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Academic Year 2005-2006
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Andres Navas-Flores, IHES and Universidad de Chile
- Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Tom Graber, California Institute of Technology
- Title: Towards a quantum McKay correspondence
Abstract and details available
Thursday, September 22, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 23, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Nail Akhmediev, The Australian National University
- Title: Dissipative solitons in life and science
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
Monday, September 26, 2005
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Craig Westerland, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Title: Equivariant operads and string topology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, September 29, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago
- Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 30, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Title: Multi-Scale Models of Sequence-Dependent DNA Mechanics
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
Monday, October 3, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Alex Nepomnyashchy, Technion
- Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Evaporating Binary Mixtures
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor John Franks, Northwestern University
- Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces
Contact Info here
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia
- Title: Counting blocks
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 6, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University
- Title: Characterizing projective spaces
Contact Info here
Friday, October 7, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Iain Couzin, Oxford University
- Title: Collective animal behavior
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
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech L211, 4:00PM
- Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology
- Title: How Flies Fly
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
Monday, October 10, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Katja Lindenberg, UCSD
- Title: Reactions of Subdiffusive Particles and Subdiffusive Traps
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alex Stokolos, De Paul University
- Title: On Gurov-Reshetnyak property
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jacek Graczyk, Universite de Paris-Sud
- Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
- Title: Cyclic homology, $cdh$-cohomology and negative $K$-theory
Contact Info here
Monday, October 17, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Andrew Norris, Rutgers
- Title: Stability of Propagating Cracks and Front Waves using Matched Asymptotic Expansions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Steffen Sagave, Mathematisches Institut Bonn
- Title: Universal Toda brackets of ring spectra
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Christian Bonatti, Université de Bourgogne
- Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows
Contact Info here
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University
- Title: Homology of linear groups via cycles in BG x X
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 20, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics
- Title: Enumerative Geometry on Enriques Surfaces
Contact Info here
Friday, October 21, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Thierry Emonet, U Chicago
- Title: Towards a digital bacterium
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
Monday, October 24, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Steven Roper, Northwestern University
- Title: Fluid Driven Fracture in Geophysics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Homotopy decompositions at p =2 of sporadic simple groups
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 27, 2005
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Tech M166, 11am-12:30pm
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Formality of the Lie algebra of polyvector fields and Frobenius manifold
Special Note: http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~vald/mirror.htm">Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky
- Title: Elliptic genus test for the mirror of some complete intersection
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 28, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell
- Title: Energetics of Walking
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
Monday, October 31, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. David Dunand, Northwestern University
- Title: Metallic Foams
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University
- Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes".
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University
- Title: Is chaotic behavior typical among dynamical systems?
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 3, 2005
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Tech M166, 11:30am-12:30pm
- Melissa Liu, Northwestern University
- Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry I
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Nan-Kuo Ho, The Fields Institute (Canada) and National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
- Title: On the volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a non-orientable 2-manifold
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Henri Berestycki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Title: Reaction-diffusion equations and propagation phenomena in heterogeneous environment
Special Note: co-sponsored with FIG
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 4, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- George Lauder, Harvard University
- Title: How fishes swim: experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors
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
Workshop
- 3-4pm Professor Victor Donnay,
Bryn Mawr College
Title: A Mathematician Meets Learning Theory: a Formative Experience.
Place: Lunt 107
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 7, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Sahraoui Chaieb, U of Illinois
- Title: Large Deformations in Biomembranes: From the Golgi to Drug Delivery
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
- Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Swift 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Entov , Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology
- Title: "Almost homomorphisms", "almost linear" functionals and "almost measures" in symplectic topology
Special Note: Special time and location
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Jonathon Alperin, University of Chicago
- Title: Unipotent conjugacy in general linear groups
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 10, 2005
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm
- Melissa Liu, Northwestern University
- Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry II
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10 pm
- Yoichiro Mori , Courant Institute, New York University
- Title: A Three Dimensional Model of Cellular Electrical Activity: mathematical analysis and numerical simulation
Special Note: Special PDE seminar
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Difference operators, Hilbert schemes, and the Ruijsenaars-Schneider system
Contact Info here
Friday, November 11, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Tasso Kaper, Boston University
- Title: Dynamics of patterns in activator-inhibitor 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
Monday, November 14, 2005
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Kenneth Schweizer, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
- Title: Microscopic Theories of Hybrid Soft Materials: Structure, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago
- Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Steve Hurder, UIC
- Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Steven Doty, Loyola University
- Title: Is there a twisted tensor product theorem for indecomposable modules?
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 17, 2005
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and Gromov-Witten theory
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Lev Borisov , University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Analytic continuation of solutions of GKZ system and homological mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
- Title: Stability and convergence of efficient Navier-Stokes solvers via a commutator estimate
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 18, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. M. Grae Worster, Cambridge, UK
- Title: The interior of mushy layers revealed
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
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern University
- Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 28, 2005
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Mike Hill, MIT
- Title: A New Hopf Algebra for Computing tmf Homology and the tmf Homology of B\Sigma_3
Special Note: Note the time change: this talk is at 3 pm, not 4:10 pm
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- Title: Transition, turbulence and drag reduction in flowing polymer solutions: the role of self-sustained coherent structures
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Thursday, December 1, 2005
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
- Title: On Some Two-Dimensional Problems of Conservation Laws
Contact Info here
Friday, December 2, 2005
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
- Title: An Articulated Fish Swimming with Point Vortices
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
Monday, December 5, 2005
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Tyler Lawson, MIT
- Title: Ring spectra associated to Shimura varieties and the K(n)-local sphere
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
- Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor David Damanik, Caltech
- Title: Structures of intermediate complexity and quantum dynamics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 5, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Roman Shvydkoy, UIC
- Title: Shortwave instabilities of ideal fluid and the cocycle theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 6, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and Frobenius manifolds in higher genus
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Chao Tang, UCSF
- Title: On Function and Form
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
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Frank Calegari, Harvard University
- Title: Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
- Title: The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin - Stout
- Title: Cohomology of Lie algebras and quantum groups
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Monica Visan, UCLA
- Title: The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 12, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Maria G. Reznikof, Princeton University
- Title: Slow Motion of Gradient Flows
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Joseph Johns, Univesity of Chicago
- Title: The directed Fukaya category and Morse theory
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mikhail Pereplitsa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Title: The existence of weak, small energy solutions for the equations of motion of 3D compressible, viscous fluid flows with the no-slip boundary conditions
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 103, 5:30pm
- Justin Thomas,
- Title: Quadratic Forms and Closed Geodesics in the Modular Space
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 13, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor David Hoff, Indiana University
- Title: Uniqueness of Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations of\r\nMultidimensional, Compressible Flow
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 16, 2006
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University
- Title: Eigenvalue Distributions for Gaussian Unitary Ensembles
Special Note: This is the first meeting of the Random Matrix Theory seminar
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3pm
- Vigleik Angeltveit, MIT
- Title: The cyclic (co)bar construction on A-infinity objects and THH
Special Note: Note the time.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Martin Bazant, MIT
- Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jeff Viaclovsky, M.I.T.
- Title: Moduli Spaces in Riemannian Geometry
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Curt McMullen, Harvard University
- Title: Topology of numbers
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Chris Novak,
- Title: Thurston's Classification of Surface Automorphisms
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Teruji Thomas, University of Chicago
- Title: The Maslov class as a quadratic space
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
- Title: Combinatorial differential manifolds: Oriented matroids in topology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 19, 2006
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jane McDougall, Colorado College
- Title: Harmonic Maps onto Polygonal Domains and Minimal Surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Peter Storm, Stanford University
- Title: Topological lower volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Special Note: Special Colloquium
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 20, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Thierry Emonet, University of Chicago
- Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI
- Title: Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 23, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jason Starr, MIT
- Title: Solutions of families of polynomial equations
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Jeff Allotta,
- Title: Arithmetic Geometry, Rational Points, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 26, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng, University of British Columbia & MSRI
- Title: Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 27, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Greg Lawler, Cornell University
- Title: Conformal Invariance and Two-dimensional Statistical Physics
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M345, 3:00PM
- Prof. Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University
- Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Florian Herzig, Harvard University
- Title: The weight in Serre's Conjecture for GL_3
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 30, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Oren Ben Bassat,
- Title: Noncommutative tori and the Fourier-Mukai transform
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elizabeth Meckes, Stanford University
- Title: Random matrices and infinitesimal rotations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Alexander Bufetov, University of Chicago
- Title: Decay of correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich induction map on the space of interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Julie Rowlett, Stanford University
- Title: Spectral Geometry and Asymptotically Conic Convergence
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor David Nadler,
- Title: Morse Theory and Graphs
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 2, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Barannikov's construction of Frobenius manifolds versus BV-infinity algebras
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Vera Hur, Brown University
- Title: Rotational Stokes waves: construction via degree/bifurcation theory
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Cluster Algebras, Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 3, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Professor Young-Heon Kim, The Fields Institute, University of Toronto
- Title: The determinant of the Laplacian and the quasifuchsian space
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Renato Feres, Washington University, St. Louis
- Title: Random billiards and diffusion
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
Monday, February 6, 2006
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Semi-circle law for Wigner random matrices II
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Donald Yau, Ohio State University
- Title: Gerstenhaber structure and Deligne's conjecture for Loday algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
- Title: Gowers's norms in combinatorial number theory and in ergodic theory
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Mike Johnson,
- Title: Applications of Ergodic Theory in the field of Combinatorics
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 9, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Relative formality theorem and quantization of coisotropic submanifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 10, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Peter S. Dodds, Columbia University
- Title: Models of social and biological contagion
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. P. S. Dodds, Columbia University
- Title: Models of Social and Biological Contagion
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Sergiy Koshkin, Kansas State University
- Title: Conormal bundles to knots and Large N duality
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 13, 2006
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
- Title: Coexistence for Richardson type competing spatial growth models
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Bernard Host, University of Marne la Vallee
- Title: Multiple recurrence and convergence along the primes
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 16, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 101, 12:30-2pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT II
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Alexandra Pettet, University of Chicago
- Title: Finiteness properties of subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 17, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Roger Guimera, Northwestern University
- Title: Modules and roles: towards a cartography of complex 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
Monday, February 20, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Jacob Rubinstein, Indiana University
- Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Teena Gerhardt, MIT
- Title: Towards an RO(S^1)-graded Witt complex
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Alexander Fish, Hebrew University
- Title: Solvability of Linear Equations within Weak-Mixing Sets
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute
- Title: TBA
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Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:00pm
- Panel and Audience Discussion,
- Title: Graduate Course Meeting
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:45pm
- Professor Melissa Liu,
- Title: Marino-Vafa formula of one-partition Hodge integrals
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute
- Title: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks and a Model of Birdsong Learning
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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Thursday, February 23, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Mirror symmetry for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov)
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Oleg Igoshin, University of California- Davis
- Title: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial development: Insights from Mathematical Modeling
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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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Paul Seidel, University of Chicago
- Title: Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo
Abstract and details available
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Chicago Area PDE Workshop
- 10:00-10:50 Professor Carlos Kenig,
University of Chicago
Title: The well-posedness of the Benjamin-Ono equation
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 11:00-11:50 Professor Jerry Bona,
University of Illionios at Chicago
Title: Ill posedness for water wave models with applications to the possible generation of Rogue Waves
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 13:30-14:20 Professor Susan Friedlander,
University of Illinois-Chicago
Title: The Limit of Vanishing Viscosity for the Navier-Stokes Spectrum
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 14:30-15:20 Professor Marshall Slemrod,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: On two-dimensional sonic-subsonic flow
Details of the talk
- 16:00-16:50 Professor Frank Merle,
University of Cergy--Pontoise and Institut Universitaire de France
Title: Review for the blow-up problem for critical NLS.
Details of the talk
- 17:00-17:50 Professor Peter Constantin,
University of Chicago
Title: Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Navier-Stokes systems: regularity, long time dynamics and open problems
Details of the talk
Monday, February 27, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan
- Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
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 Tom Fiore, University of Chicago
- Title: Double Categories and Double Structures
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: Centralizers of C^1 generic diffeomorphisms
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Joshua Weitz, Princeton University
- Title: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral communities: from microstates to macrodynamics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at CHampaign-Urbana
- Title: K-theory of singularities
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Marco Aldi,
- Title: What is a ... String?
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago
- Title: Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and homotopy Frobenius algebras
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 2, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
- Title: Test of the homological mirror conjecture for flat complex tori (after A. Kapustin and D. Orlov)
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Mohammed Abouzaid, University of Chicago
- Title: On Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Wolfgang Staubach, University of Chicago
- Title: Estimates for pseudodifferential operators with low regularity and applications
Contact Info here
Monday, March 6, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Keith Promislaw, Michigan State University
- Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ionel Popescu, Northwestern University
- Title: Semicircle Law and Logarithmic Potential
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona
- Title: Factoring the Becker-Gottlieb Transfer through the Trace map
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Chris Leininger, University of Illinois
- Title: Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and homology
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Stefano Boccaletti, CNR- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi
- Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics
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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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Vivek Dhand,
- Title: Outer Automorphisms of Categories
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mikhael Gromov, IHES and NYU
- Title: Singularities of smooth maps and isoperimetric inequalities
Special Note: Professor Gromov is a Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 9, 2006
- Topics in Mirror Symmetry
Lunt 102, 12:30-2pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Mihnea Popa, University of Chicago
- Title: GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 10, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Michael F. Schatz, Center for Nonlinear Science and School of Physics, Georgia Tech
- Title: Homological Characterization of Spiral Defect Chaos
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
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ben Green, Unversity of Bristol & MIT
- Title: Generalising the Hardy-Littlewood method for primes
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 27, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Jens O.M. Karlsson, Georgia Tech
- Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery
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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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Amos Nevo, IAS and Technion University
- Title: Ergodic theory and lattice points
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Juan Souto, University of Chicago
- Title: Geometry of Heegaard splittings and rank of the fundamental group
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 30, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
- Title: Numerical methods for equations of fluid mechanics
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4.15pm
- Professor Alexey Bondal, Steklov Institute, Moscow
- Title: Derived categories of toric varieties
Contact Info here
Friday, March 31, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University
- Title: Statistical Analysis for Network Science
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
Monday, April 3, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann, NJIT
- Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jozsef Fritz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Title: Compensated Compactness and Stochastic Models of Hydrodynamics
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
- Title: A criterion for unique ergodicity of a translation flow
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 6, 2006
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3pm
- Professor Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario
- Title: Cocycle categories
Special Note: Unusual day and time
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Davesh Maulik, Princeton University
- Title: Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of A_n resolutions
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 3 (evening) and depart on April 7 (morning).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 7, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Professor Daniel Segre', Boston University
- Title: Learning about the evolution of biochemical networks from topology, fluxes and perturbations
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
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Eric Friedlander, Bryna Kra, Amie Wilkinson and Eric Zaslow
- Title: Panel: How to apply for a grant
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Madhav Nori, University of Chicago
- Title: Hyperplane arrangements, mixed Tate motives, and a theorem of Suslin
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 13, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Marco Gualtieri , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Title: D-branes in generalized complex manifolds
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 13 (morning) and depart on April 14 (night).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 14, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Title: Towards Estimating the Risk of Cascading Failure Blackouts
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Fedor Malikov, University of South California
- Title: From Lagrangians to sheaves of vertex algebras
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor David Griffeath, Univ of Wisconsin
- Title: MODELING SLOW CRYSTAL GROWTH
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 17, 2006
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
- Title: Heat transport bounds for Rayleigh-Benard convection in an infinite
Special Note: This is a joint analysis/probability and PDE seminar
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Daomin Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Title: Nonsymmetric Positive Solutions for Symmetric Dirichlet Elliptic Problems
Special Note: This is a joint PDE and Analysis/Probability Seminar
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor David Fisher, Indiana University
- Title: Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries and rigidity for lattices in solvable Lie groups
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin,
- Title: A categorical definition of the cyclic differential
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:00pm
- Sasha Getmanenko,
- Title: Divergent series and quantum tunneling
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 20, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Renzo Cavalieri, University of Michigan
- Title: Hurwitz numbers and Admissible Covers
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 19 (night) and depart on April 21 (evening).
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 21, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: A generalized Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg isomorphism
Special Note: The speaker will arrive between 11-11:30am on April 21 and depart on the same day.
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 24, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Yefim Brun, DuPont
- Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Corbett Redden, Notre Dame University
- Title: The adiabatic limit of a string structure
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:05pm
- Professor Vladimir Guletski,
- Title: Zeta functions in motivic stable categories
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 27, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Title: Natural differential operators and graph complexes
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 28, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Greg Huber, University of Connecticut
- Title: Dominos, first-passage problems, and dynamic binding in flagellar motor statistics
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
Monday, May 1, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
- Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Robert (Bob) Bruner, Wayne State University
- Title: The homological approach to computing algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 4, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor David Nadler, Northwestern University
- Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category
Contact Info here
Friday, May 5, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Jane Wang, Cornell
- Title: Efficiency of flapping flight
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
Monday, May 8, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Eric Lauga, MIT
- Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kathleen (Kate) Ponto, University of Chicago
- Title: Fixed Point Theory and Bicategories
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University
- Title: Cantor minimal models for ergodic transformations and topological orbit equivalence.
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:00pm
- Andrea Carter,
- Title: Brauer-Manin Obstructions and Del-Pezzo Surfaces
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Fully Nonlinear Equations From Conformal Geometry
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 11, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Christopher Woodward, Rutgers University
- Title: Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory and TQFT
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on May 10 (night) and depart on May 12 (morning).
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Hongjie Dong , University of Chicago
- Title: Regularity of solutions to the heat equations near singular boundary points
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 12, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Title: Boolean models for genetic regularity 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
Monday, May 15, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech
- Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Batanin, Macquarie University
- Title: Recognition of n-fold loop spaces and symmetrisation of n-operads
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 107, 5:00PM
- Professor Isaac Kornfeld, Northwestern University
- Title: Packing boxes into boxes, squaring rectangles, and other challenging elementary problems
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Marcelo Viana, IMPA
- Title: Dynamics in the moduli space of abelian differentials
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Jeremiah Heller,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00 pm
- Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
- Title: The Mathematics of Doodling
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 18, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Lev Rozansky, University of North Carolina
- Title: Soergel bimodules and the categorification of the 2-variable HOMFLY-PT polynomial
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Joachim Krieger, Harvard
- Title: Recent developments on global existence and breakdown of Wave Maps in the critical dimension
Contact Info here
Friday, May 19, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. Bertrand Duplantier, Theoretical Physics, CEA- Saclay
- Title: Brownian Motion
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
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern Unversity
- Title: Formality of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra of Hochschild cochains of a regular algebra
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 22, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
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
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Daniel Davis, Purdue University
- Title: The Homotopy Orbit Spectrum for Profinite Groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight.
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
- Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight
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
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:00pm
- Matt Salomone,
- Title: 101 things to do with N bodies
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki
- Title: On a problem of Calderon and the mathematics of medical imaging
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 25, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University
- Title: On Mukai conjecture for singular varieties
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Laura Spinolo, SISSA ( Italy)
- Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ethan Devinatz, University of Washington
- Title: Finiteness properties for the homotopy groups of certain homotopy fixed point spectra
Special Note: This seminar is on Thursday!
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Pat Hooper, SUNY Stony Brook
- Title: Stable Periodic Billiard Paths in Triangle
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 2, 2006
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. John White, Boston University
- Title: Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation
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
Monday, June 5, 2006
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor James (Jim) Turner, Calvin College
- Title: On topological lifts of algebraic diagrams
Abstract and details available
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