Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Colloquium
Year 2006-2007


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
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 27, 2006

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Maciej Zworski,   University of California, Berkeley
Title: Quantum resonances and quantum chaos
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacob Lurie,   Harvard University
Title: Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 10, 2006

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Benny Sudakov,   Princeton University
Title: Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Igor Pak,   M.I.T.
Title: The nature of partition bijections
Abstract and details available


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
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ravi Vakil,   Stanford
Title: A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Laura DeMarco,   University of Chicago
Title: Complex dynamics and potential theory
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 12, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Rich Schwartz,   Brown University
Title: Outer Billiards, the Penrose Kite, and the Neumann Problem
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 19, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Barbara Lee Keyfitz,   Fields Institute and University of Houston
Title: Multidimensional Conservation Laws - More Questions than Answers
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Hillel Furstenberg,   Hebrew University
Title: Boundaries of Groups, Harmonic Functions and Random Walks: a Survey
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Friday, February 9, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jian Song,   Johns Hopkins University
Title: Canonical Kähler metrics and the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 16, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Paolo Cascini,   University of California at Santa Barbara
Title: On the Minimal Model Program
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Maria Chudnovsky,   Columbia University
Title: Cycles in dense digraphs
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Nalini Anantharaman,   Ecole Polytechnique
Title: Entropy and the localization of eigenfunctions
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Paul Baum,   Penn State
Title: Trees, buildings, elliptic operators, and K-theory for group C* algebras
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 20, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Richard Kenyon,   University of British Columbia
Title: Branched polymers in 2D and 3D
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 4, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Ionescu,   University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A uniqueness property of Kerr spacetimes
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Gamburd,   UC Santa Cruz
Title: Expanders: from number theory to combinatorics and back again
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 11, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat,   University of Maryland
Title: Fermi acceleration
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mike Shub,   University of Toronto
Title: Smale's 17th Problem: Recent progress
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