Thursday, September 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 102, 4:10pm

Professor Ionut Ciocan,  

Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, I
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Thursday, October 1, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 102, 4:10pm

Professor Ionut Ciocan,  

Title: Toric degeneration of flag varieties, II
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Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,  

Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman and Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
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Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:30pm

Professor Misha Kapranov,   Northwestern University

Title: Double affine Hecke algebras and 2-dimensional local fields
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Tuesday, October 27, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,  

Title: Chiral de Rham complex (d'apres Malikov, Schechtman, Vaintrob)
Special Note: I will give an introduction to the preprint math.AG/9803041
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Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor J.-B. Bost,   CNRS and Institute for Advanced Study

Title: Optimal estimates in Arakelov geometry
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Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 5:00pm

Seva Joukhovitsky,   Northwestern University

Title: Characters and representations according to Frobenius, Wiles and Taylor
Special Note: Note the unusual time: 5PM
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Tuesday, November 17, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Patrick Brosnan,   Northwestern

Title: Steenrod operations in algebraic geometry
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Tuesday, November 24, 1998

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Sam Evens,   University of Arizona

Title: Poisson geometry and a theorem of Kostant
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Tuesday, January 19, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Philip Foth,   Northwestern

Title: Deformation theory of local systems
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Tuesday, January 26, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern

Title: Gerbes and mirror symmetry (report on a talk of Hitchin)
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Tuesday, February 2, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Lev Borisov,   Columbia University

Title: Vertex Algebras and Mirror Symmetry
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Thursday, February 4, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Gary Gutman,   Northwestern University

Title: Elliptic Curves II
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto U. and IAS, Princeton),  

Title: Moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces and affine Lie algebras
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Thursday, February 11, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Julia Hartman ,   Northwestern University (Universitaet Goettingen)

Title: Modular invariant theory / Dickson invariants
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Thursday, February 18, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Seva Joukhovitski,   Northwestern University

Title: Quadratic Forms I
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Kevin Knudson,   Northwestern University

Title: Relative Malcev Completions
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Thursday, February 25, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Patrick Brosnan,   Northwestern University

Title: Quadratic Forms II
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Thursday, March 4, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Bryan Schulte,   Northwestern University

Title: TBA
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, March 30, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Yuri Tschinkel,   University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: Arithmetic of rational varieties
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Tuesday, April 6, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Richard Thomas,   Oxford University

Title: Mirror Symmetry and the braid group
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Tuesday, April 13, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine,   Northwestern

Title: The quantum Littlewood-Richardson rule
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Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Boris Dubrovin,   SISSA, Trieste

Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov - Witten invariants.
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Thursday, May 6, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota,  

Title: Infinite-dimensional linear algebra over an artinian local ring and the Contou-Carrere symbol
Special Note: Note the unusual day.
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Tuesday, May 11, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm

Professor Boris Dubrovin,   SISSA, Trieste

Title: Isomonodromy deformations and Gromov-Witten invariants.
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