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Year 2018
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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:
Contact Info here
- 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
Monday, October 1, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Xiaochun Li, UIUC
- Title: Recent progress on Schrodinger equations
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Laura DeMarco, Northwestern University
- Title: Height pairings and torsion points
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 4, 2018
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
- Title: Variational calculus in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and general covariance
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Bogdan Georgiev,
- Title: Doubling and frequency for harmonic functions
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Megan Bernstein, Georgia Tech
- Title: Cutoff with window for the random to random shuffle
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 8, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Bogdan Georgiev,
- Title: Nodal geometry: tubular neighbourhoods around nodal sets and inner radii of nodal domains.
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Padmavathi Srinivasan, Georgia Tech
- Title: Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 102, 11:00am
- Maxime Bergeron,
- Title: The Topology (and Arithmetic) of Representation Varieties
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University
- Title: Kummer rigidity for K3 surface automorphisms
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Putnam Competition Organizational Meeting
Special Note: Organizational meeting for the Putnam competition.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Eric Friedlander,
- Title: The Mathematics of Andrei Suslin
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 11, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Nikon Kurnosov, University of Georgia
- Title: About Kuga-Satake construction and its generalizations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Tim Large , MIT
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Tim Large , MIT
- Title: Steenrod operations and the Floer homotopy type
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Jianchun Chu,
- Title: Geometric estimates for complex Monge-Ampère equations
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00PM
- Will Perkins, UIC
- Title: Algorithmic Pirogov-Sinai theory
Abstract and details available
- Special Event
Lunt 104, 4pm
- Job panel,
- Title: Academic job panel for graduate students and post-docs
Contact Info here
Monday, October 15, 2018
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
- Title: Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 102, 11:00am
- Yotam Handel, Weizmann Institute
- Title: Singularity properties of convolutions of algebraic morphisms and applications
Abstract and details available
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
- Title: Statistical mechanics of the classical Coulomb gas I
Abstract and details available
- Bellow Lecture Series
Lunt 107, 4:30pm
- Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
- Title: Statistical mechanics of the classical Coulomb gas II
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- No seminar: Bellow Lecture,
- Title:
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 103, 4:00pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Periodic cyclic complex as a homotopy crystal
Special Note: First talk of Noncommutative geometry seminar
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 18, 2018
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Putnam Selection Test
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Steve Zelditch,
- Title: A relativistic Duistermaat-Guillemin Trace formula
Abstract and details available
The 40th Midwest Probability Colloquium
- 2:45pm Sebastian Roch,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A Biased Talk Through Mathematical Phylogenomics, Part I
Place: 105 Lunt Hall
Abstract and details available
- 4:10pm Sebastian Roch,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A Biased Talk Through Mathematical Phylogenomics, Part II
Place: 105 Lunt Hall
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 19, 2018
- 3:30pm Rick Kenyon,
Brown University
Title: Limit Shapes for Height Models, Part I
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 4:30pm Paul Bourgade,
New York University
Title: Random Matrices and Logarithmically Correlated Fields
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 20, 2018
- 9:00am Rick Kenyon,
Brown University
Title: Limit Shapes for Height Models, Part II
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 10:30am Firas Rassoul-Agha,
University of Utah
Title: Shifted Weights and Restricted-Length Paths in First-Passage Percolation
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
- 1:30pm Tianyi Zheng,
University of California, San Diego
Title: Random Walks on Groups of Intermediate Volume Growth
Place: 107 Swift Hall
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 22, 2018
- Special Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Periodic cyclic complex as a homology crystal, Ii
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Allen Yuan, MIT
- Title: The Frobenius in higher algebra
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Florian Richter, Northwestern University
- Title: Uniform distribution of polynomial and non-polynomial sequences in nilmanifolds
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Searle Center ,
- Title: SIREN Faculty Workshop
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 25, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Mihai Fulger, Universiy of Connecticut
- Title: Seshadri constants for vector bundles
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Analysis
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- James Pascaleff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Monotone Lagrangians and disk counting
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- James Pascaleff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Wall-crossing formulas for Lagrangian mutations
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Sisi Shen,
- Title: Kähler-Ricci flow on manifolds with negative holomorphic sectional curvature
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 29, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Hui Yu, Columbia University
- Title: Regularity of optimal transport between planar convex domains
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
- Title: Cyclic and cyclotomic modules (after Kaledin)
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Renee Bell, University of Penssylvannia
- Title: Local-to-Global Extensions for Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- JD Quigley, Notre Dame University
- Title: The parametrized Tate construction
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Agnieszka Zelerowicz, Penn State
- Title: Equilibrium states in dynamics via geometric measure theory
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Nir Avni,
- Title: Words, words, words
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 1, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Charles Stibitz, Northwestern
- Title: Birational superrigidity and K-stability of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Induction and Recurrences
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Harold Williams, UC Davis
- Title: Pretalk
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- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Harold Williams, UC Davis
- Title: Kasteleyn operators from mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Siyi Zhang, Princeton
- Title: A conformally invariant gap theorem characterizing complex projective space via the Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Julian Gold,
- Title: 450-$\infty$
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Matt Junge, Duke University
- Title: Diffusion-Limited Annihilating Systems
Abstract and details available
Saturday, November 3, 2018
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 10am
- ,
- Title: Mini-conference on Topological cyclic homology
Abstract and details available
Sunday, November 4, 2018
- Special Event
Lunt 105, 10am
- ,
- Title: Mini-conference on Topological cyclic homology
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 5, 2018
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Boris Tsygan , Northwestern University
- Title: Cyclotomic modules (after Kaledin) Ii
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Daniil Rudenko, University of Chicago
- Title: Non-Euclidean tetrahedra and rational elliptic surface
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Myrto Mavraki, Northwestern University
- Title: Equidistribution and preperiodic points for families of rational maps
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Steven D. Miller ,
- Title: Sphere packing, Fourier interpolation, and Universal Optimality
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 8, 2018
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Wenyuan Li, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Michele Schiavina, Berkeley
- Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Michele Schiavina, Berkeley
- Title: Equivalence of gauge theories in the presence of boundaries: insights from General Relativity (there will be a pre-talk at 1pm)
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Emmett Wyman ,
- Title: Low-frequency generalized period integrals of eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Sean Pohorence,
- Title: Short time dynamics in spherical p-spin models (450-∞)
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Ruojun Huang, Courant Institute
- Title: On some instances of random walk in changing environment
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 12, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Xumin Du,
- Title: Schrodinger maximal estimates and refined Strichartz type estimates
Abstract and details available
- Noncommutative Geometry
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Boris Tsygan , Northwestern
- Title: Cyclotomic modules, after Kaledin III
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Sungyoon Cho, Northwestern University
- Title: The supersingular locus of some unitary Shimura varieties.
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Yan Gao, Sichuan/Northwestern
- Title: Introduction to the core entropy theory of complex polynomials
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Vadim Kaloshin,
- Title: On integrable billiards, Birkhoff conjecture, and deformational spectral rigidity.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 15, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Chuanhao Wei, Stony Brook University
- Title: Zeros of log-one-forms and families of log-varieties
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
- Title: Elementary Math Challenges (miscellaneus)
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Kevin Sackel, MIT
- Title: Convex surfaces in contact 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:10pm
- Kevin Sackel, MIT
- Title: Convex contact handle decompositions
Abstract and details available
- Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar
Lunt 107, 03:00pm
- Nick McCleerey,
- Title: A Liouville theorem for the complex Monge-Ampère equation
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00PM
- Han Gan, Northwestern
- Title: Malliavin calculus (450-∞)
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 19, 2018
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- David Zureick-Brown, Emory University
- Title: Progress on Mazur’s program B
Abstract and details available
Wednesday , November 21, 2018
- Graduate Student Seminar
Locy 110, 10:30am
- ,
- Title: 2. Relations among Morse A_\infty-Category, De Rham A_\infty-Category and Fukaya Category
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Locy 110, 12:00pm
- Kevin Sackel ,
- Title: Open books in contact geometry
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 101 , 3:00pm
- John Snadden ,
- Title: Bott-Morse Floer theory for toric manifolds
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
- Graduate Student Seminar
Lunt 101, 4:30pm
- Honghao Gao ,
- Title: Sheaves for a Legendrian sphere
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
- Topology Seminar
Locy 110, 9:00am
- Pyongwon Suh ,
- Title: The Landau-Ginzburg A-Model M = C^n,W = z_1…z_n
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 26, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Hans Christianson, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Title: Quantum ergodic properties of eigenfunctions on triangles
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 107, 4:00PM
- Michal Zydor, University of Michigan
- Title: Periods of automorphic forms over reductive groups
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Osama Khalil, Ohio State University
- Title: Divergent Orbits of Homogeneous Flows and Diophantine Approximation.
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Brandon Seward, NYU
- Title: Bernoulli shifts and entropy theory
Special Note: Special Location
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Soren Galatius,
- Title: Genus g Riemann surfaces, varying in (4g-6)-parameter families.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 29, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Yaroslav Khromenkov, Northwestern
- Title: Dimensions of triangulated categories and Orlov's conjecture
Abstract and details available
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Frederick Manners, Stanford
- Title: Approximate polynomials, higher order Fourier analysis and placing queens on chessboards
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
- Elementary Math Challenges
Lunt 104, 6:00pm
- Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
- Title: Easy Putnam Problems
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Honghao Gao, Institut Fourier
- Title: An Odyssey of Augmentations
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Honghao Gao, Institut Fourier
- Title: Augmentations and sheaves for knot conormals
Special Note: Note the unusual time.
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:00PM
- Cathy Chen,
- Title: Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Equations for Spin Glasses (450-infinity)
Contact Info here
Monday, December 3, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- John Toth,
- Title: Pointwise bounds for joint eigenfunctions of quantum completely integrable (QCI) systems
Abstract and details available
Tuesday , December 4, 2018
- Analysis Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Michael Hitrik , UCLA
- Title: Spectra for non-selfadjoint operators and integrable dynamics
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Simion Filip, IAS
- Title: Discrete groups, Lyapunov exponents, and Hodge theory
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
- Probability Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00PM
- Han Gan, Northwestern University
- Title: Malliavin calculus (450-infinity)
Contact Info here
Thursday, December 6, 2018
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lunt 107, 11:00am
- Mingyi Zhang, Northwestern
- Title: Stable irrational hypersurfaces of small slopes
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 1:00pm
- Dmitry Tonkonog, UC Berkeley
- Title: Lagrangian tori in Fano manifolds
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Dmitry Tonkonog, UC Berkeley
- Title: Disk potentials and mirror symmetry
Special Note: Note the unusual time.
Abstract and details available
- Number Theory
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Ilya Khayutin, Princeton
- Title: Arithmetic and dynamics on homogeneous spaces
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
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