Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Algebra Seminar
Year 1997-1998

Tuesday, September 30, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University; Title: Finite Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and their Induced Homological Action
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Tuesday, October 7, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Mark Walker, Northwestern University; Title: The Primitive Topology
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Tuesday, October 14, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Marcelo Aguiar, Northwestern University; Title: Internal Categories and Quantum Groups
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Tuesday, October 28, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Serge Yagunov, Northwestern University; Title: Geometrically Originated Complexes and the Homology of the Pair (GL_n,GM_n)
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Tuesday, November 4, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Bernhard Koeck, University of Illinois at Urbana; Title: Operations on Locally Free Classgroups
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Tuesday, November 11, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University; Title: Lower Algebraic K-theory of Bianchi Groups
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Tuesday, November 18, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professors Irena Peeva and Vaselin Gasharov, MIT; Title: Cohomology of Subspace Arrangements via Minimal Free Resolutions (Peeva)/ A-graded Algebras (Gasharov)
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Tuesday, December 2, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Burt Totaro, University of Chicago; Title: Chern numbers for singular varieties and elliptic cohomology
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Tuesday, December 9, 1997

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Brendan Hassett, University of Chicago; Title: Limiting Plane Curves and the Minimal Model Program
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Tuesday, January 13, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University; Title: Relative Completions of Linear Groups over Z[t] and Z[t,t^{-1}]
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Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3.00pm: Huazhang Luo , MIT; Title: Stability of Algebraic Manifolds
Special Note: Mr. Luo is under consideration for a Boas Instructorship
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Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University; Title: An introduction to Frobenius manifolds
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Tuesday, February 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University; Title: Noncommutative Geometry in the Perturbative Regime
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Tuesday, February 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Jim Bryan, UC, Berkeley; Title: Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces
Special Note: This talk complements a talk at U of C on Wednesday at 4.30.
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Tuesday, March 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Lev Rozansky, University of Illinois, Chicago; Title: Burau representation of the braid group and the structure of the colored Jones polynomial
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Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Scott Thatcher, Northwestern University; Title: Hecke operators on vector bundles over elliptic curves
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University; Title: On the homology of SL_2(Z[t])
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Tuesday, April 21, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Dan Nakano, Utah State University; Title: Representation type of Schur algebras
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Tuesday, April 28, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Barbara Fantechi, University of Trento; Title: Obstructions for deformation functors and applications
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Tuesday, May 5, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm: Professor Thomas Geisser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Title: K-theory in characteristic p
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Friday, May 8, 1998

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Chris Bendel, University of Notre Dame; Title: Representations of restricted Lie algebras and powers of p-characters
Special Note: This is not the usual time or day of the week!
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