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Year 2008
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Monday, January 7, 2008
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Bertrand Guillou, University of Chicago
- Title: Higher Steinberg Relations
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 10, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Matthew Ballard, Washington
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, January 14, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech LR5, 4:00PM
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- Title:
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 Spyros Alexakis, Princeton University
- Title: The decomposition of global conformal invariants: On a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Hongkun Zhang, Northwestern
- Title: Decay of correlations for nonuniformly hyperbolic billiards
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Natasa Sesum, Columbia University
- Title: The Ricci flow and precise asymptotics of a type II singularity on R^2.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 17, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler,
- Title: TFT in 2 dimensions and Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces
Contact Info here
Friday, January 18, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- S. Olson, North Carolina State University
- Title: Talk canceled: A level set reaction-diffusion model for cartilage
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
Monday, January 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Eric Keaveny, Brown University
- Title: Paramagnetic Beads: From Dipolar Aggregation to Artificial magnetic
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton and IAS
- Title: Equidistribution and primes I
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton and IAS
- Title: Equidistribution and primes II
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 24, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton and IAS
- Title: Equidistribution and primes III
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 25, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Elizabeth Bouzarth, University of North Carolina
- Title: Modeling Biologically Inspired Fluid Flow Using Regularized
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 28, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
LR5, 4:00PM
- Eric Luijten, University of Illinois aat Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Self-assembly driven by electrostatic interactions: Understanding
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Katrin Gelfert, Visiting Professor, Northwestern University
- Title: Lyapunov spectrum of some parabolic maps
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 31, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gabriel Kerr, Northwestern University
- Title: Relative Fukaya Categories
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Chenghao Chu,
- Title: Representing Cohomology Theories in the Triangulated Category of Motives
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Unversidad de la Republica, Montevideo
- Title: New criteria for ergodicity and the Pugh Shub conjecture
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 7, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Microlocal criterion for non-displaceability of Lagrangians
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Benoit Perthame, University of Paris 6
- Title: Mathematical Models of Cell Motion
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Justin Thomas,
- Title: The Phantom of the Operad
Contact Info here
Friday, February 8, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Sarah Olson, North Carolina State University
- Title: A Level Set Reaction Diffusion Model for Cartilage Regeneration
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 11, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Michael Gratton, Duke University
- Title: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Lan Wen, Peking University and Northwestern University
- Title: Existence of transverse homoclinic points
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 14, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ronnie Hadani, University of Chicago
- Title: Quantization of symplectic vector spaces: An algebra-geometric approach
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Professor Amie Wilkinson,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Steve Hurder, UIC
- Title: Classifying foliation dynamics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 21, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrew Neitzke, IAS
- Title: Comments on Holomorphic Anomalies
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago
- Title: On pointwise decay for wave evolutions on asymptotically conic manifolds
Contact Info here
Friday, February 22, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Laura Schmidt, University of Chicago
- Title: Vibrational Modes of an Implosion Singularity
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
- Title: Additive combinatorics and ergodic theory: beyond Fourier analysis
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 28, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
- Title: Witten equation and quantum singularity theory
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Rob Nendorf,
- Title: Eckmann-Hilton Duality in Homotopy Theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Peter Jung, Ohio University
- Title: Optimal Synaptic Transmission
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: CANCELLED A nonlinear PDE model for "lakes" and "rivers"
Special Note: CANCELLED
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Curt McMullen, Harvard University
- Title: Echos of Teichmueller theory in holomorphic dynamics on the unit disk
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Artur Avila, CNRS and IMPA
- Title: Quasiperiodic cocycles and the almost Mathieu operator
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 6, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Microlocal criterion for non-displaceability of Lagrangians -Part 2
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yaguang Wang,, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Title: The Sharp Interface Limit of Hydrodynamics for Immiscible Flows
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Amanda Potts,
- Title: The Furstenberg Correspondence Principle: Connecting Dynamics and Additive Combinatorics
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 10, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Cristian Huepe, Northwestern University
- Title: New Perspectives in the Study of Swarming Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 13, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Alexander Ritter, MIT
- Title: Novikov-symplectic cohomology and exact Lagrangian embeddings
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
- Title: Reaction-diffusion fronts in random media
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 17, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Manchester
- Title: Pattern switching in a cellular solid: potential applications in
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Erin Lennon, Univerity of California Santa Barbara
- Title: Field Theoretic Simulations of Diblock Copolymers
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 27, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3.00pm
- Laura Caravenna , SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy
- Title: Sufficient conditions for optimality of $c$-cyclically monotone transference plans
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 31, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Lucien Brush, University of Washington
- Title: Dynamics of films in foam
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 3, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
- Title: Donaldson-Thomas invariants, motivic integration and cluster transformations
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 4, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Dmytro Shklyarov, Kansas State University
- Title: Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch Theorem for DG algebras
Special Note: Special Session
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ayse Sahin, DePaul
- Title: Dye's theorem in the almost continuous category
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00 pm
- Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Title: Arithmetic Resurgence in Quantum Topology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 10, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Takuya Okuda, UCSB
- Title: Bubbling Calabi-Yau geometry
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Stefano Bianchini, SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy
- Title: ODE invariants and 2d Hamiltonian vector fields
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 14, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Paul Bressler, Indiana University
- Title: Atiyah Class and Hochschild Cohomology
Special Note: Special Session (Please note room change)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Diego del Castillo Negrete, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Title: Fractional diffusion models of anomalous transport
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, April 15, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
- Title: Divergent trajectories of homogeneous flows
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Nodal hypersurfaces, ergodicity and complex analysis
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 17, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Daniel Sternheimer, Keio University, Japan
- Title: The deformation philosophy, quantization and noncommutative space-time structures
Special Note: Please note the room change
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 107, 5:30pm
- Jeff Allotta,
- Title: Using the Modularity of Elliptic Curves to Calculate L-Functions
Contact Info here
Monday, April 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Aaditya Rangan, New York University
- Title: The line motion illusion in a cortical network model
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Dave Morris, University of Lethbridge
- Title: Amenable groups that act on the line
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 107, 3:00 pm
- Professors Calegari, Herzig, Kim, Wilkinson and Wunsch,
- Title: Graduate Student Panel: Applying for Postdocs
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 24, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Benjamin Young, UBC
- Title: Counting colored 3D Young diagrams with vertex operators
Special Note: Please note the room change
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Chuangxun Cheng,
- Title: Introduction to Fontaine-Laffaille Theory
Contact Info here
Monday, April 28, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Daniel Ben-Avraham, Clarkson University
- Title: On the Ordering of Random Walkers on the Line
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Gregory Galperin, Eastern Illinois University
- Title: Polygonal, Polyhedral, and other Traps for Non-Periodic Billiard Trajectories
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 5:30
- sponsored by Women in Mathematics and Math Club,
- Title: Movie: Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
Special Note: Dessert will be served after this movie
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 1, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Jake P. Solomon, Princeton
- Title: Differential equations for the open Gromov-Witten potential
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Tom Dunlap,
- Title: Quantum Computing and Factoring
Contact Info here
Monday, May 5, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Harry Swinney, University of Texas
- Title: Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical, Chemical and Biological
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 Frank Quinn, Virginia Tech
- Title: Stalking the Farrell-Jones conjecture
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Nikos Frantzikinakis, University of Memphis
- Title: A Hardy Field Extension of Szemeredi's Theorem
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Harry Swinney, University of Texas
- Title: Dynamical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers to Transport in
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, May 8, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
- Title: Soliton Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Shu Gao,
- Title: The Navier Stokes Equation in Fluid Mechanics
Contact Info here
Friday, May 9, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Anette (Peko) Hosoi, MIT
- Title: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 12, 2008
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Professor Benedict Gross, Harvard
- Title: On the irreducible representations of compact simply-connected Lie groups
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Seonhee Lim, Cornell University
- Title: Volume entropy rigidity for buildings (Joint work with François Ledrappier)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- Undergraduate Math Society
Lunt 105, 5:00PM
- Professor Andrew Granville, University of Montreal
- Title: Patterns in the Primes
Special Note: Annual Undergraduate Prize Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 15, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Dongho Chae, University of Chicago and Sungkyunkwan University
- Title: On the blow-up problem and new apriori estimates for the 3D Euler eqautions
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Elizabeth Gasparim, University of Edinburgh
- Title: Nekrasov conjecture for toric varieties
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Carlotta Donadello, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- Title: On the Approximation of Conservation Laws by Vanishing Viscosity
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Owen Gwilliam,
- Title: A Little Classical Algebraic Geometry via Linear Algebra
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 16, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- David Salac, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
- Title: Fast Marching Methods: Time Advancement and Non-Graded Cartesian
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 19, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- J. Rinzel, New York University (Courant Institute)
- Title: Dynamics of perceptual bistability
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Professor Mark Behrens, MIT
- Title: Modular Forms in Topology
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Tom Sanders, IAS
- Title: Differences and the primes
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 22, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Alina Marian, Institute for Advanced Study
- Title: Theta dualities on moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces.
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Ted Stadnik,
- Title: An Accessible and Elementary Introduction to 'Strongly' Equivariant D-modules on Flag Varieties and the Associated Lie Algebra Representations through Examples with SL_2(k)
Contact Info here
Friday, May 23, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- David Hansen, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
- Title: Singular Velocities Within a Low Reynolds Number Fluid
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Pierre Berger, Stony Brook University
- Title: Persistence of stratifications of laminations
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Stephen J. Watson, Glasgow University
- Title: Undercooled Herring Crystals Violate the Wulff Construction
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
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jun Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Transonic flows past wedges governed by full Euler equations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Craig Westerland, Wisconsin
- Title: Vanishing in string topology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 29, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dagan Karp, Berkeley
- Title: Quantum geometry of local CP^1 and its cyclic quotients
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Maria Salcedo,
- Title: Galois Deformations
Contact Info here
Monday, June 2, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Jinqiao Duan , Illinois Institute of Technology
- Title: Exit Phenomena under Non-Gaussian Fluctuations
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Thursday, June 5, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Monica Torres , Purdue University
- Title: On the structure of solutions of multidimensional systems of conservation laws
Abstract and details available
Monday, July 28, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Timothy P. Schulze, University of Tennessee
- Title: Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods
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
Friday, September 26, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- Professor Catharina Stroppel, Bonn
- Title: Cohomology of Springer fibres in representation theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 29, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern
- Title: What is an arithmetic group?
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Ehud Yariv, Technion
- Title: Electroconvection about Conducting Bodies in the Thick Debye Layer
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 105, 4pm
- Professor Catharina Stroppel, Bonn
- Title: Finite dimensional modules for super gl(m|n) via diagrams
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Kal Nanes, Northwestern University
- Title: On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic group actions
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 3:00PM
- S.H. Davis, P. Voorhees, A. Nepomnyashchy, Northwestern University
- Title: The Research Career of Alexander A. Golovin
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
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University
- Title: Dynamics of a density discontinuity in compressible viscous flows
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 6, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Alex Gamburd, UCSC/Northwestern
- Title: Sum-product, expanders, and sieving
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- James Brasseur, Penn State
- Title: Discovery of a Mechanical Mechanism for Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
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 Benson Farb, University of Chicago
- Title: Hidden symmetry
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Polynomials
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Rupert Venzke, Northwestern
- Title: Braid Forcing and Hyperbolic Geometry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor John Francis, Northwestern
- Title: En-geometry
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- David Nadler, Northwestern
- Title: Stability conditions for vector bundles on low genus curves
Contact Info here
Monday, October 13, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash, UIC
- Title: Gross-Prasad for GSp(4)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- William Schultz, NSF
- Title: Fish Swimming Stability
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
- Teena Gerhardt , Indiana University
- Title: Algebraic K-theory of the dual numbers
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:00PM
- Professor Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 10:00AM
- Dr. William Schultz, National Science Foundation
- Title: What's the Buzz at NSF?
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
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Chris Connell, Indiana University
- Title: Leafwise entropy rigidity for foliations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor John Francis,
- Title: En-geometry, II -- POSTPONED
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Senior Faculty,
- Title: Meeting of Tenured Faculty
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 17, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Anthony Anderson, Northwestern University
- Title: Dynamics and Stability of Freezing Metallic Foams
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
- Title: On the Higher Order Yamabe Problem
Contact Info here
Monday, October 20, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: Elliptic curves and modular forms
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Edward Ott, University of Maryland
- Title: Dynamics of Large Systems of Many Coupled Oscillators: Low
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Dan Ramras, Vanderbilt
- Title: Gauge theory and homotopical representation theory
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Puzzle Problems
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 1
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Piotr Oprocha, AGH University of Science and Technology
- Title: Coherent lists and chaotic sets
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Austin Ford,
- Title: A Brief Introduction to Microlocal Analysis
Contact Info here
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 2
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
- Title: Integrable hierarchies and singularity theory
Abstract and details available
Thirtieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 4:10PM-5:10PM Professor Fabrice Baudoin,
Purdue University
Title: Some Properties of SDE's Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 24, 2008
- 3:00PM-4:00PM Professor Jean-Francois Le Gall,
University of Paris
Title: The Continuous Limit of Large Random Planar Graphs, I
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 4:30PM-5:30PM Professor Alexei Borodin,
California Institute of Technology
Title: Growth of Random Surfaces
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 25, 2008
- 9:30AM-10:30AM Professor Jean-Francois Le Gall,
University of Paris
Title: The Continuous Limit of Large Random Planar Graphs, II
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 1:30PM-2:30PM Professor Savas Dayanik,
Princeton University
Title: Sequential Change Detection and Identification Problems for Stochastic Processes
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 27, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 3
Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor John Flynn, Northwestern
- Title: Galois groups and the image size of rational maps
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- John C. Bischof, University of Minnesota
- Title: Bioheat and Mass Transfer Measurement and Modeling in Cryobiology
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Florian Herzig, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Recurrences
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 4
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor David Damanik, Rice University
- Title: Schrödinger cocycles over the skew-shift
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Kal Nanes,
- Title:
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
- Title: Differential Geometry of Toric Manifolds 5
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- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- John Francis,
- Title: T-structures
Special Note: www.math.northwestern.edu/~nadler/wedseminarfall2008.html
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 30, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Daniel Thompson, Warwick Mathematics Institute
- Title: The irregular set for the Beta-shift has full topological entropy
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
Contact Info here
Monday, November 3, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Mark Reeder, Boston College
- Title: Simple supercuspidal representations and simple wild parameters
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Cheng Ouyang, Northwestern University
- Title: Introduction to Fractional Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- David Gepner, U of I Chicago
- Title: Multiplicative structure on Thom R-module spectra
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Joshua Shadlen, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Probability and Statistics
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Mike Todd, University of Porto
- Title: Multifractal analysis for multimodal maps
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Zhiwei Yun, Princeton
- Title: A global analogue of Springer representations
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 102, 5PM-6PM
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Analysis
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- John Francis,
- Title: T-structures and slicings
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 6, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jin Feng , University of Kansas
- Title: Stochastic scalar conservation laws
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 10, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Tong Liu, Purdue
- Title: Lattices in semi-stable representations
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Integral Representation of Fractional Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Vigleik Angeltveit , University of Chicago
- Title: Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:00PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: The Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Katrin Gelfert, Northwestern
- Title: Multifractal analysis in nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rowan Killip , UCLA
- Title: Some operators with random matrix eigenvalue statistics
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 6:00pm
- Evgeny Shinder,
- Title: Cohomology Theories of Algebraic Varieties and the Milnor Conjecture
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- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 5-6pm
- Professor Sophie Morel, IAS
- Title: On the cohomology of some non-compact Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Kevin Costello,
- Title: Stability conditions
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- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Monica Visan, Chicago
- Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations at critical regularity
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 13, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Ken Golden, University of Utah
- Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Ken Golden, University of Utah
- Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 14, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Alexander Skubachevskii, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
- Title: Elliptic Functional Differential Equations and Applications
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor Stephen Kudla, Toronto
- Title: Arithmetic cycles for unitary groups
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University
- Title: From Target Search to Travel Bugs
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
- A. L. Skubachevskii, Moscow, Russia
- Title: The Feller Semigroups
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor John Francis, Northwestern University
- Title: E_n-deformation theory
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Liouville property on regular covers
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- A. J. Tolland, UC Berkeley
- Title:
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- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Dan Visscher,
- Title: Cohomological Equations in Dynamical Systems
Contact Info here
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 104, 5-6pm
- Professor Sophie Morel, IAS
- Title: On the cohomology of some non-compact Shimura varieties, part 2
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Kevin Costello, Northwestern
- Title: Spaces of stability conditions
Contact Info here
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 102, 5PM-6PM
- Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems involving Integrals
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 20, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
- Title: TBA
Special Note: This talk is on a THURSDAY!
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton
- Title: Computing Heegaard Floer Homology
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Title: Zero Viscosity Limit for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Navier Boundary Conditions
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 2:00PM
- Genevieve Brown, Northwestern University
- Title: Time Delayed Feedback Control of Subcritical Limit Cycles
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:30pm
- Yongxia Hua,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, November 24, 2008
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00 PM
- Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf,
- Title: Meeting with the Dean of WCAS
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Fucheng Tan, MIT
- Title: Galois eigenvarieties
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM-6:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
- Title: Challenging Elementary Problems in Graph Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Pierre Py, University of Chicago
- Title: Quasi-morphisms continuous for the C^0-topology on groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of surfaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 1, 2008
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Professor David Helm, UT Austin
- Title: On p-adic families of admissible representations of GL_2(Q_l).
Abstract and details available
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Fractional Brownian Motion and its Representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Kari Ragnarsson, DePaul
- Title: Fusion in the Burnside ring
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:10PM
- Professor Frank Calegary, Northwestern University
- Title: How to write up a solution
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:30pm
- Professor Dmytro Shklyarov,
- Title: Equivariant Topological Field Theories
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota
- Title: Multiscale Analysis in Biology
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Friday, December 5, 2008
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Willi Jaeger, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Title: Derivation of a Macroscopic Model System for Flow, Chemical and Mechanical Processes in Tissue
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