Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

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Academic Year 2019-2020

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Lucas Benigni, University of Chicago
Title: Fermionic eigenvector moment flow
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ezra Getzler,
Title: Gluing gauge conditions in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism (joint with Sean Pohorence)
Contact Info here

Monday, September 30, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mark Allen, Brigham Young University
Title: A new boundary Harnack principle
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jay Shah, University of Notre Dame
Title: $C_2$-equivariant stable homotopy from real motivic stable homotopy
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Van Cyr, Bucknell University
Title: Ergodic properties of low complexity symbolic systems
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Putnam Competition Organizational Meeting
Special Note: Organizational meeting for the Putnam competition.
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Vishesh Jain, MIT
Title: Quantitative invertibility of random matrices: a combinatorial perspective
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Man-Chun Lee, Northwestern University
Title: Gromov Hausdorff limit of complete Kähler manifolds with BK lower bound via partial Kähler Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 4, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Junho Peter Whang, MIT
Title: Diophantine analysis on moduli of local systems
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 7, 2019

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Dominic Culver, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Title: Complex motivic $kq$-resolutions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Daren Wei, Penn State
Title: Kakutani equivalence of unipotent flows
Contact Info here
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Wenyuan Li, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10PM
Jianfeng Zhang, University of Southern California
Title: Weak Solutions of Mean Field Game Master Equations
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Mingyi Zhang, Northwestern
Title: Hodge ideals for Q-divisors with weighted homogeneous or nondegenerate isolated singularities
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Linear Algebra
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago
Title: An Introduction to Wall-Crossing
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago
Title: Indices, Chiral Algebras, and BPS particles
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Xi Sisi Shen, Northwestern University
Title: Estimates for constant Chern scalar curvature
Abstract and details available
41st Midwest Probability Colloquium

Friday, October 11, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 103, 3:00PM
Arthur Cesar LeBras, CNRS and Paris 13
Title: Prismatic Dieudonne theory
Abstract and details available
41st Midwest Probability Colloquium

Monday, October 14, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
No Seminar,
Title: No Seminar - Academic job panel
Contact Info here
Special Event Lunt 105, 4:00pm
,
Title: Academic Job Panel for graduate students and post-docs
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00pm
Maximilien Peroux, UIC
Title: Rigidification of coalgebras and comodules
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Yusheng Luo, Stony Brook University
Title: R-trees in complex dynamics
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Induction and Recurrences
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Pavel Etingof, MIT
Title: Algebra and representation theory without vector spaces
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M166, 10:00am
Yusheng Luo, Stony Brook University
Title: R-trees in complex dynamics Part 2
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sebastián Olano, Northwestern
Title: On the nonnegativity of stringy Hodge numbers
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Analysis
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Heming Jiao, Harbin Institute of Technology
Title: The Dirichlet problem for Hessian type equations
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 18, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Sean Howe, University of Utah
Title: Automorphic forms and Igusa moduli spaces
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 21, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ravi Shankar, University of Washington
Title: Interior regularity for a quadratic partial differential equation
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Ningchuan Zhang, UIUC
Title: Analogs of Dirichlet L-functions in chromatic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges involving inequalities
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Charles Weibel, Rutgers
Title: The rise of motivic mathematics
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Lei Wu, University of Utah
Title: D-modules, index theorems and topology
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here

Friday, October 25, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Raphael Steiner, IAS
Title: Triply modular pre-trace formulas and their applications
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 28, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Emmanuel Schenck, Paris Nord
Title: Exponential gaps in the length spectrum
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Mark Piraino, Northwestern University
Title: Matrix equilibrium states
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges: Generating Functions and Telescoping
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Shige Peng, Shandong University
Title: Dynamical and Distributional Behavior of G-Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Tech M120, 2:00PM
Simon Marshall, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Title: The subconvexity problem in higher rank
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Itay Glazer, Weizmann Institute
Title: On singularity properties of convolutions of algebraic morphisms and applications to probabilistic Waring-type problems
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here

Monday, November 4, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sam Punshon-Smith, Brown University
Title: Lagrangian chaos, mixing, and scalar turbulence in stochastic fluid mechanics
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Hood Chatham, MIT
Title: An Orientation Map for Higher Real E-theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Zhehua Li, Northwestern University
Title: How to discretize path integrals and related dynamics
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Eckhard Meinrenken, Toronto
Title: Euler-like vector fields and linearizations
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Julius Ross, UIC
Title: Hodge-Riemann bilinear relations and related results
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Number Theory
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Ian Le, Northwestern
Title: pre-talk for Metric invariants in affine buildings
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ian Le, Northwestern
Title: Metric invariants in affine buildings
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey, Northwestern
Title: Superforms, supercurrents, minimal manifolds and Riemannian geometry
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 8, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesotta
Title: Local systems over Shimura varieties: a comparison of two constructions
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 11, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Max Engelstein, University of Minnesota
Title: The Riemannian Quantitative Isoperimetric Inequality
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Laura Wells, University of Notre Dame
Title: G-equivariant factorization algebras (Cancelled; Weather)
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Holly Krieger, University of Cambridge
Title: Thurston eigenvalues in complex dynamics
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:30pm
Wenyu Pan, University of Chicago
Title: Kleinian Schottky groups, Patterson-Sullivan measures, and Fourier decay
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Super-rigidity, Weyl groups, and hyperbolic structures
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Wenyuan Li, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in TBA
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Or Hershkovits, Stanford
Title: Ancient solutions to the Mean Curvature Flow and applications
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Fanjun Meng, Northwestern
Title: On Nonvanishing for uniruled log canonical pairs
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Probability
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Da Rong Cheng, University of Chicago
Title: Bubble tree convergence of conformally cross product preserving maps
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 15, 2019

Special Event Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Yang Li, Institute of Advanced Study
Title: NU-ND-UIC Complex Geometry Seminar: Taub-NUT and Ooguri-Vafa: from 2D to 3D
Abstract and details available
Special Event Lunt 107, 04:10pm
Ronan Conlon, Florida International University
Title: NU-ND-UIC Complex Geometry Seminar: Classification Results for Expanding and Shrinking gradient Kahler-Ricci solitons
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 18, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Luc Hillairet, Université d'Orléans
Title: Eigenvalue spacing for 1D singular Schrödinger operator
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Ben Antieau, University of Illinois Chicago
Title: Cyclotomic spectra and p-divisible groups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Asgar Jamneshan, UCLA
Title: On an uncountable Moore-Schmidt theorem
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Number Theory 107, 3:00PM
Charlotte Chan , MIT
Title: Flag varieties and representations of p-adic groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Colin Guillarmou, Orsay
Title: [First Pinsky Lecture]
Contact Info here
Pinsky Lecture Series , 4:10pm
Colin Guillarmou, Orsay
Title: Rigidity problems for the lengths of geodesics in Riemannian geometry
Contact Info here

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges involving the Pigeonhole Principle
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Xiaoxiao Li, Notre Dame
Title: Asymptotic expansions of singular solutions of sigma_k-Yamabe equation near isolated singularities
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series , 4:10pm
Colin Guillarmou, Orsay
Title: The marked length spectrum local rigidity and geodesic stretch
Contact Info here

Friday, November 22, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Shai Evra, IAS
Title: Golden Gates in PU(n) and the Density Hypothesis
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series , 4:10pm
Colin Guillarmou, Orsay
Title: Zeta functions for Anosov flows and torsion
Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Wenyuan Li, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Waikit Yeung, Indiana University
Title: Knot contact homology
Contact Info here

Monday, December 2, 2019

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Christy Hazel, University of Oregon
Title: Equivariant fundamental classes in RO(C2)-graded cohomology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: $(3/2)^n$ mod 1, cellular automata, and $\zeta(3)$
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 11am
Jonathan Block, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Characteristic classes and singular foliations
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Xin Sun, Columbia University
Title: Conformal geometry of random surfaces in 2D quantum gravity
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Yuchen Liu, Yale
Title: K-stability and moduli spaces of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Easy Putnam Problems
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam Competition.
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Dmitry Vaintrob, UC Berkeley
Title: Operads, motives and logarithmic geometry
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 6, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Xiumin Du, University of Maryland
Title: Schrodinger solutions on sparse and spread-out sets
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 11am
Si Li, Tsinghua University
Title: How to count constant maps?
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 102, 2:00PM
Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Université de Montréal
Title: On the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ewain Gwynne, Cambridge University
Title: Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 13, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 103, 3:00PM
Ananth Shankar, MIT
Title: Isogenies between abelian varieties in positive and mixed characteristic
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 6, 2020

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4.10 PM
Zhouli Xu, MIT
Title: The geography problem on 4-manifolds: 10/8 + 4
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kiho Park, University of Chicago
Title: Thermodynamic formalism of fiber-bunched $GL(d,R)$-cocycles
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: The Parisi Formula via Stochastic Analysis
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Shuwen Lou, Loyola University
Title: Distorted Brownian motion on spaces with varying dimension
Abstract and details available

Wednesday , January 8, 2020

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Ananth Shankar, MIT
Title: Exceptional splitting of abelian surfaces.
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Katharine Adamyk, University of Colorado
Title: A classification of Q_0-local A(1)-modules
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alexander Perry, IAS
Title: Derived categories of cubic fourfolds and their geometric applications
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jianchun Chu, Northwestern
Title: A Liouville Theorem for the complex Monge-Ampere equation
Contact Info here

Friday, January 10, 2020

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Rong Zhou, Yale
Title: Independence of $l$ for Frobenius conjugacy classes attached to abelian varieties.
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Colloquium Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
Title: Positive geometries and string theory amplitudes
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:30pm
Yiftah Dayan, Tel Aviv University
Title: Random walks on tori and an application to normality of numbers in self-similar sets.
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Ben McKenna, Courant Institute
Title: Large deviations for extreme eigenvalues of deformed Wigner random matrices
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Xi Sisi Shen, Northwestern University
Title: The Miyaoka-Yau inequality for compact Kahler manifolds with semi-ample canonical bundle
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4pm
Alexander Kupers , Harvard University
Title: Diffeomorphisms of disks
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Stephan Snegirov, Northwestern University
Title: The motivic homotopy categories
Special Note: The second hour (6pm-7pm) will be in room 105.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ben Antieau, University of Illinois Chicago
Title: The period-index conjecture for division algebras
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Heming Jiao, Harbin Institute of Technology/Northwestern
Title: The Dirichlet problem for degenerate Monge-Ampere equations
Contact Info here

Friday, January 24, 2020

Number Theory Lunt 107, 2:00PM
Naser Talebizadeh Sardari, MPIM & IAS
Title: New upper bounds on sphere packings and spherical codes
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 27, 2020

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Katrina Morgan, Northwestern
Title: The effect of metric behavior at spatial infinity on pointwise wave decay for asymptotically flat backgrounds
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Prasit Bhattacharya, University of Virginia
Title: Revisiting the Stable Adams conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Salman Siddiqi, U. Michigan
Title: Exponential mixing for isometric extensions of Anosov flows
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Eliran Subag, Courant Institute
Title: Geometric TAP approach for spherical spin glasses
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
David Fisher, Indiana University
Title: Superrigidity, arithmeticity and totally geodesic submanifolds
Abstract and details available
Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Stephan Snegirov,
Title: More of the motivic homotopy categories
Special Note: We switch to Lunt 105 at 6pm.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
David Fisher, Indiana University
Title: Totally geodesic submanifolds, invariant measures and equidistribution
Special Note: Special dynamics/geometry seminar. Follow up to colloquium talk
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey, Northwestern University
Title: Monge-Ampere measures on contact sets
Contact Info here

Friday, January 31, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
David Fisher,
Title: Gateway to superrigidity
Special Note: Special dynamics/geometry seminar. Follow up to colloquium talk
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Vesselin Dimitrov, University of Toronto
Title: Arithmetic algebraization theorems and height gap for holonomic functions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Mathieu Lauriere, Princeton
Title: On Machine Learning Methods for Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Eva Belmont,
Title: The motivic Adams Spectral Sequence
Special Note: We switch to Lunt 105 at 6pm.
Contact Info here

Monday, February 10, 2020

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alexis Drouot, Columbia University
Title: Mathematical aspects of topological insulators
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Joel Stapleton, UIC
Title: Weibel's conjecture for twisted algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern
Title: Noncommutative crystalline complex and the Gauss Manin connection
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
Title: Monotonicity formulas in free boundary problems
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 17, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
David Nadler, Berkeley
Title: Verlinde formulas in Betti Geometric Langlands
Special Note: Note special day, room
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Zhang Runlin, Ohio State University
Title: Translates of some homogeneous measures in arithmetic quotients of linear algebraic groups
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Toby Johnson, CUNY
Title: Two-type diffusion limited annihilating systems
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Catherine Ray,
Title: Refined enumerative geometry
Special Note: We switch to Lunt 105 at 6pm.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Nate Bottman, USC
Title: Algebraic invariants in symplectic geometry (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Nate Bottman, University of Southern California
Title: The Fulton-MacPherson operad and Fukaya categories
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
Title: Mean curvature flow, concavity and the Harnack inequality
Contact Info here

Friday, February 21, 2020

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Adam Chapman, Tel-Hai College
Title:
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kristin DeVleming, UC San Diego
Title: Wall crossing for K-moduli spaces of plane curves
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Jessica Lin , McGill University
Title: An Invariance Principle for Barycentric Brownian Bees
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10PM
Kazuhiro Kuwae, Fukuoka University
Title: New Laplacian comparison theorem and its applications to diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Carlos Cortez,
Title: motivic cohomology and Voevodsky motives
Special Note: We switch to Lunt 105 at 6pm.
Contact Info here

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ben Gammage,
Title: TBD
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Anthony McCormick, Northwestern University
Title: Ladder Asymptotics on Kaluza-Klein Spacetimes
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 2, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Giulio Tiozzo, University of Toronto
Title: Uniformizing Thurston’s bagel
Special Note: Two hours
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jonathan Campbell, Duke University
Title: Homotopy Theory and Hilbert's Third Problem
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Florian Richter, Northwestern University
Title: Dynamical generalizations of the Prime Number Theorem and disjointness of additive and multiplicative semigroup actions
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:15pm
Howard Masur, University of Chicago
Title: Teichmuller dynamics on moduli spaces of translation surfaces and divergence
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Giulio Tiozzo, University of Toronto
Title: Shannon’s theorem and Poisson boundaries for locally compact groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Faculty Meeting Lunt 105, 04:00pm
EZ,
Title: Faculty Meeting
Contact Info here

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Joe Waldron, Princeton University
Title: Singularities of fibrations in positive characteristic
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Paul Seidel, MIT
Title: Arithmetic mirror symmetry and quantum Steenrod operations
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Man-Chun Lee, Northwestern University
Title: Hermitian curvature flow on negatively curved complex manifolds
Contact Info here

Monday, March 9, 2020

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jocelyne Ishak, Vanderbilt
Title: Rigidity of the K(1)-local stable homotopy category
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Florian Naef, University of Geneva
Title: String topology and the configuration space of two points
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Motivic Seminar Lunt 107, 5:00pm
Eivind Hjelle,
Title: Voevodsky's slice filtration
Special Note: We switch to Lunt 105 at 6pm.
Contact Info here

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 101, 11:00am
Crichton Ogle, Ohio State
Title: Non-linear cyclic homology and the map to algebraic K-theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Probability Seminar , 3:00PM
Julian Gold, Northwestern
Title: (Remote) Complexity of barriers in the pure spherical p-spin model
Special Note: This is a remote talk. Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031 Meeting ID: 907 400 031
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Jianchun Chu, Northwestern University
Title: A priori estimate for the complex Monge-Ampere equation
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/2175327580, 4:00PM
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: (Remote) An Introduction to the Geometry of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations
Special Note: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/2175327580
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Xi Sisi Shen, Northwestern University
Title: Bounds along the Kahler-Ricci flow using holomorphic vector fields
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Dogancan Karabas, Northwestern
Title: Fukaya categories of some rational homology balls via microlocal sheaves
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
Title: A heat flow for diffeomorphisms of flat tori
Special Note: Contact organizer for details
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 11:00AM
Dan Fletcher, Northwestern
Title: Loss landscape of neural networks
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Honghao Gao, Michigan State University
Title: Infinitely many Lagrangian fillings
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Emmett Wyman, Northwestern University
Title: Improved Weyl Remainder for Products of Spheres
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 3:00PM
Christian Gorski, Northwestern University
Title: Diophantine measures and the local limit theorem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Catherine Cannizzo, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University
Title: Towards homological mirror symmetry for genus 2 curves
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Wanxing Liu, Northwestern University
Title: Existence of cscK Metrics on smooth minimal models
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Monday, May 11, 2020

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University
Title: TBA
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Algebraic Geometry Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98042327709, 3:00pm
Will Sawin, Columbia
Title: Topological reconstruction theorems for varieties
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University
Title: Floer homotopy without spectra
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Man-Chun Lee , Northwestern University
Title: Long time regularity of the Kahler Ricci Flow
Special Note: Contact organizer for details
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Amir Mohammadi, UCSD
Title: TBA
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Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Han Gan, The University of Waikato
Title: Poisson-Dirichlet, Dirichlet process & Ewen sampling formula approximation
Abstract and details available

Wednesday , May 20, 2020

Noncommutative Geometry , 3:15pm
Ben Antieau , UIC
Title: Hochschild homology in positive characteristic, II
Special Note: Meeting ID: 991 7834 4470 Password: ncgnu
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Maÿlis Limouzineau, Mathematical Institute of the University of Cologne
Title: About reversing surgery for Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian knots
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Heming Jiao, Harbin Institute of Technology/Northwestern
Title: Convergence of the Hesse-Koszul Flow on Compact Hessian Manifolds
Special Note: Please contact organizer for details
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Ben Krause, Princeton University
Title: TBA
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Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 3:00PM
Natalia Cardona Tobón, CIMAT / University of Bath
Title: Yaglom's limit for critical Galton-Watson processes in varying environment: A probabilistic approach
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Jesse Wolfson, UC Irvine
Title: The Geometry of Hilbert’s 13th Problem
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Nicholas McCleerey, Northwestern University
Title: A Second Order Estimate for Complex Hessian Equations on a Compact Kahler Manifold
Special Note: Contact organizer for details
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 3:00PM
Igor Wigman, King's College London
Title: On the defect ("signed area") of toral Laplace eigenfunctions and exponential sums
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Noncommutative Geometry Zoom 99178344470; password ask organizers, 3:15pm
Wai Kit Yeung, Indiana University
Title: Homological flips and homological flops
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Xin Jin, Boston College
Title: TBA
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar , 03:00pm
Xi Sisi Shen, Northwestern University
Title: Comparison geometry of holomorphic bisectional curvature for Kahler manifolds and limit spaces
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Number Theory Contact organizer, 2:00PM
Will Sawin, Columbia University
Title: The Shafarevich Conjecture for Hypersurfaces in Abelian Varieties
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 3:00PM
Omer Bobrowski, Technion
Title: Homological Percolation: The Formation of Giant k-Cycles
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Haniya Azam, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Title: Topological Fukaya category of Riemann surfaces
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Thursday, June 18, 2020

Geometry/Physics Seminar Meeting ID: 922-4351-6463, 2:00pm
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern
Title: A Diagrammatic Calculus For Legendrian Surfaces
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Probability Seminar https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031 , 11:00AM
Barbara Dembin, LPSM
Title: Maximal flow from a compact convex subset to infinity in first passage percolation
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