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Academic Year 2010-2011
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Carlos Matheus, College de France
- Title: C^1 Density of Axiom A for Benedicks-Carlesson toy models
Contact Info here
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
- Department Meeting
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- Title: Faculty Meeting
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Monday, September 27, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dean Baskin, Northwestern
- Title: Wave equations on asymptotic de Sitter spaces
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University
- Title: Iwasawa Theory of Modular Forms
Contact Info here
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00pm
- Siu-Cheong Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Title: Quantum Corrections in SYZ Mirror Symmetry
Special Note: Pre-talk aimed at graduate students; main talk at 4PM
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Aaron Brown, Tufts University
- Title: Rigid properties of measure on the torus
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Naichung Conan Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Title: Mirror Symmetry via SYZ Transformation for Toric Manifolds
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Karen Vogtmann, Cornell
- Title: Maps into and out of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available
Thursday, September 30, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 04:00pm
- Susama Agarwala, Caltech
- Title: Global beta-functions under zeta-function regularization
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Austin Ford, Northwestern University
- Title: The Fourier transform and its progeny
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 1, 2010
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Ian Griffiths, University of Oxford
- Title: Mathematical modelling of adsorption kinetics and micellization in
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Abstract and details available
Monday, October 4, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Parul Laul, University of North Carolina
- Title: Localized energy estimates for wave equations on high dimensional Schwarschild space-times
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Benjamin Vaughan, University of Cincinnati
- Title: Numerical Simulations of the Propagation of a Liquid Plug through a
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 02:00PM
- Frank Calegari, IAS and Northwestern
- Title: Even Galois representations and the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Rosona Eldred, University of Illinois
- Title: A Tale of Two Towers
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Victor Kleptsyn, Universite de Rennes
- Title: Group actions on the circle
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 7, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 11:00am
- Robin Koytcheff, Brown University
- Title: Pre-talk: Finite-type knot invariants and their generalizations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Robin Koytcheff, Brown University
- Title: A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes integrals and knot spaces
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
- Title: Spin structures
Contact Info here
Monday, October 11, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland
- Title: Arnold diffusion for convex Hamiltonians in arbitrary degrees of freedom (joint with P. Bernard and K. Zhang)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor B. Akers, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Water Waves with Surface Tension
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Toby Gee, Northwestern University
- Title: Potential automorphy for compatible systems of l-adic Galois representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mehdi Khorami, Northwestern
- Title:
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland
- Title: Finiteness of central configurations and Smale's 6th problem (joint with A. Albouy)
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 14, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 11:00am
- Si Li, Harvard
- Title: Pretalk: Feynman Diagrams, Perturbative field theory and Calabi-Yau geometry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Si Li, Harvard University
- Title: BCOV theory on the elliptic curve and higher-genus mirror symmetry
Contact Info here
32nd Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 1:30pm Timo Seppalainen,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Burke property for M/M/1 queues, a last passage model and a directed polymer
Details of the talk
- 2:45pm Timo Seppalainen,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Scaling exponents for a 1+1 dimensional directed polymer
Details of the talk
- 4:10pm Firas Rassoul-Agha,
University of Utah
Title: Fluctuations of random walk in dynamic random environment
Details of the talk
Friday, October 15, 2010
- 3:00pm Kurt Johansson,
KHT, Sweden
Title: Non-colliding Brownian motions and random matrix theory I
Details of the talk
- 4:30pm Sourav Chatterjee,
New York University
Title: he Large Deviation Principle for the Erdos-Renyi Random Graph
Details of the talk
Saturday, October 16, 2010
- 9:30am Kurt Johansson,
KHT, Sweden
Title: Non-colliding Brownian motions and random matrix theory II
Details of the talk
- 1:30pm Benedek Valko,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Random tri-diagonal matrices, beta ensembles and random Schrodinger operators
Details of the talk
Monday, October 18, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Sharp two-sided estimates on the heat kernels and Green functions of subordinate Brownian motions in smooth domains
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Sandip Ghosal, Northwestern University
- Title: Transport Problems in Capillary Electrophoresis
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- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 02:00PM
- Bryden Cais, Wisconsin
- Title: Hida families for GL_2 and Lambda-adic Hodge theory
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Christopher Dwyer, Northwestern
- Title:
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ana Rechtman,
- Title: Minimal Folner foliations are amenable
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Yuri Manin, Northwestern University
- Title: Mordell-Weil problem for cubic surfaces: a combinatorial approach
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 21, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 11:00am
- Mohammed Abouzaid, MIT
- Title: Pretalk: (Symplectic) Khovanov homology and constructible sheaves
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Mohammed Abouzaid,
- Title: (Symplectic) Khovanov homology and constructible sheaves
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Yuan Shen, Northwestern University
- Title: Weighted projective space and Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 25, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Emmanuel Schenk, Northwestern
- Title: Stabilization without geometric control : a topological pressure condition
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor A. Rempel, University of Oregon
- Title: Melting and sliding in glaciology and fault mechanics
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- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Tom Weston, University of Massachusetts
- Title: Unobstructed deformation problems for GSp(4)
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Gabriel Drummond-Cole, Northwestern
- Title: BV-infinity and the Barannikov-Kontsevich construction
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jon Chaika, University of Chicago
- Title: Non-uniquely ergodic interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Yong-Geun Oh, Wisconsin
- Title: Pretalk: Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Yong-Geun Oh, Wisconsin
- Title: Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- RCR Panel, Members of the Departement
- Title: Responsible Conduct in Research
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 28, 2010
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Hiro Tanaka, Northwestern University
- Title: Lagrangian intersections recover cohomology
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 29, 2010
Midwest Dynamical Systems
- 3:00pm John Franks ,
Northwestern University
Title: Area Preserving Entropy Zero Diffeomorphisms
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 4:30pm Charles Pugh,
Northwestern University
Title: Solution Funnels
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 30, 2010
- 9:30am David Fisher ,
Indiana University
Title: Local rigidity revisited
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Victoria Sadovskaya,
University of Southern Alabama
Title: Linear cocycles over hyperbolic systems: pinching, conformality, and cohomology
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
- 1:30pm Patrick LaVictoire,
University of Wisconsin
Title: Exponential Sums and Pointwise Convergence of Averages
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Ciprian Demeter,
Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: Proof of the HRT conjecture for special configurations
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Ana Rechtman,
Northwestern University
Title: Existence of periodic orbits for geodesible flows on 3-manifolds
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
Sunday, October 31, 2010
- 9:00am Van Cyr ,
Northwestern University
Title: Constructing Conformal Measures for Transient Markov Shifts
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Alex Furman,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: The space of metrics on a hyperbolic group, Sullivan's measure, and rough symmetries.
Place: Chambers Hall
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 1, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ioan Bejenaru, University of Chicago
- Title: Near soliton evolution for equivariant Schroedinger Maps in 2D
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Kartik Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Title: Quantum and classical light-matter interactions in nanophotonic
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Krzysztof Klosin, CUNY-Queens College
- Title: R=T theorems for residually reducible Galois representations
Special Note: The speaker will give an introductory talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Pablo Carrasco, University of Toronto
- Title: Normally Hyperbolic foliations by circles
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 4, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- John Huerta, UC Riverside
- Title: Division algebras, supersymmetry and Lie n-algebras
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- John Huerta, UC Riverside
- Title: Division algebras, supersymmetry and Lie n-algebras
Contact Info here
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Marc Hoyois, Northwestern University
- Title: Tannakian duality for Tannakian categories
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 8, 2010
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. J. Benson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Title: Modeling and Optimization in Cryobiology
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Joseph Rabinoff, Harvard University
- Title: Metric aspects of the tropicalization of a Berkovich curve
Special Note: The speaker will give an introductory talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Martin Frankland, UIUC
- Title: Behavior of Quillen (co)homology with respect to adjunctions
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Darren Creutz, UCLA
- Title: Mixing Properties of Random Sequences and Rank-One Transformations
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
- Title: Math and Sustainability
Special Note: This talk is accessible to a general audience
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Davesh Maulik, MIT
- Title: Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 11, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Louis Kauffman, UIC
- Title: An Introduction to Khovanov Homology
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Louis Kauffman, UIC
- Title: Categorified Invariants in Virtual Knot Theory
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Boris Hanin, Northwestern University
- Title: Random Surfaces, the Gaussian Free Field, and the KPZ formula
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 15, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Fang Wang, Princeton University
- Title: Radiation field for Einstein Vacuum Equations
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Gregory A. Kriegsmann, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Title: Electric Discharge Sintering: A Mathematical Model
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Matthew Morrow, University of Chicago
- Title: A survey of two-dimensional adelic analysis
Special Note: The speaker will give an introductory talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Fanny Kassel, University of Chicago
- Title: Deformation of compact quotients of homogeneous spaces
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Charles Rezk, University of Illinois
- Title: Modular cochain complexes, and power operations in Morava E-theory
Special Note: This is an unusual day
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Olga Lukina, University of Leicester
- Title: Computation of ends of leaves in certain foliated spaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 18, 2010
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M164, 4:00PM
- Dr. K. Seshadri, Trading and Investments Educational Institute
- Title: Innovative Market Trading Strategies
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Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00pm
- Tanmay Deshpande, U of Chicago
- Title: Character sheaves and minimal idempotents on unipotent groups
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Swarnendu Datta, U of Chicago
- Title: Alternating biextension of commutative unipotent groups
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri, Northwestern University
- Title: Hurwitz spaces
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 22, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Colin Guillarmou, Ecole Normale Superieure
- Title: Cauchy data determine connections on surfaces with boundary
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. M. Favata, Caltech
- Title: Observing the nonlinear dynamics of general relativity with
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Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Arthur Ogus, UC-Berkeley
- Title: Relative rounding: the geometry underlying the smoothness of logarithmic cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Nathaniel Stapleton , UIUC
- Title: Transchromatic Generalized Character Maps
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 4:00pm
- Alexander Polishchuk, Oregon
- Title: Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch formula for matrix factorizations
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 29, 2010
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Melanie Wood, Stanford
- Title: Parametrizing Ideal Classes
Special Note: The speaker will give an introductory talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 104.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3.30pm
- Hélène Esnault, Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Title: Rational Fixed Points
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 2, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 1:00pm
- Nick Rozenblyum, MIT
- Title: (Pretalk) Moduli spaces and chiral algebras
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Nick Rozenblyum, MIT
- Title: Moduli spaces and chiral algebras
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Ian Le, Northwestern University
- Title: Lie groups 'n stuff
Abstract and details available
Friday, December 3, 2010
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Vladimir Markovic, Warwick
- Title: Immersing essential surfaces in closed hyperbolic manifolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 6, 2010
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Oana Ivanovici, Johns Hopkins
- Title: Dispersive estimates for the wave equation inside strictly convex domains
Special Note: Note earlier time than usual; first talk of doubleheader
Contact Info here
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Fabrice Planchon, Paris Nord
- Title: Revisiting endpoint Serrin's criterion for the Navier-Stokes equation through profile decompositions
Special Note: Second talk of doubleheader
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 9, 2010
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Erik Carlsson, NU
- Title: (Pretalk) Vertex operators on the K-theory of the hilbert scheme
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Erik Carlsson, NU
- Title: Vertex operators on the K-theory of the hilbert scheme
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 3, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Jeff Moehlis, University of California - Santa Barbara
- Title: Controlling Neurons
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 6, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- David Treumann, Northwestern
- Title: Smith theory and Geometric Hecke algebras
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 10, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Mary Silber, Northwestern University
- Title: Case study of a tipping point in Earth's climate system: A
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
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University
- Title: L-functions for Modular Forms via Representation Theory
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- John Lind , U Chicago
- Title: Higher geometry and algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Amir Mohammadi, University of Chicago
- Title: Homogeneous dynamics and number theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 13, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 1:00pm
- Kate Poirier, Berkeley
- Title: String diagrams, moduli spaces and string topology
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Kate Poirier, Berkeley
- Title: String topology & compactified moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Nir Avni, Harvard University
- Title: Counting Representations
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 17, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Joseph Tien, Ohio State University
- Title: Modeling waterborne disease dynamics
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 18, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 2:00pm
- David Hyeon, Postech
- Title: Pretalk: Construction of moduli spaces of curves
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- David Hyeon, Postech
- Title: Log MMP for the moduli space of stable curves
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Curt McMullen, Harvard University
- Title: Integers, entropy and moduli of surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 20, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Rina Anno, Chicago
- Title: Spherical functors
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Rina Anno, Chicago
- Title: Spherical twists as derived flops
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Curt McMullen, Harvard University
- Title: Complex dynamics on the unit disk
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 21, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Professor Pam Cook, University of Delaware
- Title: Flows and properties of entangled complex fluids
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
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Curt McMullen, Harvard University
- Title: Lattices, stars and arithmetic chaos
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 24, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Kiril Datchev, MIT
- Title: Wave decay on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Elaine Spiller, Marquette University
- Title: Modeling Models: An efficient method for calculating the
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
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Bei Zhang, Northwestern University
- Title: p-adic L-function of automorphic form of GL(2)
Special Note: There will not be a preseminar talk this week.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Anna Marie Bohmann , U Chicago
- Title: The equivariant generating hypothesis
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Chenyang Xu, MIT
- Title: Boundedness of algebraic varieties
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Columbia University
- Title: Symplectic forms and almost-complex structures in 4 dimensions
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 27, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Columbia
- Title: Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Columbia
- Title: How do Calabi-Yau manifolds degenerate?
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Takuo Matsuoka, Northwestern University
- Title: Genera of manifolds in K-theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 28, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Tom Alberts, University of Toronto
- Title: Polymers in Probability: Bridges, Brownian Motion, and Disorder on an Intermediate Scale
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 31, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Michael Schnabel, Northwestern University
- Title: Orientation Maps in the Visual Cortex: Pattern Formation in the
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
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Matthew Greenberg, Calgary
- Title: p-adic interpolation and p-adic Jacquet-Langlands
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in 232 Seabury. The title is "Exceptional zeroes and arithmetic."
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
- Number Theory
Lunt 101, 12:00PM
- Xinyi Yuan, Columbia University
- Title: Introduction to the Gross-Zagier formula
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 3, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Josh Guffin, UPenn
- Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology (cancelled)
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 4, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Alina Marian, UIC
- Title: The moduli space of stable quotients
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 7, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Artem Pulemotov, University of Chicago
- Title: Parabolic equations and the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3PM
- Anna Wienhard, Princeton University
- Title: Higher Teichmueller spaces -- from SL(2,R) to other Lie groups (tentative date)
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Jack Cowan, University of Chicago
- Title: A new approach to the modeling of large-scale brain activity
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Sarah Zerbes, U. of Exeter
- Title: Wach modules and modular forms
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in 232 Seabury.
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Balazs Szegedy, University of Toronto
- Title: Limits of functions on abelian groups and higher order Fourier analysis
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
- Department Meeting
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
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- Title: Winter Quarter Faculty Meeting
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 10, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Andrei Caldararu, Wisconsin
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrei Caldararu, Wisconsin
- Title: A study of derived self-intersections
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 14, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Ryan Gutenkunst, University of Arizona
- Title: Sloppy modeling and natural selection in biochemical networks
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Alexander Paulin, Berkeley
- Title: p-adic Geometric Class Field Theory
Special Note: There will not be a pre-seminar talk this week.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ngô Bảo Châu, University of Chicago
- Title: The endoscopy theory of automorphic forms
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 17, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- AJ Tolland, SUNY Stonybrook
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- AJ Tolland, SUNY Stonybrook
- Title: Cohomological Field Theories on the Lattice
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 21, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Brent Werness, University of Chicago
- Title: Green's Functions for Schramm-Loewner Evolutions
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Jon Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
- Title: Minimal models of inflammation: clinical insights and
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 105...Note the room change., 3:00PM
- Romyar Sharifi, Arizona
- Title: Nekovar duality in p-adic Lie extensions of global fields
Special Note: There will be a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in 232 Seabury.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Zhiren Wang, Princeton University
- Title: Two results on rigidity of commutative actions by toral automorphisms
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
- Colloquium
Tech Lr3, 4:10pm
- Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
- Title: Single-scale ergodic theory
Special Note: Note the unusual location!
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
Thursday, February 24, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Gabor Szekelyhidi, Columbia
- Title: Extremal Kahler metrics
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gabor Szekelyhidi, Columbia
- Title: On blowing up extremal Kahler manifolds
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
- 9:30am Alex Gorodnik ,
Bristol University
Title: Quantitative ergodic theory and Diophantine approximation
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Tim Austin,
Brown University
Title: The quantitative ergodic theorem and Banach spaces embeddings of the Heisenberg group
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 1:30pm Mike Hochman,
Princeton University
Title: Dimension growth of repeated convolutions of fractal measures
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm Julia Wolf,
Ecole Polytechnique
Title: Discrete analogues of characteristic factors
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm Jon Chaika,
University of Chicago
Title: This talk will present two general results on diophantine approximation for dynamical systems. 1) Many measured quantities are almost everywhere 0 or infinity (joint with M. Boshernitzan). 2) Orbits of measure preserving maps of [0,1] have badly approximated points.
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 25, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Yulia Peet, Northwestern University Understanding of blood flow dynamics and its
- Title: Computational Modeling of Blood Flow in Flexible Vessels
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Workshop on Discrete Methods in Ergodic Theory
- 9:30am Dima Kleinbock,
Brandeis University
Title: Ergodic Theory and Schmidt Games
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:00am Hee Oh ,
Brown University
Title: Counting circles and Ergodic theory of Kleinian groups
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm Terry Tao,
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: The inverse conjecture for the Gowers uniformity norms on [N]
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 3:30pm Michael Christ,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: On the extremizers of a certain L^p norm inequality
Place: Chambers Hall, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 28, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Ed Munro, University of Chicago
- Title: Dynamics of cell polarization: Experiments and models
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Terry Tao, UCLA
- Title: Linear equations in the primes
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Qing Chu, University of Marne la Vallee
- Title: Multiple recurrence for two commuting transformations
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
- Special Event
Harris Hall 107, 5:00pm
- Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
- Title: Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers
Special Note: This is a general audience talk, accessible to undergraduates.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 3, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Matthew Ando, UIUC
- Title: Complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Matthew Ando, UIUC
- Title: The Equivariant elliptic cohomology and fibered WZW models
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Toby Gee, Northwestern University
- Title: The Sato-Tate conjecture
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 4, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Igor Rodnianski, Princeton
- Title: Evolution problem in General Relativity
Special Note: Note Friday colloquium, earlier time.
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 7, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Terence Tao, UCLA
- Title: Hilbert's fifth problem and the structure of approximate groups
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor H.S. Udaykumar, University of Iowa
- Title: From Imaging to Computation: A seamless Eulerian approach
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- David Loeffler, Warwick
- Title: Critical slope p-adic L-functions for modular forms
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Leonid Polterovich, University of Chicago and Tel Aviv
- Title: Poisson brackets, symplectic invariants and Hamiltonian chords.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 10, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yan Soibelman, Kansas State
- Title: Complex integrable systems,Mirror Symmetry and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 11, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Matilde MartÃnez, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Title: Harmonic measures and foliated and horocycle flows
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 14, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Vincent Grandjean, Fields Institute
- Title: Geodesics at singular points of generic cuspidal surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Terence Tao, UCLA
- Title: Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Andrew Dykstra, Hamilton College
- Title: Characterizing substitution minimal sets
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Thomas Willwacher, Harvard
- Title: Cancelled
Contact Info here
Monday, March 28, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor J.L. Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Simple models of stirring by swimming organisms
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Rachel Ollivier, Columbia University
- Title: Mod p representations of $p$-adic ${\rm GL}(3)$
Special Note: There will be a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 101.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 31, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 1:00pm
- Kiumars Kaveh, Pittsburgh
- Title: Pretalk: Volume of convex polytopes and number of solutions of a system of algebraic equations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Kiumars Kaveh, Pittsburgh
- Title: Convex bodies, algebraic varieties and group actions
Abstract and details available
Saturday, April 2, 2011
- Topology Seminar
U Chicago,
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- Title: Midwest Topology
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 4, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mark Haskins, Imperial College, London
- Title: Manifolds with G2 holonomy: associative 3-folds and geometric transitions.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Peter Voorhees, Northwestern University
- Title: From Swift-Hohenberg Equations to Grain Growth in Nanocrystals
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Samit Dasgupta, UCSC
- Title: The $p$-adic $L$-functions of critical Eisenstein series
Special Note: There might be a preseminar talk in Lunt 102 at 11 am. Stay tuned!
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Nathaniel Rounds, Purdue
- Title: Local algebraic structures and topological manifolds
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mark Gross, University of California, San Diego
- Title: The tropical vertex
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 7, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00pm
- Tom Nevins, UIUC
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Tom Nevins, UIUC
- Title: Moduli spaces of points on some quantum varieties
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Austin Ford, Northwestern University
- Title: Topological and geometric aspects of the Laplace-Beltrami operator
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 11, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford There will be a reception following the
- Title: How the leopard got its spots
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Eyal Goren, McGill
- Title: Curves of Genus Two with Complex Multiplication
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in TECH M120.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Marcy Robertson, UWO
- Title: Spaces of Operad Structures
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.
- Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.
- Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Differential graded Banach algebras and Lie infinity-groupoids (joint work with Kai Behrend)
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Eric Schulz, Walla Walla Community College
- Title: Calculus Animations
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Eric Rains, CalTech
- Title: Transformations of elliptic hypergeometric integrals
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 14, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Nicolo Sibilla, NU
- Title: Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry.
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 15, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Chris Vogl, Northwestern University
- Title: Modeling Vitrification as a Free Boundary between Anomalous and
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 18, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Maria Pia Gualdani , University of Texas at Austin
- Title: A factorization method for non-symmetric linear operator: enlargement of the functional space while preserving hypo-coercivity
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Maurice Blount, Northwestern University
- Title: Bending and buckling of a falling viscous thread
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Wei Zhang, Harvard University
- Title: Arithmetic fundamental lemma for unitary groups
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk at 11 am in Lunt 102.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Thomas Church, Chicago
- Title:
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Douglas, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
- Title: AdS/CFT for mathematicians
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 21, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Josh Guffin, UPenn
- Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
- Title: The Chern-Weil construction
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 22, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Luc Hillairet, Nantes
- Title: Semiclassical concentration and eigenvalue branches
Special Note: Note unusual day, time.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 2:00pm
- Professor Michael Douglas, Simons Center for Geomery and Physics
- Title: A holographic dual of free quantum field theory
Special Note: Note the unusual time and date
Contact Info here
Monday, April 25, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Chunjing Xie, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Title: Stability of Transonic shocks for Euler-Poisson and Euler equations
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Z. Toroczkai, University of Notre Dame
- Title: A continuous-time approach to constraint satisfaction:
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Amanda Folsom, Yale University
- Title: Mock modular forms, Kac-Wakimoto characters, and asymptotics
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 102.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
- Title: The Brown-Comenetz dual of some K(n)-local spheres
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Trends in Dynamics
- 4:30pm-5:20pm Joe Silverman ,
Brown University
Title: Dynamical moduli spaces and the locus of critically finite maps
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 28, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:00pm
- Ryan Grady, Notre Dame
- Title: Categorical traces and field theories
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Stephan Stolz, Notre Dame
- Title: Field theories and cohomology
Abstract and details available
Trends in Dynamics
- 9:00am-9:50am Danny Calegari ,
Caltech University
Title: Random rigidity in the free group
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 10:20am-11:10am Vadim Kaloshin ,
University of Maryland
Title: On Herman's oldest open question in dynamics and diffusion along mean motion resonance for the restricted planar three body problem (joint with J. Fejoz, M. Giardia, P. Roldan)
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:20am-12:10pm Omri Sarig ,
Weizmann Institute and Penn State University
Title: Countable Markov partitions for smooth surface diffeomorphisms with positive topological entropy
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm-2:50pm Lewis Bowen,
Texas A & M University
Title: Entropy for sofic groups
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 3:30pm-4:20pm Michael Zieve,
University of Michigan
Title: From dynamics to number theory and back again
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 29, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Matthew Tanzy, Northwestern University
- Title: Combustion waves with Multiple Reactions
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Abstract and details available
Trends in Dynamics
- 9:00am-9:50am Nikos Frantzikinakis ,
University of Crete
Title: Some new multiple ergodic theorems and related open problems
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 10:20am-11:10am Matt Foreman ,
University of California, Irvine
Title: Classifying measure preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus: Symbolic systems and the Anosov-Katok method
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:20am-12:10pm Giovanni Forni ,
University of Maryland
Title: Limit Distributions for Horocycle Flows
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 2:00pm-2:50pm Andres Navas,
University of Santiago
Title: On the (bary)center technique for the study of cocycles of isometries
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 3:00pm-3:50pm Yves Benoist,
Orsay University
Title: Random walks on homogeneous spaces
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 4:30pm-5:20pm Federico Rodriguez Hertz,
IMERL and Penn State University
Title: Global Rigidity for certain actions of higher rank lattices on the torus
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Saturday, April 30, 2011
- 9:30am-10:20am Lai-Sang Young ,
New York University
Title: Toward a smooth ergodic theory for infinite dimensional systems
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 10:40am-11:30am Tim Austin,
Brown University
Title: Multiple recurrence and joining rigidity
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:40am-12:30pm Uri Bader,
Technion University
Title: Lattices and envelopes
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 2:30pm-3:20pm Ursula Hamenstadt ,
University of Bonn
Title: Dynamics of the Teichmueller flow on strata of quadratic differentials
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 4:00pm-4:50pm Alejandro Maass,
University of Chile
Title: Regionally proximal relations, independence and nilsystems
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Sunday, May 1, 2011
- 9:00am-9:50am Bernard Host ,
University of Paris East
Title: Some open questions about higher order correlations
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 10:20-11am:10am Serge Cantat ,
University of Rennes
Title: The Cremona group
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
- 11:20am-12:10pm Christian Bonatti,
University of Bourgogne
Title: Toward a global view of dynamical systems for the C^1 topology
Place: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street, Downstairs
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 2, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor A. Nepomnyashchy, The Technion (Eshbach lecture)
- Title: Marangoni convection in solutions
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Junecue Suh, IAS
- Title: Parity in the cohomology of algebraic varieties
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk at 11 am in Lunt 102.
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Vesna Stojanoska, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Special Note: Thesis Defense
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jose Aliste-Prieto, CMM, University of Chile
- Title: Tower systems for linearly repetitive systems
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- John Lott, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 5, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 1:00pm
- David Speyer, Michigan
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- David Speyer, Michigan
- Title: Projected Richardson Varieties
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 9, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. L. Tsimring, University of California - San Diego
- Title: Degrade-and-fire oscillations in small synthetic gene networks
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Lior Silberman, UBC
- Title: A uniform spectral gap for congruence covers of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds
Special Note: The speaker will give a preseminar talk for graduate students at 11 am in Lunt 102.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin
- Title: Chern-Weil forms and model categories
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 12, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Thomas Bitoun , MIT
- Title: D-modules mod p and microlocalization
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Marc Hoyois, Northwestern University
- Title: Introduction to motivic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 16, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Yanir Rubinstein,
- Title: Ricci flow and the completion of the space of Kahler metrics
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Maryland
- Title: SRB measures without symbolic dynamics or dominated splittings
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor D. Abbot, University of Chicago
- Title: The Jormungand Global Climate State and Implications for Snowball
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jim Tseng, Ohio State
- Title: Bad approximation and exceptional sets in homogeneous dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Richard Wentworth, University of Maryland
- Title: Gluing formulas for determinants of Dolbeault laplacians on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
- Special Event
Annenberg G21, 5:00 pm
- Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin
- Title: From Set to the affine cap problem
Special Note: annual undergraduate prize lecture and awards ceremony
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 19, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 103, 1:00pm
- John Baldwin, Princeton
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- John Baldwin, Princeton
- Title: A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology.
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 5:00pm
- Maria Stadnik, Northwestern University
- Title: Class field theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 20, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
- Chris Gruber, Northwestern University
- Title: Vitrification as a Moving Interface Problem with Anomalous
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Monday, May 23, 2011
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Hongjie Dong, Brown University
- Title: Some recent results on the aggregation equations
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- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor B. Marsh, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: On the cessation of thermal convection in silicate magmas
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Ellen Eischen, Northwestern University
- Title: A p-adic Eisenstein Measure
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Brooke Shipley, University of Illinois Chicago
- Title: Algebraic models for rational equivariant stable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Robert Lipshitz, Columbia
- Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology: why? (and what?)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
- Department Meeting
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
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- Title: Spring Meeting
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Monday, June 13, 2011
- Number Theory
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Keerthi Madapusi Sampath, University of Chicago
- Title: Toroidal compactifications for integral models of Shimura varieties of Hodge type
Abstract and details available
Thursday, June 16, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Peter Ehrhard, TU Dortmund
- Title: Radial spreading and stability of thin rotating droplets
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
- Nusret Balci, University of Minnesota
- Title: Symmetric Factorization of the Conformation Tensor in Viscoelastic
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
- E.Kirkinis, University of Washington
- Title: Electromagnetic propulsion and separation by chirality of
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Monday, August 1, 2011
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
- David Goulet ,
- Title: Modeling Biochemical Cascades using Ordinary, Partial, Functional,
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