Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Academic Year 2014-2015
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Gaëtan Borot, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
- Title: Topological recursion and enumerative geometry (note unusual time)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Gaëtan Borot, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
- Title: Asymptotic expansion in beta matrix models (joint with Analysis Seminar)
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 26, 2014
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Epsilon-regularity theorems
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 29, 2014
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Cristián Huepe Minoletti, Labo Labs
- Title: Elasticity-based mechanism for collective motion in natural 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, 4:00PM
- Joël Bellaïche, Brandeis
- Title: Modular forms mod p
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Guozhen Wang, MIT
- Title: Monochromatic unstable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics department's seminar room, 11:00am
- Lena Gal, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Symmetric Self-adjoint Hopf categories and a categorical Heisenberg double
Special Note: Note the special day!
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Alejandro Maass, University of Chile
- Title: Eigenvalues of Cantor minimal systems of finite topological rank
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- N/A,
- Title: Putnam Competition Organizational Meeting
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Repeated differentiation evens out spacings of zeros
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 2, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Yanki Lekili, UIC
- Title: Pretalk: An introduction to symplectic cohomology
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yanki Lekili, UIC
- Title: Equivariant Lagrangian branes and Representations
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 3, 2014
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
- Title: The uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 6, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
- Title: Strict convexity of the Parisi functional
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Giovanni Rosso, KU Leuven
- Title: Derivative of the symmetric square p-adic L-function via pull-back formula
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Michael Andrews, MIT
- Title: Non-nilpotent elements in motivic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Adam Kanigowski, Torun University
- Title: Mixing properties of smooth flows on surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- N/A,
- Title: Putnam Selection Test
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 9, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: A Smorgasbord of Topics for the Seminar
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: The Hitchin System, the Airy Equation, the Trefoil, and a Cluster Variety
Abstract and details available
The 36th Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 02:45pm Larry Goldstein ,
University of Southern California
Title: Stein's Method: Distributional Approximation and Concentration of Measure, I
Details of the talk
- 04:10pm Larry Goldstein,
University of Southern California
Title: Stein's Method: Distributional Approximation and Concentration of Measure, II
Details of the talk
Friday, October 10, 2014
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Jian Song, Rutgers University
- Title: The Ricci flow on the sphere with marked points
Abstract and details available
The 36th Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 03:00pm Davar Khoshnevisan,
University of Utah
Title: Nonlinear Noise Excitation
Details of the talk
- 04:30pm Kay Kirkpatrick,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Non-normal Asymptotics of Mean-field Spin Models
Details of the talk
Saturday, October 11, 2014
- 09:00am Davar Khoshnevisan,
University of Utah
Title: Intermittency and Multifractality
Details of the talk
- 10:30am Omer Angel,
University of British Columbia
Title: Planar Unimodular Graphs
Details of the talk
- 01:30pm Laurent Saloff-Coste,
Cornell University
Title: Random Walks on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups
Details of the talk
Monday, October 13, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Matthew Blair, University of New Mexico
- Title: Strichartz and refined local smoothing estimates for wave equations in strictly concave domains
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Rolf Ryham, Fordham University
- Title: Control of Lipidic Pore Dynamics by Aqueous Viscosity
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
- Michael Lipnowski, Duke
- Title: Growth of torsion in the cohomology of arithmetic groups
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Omar Antolin Camarena, Harvard
- Title: The universal property of the multiplicative structure of Thom spectra
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Laura DeMarco, Northwestern
- Title: Complex dynamics and elliptic curves
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 16, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Mihnea Popa, Northwestern
- Title: Pretalk: (Generic) vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Mihnea Popa, Northwestern
- Title: Recent results on holomorphic one-forms
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 17, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Frank Calegari, Paul Goerss, Ursula Porod, and Eric Zaslow,
- Title: How To Look For Academic Jobs
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Tao Zheng, Beijing Institute of Technology / Northwestern
- Title: Gradient estimates for harmonic functions on manifolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 20, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Kiril Datchev, Purdue
- Title: Quantitative limiting absorption principle in the semiclassical limit
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
- Title: Sparsity and Equation-Free Methods for Complex 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
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Carl Wang Erickson, Brandeis
- Title: Potentially semi-stable pseudodeformation rings
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Saul Glasman, MIT
- Title: The Cyclotomic Hodge Filtration
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Yair Hartman, Weizmann Institute
- Title: The Furstenberg entropy realization problem
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges on Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam competition training session.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Higher Lie groupoids I
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 23, 2014
- Algebra Seminar
Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm
- Collin Bleak, University of St Andrews
- Title: De Bruijn Automorphisms of the Full Shift
Abstract and details available
- Chicago Operator Algebra and Group Theory Seminar
Linguistic Department, 2:00
- Collin Bleak, University of St Andrews
- Title: De Bruijn Automorphisms of the Full Shift
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Alex Küronya, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Title: Pretalk: Positivity concepts in projective geometry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Alex Küronya, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Title: Kodaira vanishing for partially ample line bundles
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 24, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Paul VanKoughnett,
- Title: Stable homotopy theory and geometry
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: A numerical characterization of the Kähler cone
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Emanuele Dotto, MIT
- Title: On higher versions of Quillen's theorem B
Special Note: An informal talk before tomorrow's Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 25, 2014
- Topology Seminar
Swift 107, 10:00am
- Emanuele Dotto, MIT
- Title: Trace methods in Real algebraic K-theory
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Swift 107, 11:30am
- Greg Arone, University of Virginia
- Title: Bredon homology of partition posets, a theorem of Kuhn, and its $ku$ analogue
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Swift 107, 2:30pm
- Teena Gerhardt, Michigan State University
- Title: An approach to the algebraic K-theory of Z[C_2]
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Swift 107, 4:00pm
- Mike Hill, University of Virginia
- Title: On the spectrum of an equivariant commutative ring
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact Info here
Special Day on Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on manifolds
- 10:00am Daniele Valtorta,
EPFL Lausanne
Title: Minkowski estimates on critical and nodal sets of harmonic functions
Place: Harris L28
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Chris Sogge,
Johns Hopkins
Title: Focal points and sup-norms of eigenfunctions
Place: Harris L28
Abstract and details available
- 02:30pm John Toth,
McGill University
Title: L2-restriction lower bounds for Schrodinger eigenfunctions in classically forbidden regions
Place: Harris L28
Abstract and details available
- 04:00pm Iosif Polterovich,
Université de Montréal
Title: Spectral geometry of the Steklov problem
Place: Harris L28
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 27, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Hamid Hezari, UC Irvine
- Title: L^p noms of eigenfunctions on negatively curved manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 5:00pm
- Guillaume Roy-Fortin, Université de Montreal
- Title:
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Martin Golubitsky, Ohio State University
- Title: Patterns of Synchrony: From Animal Gaits to Binocular Rivalry
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
- George Boxer, Harvard
- Title: Torsion in the coherent cohomology of Shimura varieties and Galois representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Prasit Bhattacharya, Indiana University
- Title: Higher Associativity of Moore spectra
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kiran Parkhe,
- Title: Groups of polynomial growth and 1D dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Calculus
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Higher Lie groupoids II
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Tyler Lawson, University of Minnesota
- Title: Homotopy theory and modular surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 30, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Yannick Bonthonneau, ENS
- Title: Resonance free regions for cusp manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Higher moment maps and classical field theory
Contact Info here
Friday, October 31, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Paul VanKoughnett,
- Title: Manifolds and the Kervaire invariant
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Greg Edwards, Northwestern
- Title: Perelman's work on the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 3, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Philip M. Wood, University of Wisconsin
- Title: The empirical spectral distribution (ESD) of a deterministic matrix plus small random noise.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Andreas Waechter, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department,
- Title: A Derivative-Free Method for Solving Nonlinear Optimization
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
- Chan-Ho Kim, Univ. of California, Irvine
- Title: Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Eric Peterson, University of California Berkeley
- Title: Determinantal K-theory and an application
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00pm
- Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
- Title: Finitely presented groups associated with expanding maps
Special Note: the reading seminar will be replaced by this talk. Joint with algebra seminar.
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kenneth Jacobs, University of Georgia
- Title: A new type of equidistribution result in non-archimedean dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Kate Juschenko ,
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Algebra
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Higher Lie groupoids III
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Luis Silvestre, University of Chicago
- Title: On equations with drift and diffusion.
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 7, 2014
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Shouwen Fang, Yangzhou University / Northwestern
- Title: The Li-Yau Harnack inequality
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 10, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Michael Wolf, Rice University
- Title: Geometric Analysis of Affine Spheres over Polygons
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Ira Schwartz, US Naval Research Laboratory
- Title: Predicting epidemic rare events: A dynamical systems perspective
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
- Tonghai Yang, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: Chowla-Selberg formula and a conjecture of Colmez
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Rune Haugseng, Bonn
- Title: The higher Morita category of E_n-algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00PM
- Miguel Walsh, Oxford University
- Title: The algebraicity of sieved sets
Special Note: Note the unusual time/date
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
- Title: Exploring the parameter space of an IFS
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Pigeonhole Principle and Combinatorial Construction
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Higher Lie groupoids IV
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Miguel Walsh, University of Oxford
- Title: Bounded rational points on curves
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 13, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Paul Hacking, UMass Amherst
- Title: Geometry of cluster algebras
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Paul Hacking, UMass Amherst
- Title: Mirror symmetry and cluster algebras
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 14, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Elden Elmanto,
- Title: The Six Operations and Other Tomfooleries
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
- Title: A numerical characterization of the Kähler cone
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Ved Datar, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Convexity of regular set of singular Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Oskar Hallatschek, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: The Role of Noise in the Dynamics of Evolution: The Evolutionary
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
- Bryden Cais, Univ. of Arizona, Tuscon
- Title: Ramification in crystalline p-adic Galois representations
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontarios
- Title: Cocycles and pro-objects
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Howard Masur, University of Chicago
- Title: Ergodic Theory of Interval Exchange Transformations
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges on Counting
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Adam Marcus, Yale University
- Title: Controlling Eigenvalues (at least in theory)
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 20, 2014
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Linhui Shen, Northwestern University
- Title: Configurations, potentials, components and canonical bases
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 21, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Matthew Mahowald,
- Title: Enumerative Geometry and Mirror Symmetry
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 101, 04:00pm
- Tristan Collins, Harvard University
- Title: C2,α estimates for fully nonlinear equations
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 24, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University
- Title: Bergman kernel along the Kahler Ricci flow and Tian’s Conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Cheng-Chiang Tsai, Harvard
- Title: Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Zhen Huan, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
- Title: Quasi-elliptic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Igors Gorbovickis, University of Toronto
- Title: Parameterizing degree n rational maps by multipliers of periodic orbits
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Shu, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Calculus
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Courant Algebroids
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 1, 2014
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Phil Sosoe, Harvard University
- Title: Infinite-volume Gibbs measures and dynamics for defocusing NLS
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University and Courant Institute
- Title: Fluid Flows Created by Swimming Bacteria Drive Self-Organization
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
- Michael Donovan, MIT
- Title: Operations in the Adams spectral sequence for simplicial F_2-algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges - Easiest Putnam Problems
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 2:00pm
- Stefan Schreieder, University of Bonn
- Title: Theta divisors with curve summands and the Schottky problem
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Yuri Tschinkel , New York University
- Title: Geometry of numbers
Abstract and details available
Thursday, December 4, 2014
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Joshua Greene, Boston College
- Title: Dehn surgery, combinatorial methods, and Floer homology
Abstract and details available
Friday, December 5, 2014
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Cara Mullen, UIC
- Title: The p-adic Mandelbrot Set and Other Peculiarities of Arithmetic Dynamics
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 5, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Christopher Danforth, University of Vermont
- Title: Remote Sensing of Emotional States in Real-Time --
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
- Yifeng Liu, MIT
- Title: Diophantine equations, Selmer groups and L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
- Title: A Presheaf Construction for Generalized Multicategories
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 102, 1:00pm
- Van Cyr, Bucknell University
- Title: Automorphisms and ergodic measures for subshifts with low factor complexity
Special Note: Unusual time
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Donald Robertson, Ohio state Universtiy
- Title: The Corners Theorem for Quasirandom Groups
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Brendan Hassett, Rice University
- Title: Fibrations in rational surfaces and their sections
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 8, 2015
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton
- Title: A Khovanov stable homotopy type
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 9, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Alexander Jon Stathis, UIC
- Title: A Brief Introduction to Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Kołodziej's uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 12, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Hassan Masoud, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) and Princeton
- Title: Fluid-Structure Interactions from Nano- to Macro-Scale, from
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 Zywina, Cornell
- Title: Elliptic surfaces and the Inverse Galois Problem
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Diana Davis,
- Title: Transition diagrams for Bouw-Möller surfaces
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Andrew Neitzke, University of Texas, Austin
- Title: The many uses of saddle connections
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 15, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 11:15AM
- Dr. Anand Oza, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU)
- Title: A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets: Hydrodynamic Pilot-
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 16, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Dylan Wilson,
- Title: A talk about ODEs
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 04:10pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Kołodziej's uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Special Note: Note the special time
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Jennifer Hom, Columbia University
- Title: The knot concordance group
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Paul Reschke, University of Michigan
- Title: Dynamically canonical measures for birational transformations defined over number fields
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Alex Furman , University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Rigidity for groups with hidden symmetries
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 23, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Vlad Serban,
- Title: Manin-Mumford and sons
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Shouwen Fang, Yangzhou University / Northwestern
- Title: Perelman's W functional and no local collapsing
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 26, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Junyan Zhu, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Holomorphic Line Bundles over a Tower of Coverings
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Kang-Ling Liao, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
- Title: A Mathematical Model for the Anti-PD-1 and IL-27 Drugs in Cancer
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Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Ana Caraiani, Princeton
- Title:
Special Note: Cancelled
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Charmaine Sia, Harvard University
- Title: Structures on forms of K-theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Friday, January 30, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Xavier Garcia,
- Title: A Curious Trickshot
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Tao Zheng, Beijing Institute of Technology / Northwestern
- Title: The Schwarz Lemma
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 2, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Alexander Wray, Imperial College London
- Title: Electrostatically-Controlled Film Dynamics in Curved Geometries
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
- Bao Viet Le Hung, University of Chicago
- Title: Modularity of elliptic curves over real quadratic fields
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Ben Knudsen, Northwestern University
- Title: Rational homology of configuration spaces via factorization homology
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 5, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
- Ben Antieau, UIC
- Title: Dg categories, Hochschild cohomology, and the twisted Brauer space
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Ben Antieau, UIC
- Title: Derived categories of elliptic fibrations
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 6, 2015
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Hörmander's uniform integrability of plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 9, 2015
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Brandon Levin, University of Chicago
- Title: Moduli of finite flat group schemes with descent
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Zhouli Xu, University of Chicago
- Title: Homotopy groups of spheres and the strong Kervaire invariant problem in dimension 62
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: Minicourse Lecture I: Introduction to moduli spaces of curves
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Karl-Theodor Sturm, University of Bonn
- Title: Metric Measure Spaces with Synthetic Ricci Bounds
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 12, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Annenberg G32, 1:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: Minicourse Lecture II: The tautological cohomology ring
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Stavros Garoufaludis, Georgia Tech
- Title: Quantum modularity and complex Chern-Simons theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 13, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Chris Elliott,
- Title: Some Representation Theory in Physics
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Aaron Peterson, Northwestern
- Title: Carnot-Carathéodory metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 16, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Jané Kondev, Brandeis University
- Title: Building a Proportional Cell: How Cells Control the Size of Their
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
- Deborah Vicinsky, University of Oregon
- Title: Stabilizations of categories and graphs
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Holly Krieger, MIT
- Title: A case of the dynamical André-Oort conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: Minicourse Lecture III: The ELSV formula
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: An ELSV formula for the space of r-spin structures.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 19, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Annenberg G32, 1:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: Minicourse Lecture IV: Double ramification cycles
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
- Title: Pixton's conjecture on double ramification cycles
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 20, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Laura DeMarco,
- Title: Capacity, integers, and dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Tamás Darvas, University of Maryland
- Title: Geometry of the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Special Day on Complex Geometry and Analysis on real analytic Riemannian manifolds
Monday, February 23, 2015
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Preston Wake, University of Chicago
- Title: Eisenstein Hecke algebras and pseudorepresentations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Dr. Jacopo De Simoi, University of Toronto
- Title: An integrable billiard close to an ellipse of small eccentricity is an ellipse
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Robert Lazarsfeld, Stony Brook
- Title: Geometry and syzygies of algebraic curves
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 26, 2015
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Birgit Richter, Hamburg
- Title: Higher topological Hochschild homology of rings of integers in number fields
Special Note: Note unusual day and UPDATED time!
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 27, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Guchuan Li,
- Title: Cobordism groups and homotopy groups of Thom spaces
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Greg Edwards, Northwestern
- Title: The conical Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 2, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Aaron Peterson, Northwestern
- Title: Estimates for the Szegő kernel on the boundary of uniformly finite type domains in C2
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Horacio Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Title: Frequency Preference Response to Oscillatory Inputs in Neuronal
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
- Mohammad Hadi Hedayatzadeh, Purdue
- Title: Exterior powers of Lubin-Tate groups
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kate Ponto, University of Kentucky
- Title: Amazing consequences of simple properties of the trace
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 6, 2015
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 104, 03:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 9, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
- Title: Holder continuous solutions of active scalar equations
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Alex Roxin, Centre de Recerca Matemà tica
- Title: Â Synchrony and Firing Rate in Neuronal Networks: An Exact
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
- Aaron Silberstein, University of Chicago
- Title: Geometric reconstruction of function fields
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 12, 2015
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 04:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 13, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Laura DeMarco,
- Title: The Mandelbrot Set: What we know today
Special Note: Prospective Graduate Student event. Faculty are welcome.
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 16, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 3:00pm
- Zhenlei Zhang, Capital Normal University (Beijing) / Princeton
- Title: On the limit of a family of Monge-Ampere equations
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Gui-Qiang Chen , University of Oxford
- Title: Weak Continuity and Compactness for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 30, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Michael Damron, Indiana University
- Title: The chemical distance in critical percolation
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
-  Professor Sophie Denéve,  École Normale Supérieure
- Title: Â Efficient Coding in Balanced Neural 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
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Xin Wan, Columbia
- Title: Iwasawa main conjecture for supersingular elliptic curves
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- Bruno Klingler, Jussieu
- Title: Bi-algebraic geometry and its application to Diophantine problems
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 2, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
- Claire Voisin, CNRS and IAS
- Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to Chow groups
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Claire Voisin, CNRS and IAS
- Title: Universally defined cycles
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 3, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti,
- Title: A symplectic Calabi-Yau theory?
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Annenberg G29, 01:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
- Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 6, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Zoran Vondracek, University of Zagreb
- Title: On minimal thinness for jump processes
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Qiang Zeng, Harvard University
- Title: Noncommutative martingales, Poincare inequalities, and mixed q-Gaussian algebras
Special Note: Qiang will be a Boas starting next year.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Petia Vlahovska, Brown University
- Title: Complex fluid interfaces in electric fields: belted drops, patchy
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
- John Bergdall, Boston University
- Title: Arithmetic properties of Fredholm series
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Bena Tshishiku, University of Chicago
- Title: Point-pushing and Nielsen realization
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kathryn Lindsey, University of Chicago
- Title: The horocycle flow on strata of translation surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 9, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Clemens Koppensteiner, Northwestern
- Title: A Microlocal Characterization of Perverse Coherent Sheaves
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 10, 2015
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 04:00pm
- Xiaolan Nie, Ohio State University
- Title: Weak solutions of the Chern-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Special Day on Analytic Methods in Algebraic Geometry
- 10:00am Sébastien Boucksom,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Title: Degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and non-Archimedean geometry
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Andreas Höring,
Université de Nice
Title: Rational curves on compact Kähler manifolds
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 02:30pm Jian Song,
Rutgers University
Title: Analytic base point free theorem
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
- 04:00pm Tristan Collins,
Harvard University
Title: Restricted volumes for big (1,1) classes on Kähler manifolds
Place: Lunt 105
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 13, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
-  Professor Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington
- Title: Â Why has global warming paused for the past 15 years?
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
- Francesc Castella, University of California at Los Angeles
- Title: p-adic height of Heegner points and Beilinson-Flach elements
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- John Francis, Northwestern University
- Title: Formal consequences of stratified regularity
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Andras Vasy, Stanford
- Title: The Feynman propagator and its positivity properties
Special Note: Note unusual day
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Alex Furman, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Title: Simplicity of the Lyapunov spectrum via Boundary theory
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Sébastien Boucksom, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
- Title: Thermodynamical limits and (pluri)potential theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 16, 2015
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 04:00pm
- Dror Varolin, Stony Brook
- Title: Two Bergman-type interpolation problems on finite Riemann surfaces
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 17, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Mihnea Popa,
- Title: Vanishing theorems and holomorphic forms
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 20, 2015
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
- Title: Phases and Phase Transitions in the Collective Motility of the
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Martin Luu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Numerical local Langlands duality and Weil’s Rosetta Stone
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Inna Zakharevich, University of Chicago
- Title: CANCELLED
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 04:00pm
- Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
- Title: Nodal curves, old and new
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 04:00pm
- Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
- Title: The KKV conjecture
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 23, 2015
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 04:00pm
- Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
- Title: Homological projective duality
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 103, 11:00 am
- Dimitri Gurevich, Valenciennes University, France
- Title: From Quantum Groups to Noncommutative Geometry
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 24, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Eric Zaslow,
- Title: From ODE's to higher groupoids: The bizarre, category-cutting world of Mathematical Physics
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 04:00pm
- Lei Wu, Northwestern
- Title: Variations of Hodge structures and Hodge metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 27, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Ken Maclaughlin, University of Arizona
- Title: Asymptotic analysis of d-bar problems and Riemann-Hilbert problems: applications to random matrix theory and singular limits of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Michael Singer, University College, London
- Title: A new approach to monopole metrics
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Vinayak Vatsal, University of British Columbia
- Title: Congruences for modular forms of half-integer weight
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 103, 2:00pm
- Simion Filip, University of Chicago
- Title: Pre-talk: K3 surfaces and dynamics
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Simion Filip, University of Chicago
- Title: Families of K3 surfaces and their asymptotic properties
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Susan Holmes, Stanford University
- Title: Using Metric Methods for Non Standard Statistical Data
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 30, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
- Junecue Suh, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Pre-talk: Esnault and Viehweg's proof of the Kodaira vanishing theorem
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Junecue Suh, UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Kawamata-Viehweg type vanishing theorems with coefficients, with focus on applications
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- Agnes Beaudry, University of Chicago
- Title: The Chromatic Splitting Conjecture at $n=p=2$
Special Note: Note unusual day, time and room!
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 1, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Rebecca Wei,
- Title: A glimpse at iterated integrals
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 04:00pm
- Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University / Northwestern
- Title: Convexity of the K-energy
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 4, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Hung Tran, University of Chicago
- Title: Selection problems for a discounted degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation.
Abstract and details available
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
- Â Professor Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland
- Title: Â Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks: Insights 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
Annenberg 101, 3:00PM
- Bianca Viray, Univ. of Washington
- Title: An arithmetic intersection formula for denominators of Igusa class polynomials
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles I
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
- Title: Parabolic Manifolds Associated to Formal Invariant Curves
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Rick Kenyon, Brown University
- Title: Fixed-energy harmonic functions and acyclic orientations
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 8, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Peng Zhou,
- Title: The contour integral and the asymptotic expansion
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 04:00pm
- Lei Wu, Northwestern
- Title: Variations of Hodge structures and Hodge metrics
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 11, 2015
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Rebecca Bellovin, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: Local \(\varepsilon\)-isomorphisms in families
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles II
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles
Special Note: Professor Hopkins is the current Nemmers Prize Winner
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Jon Fickenscher, Princeton University
- Title: Boshernitzan's Bound for Shifts with Eventually Constant Growth
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Pham Huu Tiep, University of Arizona
- Title: Adequate subgroups
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Swift 107, 05:00 pm
- Annalisa Crannell, Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Franklin & Marshall College
- Title: In the Shadow of Desargues
Special Note: ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE LECTURE
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 14, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Nicolò Sibilla, University of British Columbia
- Title: The topological Fukaya category and mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau threefolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 15, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Bryna Kra,
- Title: Complexity and periodicity in dynamics: local and global
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 04:00pm
- Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University / Northwestern
- Title: Convexity of the K-energy
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 18, 2015
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Ben Green, University of Oxford
- Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 1: Approximate groups
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Ben Green, University of Oxford
- Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 2: Approximate polynomials
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Ben Green, University of Oxford
- Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 3: Problems about points and lines
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 21, 2015
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles III
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 22, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Jeff Meyer, University of Oklahoma
- Title: The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond.
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 26, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Claudio Landim, IMPA
- Title: Macroscopic fluctuation theory
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Matthew Bainbridge, Indiana University
- Title: Finiteness of Teichmüller curve in genus three
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
- Special Event
Lunt Common Room, 3:30 pm
- ,
- Title: Postdoctoral Faculty and Graduate Awards (with wine & cheese)
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles IV
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 28, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Tyler Kelly, Cambridge University
- Title: Toric Mirror Constructions and Derived Equivalence
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Ricci Curvature
- 09:00am Gábor Székelyhidi ,
University of Notre Dame
Title: Kähler-Einstein metrics along the smooth continuity method
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 10:15am Albert Chau ,
UBC
Title: Long time existence for the Kähler-Ricci on Cn
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Hans-Joachim Hein ,
University of Maryland
Title: Ricci-flat metrics on Ak singularities
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 02:30pm Yanir Rubinstein,
University of Maryland
Title: The degenerate special Lagrangian equation
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 04:00pm Christina Sormani,
CUNY GC and Lehman College
Title: Convergence of manifolds with boundary
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 29, 2015
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Elden Elmanto,
- Title: A Smorgasbord of Homotopical Ideas
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Ricci Curvature
- 09:00am Richard Bamler,
Berkeley
Title: On the scalar curvature blow up conjecture in Ricci flow
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 10:30am Song Sun,
Stony Brook
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler-Einstein manifolds
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 12:00pm Xiaokui Yang,
Northwestern
Title: The Kähler-Ricci flow, Ricci flat metrics and collapsing limits
Place: Garrett Seminary 205
Abstract and details available
- 03:00pm Mu-Tao Wang ,
Columbia University
Title: The spacetime Ricci curvature in Riemannian geometry
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 04:30pm Natasa Sesum,
Rutgers University
Title: Ancient solutions in curvature flows
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Saturday, May 30, 2015
- 09:00am Jeff Cheeger,
NYU
Title: Regularity of manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature and the codimension 4 conjecture
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 10:15am Guofang Wei,
UCSB
Title: Analysis and geometry on manifolds with integral Ricci curvature lower bounds
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 11:30am Gang Liu,
Berkeley
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of Kähler manifolds and the finite generation conjecture
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 02:30pm Jeff Viaclovsky,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Critical metrics on connected sums of Einstein four-manifolds
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 03:45pm Chi Li ,
Stony Brook
Title: On rates and compactifications of Asymptotically Conical Calabi-Yau manifolds
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
- 05:00pm John Lott,
Berkeley
Title: Ricci measure for some singular Riemannian metrics
Place: Swift 107
Abstract and details available
Sunday, May 31, 2015
- 09:00am Robert Haslhofer,
NYU
Title: Weak solutions for the Ricci flow
Place: Swift 107
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- 10:30am Bing Wang,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: The Kähler-Ricci flow on Fano manifolds
Place: Swift 107
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- 12:00pm Ruobing Zhang,
Princeton
Title: Quantitative nilpotent structure and epsilon-regularity on collapsed manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds
Place: Swift 107
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Monday, June 1, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Nguyen Ngoc Cuong, Jagiellonian University
- Title: Stability and regularity of the complex Monge-Ampère equation on Hermitian manifolds
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- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Ariane Mézard, Jussieu
- Title: Genetic of local \(p\)-adic Galois representations
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available
Thursday, June 4, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Paolo Rossi, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Dijon
- Title: Double ramification cycles and quantum integrable hierarchies
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 8, 2015
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Aukosh Jagannath, New York University
- Title: Some properties of the phase diagram for mixed p-spin glasses
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 19, 2015
- Special Event
Lunt Common Room, 1 - 2:30 pm
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- Title: Reception and light lunch for graduating seniors and faculty
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Friday, August 21, 2015
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Conan Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Title: Witten deformation and the scattering diagram in the A-model
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