professor David Benson, University of Georgia
  Title: Varieties and injective modules over cohomology
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Professor Wilberd van der Kallen, Utrecht University
  Title: Invariant theory, cohomology and good filtration dimension
  Details of the talk

• 2:00pm Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard University
  Title: Selmer modules and p-adic variation of motives
  Details of the talk

• 4:00pm Professor Spencer Bloch, University of Chicago
  Title: Periods and epsilon factors associated to differential equations
  Details of the talk

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  Sunday, September 19, 2004

• 10:00am Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
  Title: Wild kernels and higher K-theory
  Details of the talk

• 11:30am Professor Steven Lichtenbaum, Brown University
  Title: The Weil-etale topology for number rings
  Details of the talk

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University

Title: Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago

Title: K_g is not finitely generated
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Paschalis Karageorgis,

Title: Existence and blow-up for nonlinear waves with potential
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University, Engineering Sciences and Applied Math

Title: Persistence and Failure in Networks of Excitable Neurons with Local and Non-Local Connectivity
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Professor B. Nadler, Yale University Refreshments are served at 3:30PM

Title: Ionic Permeation Through Protein Channels and NonEquilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:45pm

Professor Michele Baldini, Northwestern University

Title: A new perspective on the invariant measure of a positive recurrent
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Livio Flaminio, University Lille 1

Title: Cohomology for nilflows and applications
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Paschalis Karageorgis, Northwestern University

Title: Existence and blow-up for nonlinear waves with potential
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg, Germany

Title: Transition to turbulence in pipe flow:new aspects of an old problem
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Jih-Chiang Tsai, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Flows of densely packed granular particles: time evolution, shear banding, and reversal transients
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University

Title: Characterizing Riemannian Brownian motion by integration by parts
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mark Behrens, MIT

Title: The K(2)-local sphere and isogenies of elliptic curves
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Midwest Probability Colloquium: Thursday's Program

• 1:30pm Professor Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Title: Introduction to random matrices, I
  Place: Room 165, Leverone Hall
  Abstract and details available

• 2:45pm Professor Peter Miller, University of Michigan
  Title: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach to Orthogonal Polynomials
  Place: Room 165, Leverone Hall
  Abstract and details available

• 4:10pm Professor Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Title: Introduction to random matrices, II
  Place: Room 165, Leverone Hall
  Abstract and details available

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

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University

Title: Collective Motion and Mobile Sensor Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

• 3:00pm Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
  Title: Secrets of Stein's Method Explained, I
  Place: Room 107, Swift Hall
  Abstract and details available

• 4:30pm Professor Francesco Russo , University of Paris XIII
  Title: Stochastic Calculus and Generalized Dirichlet Processes
  Place: Room 107, Swift Hall
  Abstract and details available

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  Saturday, October 16, 2004

• 9:30am Professor Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
  Title: Secrets of Stein's Method Explained, II
  Place: Room 107, Swift Hall
  Abstract and details available

• 1:30pm Professor Zhen-Qing Chen, University of Washington
  Title: Boundary Trace of a Markov Process
  Place: Room 107, Swift Hall
  Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Self-Organization of Microtubules and Molecular Motors
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University

Title: Free entropy and random matrices
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Andrew Mauer-Oats, Northwestern University

Title: Derivatives of Monoids in Func(SimpGp,SimpGp)
Contact Info here

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Andras Vasy, Northwestern University

Title: Geometric optics and the wave equation on manifolds with corners
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

John F. Marko, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Micromechanical study of proteins interacting with single DNA molecules
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Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University

Title: Malliavin Calculus and ergodicity of the full degenerate Navier-Stokes equation
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Alexander Goncharov, Brown University

Title: Positivity and higher Teichmuller theory
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor John Imbrie, University of Virginia

Title: Supersymmetric Models of Self-Avoiding Walks
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University

Title: Boltzmann Equation and Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Professor Boris Khusid, N.J.I.T.

Title: Electric Field Driven Phenomena for Manipulating Particles in Micro- and Nano- Devices
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Dima Tamarkin, Northwestern University

Title: Variational calculus and quantization, I
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Kathleen C. Howell, Purdue University

Title: Spacecraft Mission Design in Multi-Body Regimes and the Application of Dynamical Systems
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Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

E. Demekhin, University of Notre Dame

Title: 3D Localized Coherent Structures of Surface Turbulence
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Martin Barlow, University of British Columbia

Title: Random walks on percolation clusters
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Fred Cohen, University of Rochester

Title: Self-maps of loop spaces
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Joel Kamnitzer, Berkeley

Title: Crystals, coboundary categories, and the moduli space of points on RP1
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Dima Tamarkin, NU

Title: Variational calculus and quantization, II
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University

Title: Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Source and the Method of Vanishing Viscosity
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Francesco Bullo, University of California at Santa Barbara

Title: Motion Coordination for Multi-Agent Networks: Algorithmic Design and Theoretical Framework
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Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Theodoros Horikis, Northwestern University

Title: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers: Soliton Perturbation Theory
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: Theory of Geometric Stable processes
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University

Title: The construction of a v_2^{32} self map of M(1,4) and applications
Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00 pm

Alexander Bufetov, Princeton University

Title: Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Zorich induction and the central limit theorem for the Teichmueller flow
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor V. Toledano Laredo, Univ. Paris VI

Title: Flat Connections, braid groups and quantum groups
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Charles Doering, University of Michigan

Title:
Contact Info here

Dynamical Systems Seminar TBA, 3:00pm

Danny Calegari, Caltech

Title: The Euler class of groups acting on the plane
Abstract and details available

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

Mitra Hartmann, Northwestern University

Title: Hardware Models for Studying Sensory Coding in the Nervous System
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Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm

Radu Saghin, Northwestern

Title: C^1 generic properties of symplectic\r\ndiffeomorphisms
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto

Title: Fluctuations, Reactions and Fronts: Mesoscopic Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Tiefeng Jiang, University of Minnesota

Title: How many typical entries of an orthogonal matrix can be approximated by independent normals?
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Donald Yau, University of Illinois

Title: Cohomology and deformations of lambda-rings
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm

Radu Saghin, Northwestern

Title: C^1 generic properties of symplectic diffeomorphisms
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Alexei Kitaev , Caltex

Title: Topological Quantum Computing
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern

Title: Index theorem for integral transforms
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Jean-Pierre Nadal, ENS, Paris

Title: Neural computation in the cerebellum (and elsewhere): what silent synapses tell us
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Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas

Title: Real groups and Langlands duality
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Randy McCarthy,

Title: On the Witt group of a bimodule
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Northwestern University

Title: Foam Bubbles: The Importance of Being Isotropic
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 107, 3pm

Tibor Beke, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Title: Isoperimetric inequalities and Friedlander's conjecture
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Eric Klavins, University of Washington

Title: Self-Organizing Robotic Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Roman Fedorov, University of Chicago

Title: Algebraic and hamiltonian approaches to isostokes deformations
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Recent Advances in Higher Order Numerical Methods with Applications to Vascular Flows
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Mandell, Cambridge University

Title: Monoidal categories from ring spectra
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107 (or wherever we find a room), 3:00pm

Professor David Ben-Zvi, Northwestern and UT Austin

Title: Hilbert Schemes, Perverse Bundles and D-Bundles
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104 (or wherever we find a room), 4:10pm

Roman Fedorov, University of Chicago

Title: Algebraic and hamiltonian approaches to Isostokes deformations
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Jung Choi, Northwestern University

Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet

Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago

Title: The distance functionals for wave patterns in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Inwon Kim, MIT

Title: The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Flow
Special Note: Professor Kim is a candidate for a tenure track position
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Baruch Meerson, The Hebrew University

Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Sunder Sethuraman, Iow State University

Title: Diffusive estimates for a tagged particle in zero-range particle
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

David Gepner, University of Illinois

Title: The Thom Isomorphism in Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Youngna Choi, Montclair State University

Title: Topology of Attractors from Expanding Maps with One Discontinuity
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: Lagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic equations in physical space
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Michael Goldberg, Caltech

Title: Dispersive Estimates for the Three-Dimensional Schrodinger Equation
Abstract and details available

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

Victoria Booth, University of Michigan

Title: Mean theta phase of model CA1 pyramidal cell firing changes with location of synaptic stimuli
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Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor David Nadler, University of Chicago

Title: Loops spaces and Langlands duality
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107 (or another room), 2:30pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev, MIT

Title: A simple algebraic proof of the algebraic index theorem
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Peter Carr, Courant Institute, NYU

Title: Time Changed Levy Processes and Option Pricing
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Jonathan B. Freund, UIUC

Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor William Stein, Harvard University

Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular
Abstract and details available

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Yimin Xiao, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University

Title: Geometric Properties of the Brownian Sheet
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University

Title: Every compact manifold carries a hyperbolic ergodic map
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University

Title: Fukaya theory and string topology (after Fukaya)
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago

Title: Recent developments on the well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Angela Grant, University of Maryland

Title: Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Colin Guillarmou, Purdue

Title: Scattering theory for hyperbolic manifolds
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mona Mocanasu, UCLA

Title: Borel-Moore Functors and Algebraic Oriented Theories
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Rigidity for actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Zhu Chenchang, (ETH Zurich)

Title: CANCELLED - Symplectic (stacky) groupoids of Poisson manifolds - CANCELLED
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University

Title: Murphy's Law in Algebraic Geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces
Abstract and details available

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

Gary Blasdel, Northwestern University

Title: Optical Imaging of non-vascular Intrinsic Signals in Monkey Visual Cortex
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Francois Blanchette, University of Chicago

Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: Two-sided estimates on the density of Brownian Motion with singular drift
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University

Title: Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

André Henriques,

Title: A Lie algebra for the String group
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: The 2--Wasserstein metric and its applications to PDEs
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Volker Elling, Stanford University

Title: Maximum principles in self-similar potential flow
Abstract and details available

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

Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science, NYU

Title: Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations in Communicating Fish
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Ziad Musslimani, University of Central Florida

Title: Multiscale Asymptopic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: Chaotic billiards with polynomial mixing rates
Abstract and details available

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Boris Tsygan, Northwestern

Title: Fukaya theory and string topology, II
Abstract and details available

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

Richard Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Mary Silber, Northwestern University

Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago

Title: Stochastic Competition and First-Passage Percolation
Abstract and details available

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor C. Klingenberg, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany)

Title: Conservation laws with discontinuous flux functions: well-posedness
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Chad Topaz, UCLA

Title: Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and dynamics
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Jim Colliander, University of Toronto

Title: On rough blowup solutions of L² critical NLS
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University

Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Eric Carlen, George Institute of Technology

Title: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Julie Bergner, University of Notre Dame

Title: Three models for the homotopy theory of homotopy theories
Abstract and details available

Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 2-4pm

Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan

Title: An overview of spaces of arcs
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan

Title: An overview of spaces of arcs, continued
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Daniel Grunbaum, University of Washington

Title: Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Laser Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame

Title: On Multiscale Approaches to Three-Dimensional Modeling of Morphogenesis
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 2:30pm

Professor Dayue Chen, Peking University

Title: The anchored expansion constant of random graphs
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Jerrold Marsden, Caltech

Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (2)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (3)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn

Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (4)
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Lev Rozhansky (UNC at Chapel Hill),

Title: Commutative algebra and the categorification of the SU(N) HOMFLY
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame

Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
Special Note: CANCELLED
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Terence Tao, UCLA

Title: Geometric Renormalization of Wave Maps
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:30pm

Professor Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University

Title: Einstein Geometry and Nonlinear Waves
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Andre Levchenko, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Quantification of NF-kappaB: marriage of genetics, biochemistry and mathematical modeling
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Terence Tao, UCLA

Title: Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm

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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Dr. Andrew Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories

Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Mark Pollicott, University of Warwick

Title: Sierpinski Gaskets with Overlaps
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Pancoe 1-401 (2000 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus), 5:00PM

Daniel Stouffer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering and NSF /IGERT Dynamics of Complex Systems , Northwestern University

Title: A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Natural Ecosystems
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University

Title: Physical Limits to Biochemical Signaling
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Sunil Chebolu, University of Washington

Title: A K-theoretic approach for refining the chromatic towers
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State

Title: Mixing, disjoint factors and isometric extensions
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Daniel Rudolph, Colorado Sate University

Title: Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Ergodic Theory
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Thomas Mason, UCLA

Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Andrew Hassell, Australian National University

Title: The Riesz transform on manifolds with Euclidean ends
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College

Title: A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University

Title: Involutions and Polyconvexity in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Applications to Electromagnetism and Elastodynamics
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Fred Hickernell, IIT

Title: Fast Spline Methods for High Dimensional Problems
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University

Title: Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 1 of 2 talks)
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Feimin Huang, Academia Sinica (Beijing, PRC)

Title: Convergence of Viscosity Solutions for Isothermal Gas Dynamics
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ya-Guang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Title: A Microlocal Approach in Studying Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

John Maddocks, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - EPRL

Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. James Grotberg, University of Michigan

Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Robert Neel, Columbia University

Title: The Behavior of the Heat Kernel at the Cut Locus
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Chris Dwyer, University of Wisconsin

Title: Twisted equivariant K-theory and twisted Bredon cohomology
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00 pm

Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame

Title: Unique ergodicity for nonuniquely ergodic horocycle flows (Joint work with Omri Sarig)
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 2 of 2 talks)
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Title: Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical Systems
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. John Bush, MIT

Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Mikhail Gromov, IHES

Title: From protein foldings to Morse theory
Special Note: Professor Gromov is the 2005 Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Jacques Fejoz, University Paris 6

Title: TBA
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Title: Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 3 of 3 talks)
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ESAM Colloquium Tech Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM

Prof. John Hudson, University of Virginia

Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Dante R. Chialvo, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Title: Critical Brain Networks
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Stephen Watson, Northwestern University

Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame

Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Omri Sarig, Penn State University

Title: Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier)
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Howard Weiss, Pennsylvania State University

Title: How smooth is your wavelet? A dynamical systems approach
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Robert Buchler, University of Florida

Title: Chaos in the Music of the Stars
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois- Champaign/Urbana

Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Rochelle Pereira, University of Chicago

Title: Higher Order Cohomology Operations and Minimal Atomicity
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Matthew Nicol, University of Houston

Title: An almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 2:00pm

Professor Anupam Garg, Northwestern University (Physics Department)

Title: Path Integral Approach to Spin Semiclassics
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Tim Elston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: Regulation of MAP kinase activity revealed by mathematical modeling and experimental analysis
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University

Title: Bifurcations and Geometry
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Soren Galatius, Stanford University

Title: Classifying spaces of cobordism categories
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Nikos Frantzikinakis, Penn State University

Title: Counting polynomial configurations in dense subsets of the integers.
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ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University

Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:00pm

Alissa Crans, UC Riverside

Title: From Loop Groups to 2-Groups
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Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Paul Bressler, University of Arizona

Title: Riemann-Roch for circle bundles
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Dana Randall, Computer Science Department, Georgia Tech

Title: Algorithms for Finding a Random Needle in a Combinatorial Haystack
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Professor Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: Extensions of hyperbolic systems of balance laws
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Frederic Rochon, MIT

Title: Bott Periodicity for fibred cusp operators
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Werner Mueller, University of Bonn

Title: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces and scattering theory
Special Note: First talk of Scattering Theory and Singular Spaces conference
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Professor Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota

Title: Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and "obvious" theorems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10

Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Title: Zero-Viscosity Limit of the Linearized Navier-Stokes Equations with Highly Oscillatory Forces in the Half-Plane
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Werner Pesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Rayleigh-Benard convection with modulated acceleration
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM

Marc Barthelemy, CEA, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France

Title: Heterogeneity and predictability of global epidemics
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