Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2006

Monday, January 16, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jeff Viaclovsky, M.I.T.; Title: Moduli Spaces in Riemannian Geometry
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Peter Storm, Stanford University; Title: Topological lower volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Special Note: Special Colloquium
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Greg Lawler, Cornell University; Title: Conformal Invariance and Two-dimensional Statistical Physics
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Ben Green, Unversity of Bristol & MIT; Title: Generalising the Hardy-Littlewood method for primes
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Friday, April 14, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor David Griffeath, Univ of Wisconsin; Title: MODELING SLOW CRYSTAL GROWTH
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame; Title: Fully Nonlinear Equations From Conformal Geometry
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Marcelo Viana, IMPA; Title: Dynamics in the moduli space of abelian differentials
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki; Title: On a problem of Calderon and the mathematics of medical imaging
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Friday, September 29, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Misha Gromov, IHES, France; Title: Entropy and Isoperimetry
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Yong-Geun Oh, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison; Title: Floer cohomology, Lagrangian surgery and analysis of pseudo-holomorphic polygons
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley; Title: Quantum resonances and quantum chaos
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University; Title: Elliptic Cohomology
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Benny Sudakov, Princeton University; Title: Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Igor Pak, M.I.T.; Title: The nature of partition bijections
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Joachim Krieger, Harvard University; Title: Singular Wave Maps in the critical dimension
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Colloquium Lunt 105, 2:00pm: Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University; Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
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