Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Previous Entries
Year 2000

Note: If you wish to receive announcements and reminders for the Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar, subscribe to the emailing list by sending an email to listserv@listserv.it.northwestern.edu with the following line in its body: 

subscribe MATHCALENDAR Your Name
where Your Name means that you must write your name there.


Thursday, January 6, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
Title: Estimates for the Front Speeds in Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Equations
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 10, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
Title: Convergence of eigenfunction expansions on geodesic balls and rank one symmetric spaces
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.B. Grotberg, U. Michigan
Title: Liquid Plug Propagation in the Lung
Special Note: jointly sponsored with the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Contact Info here
Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Ted Belytschko, NWU
Title: Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Calendar Conundrums
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #1
Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 13, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Hoff, Indiana University at Bloomington
Title: The Global Attractor for the Navier-Stokes Equations of One-Dimensional, Compressible Flow
Contact Info here
Friday, January 14, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John Mather, Princeton University
Title: Variational Construction of Orbits
Contact Info here
Monday, January 17, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Introduction to the theory of linear stationary dynamical systems
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. E. Izhikevich, Arizona State U.
Title: Canonical-Model Approach to Computational Neuroscience
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark W Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Title: Picard Groups and Stabilizations of Spaces
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 2, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway ,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Archimedes and His World
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #2
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 21, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Paul Bressloff, Loughborough University (Visiting U.Chicago)
Title: Nonlinear dynamics of synaptically coupled neural oscillators
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 24, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elena Kosygina , Northwestern University
Title: Hydrodynamical limit for Ginzburg-Landau models
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor P. Brazhnik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Title: Modeling Spatio-temporal Phenomena in Complex Biological Systems: Propagating Waves in Excitable Media
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: The cohomology of the Morava stabilizer group, following Lazard
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 25, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Dmitry Kleinbock, Rutgers
Title: Dynamical Borel-Cantelli Lemmas
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, January 26, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Dr. Jean-Pierre Goux, NWU
Title: Solving large scale optimization problems on metacomputers
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Cantor's Infinities
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #3
Abstract and details available
Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor , Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, cont'd.
Contact Info here
Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker , Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, finale
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 27, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech F235 (Physics Conference Room), 4:00pm
Professor Mogens H. Jensen, The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Title: A Hierarchical Description of Proteins: Thermodynamics, Critical, and Motor Properties
Special Note: jointly with Department of Physics (Condensed Matter seminar)
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Leo Butler, Queen's University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Friday, January 28, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John R. Birge, Northwestern University
Title: Quasi-Random Sequences and Their Uses in Option Pricing
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Ian Melbourne, University of Houston
Title: Brownian motion in deterministic dynamical systems with Euclidean symmetry
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Seva Joukhovitsky, Northwestern University
Title: K-Theory of the Weil transfer functor
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 31, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Min Kang, Northwestern University
Title: Growth rate of ballistic DLA (diffusion limited aggregation) on a strip
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Hosoi, M.I.T.
Title: Wine tears and other evaporatively driven instabilities in thin films
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk,
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Pierre Cartier, Ecole Normale Suprieure et IHES, France
Title: Divergent Series 250 Years After Euler: Their Use for Manipulating Special Functions and Special Numbers
Special Note: Unusual Time!!
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Jim Wiseman ,
Title: Shift equivalence and topological conjugacy
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 2, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Surreal Numbers
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #4
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 4, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute (Visiting U.Chicago)
Title: Big islands in dispersing billiard like potentials.
Special Note: The talk by W. Pesch that was scheduled for this day, unfortunately, has to be cancelled for now.
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yitwah Cheung, UIC
Title: Failure of Ergodicity in a (Rational) Billiard
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Professor ,
Title:
Contact Info here
Monday, February 7, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, cont'd.
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Golovin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Title: Faceting and Roughening of Growing Crystal Surfaces
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University
Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 101, 4:00pm
Kamlesh Parwani,
Title: Ergodic Theory and Fourier Analysis
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Victoria Sadovskaya, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Multifractal formalism and dynamical systems
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 9, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Boris Kalinin, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Measure-theoretic rigidity of higher-rank abelian actions
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Goedel and Undecidability
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #5
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 10, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Professor R. Clark Robinson,
Title: Moeckel's paper on Arnold Diffusion
Contact Info here
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Athanasios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Variational Approximation of the Equations of Elastodynamics with Polyconvex Energy
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, IAS
Title: Rigid Homotopy Theory
Contact Info here
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jesper Grodal, MIT
Title: Maps Between Classifying Spaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 11, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor I. Yu, Seoul National University
Title: What will happen if you rotate sand in a tilted spinning bucket?
Abstract and details available
Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor David Chopp, NWU
Title: Applications of the Level Set Method
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 14, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems,cont'd.
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. G. Biondini, Northwestern U.
Title: Soliton communications and wavelength-division multiplexing
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 15, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Mihnea Popa, University of Michigan
Title: Generalized theta linear series on moduli spaces of vector bundles on curves
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Malgorzata Stawiska, Northwestern
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Wednesday, February 16, 2000

Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway , Nemmers Prize Lectures #6
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Geometry, Logic, and Physics
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 17, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y.J. Chen, Northwestern U.
Title: Flow-induced morphologies in directional solidification
Contact Info here
Friday, February 18, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. V. Kalatsky , Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Continuum field description of crack propagation
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 21, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Miron Bekker, Northwestern University
Title: Linear Dynamical Systems, finale
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Rica, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Buckling and post-buckling of elastic plates and shells
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University
Title: A generalization of compact Lie groups after Kropholler
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 22, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Seva Joukhovitski, Northwestern University
Title: K-theory of the Weil transfer functor
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Mikhail Grinberg, MIT
Title: Self-Indexing and Perverse Sheaves
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Peter Voorhees, NWU
Title: A Fast Multipole Method for Anisotropic Elasticity and its Application to Problems Involving Coarsening in Solids
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Escher and Symmetry
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #7
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 24, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group Lunt 107, 4:00pm
R. Clark Robinson,
Title: Arnold Drift by Moeckel: Part 2
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Norihiko Minami,
Title: On the mono-chromatic convergence conjecture
Contact Info here
Friday, February 25, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dan Goldman , U. Texas, Austin
Title: Lattice oscillations of square patterns in a vertically vibrated granular layer
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Martina Bode, Wellesley College
Title: Presentation on Calculus Teaching
Contact Info here
Monday, February 28, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alexander Bendikov, Cornell University
Title: Ultracontractivity of convolution semigroups on R^n and T^n
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. K. Swanson, U. Washington
Title: A Quantitative Model for Brain Tumor Growth and Invasion
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 29, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
Title: Absolutely singular dynamical foliations
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 1, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Nicolas Moes, Mech Eng, NWU
Title: A finite element method for crack growth without remeshing
Special Note: Last meeting for winter quarter
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech LR 3, 4:00pm
Professor John H. Conway,
Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Finally, Fun
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #8
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 2, 2000

Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yuan Che,
Title: A description of some of Jeff's Xia's recent work
Contact Info here
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame
Title: Biharmonic Functions and Crack Propagations
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
Contact Info here
Friday, March 3, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John H. Conway, Princeton University and Northwestern University
Title: Tangles, Bangles, and Knots
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 7, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Misha Kapranov, Northwestern University
Title: S-Duality Conjecture and Eisenstein Series
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Viviane Baladi, CNRS, Orsay
Title: Almost sure rates of mixing for random unimodal maps
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 10, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Stefan Mueller, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences , Germany
Title: Rank-1 Convexity, Quasiconvexity, and Harmonic Analysis
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 2pm
Timothy Comar ,
Title: Presentation on Calculus
Contact Info here
Saturday, March 11, 2000

Northwestern Centennial PDE Conference

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor ERnesto Perez-Chavela, UAM-I Mexico
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
Contact Info here
Monday, March 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S.H. Chung, National Seoul University
Title: Propagation Characteristics of Tribrachial Flames
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University (and RIMS)
Title: A Darboux theorem for Hamiltonian systems in infinite dimensions
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 17, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor W. van Saarloos, U. Leyden, Netherlands
Title: The remarkable simple and universal properties of "pulled" fronts propagating into an unstable state
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi, Aberdeen
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Monday, March 27, 2000

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi, Aberdeen
Title: The automorphism space of BG^_p
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
Title: Localization and Genus-Zero Gromov-Witten Invariants
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela, UAM-I Mexico
Title: Central configurations in the kite problem
Contact Info here
Wednesday, March 29, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Heteroclinic and Chaotic Solutions for Double Pendulum Type Problem: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM Department
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Mathematics Department
Contact Info here
Thursday, March 30, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor William Bray, University of Maine
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Celestial Mechanics Discussion Group Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Ernesto Perez-Chavela,
Title: Central Configurations for Charged Particles
Contact Info here
Monday, April 3, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Cora Sadosky, Howard University
Title: Hankel operators and Carleson measures in the polydisc
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
Title: Localized and disordered structures in fluid flow
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Wisconsin
Title: On Complexes Associated to the Commutative Structure of a Group
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 4, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Professor Herbert Koch, Heidelberg University
Title: Strong unique continuation for elliptic pde's
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 5, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Yuan-Nan Young, U. of Chicago
Title: Micsible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: 2D and 3D
Contact Info here
Friday, April 7, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Mikhail Kaparanov, Northwestern University
Title: Noncommutativization and Noncommutative Neighborhoods
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
Title: Electrodiffusion Model Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in a Cell Membrane Channel
Special Note: Talk joint with the Mathematics Department
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M235, 3:30pm
Dr. Ronnie Mainieri, Theoretical Division, LANL & Institute for Physical Sciences
Title: Physical constraints on error correction
Special Note: Two seminars on 1 day. Rescheduling was unfortunately not possible any more
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 10, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.R. Birge, Northwestern University
Title: Pricing Options on Diffusion & Jump Processes with Applications in Energy & Weather Derivatives
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Matthew Ando, University of Illinois
Title: Equivariant elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 11, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz, Northwestern University
Title: KAM tori in the planar three-body problem
Contact Info here
Monday, April 17, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
Title: A weighted Kolmogorov inequality for the Hilbert transform
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Yves Pomeau , Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Moving contact line: mathematical or physical problem?
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
Title: Constructing smashing localizations
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Thomas Hughes, Stanford U., Division of Mechanics and Computation
Title: Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Variational Mutltiscale Methods
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 20, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Rustum Choksi, Simon Fraser University
Title: Energy scaling laws in magnetic materials
Contact Info here
Friday, April 21, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John Stillwell, MIT, and Monash University (Australia)
Title: Exotic Symmetry
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 24, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor George Gasper, Northwestern University
Title: Using squares of real-valued functions to prove that the $\Xi^*(z)$ function has only real zeros
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kristine Baxter, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Title: Higher Hochschild homology and its decompositions
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 25, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professors J. Davidov and O.Mushkarov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Geometry of twistor spaces
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
A. Lemaitre, Saclay, France
Title: Strongly coupled chaotic maps: collective behavior, universality, and models.
Special Note: Note unusual day
Contact Info here
Friday, April 28, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 3:00pm
Professor M. Johnson, Northwestern U.
Title: An Operational Test for Distinguishing between Complicated and Chaotic Behavior in Deterministic Systems
Special Note: Unusal time!!
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 1, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Ghosal, Northwestern U.
Title: A Simplified Theory of Triple Flames
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Robert Bruner, Wayne State University
Title: Varieties for connective K-theory of classifying spaces
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 3, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Ed Wang, NWU Physics and Astronomy
Title: Loop Parallelization Techniques
Contact Info here
Friday, May 5, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
Title: Probabilistic Proof of Existence Versus Explicit Construction
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 8, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mr. Thomas Nystrom, Morthwestern University
Title: Multipliers for Generalized Tchebichef Polynomials
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Lizzie Burslem, Northwestern University
Title: The Ergodic Closing Lemma
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 9, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor David Ben-Zvi, University of Chicago
Title: Moduli Spaces and Vertex Algebras
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 10, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Christopher Flannery, (NU Ph.D, '94),
Title: Life on the Outside
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 11, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Parimala, Tata Institute and Ohio State University
Title: Galois cohomology of classical groups
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact Info here
Friday, May 12, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Predrag Cvitanovic, Northwestern University
Title: Chaotic Field Theory: a Sketch
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 15, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor H. H.Kuo, Louisiana State University
Title: Recent Progress in White Noise Analysis
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor D. McLaughlin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Don Davis, Lehigh University
Title: Nonimmersions of real projective spaces implied by eo_2
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 16, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Alexander Braverman, MIT
Title: Gamma-functions of representations
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor S. Wiggins, CalTech
Title: TALK CANCELLED
Special Note: Unfortunately, the talk by S. Wiggins has to be cancelled.
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 17, 2000

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jeff Smith, Purdue University
Title: The higher order Deligne conjecture
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact Info here
Friday, May 19, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
Title: Partial Differential Equations and Fluids
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Peter Andresen, Northwestern U.
Title: Instabilities in Open Flow Chemical Systems
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 22, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. B. Rubinstein, Northwestern U.
Title: Automated symbolic nonlinear anlaysis
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 23, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Chris Bendel, University of Wisconsin
Title: Projectivity and cohomology of modules for finite group schemes
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Gregory Galperin, Eastern Illinois University
Title: Calculus of the number of periodic billiard orbits in a polygon
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 24, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Shaoping Xiao, Dept. of Mech. Eng., NWU
Title: Stability of the Particle Method
Contact Info here
Friday, May 26, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Zhiming Ma, Northwestern University and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: DIRICHLET FORMS AND RECENT APPLICATIONS
Abstract and details available
Thursday, June 1, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech MG28, 4:00pm
Professor Anthony T. Patera, MIT
Title: Output Bounds for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations: A General Formulation
Special Note: Note special time and place of the meeting
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 2, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Ehud Meron, Ben Gurion Univerisity, Israel
Title: Phase patterns in forced oscillatory systems: theory vs. experiment
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 9, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Andrew Belmonte, Penn State U.
Title: Snap, Jump, and Wiggle: Motion in Micellar Fluids
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 12, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 1:30pm
Daniel Lathrop, U. Maryland
Title: Toward a Self-generating Magnetic Dynamo: the Role of Turbulence
Special Note: Note unusal date and time!
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Bang-He Li,
Title: Embedding surfaces with minimal genera in 4-manfolds
Contact Info here
Wednesday, June 14, 2000

Number Crunch Lunch Seminar Tech M416, 12:00pm
Professor Deborah Sulsky, University of New Mexico
Title: Effect of Microstructure on the Mechanical Response of 'Soft' Metallic Alloys
Abstract and details available
Monday, June 19, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Hans Peter Grimm, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: Cell Motility: Modeling of Actin Distribution and Shape of Advancing Lamellipodia
Special Note: Note unusal day!
Contact Info here
Tuesday, August 0, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Professor , test
Title: test
Special Note: test
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Henry Warchall , National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Through the Eyes of a Mathematics Program Director
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jacob Palis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
Title: Recent Results in Global Dynamics
Special Note: The lecture is supported by a generous gift from Ms Susie Adams
Contact Info here
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, MIT
Title:
Contact Info here
Monday, September 25, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor B. Sandstede, Ohio State U.
Title: Super-spiral structures of spiral waves
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nitu Kitchloo, Northwestern University
Title: The Morava K-Theory of BSpin
Contact Info here
Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Lev Borisov, Columbia University
Title: Elliptic genera of singular varieties
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jim Wiseman ,
Title: Symbolic Dynamics and the Conley Index
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 216, 10am
E. Getzler,
Title: Mirror symmetry seminar: A_infty
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanik, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanik, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Thursday, September 28, 2000

Voevodsky's Program Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: An overview of motivic cohomology
Contact Info here
Friday, September 29, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor E. Knobloch, UC Berkeley
Title: Simulations of Oscillatory Binary Fluid Convection in Large Aspect Ratio Containers
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 2, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Andreas Eberle, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld
Title: Spectral gaps on loops spaces - A counterexample
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor David Blanc, Northwestern University and Haifa University
Title: Higher homotopy operations in model categories
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 3, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Eugene Plotkin, Bar Ilan University
Title: Two-variable equations in linear groups
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Chris Connell, UIC
Title: The degree of maps in higher rank
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 216, 1.30pm-3pm
Professor E. Getzler,
Title: Mirror symmetry II: The A_infty structure on the harmonic forms
Special Note: Seminar is 90 minutes long. Note new time.
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt Hall 105, 3:00-4:00pm and 4:30-5:30pmpm
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Title: Backward and forward-backward stochastic differential equations
Special Note: Coffee will be served between the talks
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 5, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4.15pm
Professor Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A journey from gauge theory to quantum cohomology
Contact Info here
Friday, October 6, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz, Northwestern
Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 9, 2000

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Vadim Meleshuk,
Title: Aperiodic flows
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Vincent Franjou, Universite' de Nantes and Northwestern
Title: Homotopy localization of polynomial functors, after Renaudin
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia
Title: Endotrivial modules and categorical equivalences
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Francois Ledrappier, Northwestern
Title: Ergodic properties of some linear actions
Contact Info here
Voevodsky's Program Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Further remarks concerning Bloch-Kato
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 12, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elena Kosygina, Northwestern University
Title: On the Cauchy Problem for Generalized Porous Medium Equations
Contact Info here
Voevodsky's Program Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Continuation of Bloch-Kato background
Contact Info here
Friday, October 13, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor C. Chandre, CEA Saclay
Title: Renormalization for the analysis of stability in Hamiltonian flows
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 16, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Vadim Linetsky, Dept of Industrial Engineering, NU
Title: Eigenfunction Expansion Methods in Asset Pricing
Special Note: Seminar sponsored jointly be Statistics Dept and IEMS Dept
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y. Young, Northwestern University
Title: Stratified Kolmogorov Shear FLow
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Kamlesh Parwani,
Title: Measuring Cantor Sets
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: Realization spaces of algebras in spectra
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Nikolai Vavilov, Northwestern University
Title: A third look at weight diagrams
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alex Furman, UIC
Title: Orbit equivalence rigidity
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 216, 1:30pm
Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University
Title: An A-infinity category from Morse theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 19, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt Hall 105, 3:00-4:00pm and 4:30-5:30pm
Professor Jin Ma, Purdue University
Title: Backward and forward-backward stochastic differential equations
Special Note: Coffee will be served between the talks.
Abstract and details available
Voevodsky's Program Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Andrei Suslin,
Title: Motivic cohomology
Contact Info here
Friday, October 20, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
Title: Moduli of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Swift Hall 107, 12:00pm
Professor Pat MacDonald, University of South Florida
Title: Diffusions, exit time moments and spectral geometry
Abstract and details available
22nd Midwest Probability Colloquium
Monday, October 23, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Higuera, Northwestern University
Title: Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of Liquid Bridges
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Todd Fisher,
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk, Northwestern University
Title: Homotopy Theory of homotopy theory and representable functors
Contact Info here
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
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Scott Moar, Northwestern
Title: Attractors in the plane: an existence proof
Contact Info here
Friday, October 27, 2000

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri
Title: Distribution of lattice points in convex domains and related problems
Contact Info here
Monday, October 30, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Weinstein, Eastman Kodak
Title: Modeling of Planar Liquid Curtains
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dan Isaksen, University of Notre Dame
Title: Realization Functors on A^1-Homotopy
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
Title: The Bernstein problem for affine maximal hypersurfaces
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Denis Kosygin, Northwestern
Title: Statistical properties of Laplace-Beltrami operators on Liouville surfaces
Special Note: joint with dynamics seminar
Contact Info here
Friday, November 3, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Title: Inside Out: Inverse Boundary Problems
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 6, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanikatis, Northwestern University
Title: Mathematical and Computational Biotechnology
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jim Wiseman, Northwestern
Title: Introduction to the discrete Conley index
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nick Kuhn, University of Virginia
Title: Periodic homology of infinite loop spaces
Abstract and details available
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
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Talk postponed, until 11/28
Leo Butler's talk will now be on 11/28, since there is an interesting talk at U.of Chicago
Title: Large sets of exceptional geodesics
Special Note: Talk is by S. G. Dani at U of Chicago at 2:30
Contact Info here
Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Colloquium Tech L211, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Studies
Title: Quark Confinement And Black Holes
Special Note: Reception in Tech F235
Contact Info here
Friday, November 10, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor G.M. Homsy, Stanford University
Title: Interfacial fluid mechanics in microgeometries
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. J. Porter, Northwestern University
Title: Heteroclinic Dynamics in 1:n Steady-State Mode Interactions
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Tech L211, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and string theory: Lecture I
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 216, 1:30pm
Professor M. Kapranov,
Title: Vertex algebras and the formal loop space
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and string theory: Lecture II
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here
Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Title: K-theory and String theory: Lecture III
Special Note: See http://math.nwu.edu/witten for further information.
Contact Info here
Friday, November 17, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor S. G. Dani, Tata Institute, Bombay
Title: Flows on homogeneous spaces
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Daniel Howell, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Stress Structure and Fluctuation in Granular Matter
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:10 pm
Professor Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University
Title: On the models of Skyrme and Faddeev
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 20, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Y. Kevrekidis, Princeton U.
Title: "Coarse" Stability and Bifurcation Analysis using Time Steppers
Contact Info here
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
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Fernando Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil/ Penn State University
Title: On the existence of homoclinic points
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, November 28, 2000

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Leo Butler, Northwestern
Title: A necessary condition for integrability and its implications
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 30, 2000

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Athanasis Fokas , Imperial College (London)
Title: A New Method for Solving Boundary Value Problems
Contact Info here
Friday, December 1, 2000

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Hart Smith, University of Washington
Title: Harmonic Analysis and the Wave Equation
Contact Info here
Wednesday, December 6, 2000

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Sharon Hollander, MIT
Title: A Homotopy Theory for Stacks
Special Note: Unusual day
Contact Info here

Regional Related Mathematical Calendars

Display Previous Entries from Year:

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Display Entries by Academic Year:

1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025

Last time data entered: 4/14/2024
Document URL: https://sites.math.northwestern.edu/news/calendar/
Copyright © 2005-2024 Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University.