Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2003


Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Shmuel Weinberger,   University of Chicago
Title: The Calculus of Symmetry
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Yijen Lee,   Princeton University
Title: Torsion invariants in symplectic Floer theories
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Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jeffrey Brock,   University of Chicago
Title: The classification problem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Frenkel,   University of California, Berkeley
Title: Recent advances in the geometric Langlands correspondence
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Camil Muscalu,   UCLA
Title: On some multilinear singular integrals in Fourier analysis
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Friday, February 0, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Brian Conrad,   University of Michigan
Title: Prime values of polynomials
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Yuri Tschinkel,   University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Applications of p-adic integrals
Abstract and details available


Thursday, February 13, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Charles Rezk,   University of Illinois
Title: Topological modular forms, orientations, and Hecke operators
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Friday, February 21, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jeff Lagarias,   AT&T Labs
Title: Trisecting the angle: Alain Connes' proof of Morley's theorem
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 28, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Brian Conrad,   University of Michigan
Title: Prime Values of Polynomials
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Friday, March 7, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Paul Bressler,   M.I.T.
Title: Intersection cohomology of convex polytopes
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Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Stephen Smale,   City University of Hong Kong
Title: Learning the topology of submanifolds and the problem of probability density estimation
Special Note: Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
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Friday, April 4, 2003

Colloquium       Annenberg G21, 3:00pm
Professor Stephen Smale,   City University of Hong Kong
Title: Learning the topology of submanifolds and the problem of probability density estimation
Special Note: Joint with Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Pierre Cartier,   IHES
Title: Multiple zeta values and motives (report on the recent work of Deligne and Goncharov)
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Friday, April 25, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Nicolas Burq,   MSRI/Paris Sud
Title: Control of Schrodinger equations and eigenfunctions scarring
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Brooke Shipley,   Purdue University
Title: Rings up to homotopy
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Colloquium       Harris Hall 107, 4:00pm
Professor Yuri Manin,   Northwestern University
Title: Georg Cantor, Set Theory, and Mathematics of the XXth Century
Special Note: Inaugural Lecture, Board of Trustees Chair
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Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Luc Tartar,   Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Beyond Partial Differential Equations
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Friday, May 23, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:10pm
Professor Charles Peskin,   Courant Institute (New York University)
Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
Special Note: Special Time! Joint with ESAM Colloquium
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Friday, July 0, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor ,  
Title:
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Friday, October 10, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Yuri Manin,   Northwestern University
Title: Diophantine Equations of Degree 3: Case of Cubic Surfaces
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Friday, October 24, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Sigurdur Helgason,   MIT
Title: The Non-Euclidean World, History, Geometry and Analysis
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Monday, October 27, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Andras Vasy,   MIT
Title: Scattering theory on symmetric spaces and for N-body Hamiltonians
Abstract and details available


Thursday, October 30, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Bryna Kra,   Penn State
Title: Non-conventional ergodic averages
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Dafermos,   MIT
Title: The Analysis and Geometry of Black Holes, Price's law, and the Cosmic Censorship Conjectures
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Thursday, November 13, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Melissa Chiu-Chu Liu,   Harvard
Title: Virtual fundamental classes and virtual localization in open Gromov-Witten theory
Special Note: Note special day, time.
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 14, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Rafe Mazzeo,   Stanford
Title: Positive scalar curvature and Poincare-Einstein fillings
Abstract and details available


Friday, December 5, 2003

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Gang Tian,   MIT
Title: Geometry of Complex Monge-Ampere Equations
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