Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Algebra Seminar
Year 1999


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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Tuesday, September 28, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Misha Kapranov,   Northwestern University
Title: Derived Deformation Theory
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Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:30pm
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Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:30pm
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Tuesday, October 5, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00 pm
Gary Gutman ,   Northwestern University
Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains
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Thursday, October 7, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Christian Haesemeyer,   Northwestern University
Title: The Grothendieck Group of projective space
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, October 12, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00 pm
Professor Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University
Title: Testing M-Theory with local mirror symmetry
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Thursday, October 14, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Gary Gutman,   Northwestern University
Title: Functors represented by p-adic symmetric domains
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, October 19, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Eric Friedlander,   Northwestern University
Title: Semi-topological K-theory
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Tuesday, October 26, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Alexander Scorichenko ,   Northwestern University
Title: Functor (co)homology and stable K-theory over a field
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Thursday, October 28, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Justin Mauger,   Northwestern University
Title: Exact Couples and Spectral Sequences
Special Note: Graduate Student Seminar
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Tuesday, November 2, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Jean-Louis Loday,   CNRS, Strasbourg, France and MSRI
Title: Syzygies, Igusa's pictures and identities among relations
Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar !
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Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Brendan Hassett,   University of Chicago
Title: Rational points on symmetric products of surfaces
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Tuesday, November 23, 1999

Algebra Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Andrei Levin,   Landau Institute (Moscow) and U of Chicago
Title: Variations of real Hodge structures and Bernoulli numbers
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