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Academic Year 2013-2014

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Monday, September 30, 2013

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Yuan-nan Young, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title:  Dynamics of an Elastic Membrane in Stokes Flow
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
Emily Riehl, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic perspectives on (generalized) Reedy categories
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 4, 2013

ESAM Colloquium Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center ITW Room, 1:00PM
Dean Julio Ottino, Northwestern University
Title:  Henri Poincaré: The Last Universalist, His Life and Work
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern
Title: Some remarks relating symplectic geometry to sheaf theory
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Yu Wang, Northwestern
Title: The Krylov-Safonov Harnack estimate
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 7, 2013

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University
Title: Fine Properties of Gaussian Random Fields
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor David Saintillan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title:  Elastic Filaments in Viscous 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, 4:00PM
David Yuen, Lake Forest College
Title: Modularity in Genus Two
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Aaron Royer, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Generalized String Topology and Derived Koszul Duality
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Zhiren Wang, Yale University
Title: Multi-invariant measures and subsets on nilmanifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 2:00pm
Theo Johnson-Freyd, Northwestern
Title: A properad action on homology that fails to lift to the chain level
Special Note: Please note the unusual time
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Theo Johnson-Freyd, Northwestern University
Title: Poisson AKSZ theory, properads, and quantization
Abstract and details available
35th Midwest Probability Colloquium

Friday, October 11, 2013

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Chris Elliott, Northwestern
Title: Path Integrals in Quantum Field Theory: A Friendly Introduction
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine
Title: Szego kernels and Poincare series
Abstract and details available
35th Midwest Probability Colloquium

Monday, October 14, 2013

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor in Preventative Medicine Northwestern University
Title:  Hearing the Shape of Cancer
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, 4:00PM
Stefan Patrikis, Harvard
Title: Potential automorphy of regular self-dual motives
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Greg Arone, University of Virginia
Title: On spaces of link maps
Special Note: CANCELLED
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Diana Davis, Northwestern University
Title: Cutting sequences on Bouw-Möller surfaces
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Induction and Recurrences
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
Title: Character rigidity for lattices in higher rank groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Analysis Reading Seminar Common Room, 1:00pm
Boris Hanin, Graduate Student
Title: Nodal Sets of Random Eigenfunctions of the Harmonic Oscillator
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 18, 2013

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Vlad Serban, Northwestern
Title: Climbing up a tower to get a glimpse of BSD
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Yu Wang, Northwestern
Title: The Krylov-Safonov Harnack estimate
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 21, 2013

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Xuehua Chen, Northwestern University
Title: Eigenfunction restriction estimates for nonpositive curvature manifolds
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Shravan Veerapaneni from University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics
Title:  Simulating Dense Suspensions of Soft Particulate Flows
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, 4:00PM
David Roberts, Minnesota
Title: Hypergeometric motives and their wild ramification
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Yifei Zhu, Northwestern University
Title: A formal group of height 2 over F_9
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Francesco Cellarosi, University of Illinois
Title: Ergodic properties of k-free integers in number fields
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Number Theory
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tsachik Gelander, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: On the growth of Betti numbers of arithmetic groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Analysis Reading Seminar Common Room, 1:00pm
Melissa Tacy,
Title: Eigenfunction doubling estimates and semiclassical methods?
Contact Info here

Friday, October 25, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Dimitry Todorov, Saint Petersburg
Title: Lipschitz inverse shadowing and structural stability
Contact Info here
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 4:30pm
Aaron Naber, Northwestern
Title: An introduction to geometry, analysis, and the nonlinear harmonic map equation
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: The openness conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 28, 2013

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jerry Wang, Princeton
Title: Pencils of quadrics and 2-Selmer groups of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Cary Malkiewich, Stanford University
Title: Coassembly maps, gauge groups, and Novikov conjectures
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Ronen Mukamel, University of Chicago
Title: The remarkable arithmetic of Teichmuller curves and some applications to billiards
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
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00
Dan Rutherford, University of Arkansas
Title: TBA
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Dan Rutherford, University of Arkansas
Title: Rulings polynomials and augmentations of Legendrian links
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
Title: Yamabe Lecture 1: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
Title: Yamabe Lecture 2: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 1, 2013

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 4:30pm
Boris Hanin, Northwestern
Title:
Special Note: Postponed to Friday, November 8
Contact Info here
Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Fernando Codá Marques, IMPA
Title: Yamabe Lecture 3: Minimal surfaces and the Willmore Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 4, 2013

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Gabor Szkeleyhidi, Notre Dame
Title: The partial C^0 estimate along the continuity method
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Wei Ho, Columbia
Title: Families of lattice-polarized K3 surfaces
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rolf Hoyer, University of Chicago
Title: Cellular methods and TAQ
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Sara Lapan, Northwestern University
Title: Attracting domains for holomorphic maps tangent to the identity
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago
Title: Robust mechanisms for chaotic dynamics
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Analysis Reading Seminar Common Room, 11:15am
Aaron Naber,
Title: Nodal and Critical Sets of Elliptic Equations
Contact Info here

Friday, November 8, 2013

Algebra Seminar Swift 107, 2:00pm
Steven Sam,
Title: Twisted commutative algebras
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Swift 107, 01:00pm
Zbigniew Blocki, Jagiellonian University and Indiana University
Title: Bergman kernel and pluripotential theory
Special Note: Note unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
Special Event Harris Hall Auditorium, 3:00 PM
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
Title: Investiture ceremony honoring Bryna Kra, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professors of Mathematics
Special Note: Investiture ceremony honoring Bryna Kra, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professors of Mathematics
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 11, 2013

Algebra Seminar Swift 107, 12:00pm
Tsachik Gelander,
Title: Lattices in amenable groups
Contact Info here
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jesse Gell-Redman, Toronto
Title: Asymptotic distribution of phase shifts in semiclassical potential scattering
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Haruzo Hida, UCLA
Title: Transcendence of Hecke operators
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Robert Hank, University of Minnesota
Title: Higher multiplicative structure in homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Ioannis Konstantoulas, University of Illinois,
Title: Effective multiple mixing for semisimple group actions
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Johan Konter, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on The Pingeonhole Principle
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Rafael Potrie, CMAT (Universidad de la República-Uruguay)
Title: Global stability for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms isotopic to Anosov
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 15, 2013

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 5:15pm
Prof. Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Analysis
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Michael Couch,
Title: Grad student funding
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Tristan Collins, Columbia University
Title: K-stability for Sasakian manifolds
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 18, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Vanishing theorems and holomorphic one-forms
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Richard Rand, Cornell University, Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace
Title:  Evolutionary Dynamics and Parametric Excitation
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, November 19, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
Title: Fuchsian groups and generalized Bowen-Series maps
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Generating Functions, Telescoping, and Symmetries
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm
John Lind, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Equivariantly Twisted Cohomology Theories
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Robert McCann, University of Toronto
Title: Optimal transport: old and new
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 22, 2013

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Boris Hanin,
Title: Oscillatory Integrals and the Method of Stationary Phase
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern
Title: Lower bounds on the Hausdorff measure of nodal sets
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 25, 2013

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Drew Heard, University of Melbourne
Title: Exotic elements in the K(n)-local Picard group
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Joanna Furno, Dickinson College
Title: Ergodic Properties and Dynamics of p-adic Transformations
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems on Complex Numbers, Probability, Combinatorics, and other miscellaneous subjects.
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Monday, December 2, 2013

Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Hans-Joachim Hein, University of Nantes
Title: The geometry of noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Katherine Newhall, New York University
Title:   Dynamics of Ferromagnets:  Averaging Methods, Bifurcation
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, 4:00PM
Benjamin Howard, Boston College
Title: Supersingular points on some orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mona Merling, University of Chicago
Title: Equivariant algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 103, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Challenging Elementary Math Problems: A review of the easiest Putnam problems from recent years.
Special Note: Putnam Training Session for NU undergraduates
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Theoretical Models of Shape Formation: Analysis, Geometry and Energy Scaling Laws
Special Note: Note that the talk starts 4pm, not at 4.10pm!
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
Darren Creutz,
Title: Character Rigidity for Lattices and Commensurators
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00
Emmy Murphy, MIT
Title: The plastikstufe and connect sums of contact manifolds
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Emmy Murphy, MIT
Title: Lagrangian caps in high dimensional symplectic manifolds
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 6, 2013

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Dave Richeson, Dickinson College
Title: The history of Euler's polyhedron formula and the Euler characteristic
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
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Title:
Contact Info here

Monday, December 9, 2013

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Jay Newby, Ohio State University
Title:   Stochastic Modeling of Cellular Processes
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, December 10, 2013

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar,
Title: Rigidity of groups of diffeomorphisms
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
Robin Tucker-Drob,
Title: Shift-minimal groups, fixed price 1, and the unique trace property
Special Note: Note special time
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 6, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Maksim Kitsak, Northeastern University (Boston)
Title:   The Latent Geometry Formalism and Its Applications to Social,
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
Andrew Sutherland, MIT
Title: The Sato-Tate conjecture for abelian varieties
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Van Cyr, Bucknell university
Title: Periodicity, complexity, and expansive dynamics
Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Antonio Auffinger, University of Chicago
Title: Recent advances in First Passage Percolation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ivan Loseu, Northeastern University
Title: Counting finite dimensional irreducible representations over quantizations of symplectic resolutions.
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 10, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm
Van Cyr, Bucknell University
Title: Periodicity, complexity, and expansive dynamics
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
Title: Regularity of the Kahler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Farrell Brumley, Paris 13
Title: Large values of cusp forms on GL(n)
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 13, 2014

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Bhargav Bhatt, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: de Rham cohomology of algebraic varieties
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Pengfei Zhang, University of Massachusetts
Title: Hyperbolicity of some generalized lemon billiards
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:10pm
Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford
Title: Topology of arithmetic manifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:10pm
Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford
Title: Topology of arithmetic manifolds
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 17, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Finite-time singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:10pm
Akshay Venkatesh,
Title: Topology of arithmetic manifolds
Contact Info here

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Ryan Broderick, Northwestern University
Title: Dimension estimates for sets of uniformly badly approximable systems of linear forms
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 24, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Peng Zhou,
Title:
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Finite-time singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 27, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alan Hammond, Oxford University
Title: Self-avoiding walks, phase separation and KPZ universality.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Serguei Saavedra ,
Title: Structural Stability of Complex Ecological Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Arvind Murugan, Harvard
Title: Design principles for material synthesis : Lessons from biology
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 31, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Corinna Wendisch,
Title:
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Finite-time singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 3, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Euan Spence, Bath
Title: Why analysts should care about numerical analysis of the Helmholtz equation
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Robert Pollack, Boston University
Title:
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kirsten Wickelgren, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Grothendieck's section conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
Laura DeMarco,
Title: The algebra of complex dynamical systems
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jan-Li Lin, University of Notre Dame
Title: Rationality of Rotation Numbers for elements of Thompson's Group $T$
Special Note: We will go to dinner after the talk.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
James Colliander, University of Toronto
Title: Big frequency cascades in the nonlinear Schrödinger evolution
Special Note: Note unusual day, time.
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 7, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Boris Hanin,
Title:
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: The strong openness conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 10, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Neda Bagheri, Northwestern University
Title: Regression-based network inference of phosphoproteomic data
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, 4:00PM
Liang Xiao, UC Irvine
Title: Slopes of the eigencurve over boundary disks
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Márton Hablicsek, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Twisted derived intersections and twisted de Rham complexes
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois
Title: Gap Distributions and Homogeneous Dynamics
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Paul VanKoughnett,
Title: Elliptic Curves and the Surveillance State
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 14, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: The strong openness conjecture for plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 17, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Albert Chau, UBC
Title: The Kahler Ricci flow of complete metrics with unbounded curvature
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jinxin Xue, University of Chicago
Title: Noncollision singularities in Newtonian N-body problem
Special Note: We will go to dinner after the talk.
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 21, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Elton Hsu,
Title:
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Albert Chau, UBC
Title: Estimates for the Kähler-Ricci flow on non-compact Kähler manifolds
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 24, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Andras Vasy, Stanford
Title: Linear and non-linear Lorentzian problems near infinity
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Carlo Laing, Massey University
Title: Fronts and bumps in spatially extended Kuramoto networks
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
Nir Avni, Northwestern University
Title: Motivic Integration and Topological Field Theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Analysis Reading Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm
Yaiza Canzani, Harvard
Title: Local Geometry of the Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions
Special Note: Note the unusual date/time
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
John Toth, McGill University
Title: $L^2$ restriction bounds for eigenfunction Neumann data along hypersurfaces
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Giulio Tiozzo, ICERM/Yale University
Title: Galois conjugates of entropies of quadratic maps
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Lewis Bowen, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Entropy in measurable dynamics
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 28, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Yu Wang, Northwestern
Title: The Evans-Krylov Theorem
Abstract and details available
Special Event Harris 107, 04:00pm
Laura DeMarco, Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Patterns and Chaos (Public Lecture)
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 3, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Brian Spencer, University of Buffalo
Title: Symmetry-breaking in shape transitions of epitaxially-strained
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
Alexei Oblomkov, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Topology of the Affine Springer Fibers: examples and applications to the representation theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Bruce Kleiner, NYU
Title: Mean curvature flow
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 1:00pm
Harold Williams, UC Berkeley
Title: Integrable Systems and Canonical Bases
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Harold Williams, UC Berkeley
Title: Integrable Systems and Canonical Bases
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 7, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: The volume of a line bundle
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 10, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Adam Jacob, Harvard University
Title: Flat bundles, harmonic metrics and singular affine structures
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, University of California-San Diego
Title: From proteins and their interactions to evolutionary principles of
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 12:00pm
Igor Rapinchuk, Harvard
Title: On the conjecture of Borel and Tits for abstract homomorphisms of algebraic groups
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Bernard Host, University of Paris Est
Title: Higher order Fourier analysis of multiplicative functions and applications
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar 104, 1:30pm
Geordie Williamson, MPI Bonn
Title: An introduction to categorical Lie algebras
Special Note: Please note the time for this seminar
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Geordie Williamson, MPI Bonn
Title: An introduction to categorical Lie algebras
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Ben Knudsen,
Title: Which spheres are groups?
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Tim Nguyen,
Title: TBA
Contact Info here

Monday, March 31, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tianling Jin, University of Chicago
Title: Fractional Nirenberg problems and related topics
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Anastasios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title:  What Do Networks Have to Do with Climate?
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Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Emanuele Dotto, MIT
Title: Equivariant Diagrams and Equivariant Excision
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Matt Foreman, University of California, Irvine
Title: Circular Systems
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook University
Title: Potential Theory for Nonlinear PDEs
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook
Title: Analysis on almost complex manifolds
Special Note: Special Date and Time
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 7, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Chengbo Wang, Zhejiang University
Title: Strichartz type estimates with applications
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Victoria Booth, University of Michigan
Title: Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation
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Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Michael Roth, Queen's University
Title: Roth's theorem for arbitrary varieties
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Kathryn Lindsey, Cornell University
Title: The endless possibilities of Julia sets
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Satyan Devadoss,
Title: Phylogenetic networks and the real moduli space of curves
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 14, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Michael Hagan of Brandeis University ,
Title: Simulations of virus assembly around RNA and a general method to
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Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Stefano Morra, Toronto
Title: On mod p local-global compatibility for GL_3 in the ordinary case
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Keith Burns, Northwestern
Title: Ergodicity of Weil-Petersson geodesic flow
Contact Info here

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Song Sun, Stony Brook
Title: Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm
Laura Schaposnik, UIUC
Title: Real slices of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Laura Schaposnik, UIUC
Title: Real slices of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 18, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
Title: Global C2 estimates for convex solutions of curvature equations
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 21, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Pierre Albin, University of Illinois
Title: Hodge cohomology of stratified spaces
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Chad Topaz, Macalester College
Title: Biological aggregations: Nonlocal PDE, random walks, and bugs
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Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Arul Shankar, Harvard
Title: The average 5-Selmer rank of elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jeffrey Diller,
Title: Degree growth of rational surface maps
Special Note: We will go to dinner after the talk.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Configurations, arithmetic groups, cohomology, and stability
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Algebra Seminar Lunt 103, 2:00pm
Sean Lawton,
Title: Irreduciblity of Moduli Spaces of Abelian Representations
Special Note: Note the different day!
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 25, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Joel Specter,
Title:
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: A sharp lower bound for the complex singularity exponent of a psh function
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 28, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
David Sher, University of Michigan
Title: Inverse spectral problems for the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map
Abstract and details available
Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Artur Avila, Paris VI, IMPA
Title: Poincare series and renormalization
Contact Info here
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Ronen Mukamel, U Chicago
Title: Billiards, the square root of eleven and a Teichmuller curve of genus one
Special Note: Note special time
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Artur Avila, Paris VI, IMPA
Title: The Almost Reducibility Conjecture
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
see Bellow Lecture Series,
Title: No seminar
Contact Info here

Wednesday , April 30, 2014

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Artur Avila, Paris VI, IMPA
Title: Estimates for locally stationary measures and continuity of Lyapunov exponents
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tai Melcher, University of Virginia
Title: An example of hypoellipticity in infinite dimensions
Special Note: This is a specially arranged seminar to accommodate the visitor's schedule.
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Dylan Wilson,
Title:
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Friday, May 2, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: Positivity of relative adjoint classes
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 5, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Matt Gill, UC Berkeley
Title: The Chern-Ricci flow on manifolds with bounded Chern scalar curvature
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
James Sethian, U.C. Berkeley 
Title: Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films
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Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Yuri Lima, University of Mayland
Title: Symbolic dynamics for three dimensional flows with positive topological entropy
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Lenny Ng, Duke University
Title: Knot invariants via the cotangent bundle
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 9, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Theo Johnson-Freyd,
Title:
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Improved Kato inequalities in geometry
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 12, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yu Wang, Northwestern University
Title:
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Jonathan Pillow, University of Texas
Title: Characterizing synaptic conductances from extracellular spike train
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Anthony Quas, University of Victoria
Title: Embedding into toral automorphisms
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Special Event Annenberg G21, 05:00 pm
Dave Richeson, Dickinson College
Title: Four tales of impossibility
Special Note: ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE LECTURE
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Nick Salter, University of Chicago
Title: An introduction to surface bundles
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 16, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:30pm
Ronan Conlon, UQAM
Title: Some new examples of non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
Special Note: Special Time
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 19, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ronan Conlon, University of Quebec, Montreal
Title: An affine Calabi-Yau manifold with irregular tangent cone at infinity
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Spatially Localized Structures: Basic Theory
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Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ramin Takloo-Bighash, UIC
Title: Distribution of orders in number fields
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Sebastian Donoso, University of Chile
Title: Dynamical Cubes and a criteria for systems having product extensions
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Spatially Localized Structures: Applications
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Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Geometric Harmonic Analysis
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 22, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center ITW Room, 4:00PM
,
Title:
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Friday, May 23, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
Title: Interior W^{2,1+ε} estimates for the Monge-Ampère equation
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Younghwan Son, Weizmann Institute
Title: Joint ergodicity along generalized linear functions
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Andrew Baker, University of Glasgow
Title: Cellular models for E-infinity ring spectra
Special Note: Unusual day
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 2, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Nikhil Savale, Notre Dame
Title: Asymptotics of the eta invariant
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Liam Paninski, Columbia University 
Title:  Statistical challenges and opportunities in the analysis of neural
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