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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Henry Abarbanel, UCSD

Title: Building Nervous Systems from the Bottom Up
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 107, 5:00PM

Majid Haidan, UIC

Title: On a motivic method in diophantine geometry
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jack Ullman, MIT

Title: The Regular Slice Spectral Sequence
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Aaron Naber, MIT

Title: The Geometry of Ricci Curvature
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jun Yin, University of Wisconsin

Title: Some recent results on random matrix theory
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

H. Pirouz Kavehpour, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Physics of Coalescing Drops at Planar Interfaces
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 107, 5:00PM

Tonghai Yang, Wisconsin

Title: Rankin-Selberg L-function and height pairing for unitary Shimura variety of type (n-1, 1).
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Will Abram, University of Michigan

Title: The equivariant complex cobordism ring of a finite abelian group
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Kiran Parkhe, Northwestern University

Title: Actions of the Heisenberg group on Surfaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Tristan Collins, Columbia University

Title: The singularities of the Yang-Mills flow
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the actual talk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Tristan Collins, Columbia University

Title: Introduction to Yang-Mills and the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the pre-talk.
Abstract and details available

The Thirty Fourth Midwest Probability Colloquium

• 1:30PM Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Mathematical Perspectives on the Evolution of Aging, I
  Details of the talk

• 2:45PM Steve Evans, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Mathematical Perspectives on the Evolution of Aging, II
  Details of the talk

• 4:10PM David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford, Austin
  Title: Asymptotics of Killed Processes with Some Applications to the Biology of Aging
  Details of the talk

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  Friday, October 12, 2012

• 3:00PM Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
  Title: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and its Universality Class, I
  Details of the talk

• 4:30PM Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Title: Projections of Probability Distributions: A Measure-Theoretic Dvoretsky Theorem
  Details of the talk

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  Saturday, October 13, 2012

• 9:30AM Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
  Title: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and its Universality Class,II
  Details of the talk

• 1:30PM Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
  Title: On the Existence of Paths Between Points in High Level Excursion Sets of Gaussian Random Fields
  Details of the talk

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego

Title: Liberation of Random Projections
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Srevatsan Muralidharan, Northwestern

Title:  Multilayer Thin Film Growth on Crystalline and Quasicrystalline
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Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Matthew Stover, Michigan

Title: Fuchsian subgroups and Albanese varieties of arithmetic quotients of SU(2, 1) / U(2).
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Carolyn Yarnall, University of Virginia

Title: Determining Slice Towers
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Dan Thompson, Ohio State

Title: Intrinsic ergodicity, orbit gluing and S-gap shifts
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Pavel Safronov, UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Pavel Safronov, UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ben Weinkove, UCSD / Northwestern

Title: Parabolic flows in complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Johan Konter, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Induction
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Matthew Tirrell University of Chicago ,

Title: Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte
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 107, 5:00PM

Stefan Patrikis, IAS

Title: Variations on a theorem of Tate
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Rune Haugseng, MIT

Title: Enriched Infinity-Categories
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Todd Fisher, Brigham Young University

Title: Equilibrium states for robustly transitive systems
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Johan Konter, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems in Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Gentle introductions to toric geometry and Morse theory
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University

Title: Hodge theory and unitary representations of reductive Lie groups
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Andrew Reiser, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involding the Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Betsy Stovall, Wisconsin

Title: Uniform Lp improving for weighted averages on curves
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Q. Du Penn State University ,

Title: How to Search for Transition States/Saddle Points
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Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Junehyuk Jung, Princeton

Title: An upper bound for intersection of nodal lines with a fixed horocycle
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jonathan Campbell, Stanford

Title: Topological Hochschild Homology and Koszul Duality
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Dan Lior, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems in Probability
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:15pm

Emily Peters, Northwestern University

Title: Examples of factors and a subfactor or two
Special Note: Note the unusual starting time for the pretalk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Emily Peters, Northwestern University

Title: The classification of small subfactors
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Karsten Grove, University of Notre Dame

Title: Positive Curvature, Symmetry and Tits Geometry
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Yuguang Zhang, Visiting Researcher from UCSD

Title: Introduction to Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence
Special Note: This will be a kind of pre-talk for the 11/5 Analysis Seminar
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Yuguang Zhang, Capital Normal University (Beijing) / UCSD

Title: Degenerations of Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Michael Shelley, New York University

Title: How Flexible, Motile, and Erodible Bodies Interact with 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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Abhinav Kumar, MIT

Title: Abelian surfaces with everywhere good reduction
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ilya Grigoriev, Stanford

Title: Relations in the cohomology of classifying spaces of manifold bundles.\
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vadim Vologodsky, University of Oregon

Title: Noncommutative local monodromy theorem
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Valentino Tosatti,

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

John Francis, Northwestern University

Title: What is .... factorization homology?
Special Note: First in New Faculty Member Talks. Note Special Time/Day.
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Nabil Kahouadji, Northwestern University

Title: On the isometric immersion of pseudo-spherical surfaces via evolution and hyperbolic equations
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Peter Stewart, University of Oxford

Title: Solidification of Molten 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

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Romyar Sharafi, Arizona

Title: On Galois groups of pro-p extensions with restricted ramification
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Irakli Patchkoria, Universitat Bonn

Title: Rigidity in equivariant stable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Kamlesh Parwani, Eastern Illinois University

Title: Symmetric random walks on the line
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Joey Hirsh,

Title: Deformations with noncommutative parameters
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM

Andreas Class, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
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

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Andreas Class, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
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

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Scott Morrison, Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for links
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the pre-talk.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Scott Morrison, Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for 4-manifolds
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the actual talk.
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Simon Marshall, Northwestern

Title: Geodesic restrictions of arithmetic eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Nicolas Brunel, University of Chicago

Title: Dynamics of Large Networks of Neurons: Asynchronous and Synchronous
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 107, 5:00PM

Florian Herzig, Toronto

Title: Adequate subgroups
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Luis Alexandre Pereira, MIT

Title: The Goodwillie tower of the identity in Alg_O(Sp) (with a side helping of general context for Goodwillie Cauculus)\r\n
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

David Aulicino, University of Chicago

Title: Teichmueller Discs with Completely Degenerate Kontsevich-Zorich Spectrum
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Polynomials
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Jamison Wolf, Northwestern University

Title: Hausdorff Dimensions of Random Fractals Determined by Levy Processes
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Zev Klagsbrun, Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Selmer groups of elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kristen Mazur, University of Virginia

Title: A G-Symmetric Monoidal Structure on the Category of G-Mackey Functors
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00pm

Laura DeMarco, UIC

Title: Combining complex and arithmetic dynamics: a study of critically-finite maps
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Kelly Yancey, University of Illinois

Title: On Rigidity Sequences
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm

Dan Lior, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems involving Continued Fractions
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Vladimir Kotov, Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vladimir Kotov, Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
Abstract and details available

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm

Elton Hsu, Northwestern University

Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Calculus
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Siu's invariance of plurigenera
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Nick Haber, Stanford University

Title: Microlocal analysis of radial points
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 5:00PM

Nicolas Templier, Princeton

Title: Sup-norms of automorphic forms
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Sean Tilson, Wayne State University

Title: Power operations and the Kunneth spectral sequence
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin, Harvard University

Title: Ooguri-Vafa Metric, Holomorphic Discs and SYZ Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin, Harvard University

Title: Open Gromov-Witten Invariants on K3 Surfaces and Wall-Crossing
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Miklos Abert,

Title: The measurable Kesten theorem
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Thomas Nevins, UIUC

Title: Geometry of (quantum) symplectic varieties
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:30pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Siu's invariance of plurigenera
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Ionel Popescu, Georgia Tech and Romanian Academy

Title: Stochastic Target Approach to Ricci Flow on Surfaces
Special Note: Note the special time of the seminar for this talk.
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Sug Woo Shin, MIT

Title: Families of automorphic L-functions
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 11:00am

Paul Bressler, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Deformation quantization algebroids
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Quasi-classical limits of deformation quantization algebroids
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Andrei Jorza, Caltech

Title: Symmetric powers of Hilbert modular forms and p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet

Title: Generalized and equivariant multicategories
Special Note: CANCELLED
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Pengfei Zhang, UMass Amherst

Title: Volume of the set of transitive points of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Kate Juschenko, Vanderbilt University

Title: On simple amenable groups
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vivek Shende, MIT

Title: Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Ben Weinkove, Northwestern

Title: The twisted Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Baoping Liu, University of Chicago

Title: Low regularity solution for Chern-Simons-Schrodinger system
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Simon Marshall, Northwestern

Title: Endoscopy and cohomology growth on U(3)
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ryan Budney, University of Victoria

Title: Operads and embedding spaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern University

Title: Positive vector bundles and vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern University

Title: Positivity and vanishing theorems for ample vector bundles
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: The Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Paul Bourgade, Harvard University

Title: Universality for beta ensembles
Special Note: This seminar is on Tuesday because of the holiday on Monday.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Vasily Pestun, IAS

Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Vasily Pestun, IAS

Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Justin Noel, Bonn/MPI

Title: Equivariant homology of representation spheres and computations indexed by Picard groups
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Lisa Fauci, Tulane University

Title:  A Tale of Waving Tails: Calcium-Driven Dynamics of Undulatory
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 107, 3:00PM

Derek Garton, Northwestern

Title: Random matrices and the Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet heuristics
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kathryn Mann, University of Chicago

Title: Extension problems for groups of diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri, Northwestern University

Title: Affine Stratification Number and Moduli Space of Curves
Contact Info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri,

Title: Cohomological Excess and compactified Moduli Space of Curves
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar , 2:00pm

Xuhua He,

Title: Affine Weyl groups, affine Hecke algebras and affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: The Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Kristin Swanson, Northwestern University

Title:   Patient-Specific Mathematical Neuro-Oncology: Driving 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 107, 3:00PM

Frank Calegari, Northwestern

Title: The stable cohomology of congruence subgroups
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Dmytro Arinkin, University Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar 102, 1:00pm

Danny Calegari, University of Chicago

Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar 107, 3:00pm

Danny Calegari, University of Chicago

Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

George Karniadakis, Brown University

Title:   Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Physical and
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 107, 3:00PM

Dustin Belt, Northwestern

Title: The holomorphy of exterior square L-functions
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Geoffroy Horel, MIT

Title: Operads, modules and topological field theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Leo Butler, Central Michigan University

Title: Obstructions to integrability
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Emily Peters,

Title: The Morita equivalence class of the Haagerup subfactor
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Mark Behrens, MIT

Title: Exotic spheres and topological modular forms
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Sara Solla, Northwestern University

Title:   Generalized Linear Models of Spiking Neurons  
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 107, 3:00PM

Patrick Allen, Northwestern

Title: Modularity of nearly ordinary 2-adic residually dihedral Galois representations
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis

Title: Topology of continuous cluster categories
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Ailsa Keating, MIT

Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ailsa Keating, MIT

Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Noah Snyder,

Title: The Space of Fusion Categories
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Uniqueness of (twisted) Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Christof Sparber, UIC

Title: On Wigner and Bohmian measures in semi-classical quantum dynamics
Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Rob Harron, Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Computing Hida families
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ismar Volic, Wellesley

Title: Calculus of functors and knot and link spaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University

Title: BPS algebras,knot invariants,framed instantons and canonical bases
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Ting Xue,

Title: Nilpotent orbits and the Springer correspondence
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon

Title: A-infinity structures associated with curves
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 03:00pm

Gueo Grantcharov, Florida International University

Title: Indefinite metrics on complex surfaces
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Elton Hsu, Northwestern University

Title: Talagrand's Mass Transportation Inequality on a Riemannian Manifold
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Brent Doiron,  University of Pittsburgh

Title: Variability in the Dynamics of the Idling Brain
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

Nick Rozenblyum, Northwestern University

Title: From higher categories to manifold topology
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Jacques Distler, UT Austin

Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jacques Distler, UT Austin

Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Nir Avni,

Title: Special Values of Witten Zeta Functions
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Formality, Quantization, and Matrix Factorizations
Contact Info here

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Mike Reed, Duke University

Title: Mathematics, Cell Metabolism, and Public Health
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

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Daniel Berwick-Evans, UC Berkeley

Title: Supersymmetric sigma models, elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
Special Note: Note the unusual day!
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Ben Weinkove, Northwestern

Title: Approximation of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

William Bray, Missouri State University

Title: Growth properties and integrability of Fourier transforms
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School

Title:  Overcoming Molecular Complexity in Biological Systems
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Abstract and details available

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Michael Larsen, Indiana

Title: Fuchsian generation of simple groups
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University

Title: K-Theory of Formal Power Series
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,

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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 02:40pm

Ben Weinkove, Northwestern

Title: Approximation of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

John Guckenheimer,  Cornell University

Title:  Mixed Mode Oscillations
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Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Josh Batson, MIT

Title: TBA
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Batson, MIT

Title: Nonorientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar , 2:00pm

David Jordan,

Title: Surface braid groups, quantum groups, and quantum D-modules
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Alessio Figalli, University of Texas at Austin

Title: A stability result for the semisum of sets in R^n
Special Note: Please note the unusual date and time
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Andrew Comech, Texas A&M

Title: Linear instability of solitary waves in nonlinear Dirac equation
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Carl Bender, Washington University

Title:  PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Craig Westerland, University of Melbourne

Title: An analogue of K-theory for higher chromatic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

John Griesmer, University of Denver

Title: Configurations in sumsets
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 1:00PM

Professor Michael Shelley, New York University's Courant Institue  

Title:  How Flexible, Motile, and Erodible Bodies Interact with Fluids
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Northwestern University

Title: A-infinity algebras
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Northwestern University

Title: Homotopy algebra and probability theory
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Algebra Seminar , 2:00pm

Peter Tingley,

Title:
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University

Title: Dissimilarity distances between surfaces
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Austin Ford, Stanford

Title: Progress towards the trace of a diffracting wave group
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Angelo Caccuito, Columbia University

Title:  The Ugly, the Fluid, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Keerthi Madapusi, Harvard

Title: The Tate conjecture for K3 surfaces in odd characteristic
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Brian Munson, US Naval Academy

Title: Spaces of link maps
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar linguistics seminar room (2nd floor, 2016 sheridan), 2:00pm

Ivan Loseu, Northeastern University

Title: Classification of Procesi bundles
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto

Title: Rotation of invariant tensors and geometric representation theory
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Geodesics in the space of Kahler metrics
Special Note: Note new time and place
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Matt Blair, University of New Mexico

Title: L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Peter Hislop, University of Kentucky

Title: Scattering theory in even dimensions: resonances and the scattering matrix
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Thomas Pence, Michigan State University

Title:  Boundary Value Problems for Soft Materials that Exhibit Swelling
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Kai-Wen Lan, Minnesota

Title: Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties and Kuga families with ordinary loci
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Soren Galatius, Stanford University

Title: Homological stability of moduli spaces of manifolds.
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar linguistics seminar room (2nd floor, 2016 sheridan), 2:00pm

Dave Penneys, University of Toronto

Title: Planar Algebras at index 3+\sqrt{5}
Abstract and details available

Special Event Harris Hall 107, 4:00pm

Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University

Title: "The Master’s hand": can image analysis detect the hand of the master?
Special Note: Public Lecture
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Zhenqing Chen, University of Washington

Title: Non-local operators and Jump-diffusions
Abstract and details available

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 3:00pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor S. Jon Chapman, University of Oxford

Title:  Beyond All Orders: The Future of Asymptotics?
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Alina Cojocaru, UIC

Title: Frobenius fields for elliptic curves
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor S. Jon Chapman, University of Oxford

Title:  Localised Pattern Formations and Snaking Bifurcation Diagrams
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 11:00am

Dario Beraldo, UC Berkeley

Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dario Beraldo, UC Berkeley

Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Statistics seminar room (2006 sheridan), 2:00pm

Peter Tingley, Loyola University

Title: Kashiwara's crystals for affine Lie algebras
Abstract and details available

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University

Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
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Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University

Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 03:00pm

Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern

Title: Geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University

Title: Quantum Groups and Quantum Cohomology
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Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Irina Nenciu, UIC

Title: On confining potentials and essential self-adjointness for Schrödinger operators
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor John Wettlaufer, Yale University

Title:  Collisional Cosmogony
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Jacob Tsimerman, Harvard

Title: Arithmetic families of torsors
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Eli Grigsby, Boston College

Title: Categorified invariants and the Artin braid group
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 11:00am

Andy Neitzke, UT Austin

Title: Spectral networks
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andy Neitzke, UT Austin

Title: Spectral networks
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Algebra Seminar Statistics seminar room (2006 sheridan), 2:00pm

Rinat Kedem,

Title:
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin

Title: Some segregation models, local and long range
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Andras Vasy, Stanford University

Title: The local inverse problem for the geodesic X-ray transform
Special Note: NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Chris Elliott, Northwestern University

Title: From Quantum Field Theory to Topology
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University

Title: The Lovely Bones: discrete differential geometry (??) with biological applications
Special Note: Note the unusual time
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Doctor E. Martens, Technical University of Denmark  

Title:  Chimera States in Mechanical Oscillator Networks
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Matthew Young, Texas A&M

Title: Heegner points in the level aspect and hybrid subconvexity
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Angelica Osorno, University of Chicago

Title: On equivariant infinite loop space machines
Special Note: NOTE UNUSUAL TIME
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Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm

Amir Mohammadi,

Title: The orbits of SL(2,R) action on homogeneous spaces and moduli space
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

William P. Minicozzi II, MIT

Title: Rigidity of generic singularities of mean curvature flow
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University

Title: The Kahler-Ricci flow
Special Note: New Faculty Talk
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 3:00pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM

Professor Aleksander Donev, New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Title:  Coupling an Incompressible Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM

Davide Reduzzi, Chicago

Title: Galois representations and torsion in the cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet

Title: Generalized and equivariant multicategories
Abstract and details available

• 9:00am see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html, see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html
  Title: see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hitrik/schedule.html
  Place: Garrett Theological Seminary, Room 205, 2121 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201
  Abstract and details available

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Zhenqi Wang, Yale

Title: TBA
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Clay Cordova, Harvard University

Title: Quivers and Quantum Field Theory
Abstract and details available

Special Event Swift 107, 5:00 pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University

Title: Metric Sociology
Special Note: annual undergraduate prize lecture and awards ceremony
Abstract and details available

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3pm

Robert Calderbank, Duke University

Title: Golay, Heisenberg and Weyl
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm

Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University

Title: Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt Theorems and group actions in positive characteristic
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Tom Goodwillie, Brown University

Title: The idea of functor calculus
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Paul VanKoughnett, Northwestern University

Title: Abelian Groups
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 03:00pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Andrew Lawrie, University of Chicago

Title: Relaxation of exterior wave maps to harmonic maps
Abstract and details available

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University

Title: Descent for n-Bundles
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 11:00am

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available

Bellow Lecture Series , 4:10pm

Alice Guionnet, MIT

Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Alice Guionnet, MIT

Title:
Special Note: (Combined Bellow Lecture/Colloquium)
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Bellow Lecture Series , 4:10pm

Alice Guionnet, MIT

Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available

Bellow Lecture Series , 4:10pm

Alice Guionnet, MIT

Title: Random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps
Abstract and details available

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Ben Knudsen,

Title: Singularities and exotic spheres
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 3:00pm

Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern

Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm

Michael Friedman, Institute Fourier, Grenoble

Title: Conjugation-free geometric presentations of fundamental groups of arrangements.
Abstract and details available

• 9:30am Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
  Title: New operations on Hochschild complexes
  Place: Lunt 105
  Abstract and details available

• 10:45am Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University
  Title: A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry
  Place: Lunt 105
  Abstract and details available

• 12:00pm Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
  Title: Determinants, delooping and reciprocity
  Place: Lunt 105
  Abstract and details available

• 2:00pm Ben Davison, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn
  Title: Refined DT invariants for real 3-folds
  Place: Lunt 105
  Abstract and details available

• 3:15pm Ryszard Nest, Copenhagen University
  Title: Functorial properties of local index, determinant and torsion of commuting n-tuples of operators
  Details of the talk

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 10:00am

Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University

Title: Higher analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the first of two talks: the second will be at 1.30pm.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 11:30am

Paul Bressler, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota

Title: Chern-Weil construction for transitive Lie algebroids
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University

Title: Derived analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the second of two talks: no prerequisites are required.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 10:00am

Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,

Title: Algebraic Index Theory, I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 11:00am

Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University

Title: Derived analytic stacks
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,

Title: Algebraic Index Theory, II
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 11:00AM

Ehud Meron, Benu-Gurion University, Israel

Title: Pattern formation aspects of desertification and rehabilitation of
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