Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Umut Varolgunes, MIT
- Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Umut Varolgunes, MIT
- Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 22, 2017
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:05pm
- Greg Edwards, Nilay Kumar, Xavier Garcia,
- Title: Get to know you talks: Day 1
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 25, 2017
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Yihang Zhu, Columbia University
- Title: The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Adi Glucksam, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Measurably entire functions and their growth.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Jun Zhang, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Jun Zhang, Tel Aviv University
- Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Special Note: Pre-talk at 1:00pm
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
- Title: Microlocal methods: from classical mechanics to quantum/wave mechanics
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
- Title: Microlocal methods in dynamical systems
Special Note: (First Bellow Lecture)
Contact Info here
Thursday, September 28, 2017
- Bellow Lecture Series
, 4:10pm
- Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
- Title: From quantum/wave mechanics to classical mechanics: microlocal analysis of dynamical zeta functions
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00PM
- Eviatar Procaccia, Texas A&M
- Title: On covering monotonic paths with simple random walk
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 29, 2017
- Bellow Lecture Series
, 4:10pm
- Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
- Title: A discrete view of correlations: Ruelle resonances and their stochastic stability
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 2, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Long Jin, Purdue
- Title: Fractal Uncertainty Principles and Applications to Some Problems in Quantum Chao
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Hang Xue, University of Arizona
- Title: Arithmetic theta lifts and the arithmetic Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Clover May, University of Oregon
- Title: A structure theorem for RO(G)-graded cohomology
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- John Lott,
- Title: Long-time behavior in geometric flows
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 5, 2017
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Laura Starkston, Stanford University
- Title: Weinstein handles: symplectic Morse theory
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Laura Starkston, Stanford University
- Title: Weinstein skeleta and arboreal singularities
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
- Title: Gauss curvature flow: the fate of the rolling stones
Contact Info here
Friday, October 6, 2017
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Elton Hsu (moderator),
- Title: Academic Job Forum/Panel Discussion for Graduate Students
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 9, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Kyeongsu Choi, MIT
- Title: Relation between singularity analysis and regularity theory of the Gauss curvature flow
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Ruochuan Liu, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research
- Title: Logarithmic p-adic Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and periods on Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Bena Tshishiku, Harvard University
- Title: Geometric cycles and manifold bundles
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Donald Robertson, University of Utah
- Title: Ergodicity of skew-products over linearly recurrent interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Asad Lodhia, University of Michigan
- Title: Mesoscopic central limit theorem for general β-ensembles
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Moon Duchin, Tufts
- Title: Metric geometry and gerrymandering
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 12, 2017
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 1:00pm
- Harrison Chen, UC Berkeley
- Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Harrison Chen, UC Berkeley
- Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
- Title: The M-ellipsoid, Symplectic Capacities and Volume
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 2:45pm
- Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina
- Title: Two Themes in Dynamical Network Models: Critical Scaling Limits and Reinforcement Processes, I
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina
- Title: Two Themes in Dynamical Network Models: Critical Scaling Limits and Reinforcement Processes, II
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Friday, October 13, 2017
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Perry Kleinhenz,
- Title: Can you hear the shape of a drum?
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Swift Hall 107, 3:30pm
- Ruth Williams, University of California, San Diego
- Title: Reflected Diffusions, Stochastic Networks and Biology, I
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Swift Hall 107, 5:00pm
- Wei-Kuo Chen, University of Minnesota
- Title: Energy Landscape of Mean Field Spin Glasses
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Saturday, October 14, 2017
- Special Event
Swift Hall 107, 9:00am
- Ruth Williams, University of California, San Diego
- Title: Reflected Diffusions, Stochastic Networks and Biology, II
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Swift Hall 107, 10:30am
- Xin Guo, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: How Much Aggregation is Too Much: Play Mean Field Games Through Several Examples
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
- Special Event
Swift Hall 107, 1:30pm
- Nike Sun, University of California, Berkeley
- Title: Phase Transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Monday, October 16, 2017
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Chen Wan, Institute for Advanced Study
- Title: The local trace formula for the Ginzburg-Rallis model and the generalized Shalika model
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Nima Rasekh, UIUC
- Title: A Theory of Elementary Higher Toposes
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kurt Vinhage, University of Chicago
- Title: Polynomial Entropy of Unipotent Flows
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Brett Kolesnik, Berkeley
- Title: Sharp threshold for K4-percolation
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 19, 2017
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Yuan Wang, Northwestern
- Title: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yuan Wang, Northwestern
- Title: Characterization of abelian varieties for log pairs
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Gregory Edwards, Northwestern University
- Title: Geometric estimates for complex Monge-Ampere equations
Contact Info here
Monday, October 23, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Parkes Hall 212, 3pm
- Maxim Braverman, Northeastern
- Title: The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index on manifolds with non-compact boundary
Special Note: Note earlier than usual time, special location
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon
- Title: p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis University
- Title: Higher G-torsion, polylogarithms and Mackey functors
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Diletta Martinelli, Univ. of Edinburgh
- Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to the MMP with a focus on the Abundance Conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Diletta Martinelli, Univ. of Edinburgh
- Title: Rational curves on fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Alena Erchenko, Penn State University
- Title: Flexibility of some dynamical and geometrical data
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Elliot Paquette, The Ohio State University
- Title: The law of large numbers for the maximum of the log-potential of random matrices
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mihalis Dafermos,
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton, Cambridge
- Title: Black holes and spacetime singularities in general relativity: I. The Schwarzschild and Kerr family of black holes and the problem of stability
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 26, 2017
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math challenges in Mathematical Induction, Recurrences, and Generating Functions
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Nick McCleerey, Northwestern University
- Title: The minimum sets and free boundaries of strictly plurisubharmonic functions
Contact Info here
- Yamabe Lecture
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton, Cambridge
- Title: Black holes and spacetime singularities in general relativity: II. On falling into black holes
Contact Info here
Friday, October 27, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4pm
- Wolfgang Arendt, University of Ulm
- Title: Kernels, Spectral Theory and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator
Special Note: Note unusual day, room.
Contact Info here
Monday, October 30, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Oran Gannot, Northwestern
- Title: Logarithmic decay of waves on spacetimes bounded by event horizons
Contact Info here
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Carl Wang-Erickson, Imperial College London
- Title: The rank of the Eisenstein ideal
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Inbar Klang, Stanford University
- Title: Factorization homology and topological Hochschild cohomology of Thom spectra
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 2, 2017
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math challenges with Inequalities
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Stéphane Guillermou, Grenoble
- Title: The microlocal theory of sheaves
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Stéphane Guillermou, Grenoble
- Title: The three cusps conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Gang Liu, Northwestern
- Title: Positivity of holomorphic sectional curvature and a conjecture of Yau
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 3, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University
- Title: Geometry and Arithmetic of Crystallographic Packings
Special Note: Note the unusual day
Abstract and details available
Saturday, November 4, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 9:00am
- Jacopo De Simoi, University of Toronto
- Title: Spectral rigidity and planar convex billiards
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 10:00am
- Rohini Ramadas, Harvard University
- Title: Algebraic dynamics from topological and holomorphic dynamics
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 11:30am
- Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
- Title: Automorphisms of the shift: Lyapunov exponents and the dimension representation
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 2:30pm
- Joel Moreira, Northwestern University
- Title: Multiple recurrence along sparse sequences over thick sets
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 4:00pm
- Daniel Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Uniform versus non-uniform convergence action on the two-sphere
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Sunday, November 5, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 9:00am
- Patrick Ingram, York University
- Title: The critical height and its depleted variants
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 10:00am
- Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
- Title: Scattering methods for skew-product parabolic maps
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tech M345, 11:30amm
- Boris Kalinin, Penn State University
- Title: Normal forms on contracting foliations
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 6, 2017
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Koji Shimizu, Harvard University
- Title: Existence of a compatible system of a local system
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Eva Belmont, MIT
- Title: Localizing the E_2 page of the Adams spectral sequence
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Wenbo Sun, Ohio State University
- Title: Pointwise multiple convergence for commuting transformations on distal systems
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Yang-Mills theory and the large-N limit
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Locy 213, 3:00pm
- Jasmin Raissy, Universite de Toulouse
- Title: A local approach to holomorphic dynamics
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 9, 2017
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Khashayar Filom, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Andrei Caldararu, Madison
- Title: Algebraic structures for categorical Gromov-Witten invariants
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Andrei Caldararu, Wisconsin
- Title: Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 13, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Locy 318, 3:00pm
- Alex Wright, Stanford University
- Title: Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Special Note: Note: unusual time and place!
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Jeremy Hahn, Harvard University
- Title: Structure in the Stable Splitting of Affine Grassmannians
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Max Chaudkhari,
- Title: Dixmier Unitarizability problem
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Victor Veitch , Columbia
- Title: The role of subsampling and exchangeability in modelling (sparse) graphs
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
- Title: Gravitational allocation to uniform points on the sphere
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 16, 2017
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Howard Nuer, UIC
- Title: Pre-talk: Connections between cubic fourfolds and hyperkähler manifolds via derived categories and Bridgeland stability
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Howard Nuer, UIC
- Title: Stability conditions in families and families of Hyperkähler varieties
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Khashayar Filom, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math challenges in Abstract and Linear Algebra
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern
- Title: The Hormander proof of the Bourgain–Milman theorem
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 20, 2017
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Jan Vonk, McGill University
- Title: Singular moduli for real quadratic fields
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 1:00pm
- Chaudkhari,
- Title: Unitarizability problems II
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Nicole Looper, Northwestern University
- Title: A lower bound on the canonical height for polynomials
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 27, 2017
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Bing Wang, U of Wisconsin
- Title: The extension problem of mean curvature flow.
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Qirui Li, Columbia University
- Title: Intersection number formula on Lubin-Tate spaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Yan Mary He, University of Chicago
- Title: Topology of the shift locus via big mapping class groups
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Hans Chaumont, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Title: Exactly Solvable Lattice Directed Polymer Models
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Michael Gröchenig, Freie Universität Berlin
- Title: Mirror symmetry for Higgs bundles and the fundamental lemma
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 30, 2017
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 5:30pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math challenges in Analysis
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Jo Nelson, Columbia University
- Title: Reeb Dynamics and Contact Invariants
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Jo Nelson, Columbia University
- Title: Reeb dynamics of prequantization bundles via contact homology
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
TBA, 3:00pm
- Pavel Mnev, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Two-dimensional abelian BF theory in Lorenz gauge as a B-twisted (2,2)-superconformal field theory
Contact Info here
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Ben Landon, Harvard University
- Title: Local statistics of Dyson Brownian motion
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 8, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dennis Krivensov, Courant Institute
- Title: Regularity for Spectral Optimizers
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Shrenik Shah, Columbia University
- Title: Class number formulae for some Shimura varieties of low dimension
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Agnès Beaudry, University of Colorado
- Title: The Equivariant Dual of Morava E-Theory
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Kate Juschenko, Northwestern University
- Title: Liouville property for actions of groups
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Columbia University
- Title: Mirror symmetry and Hodge theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 11, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00pm
- Martin Kassabov, Cornell
- Title: On soficity of variations of Higman group
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Sung-Jin Oh, KIAS
- Title: The Threshold Theorem for the hyperbolic Yang-Mills equation
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Andreas Koutsogiannis,
- Title: On the limiting behavior of multiple ergodic averages
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Aaron Greicius, Loyola University Chicago
- Title: Serre's Open Image Theorem
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 18, 2018
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 102, 03:00pm
- Yu Wang, Northwestern University
- Title: Long time existence for Yang-Mills flow
Contact Info here
Friday, January 19, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Adam Boocher, University of Utah
- Title: From Magic Squares to Polynomials
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 22, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Steven Sam, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Title: Noetherianity in representation theory
Special Note: Note: unusual time and place!
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Sean Gomes, Northwestern
- Title: Non quantum ergodicity in KAM systems
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Nicole Looper, Northwestern University
- Title: A lower bound on the canonical height for polynomials
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 25, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
, 2:00pm
- Avraham Aizenbud, Weizman Institute
- Title: Bounds on multiplicities of spherical spaces over finite fields
Contact Info here
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
- Title: Some rigidity theorems for Riemannian manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 26, 2018
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt B9, 4:00pm
- Khashayar Filom,
- Title: The Schwarzian Derivative, a Ubiquitous Object
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3pm
- John Johnson, The Ohio State University
- Title: Making static theorems dynamic: Connections between dynamics and combinatorial number theory
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 29, 2018
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Liang Xiao, University of Connecticut
- Title: Cycles on the special fiber of some Shimura varieties and Tate conjecture
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Samuel Petite, University of Picardie
- Title: Restrictions on the automorphism group of a fixed subshift
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Erik Bates, Stanford
- Title: Low-temperature localization of directed polymers
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Jordan Tirrell, Mount Holyoke College
- Title: The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 1, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
, 11:00am
- Arie Levit, Yale
- Title: Asymptotic properties of lattices in semisimple groups
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Greg Edwards,
- Title: Direct images of fiberwise Ricci-flat metrics on Calabi-Yau fibrations
Contact Info here
Friday, February 2, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Brett Smith, Yale University
- Title: Bounding treewidth of planar graphs using three-sided brambles
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 5, 2018
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Lue Pan, Princeton University
- Title: Fontaine–Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Lisa Hartung, Courant Institute
- Title: Extreme Level Sets of Branching Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 8, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Yuchen Liu,
- Title: Pre-talk: normalized volumes of valuations and K-stability of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yuchen Liu, Yale University
- Title: K-stability of cubic threefolds
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
- Title: Effective very ampleness
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 9, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Alice Mark, Arizona State University
- Title: Farey, Ford, and PSL_2(Z)
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 12, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Julius Ross, UIC
- Title: Complex PDEs and Planar Flows
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Lucia Mocz, Princeton University
- Title: A new Northcott property for Faltings height
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Craig Westerland,
- Title: Structure theorems for braided Hopf algebras
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Yair Hartman, Northwestern
- Title: Which groups have bounded harmonic functions?
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00PM
- Arjun Krishnan, University of Rochester
- Title: Stationary coalescing walks on the lattice
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 15, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Bahar Acu, Northwestern
- Title: Iterated planar contact manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
- Title: Effective very ampleness
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 19, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Moritz Doll, Hannover
- Title: Refined Weyl law for the perturbed harmonic oscillator
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Daniel Kriz, Princeton University
- Title: A new p-adic Maass-Shimura operator and supersingular Rankin-Selberg p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Mingcong Zeng, University of Rochester
- Title: Mackey functors and equivariant Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectra
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Ayse Sahin, Wright State University
- Title: Classifying general odometers: spectrum, geometric group theory, and orbit equivalence
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Vadim Gorin, MIT
- Title: Gaussian Free Field in random tilings
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 22, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- James Conway, UC Berkeley
- Title: Contact structures: fillings, knots, and surgery
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- James Conway, UC Berkeley
- Title: Fillability of positive contact surgeries
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Albert Chau,
- Title: The cusp Kahler Ricci flow on Quasi projective Varieties
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 23, 2018
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt B9, 4:00pm
- Elden Elmanto,
- Title: Topological Hochschild Homology and the theory of Motives
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 26, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Anush Tserunyan,
- Title: Ergodic hyperfinite decomposition of pmp equivalence relations
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Jingren Chi, University of Chicago
- Title: Geometry of generalized affine Springer fibers
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kirsten Wickelgren,
- Title: An arithmetic count of the lines on a cubic surface.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Sheldon Katz, UIUC
- Title: Enumerative Geometry and Physics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 1, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Sam Nariman, Northwestern University
- Title: On characteristic classes in symplectic topology
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 2, 2018
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt B9, 4:00pm
- Rachel McEnroe and Yajit Jain,
- Title: Grad Student Seminar for Prospective Students
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 5, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Martin Vogel, Orsay/Berkeley
- Title: Spectrum of random non-selfadjoint operators.
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Isabel Leal, University of Chicago
- Title: Generalized Hasse-Herbrand functions
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Vivian Healey, University of Chicago
- Title: Tree Embedding via the Generalized Loewner Equation
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 8, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 1:00pm
- Yu Pan, MIT
- Title: Pretalk: Introduction to the Legendrian contact homology
Special Note: Please note the change of room!
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Yu Pan, MIT
- Title: Augmentations and exact Lagrangian cobordisms
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
- Title: A brief overview of the Yamabe problem
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 12, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Marco Mendez,
- Title: Geometric aspects of semilinear elliptic PDEs and minimal hypersurfaces on closed manifolds
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Professor Molei Tao, Georgia Tech
- Title: Hyperbolic periodic orbits, heteroclinic connections, and semi-analytical characterization of rare events in some nongradient systems
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Matthew Baker, Georgia Tech
- Title: Matroids and Grassmannians over Hyperfields
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 15, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 105, 1:00pm
- Alexander Perry,
- Title: Pre-talk: Derived categories, birational geometry, and Hodge theory
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Alexander Perry, Columbia University
- Title: Deformation and derived equivalent but non-birational Calabi-Yau threefolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 2, 2018
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Ari Schnidman, Boston College
- Title: A higher order Gross-Kohnen-Zagier formula
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Anh Le, Northwestern University
- Title: Nilsequences and multiple correlations along subsequences.
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Boris Hanin, Texas A&M
- Title: Gradients in Deep Neural Networks at Initialization
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- John Duncan,
- Title:
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Manuel Krannich, University of Copenhagen
- Title: Detecting exotic smooth structures in diffeomorphism groups
Special Note: **Special day and time**
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 9, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dean Baskin, Texas A&M
- Title: Radiation fields on asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Ben Knudsen, Harvard University
- Title: Edge stabilization in the homology of graph braid groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Roland Roeder, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
- Title: Lee-Yang zeros for the Cayley Tree and expanding maps of the circle
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Enrico Arbarello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
- Title: Brill-Noether Theory Old and New
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 12, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Enrico Arbarello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
- Title: Hyperplane Sections of K3 Surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
- Title: Invariance of plurigenera
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 16, 2018
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University
- Title: Vojta's conjecture and uniform boundedness of full-level structures on abelian varieties over number fields
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Victor Turchin, Kansas State University
- Title: Delooping the Goodwillie-Weiss tower for closed discs
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Aaron Brown, University of Chicago
- Title: Recent progress in the Zimmer program
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Andras Vasy,
- Title: The stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 19, 2018
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Gang Liu,
- Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 23, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ihsan Topaloglu, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Title: Droplet breakup in the liquid drop model
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Title: Inertia Groupoids and their singularity structure or why we need a concept of stratified groupoids
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Ron Donagi,
- Title: Super geometry and the foundations of perturbative string theory
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 26, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
, 1:00pm
- Alexander Yom Din, Caltech
- Title: Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for (g,K)-modules
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Benjamin Bakker, Univ. of Georgia
- Title: Hodge theory and o-minimal geometry
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00PM
- Timo Seppäläinen, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Shifted weights and restricted path length in first-passage percolation
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 27, 2018
- Nemmers Lectures
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- János Kollár, Princeton University
- Title: How Small Can a Polynomial Be Near Infinity?
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00
- Mike Boyle,
- Title: The automorphism group of a shift of finite type
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- János Kollár , Princeton
- Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces I
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Sergey Fomin,
- Title: Morsifications and mutations
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 3, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
- Title: Pre-talk: Mumford's simplicity criterion for normal surface singularities
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Tommaso de Fernex, Univ. of Utah
- Title: A simplicity criterion for normal isolated singularities
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 9:30am
- John Franks, Northwestern University
- Title: Non-expansiveness in Z^2 symbolic dynamics
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 10:45am
- Sabya Mukherjee, Stony Brook University
- Title: Dynamics of Schwarz reflections: mating polynomials with groups
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 2:00pm
- Clark Butler, University of Chicago
- Title: Characterizing symmetric spaces by their Lyapunov spectra
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:30pm
- Olga Lukina, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: Symmetries of laminations
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Nicholas McCleerey, Northwestern University
- Title: On the singularity type of full mass currents in big cohomology classes
Contact Info here
Monday, May 7, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Elena Maeder-Baumdicker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/Princeton
- Title: The area preserving curve shortening flow in a free boundary setting
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesota
- Title: Nearby cycles of automorphic étale sheaves
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Michael Harrison,
- Title: The h-principle and totally convex immersions
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Jon Chaika, University of Utah
- Title: Horocycle orbits in strata of translation surfaces
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- János Kollár , Princeton
- Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces II
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Michael Larsen,
- Title: Rationality of Zeta Functions via Cutting and Pasting
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 10, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Brian Lehmann, Boston College
- Title: Pre-talk: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Brian Lehmann, Boston College
- Title: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
- Title: Compact Kahler threefolds without nontrivial subvarieties
Contact Info here
Friday, May 11, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Michael Singer, University College London
- Title: On asymptotically hyperbolic anti-self-dual Einstein metrics
Special Note: Note unusual day, time.
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- János Kollár , Princeton
- Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces III
Contact Info here
Monday, May 14, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Celso Viana, University of Chicago/University College London
- Title: Index one minimal surfaces in spherical space forms
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Charlotte Chan, University of Michigan
- Title: Periods identities of CM forms on quaternion algebras
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Dan Berwick-Evans, UIUC
- Title: Modular forms, physics, and topology
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Kitty Yang,
- Title: Normal amenable subgroups of automorphism groups of shifts of finite type
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Louis Fan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: PDE and stochastic PDE arising from individual-based models
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- János Kollár , Princeton
- Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces IV
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 17, 2018
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 03:00pm
- Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
- Title: Constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics - existence results
Contact Info here
Monday, May 21, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dana Mendelson, University of Chicago
- Title: Probabilistic wellposedness and scattering results for nonlinear wave and Schrodinger equations on Euclidean space
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Jayce Getz, Duke University
- Title: Summation formulae for triples of quadratic forms
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Claire Merriman,
- Title: Coding geodesic flows and various continued fractions
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Nick Cook, UCLA
- Title: The maximum of the characteristic polynomial for a random permutation matrix
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
- Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
- Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories I: Surfaces and Strings
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 24, 2018
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Gregory Edwards,
- Title: Relative volume comparison along the Kahler-Ricci flow
Contact Info here
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
- Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
- Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories II: The topology of moduli spaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 25, 2018
- Pinsky Lecture Series
Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
- Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
- Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories III: Operads from TQFTs
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Hexi Ye, Zhejiang University
- Title: Subvarieties with dense preperiodic points for an endomorphism of (\P^1)^n
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 31, 2018
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
- Title: An epsilon regularity theorem for the Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 4, 2018
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Piotr Pstragowski, Northwestern University
- Title: Synthetic spectra and the cellular motivic category
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Mehrdad Kalantar, University of Houston
- Title: A topological boundary for unitary representations of discrete groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
, 11:00am
- Wai Kit Yeung, Indiana University
- Title: Weak Calabi-Yau structures and moduli of representations (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available
- Algebra Seminar
, 4:00pm
- Wai Kit Yeung, Indiana University
- Title: Weak Calabi-Yau structures and moduli of representations
Abstract and details available
Monday, July 16, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
- Title: Complex zeros of random polynomials
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 11:00am
- Ezra Getzler ,
- Title: The Chern character as a differential form on the derived stack of perfect complexes
Abstract and details available
Thursday, August 9, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 102, 11:00am
- Boris Tsygan,
- Title: Chern character of a perfect complex
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University
- Title: GT-shadows and their action on child's drawings
Abstract and details available
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