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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: Â 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: Â 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: Â 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
- 03:00pm Martin Barlow,
University of British Columbia
Title: Random Walks and the Geometry of the Uniform Spanning Tree, I
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 04:30pm Lionel Levine,
Cornell University
Title: Scaling Limit of the Abelian Sandpile
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 12, 2013
- 09:30am Martin Barlow,
University of British Columbia
Title: Random Walks and the Geometry of the Uniform Spanning Tree, II
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 01:30pm Dmietry Panchenko,
Texas A&M University
Title: Ultrametricity in Spin Glass Models
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 14, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor in Preventative Medicine Northwestern University
- Title: Â 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: Â 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: Â 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: Â Dynamics of Ferromagnets:Â 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
- ,
- Title:
Contact Info here
Monday, December 9, 2013
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Jay Newby, Ohio State University
- Title: Â 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: Â 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
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- 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
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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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- 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
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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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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:
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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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