Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Algebra Seminar
Year 2000-2001

Tuesday, September 0, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, MIT; Title:
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Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Lev Borisov, Columbia University; Title: Elliptic genera of singular varieties
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Tuesday, October 3, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Eugene Plotkin, Bar Ilan University; Title: Two-variable equations in linear groups
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Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia; Title: Endotrivial modules and categorical equivalences
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Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Nikolai Vavilov, Northwestern University; Title: A third look at weight diagrams
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Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Mark Walker, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Title: Semi-topological K-theory of real varieties
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Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, MIT; Title: Branched covers of the projective line and the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves
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Tuesday, November 21, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago; Title: L-functions of p-adic sheaves in characteristic p
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Tuesday, January 9, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Wei-Dong Ruan, UIC; Title: Lagrangian torus fibrations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry
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Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Dmirty Arinkin, Harvard University and University of Chicago; Title: Connections with a small parameter on a curve
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Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm: Professor Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Title: Crystalline Differential Operators
Special Note: Note unusual time
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Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Dr Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University and University of Muenster; Title: Perturbations of homotopy types and Mixed Tate Categories
Special Note: Joint algebra/topology talk
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Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor David Eisenbud, MSRI, Berkeley; Title: Chow forms and resultants, old and new
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Tuesday, March 6, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University; Title: Versal Deformations of Formal Arcs
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Monday, April 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia; Title: Differential graded schemes
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Tuesday, May 1, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Yuri Manin,; Title: The distribution of continued fractions and modular symbols
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Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Christopher Bendel,; Title: Extensions for finite Chevalley groups and Frobenius kernels
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Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Algebra Seminar Tech M349, 2:00pm: Professor Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University; Title: Non-commutative differential calculus and applications
Special Note: Click here to find the location of the talk (enter at front of Tech and go to third floor).
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Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Tom Graber, Harvard University; Title: Families of rationally connected varieties
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