Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Entries From
Academic Year 2000-2001

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.



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

Thursday, January 4, 2001

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Camil Muscalu, UCLA
Title: Multilinear singular integrals
Contact Info here

Monday, January 5, 2001

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Halvard Fausk, University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 15, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts
Title: Invariant foliations
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Christopher French, University of Chicago
Title: The Equivariant J-homomorphism
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2-3:30pm
Professor Ezra Getzler,
Title: Open strings and A-infinity algebras (continued)
Contact Info here

Thursday, January 18, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago
Title: P-adic interpolation in representation theory and arithmetic
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kevin Whyte, U. of Chicago
Title: The large scale geometry of groups of tree automorphisms
Contact Info here

Monday, January 22, 2001

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University
Title: Transfer and the Morava K-theory of homotopy orbit spaces
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Harris 107, 4:30pm
Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University
Title: Mathematical Personality
Special Note: Reception in Harris 108 to follow the lecture
Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Irena Peeva, Cornell University
Title: Toric Hilbert Schemes
Contact Info here

Thursday, January 25, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Lizzie Burslem, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here

Friday, January 26, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15 pm
Professor Curt McMullen, Harvard University
Title: Dynamics on K3 surfaces
Contact Info here
Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Michael Hutchings, Stanford University
Title: Three-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory, Reidemeister torsion in Morse theory, and pseudoholomorphic curves
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Quake, Caltech
Title: Single Molecule Biophysics: FemtoNewton Force Spectroscopy, Microfluidics, and Nanophotonics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
Title: The Dynamics of DNA in flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ilia Binder, Harvard University
Title: Harmonic measure and polynomial Julia sets
Contact Info here

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
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Viorel Nitica, Notre Dame
Title: Chaotic skew-products
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2.00-3.30pm
Professor Ezra Getzler,
Title: The fundamental class of orbifolds (after Fukaya and Ono)
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech L211, 4:30PM
John J. Hopfield, Princeton University
Title: Collective Dynamics for Brain Decisions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 1, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech L211, 12:00PM
Prof. A. Prosperetti, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Gas and vapor bubbles in microfluidics systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Jim Wiseman, Northwestern University
Title: Nonexistence of minimal homeomorphisms of the punctured sphere via the Conley index
Contact Info here

Friday, February 2, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
Title: Instabilities in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Suzanna Becker, McMaster University
Title: A neural model of hippocampal-parietal interactions in spatial memory
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 5, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Egolf, Georgetown University
Title: A sampling of nonlinear dynamics: from low-dimensional systems to extensive chaos
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Halvard Fausk, University of Chicago
Title: Observations on Artin induction for compact Lie groups
Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor James Colliander, Berkeley
Title: Almost conservation laws and global wellposedness
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Bryna Kra, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Dimension, Denjoy maps and Diophantine numbers
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:00-3.30pm
Ezra Getzler,
Title: Euler class for orbifolds
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science MLS 2058, 4:30PM
Dr. Matteo Carandini, University of Zurich
Title: Mechanisms of Gain Control in the Primary Visual Cortex
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Egolf, Georgetown University
Title: Toward a Predictive Theory of Far-from-equilibrium, Spatially Extended, Chaotic Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 8, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Professor Roman Bezrukavnikov, University of Chicago
Title: Towards the local geometric Langlands correspondence
Contact Info here

Friday, February 9, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Francois Ledrappier, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Title: Local Characteristics in Smooth Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Gene Wayne, Boston University
Title: Counter-propagating waves on fluid surfaces and the continuum limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M345, 4:00PM
Professor Timothy W. Secomb , University of Arizona, Dept. Physiology
Title: Mechanics of Red Blood cell motion in capillaries
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Ward 5-315, Chicago Campus, 12:00PM
Roger N. Lemon, University College of London
Title: Pathways for Cortical Commands in Primates
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 12, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Giovanni Forni, Princeton University
Title: On the Lyapunov exponents of the Teichmuller flow
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Jackson, Purdue University
Title: Finding Effective Euler Class of Finite Groups
Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Giovanni Forni , Princeton University
Title: Invariant distributions and ergodic theory of some `parabolic' systems
Contact Info here

Thursday, February 15, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Todd Fisher, Northwestern University
Title: Pesin Theory
Contact Info here
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Joe Jerome , Northwestern University
Title: Local Smooth Solutions of a Navier-Stokes/Charge Transport System
Contact Info here

Friday, February 16, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Carson C. Chow, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Collective dynamics of coupled neurons
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 19, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Vel Jurdjevic, University of Toronto
Title: Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Tops and Elastic Curves
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
V. Linetsky, Northwestern University
Title: Spectral Methods in Derivative Pricing
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor David Eisenbud, MSRI, Berkeley
Title: Chow forms and resultants, old and new
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 22, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. John C. K. Chu, Columbia Univ.
Title: Revisit of the Unified Numerical Treatment of Hyperbolic-Elliptic Equations
Special Note: More current information may be available at
Contact Info here
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor John C.K. Chu, Columbia University
Title: Revisit of the Unified Numerical Treatment of Hyperbolic-Elliptic Equations
Special Note: This talk has been CANCELED and will be re-scheduled later!!
Contact Info here

Friday, February 23, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Fred Diamond , Brandeis University
Title: Modularity of elliptic curves
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester
Title: Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech Institute - Room M345, 4:00PM
john Kessler, University of Arizona
Title: Dynamics of swimming bacteria and their fluid habitat
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. N. Patankar, Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Byungik Kahng, University of Illinois
Title: Dynamics of kaleidoscopic maps
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1.30pm-3pm
Professor David Blanc, Northwestern and Haifa
Title: The Euler class for Fredholm bundles on orbifolds
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mara Neusel, University of Notre Dame
Title: Steinberg's Theorem, Lannes's T-Functor and Noether's Bound
Special Note: unusual day
Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marty Golubitsky, University of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Eng. Science and Applied Math.
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Golubitsky, Univ. of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Lunt 105, 4:00PM
M. Golubitsky, University of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 1, 2001

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Todd Fisher, Northwestern University
Title: Pesin theory
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Joshua Socolar, Duke University
Title: Stabilization (or not) of periodic orbits via time-delay feedback
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Hermano Frid, IMPA (Brazil) and Northwestern University
Title: Extended Divergence-Measure Fields and Applications to Gas Dynamics I
Contact Info here

Friday, March 2, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Bassam Fayad , Pennsylvania State University
Title: Time change of irrational flows and mixing
Contact Info here

Monday, March 5, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Howard Weiss , Pennsylvania State University
Title: The dynamics of Schelling-like segregation models
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. T. Driscoll, University of Delaware
Title: Wavenumber-dependent time stepping for semilinear evolution
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Title: From Bowers House to our House: Simplifying neural networks.
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
Title: Some interesting elements in the Picard group for L_{K(1)} objects at p = 2
Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 6, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University
Title: Versal Deformations of Formal Arcs
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
E. Bodenschatz, Cornell University
Title: Why would a mosquito care about turbulence?
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Hermano Frid, IMPA (Brazil) and Northwestern University
Title: Extended Divergence-Measure Fields and Applications to Gas Dynamics II
Special Note: Special Time
Contact Info here

Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Coupled oscillator arrays
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 9, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Title: The excited cortex: phosphenes and other visual confections
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 12, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Karma, Northeastern University
Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Karma, Northwestern University
Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 15, 2001

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Lishang Jiang, University of Iowa and Tongji University (Shanghai)
Title: Convergence of Binomial Tree Methods for American Path- Dependent Options
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Vinals, Florida State University
Title: Defect motion and domain coarsening of layered phases
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 27, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
Title: Brownian motion on open manifolds with big ends
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 29, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
Title: Existence of Black Holes
Contact Info here
Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
Title: EXISTENCE OF BLACK HOLES
Contact Info here

Friday, March 30, 2001

Colloquium Annenberg G15, 4:30pm
Morris Hirsch, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Finite orbits and fixed points for solvable groups of surface homeomorphisms
Contact Info here

Monday, April 2, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Wenbo Li, University of Delaware
Title: Exit time, principal eigenvalue and small deviation probability
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Pelinovsky, McMaster Univ.
Title: Dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime: Instabilities, resonances, and PMD reduction
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jens Hornbostel, Univesity of Paris VII
Title: Localization in Hermetian K-theory
Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 3, 2001

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Professor Natasa Pavlovic, U of Illinois -Chicago
Title: A Cheap Caffarelli-Kohn -Nirenberg Inequality for the Navier Stokes Equation with Hyperdissipation
Special Note: Very unusual time !
Contact Info here

Thursday, April 5, 2001

Faculty Lectures Series Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
Title: Breaking apart and putting together topological spaces
Contact Info here
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00 pm
Professor Herbert Koch, University of Dortmund
Title: Viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Contact Info here

Friday, April 6, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Benson Farb, University of Chicago
Title: Group Actions and Helly's Theorem
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
Title: The effects of noisy synaptic input on neuronal responses
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 9, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Aurel Stan, Northwestern University
Title: The Hausdorff-Young inequality in white noise analysis
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Chopp, Northwestern University
Title: Coupling the level set method and the extended finite element method
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Friday, April 13, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Alexander Lipton , Director of Deutsche Bank
Title: Past, present and future interactions between mathematics and finance
Contact Info here

Monday, April 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
Title: Differential graded schemes
Contact Info here
Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Pinsky, Northwestern University
Title: Random matrices, Fejer asymptotics and the Hilbert transform
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Patrice LeCalvez, University of Paris 13
Title: Generalized Aubry-Mather sets for non twist maps of the annulus and the torus.
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Levitov, M.I.T.
Title: Conformal models of Laplacian growth
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 17, 2001

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Title: Model structures on the category of ex-spaces
Contact Info here

Thursday, April 19, 2001

Faculty Lectures Series Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Who Needs Brownian Motion?
Contact Info here

Friday, April 20, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Marc Levine, Northeastern University
Title: Topological and Algebraic Cohomology
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Boris Shraiman, Bell Labs
Title: Model Genetic Networks and Principles of Robust Transcription Control
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 21, 2001

Great Lakes K-theory Conference, VII


Monday, April 23, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Min Kang, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Viktor Schroeder, University of Zurich (visiting Northwestern)
Title: Hyperbolic rank and subexponential co-rank of metric spaces
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. T. Dupont, Univ. of Chicago
Title: Simple models for simple flows
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nodar Berikashvili, Academy of Science, Tiblisi (Georgia)
Title: Obstruction Theory in the Stable Range
Contact Info here

Tuesday , April 24, 2001

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Transonic shocks in steady potential flows and free boundary problems
Contact Info here

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS and Caltech
Title: String theory and the derived category 1
Contact Info here

Thursday, April 26, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor M. Gursky, Indiana University
Title: Hessian equations and quadratic Riemannian functionals
Contact Info here

Friday, April 27, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Ivar Ekeland, University of Paris-Dauphine
Title: Partial differential equations arising from economic theory
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech Institute - room 345, 12:00PM
Dr. Chris Wiggins, Courant Institute of Math. Sci, NYU
Title: Biophysical Modes of Polymer Dynamics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Title: Jamming
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 28, 2001

Great Lakes Geometry Conference


Monday, April 30, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Lizzie Burslem , Northwestern
Title: Centralizers of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. G. Huber, Univ. of Massachusetts - Boston
Title: cancelled
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Graduate Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Christian Haesemeyer, Northwestern University
Title: Stacks - definition based on examples
Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 1, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Yuri Manin,
Title: The distribution of continued fractions and modular symbols
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor A. Shnirelman, Tel-Aviv University
Title: ON THE ENERGY DISSIPATION IN TURBULENT FLOWS
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 2, 2001

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Edward Witten, IAS and Caltech
Title: String theory snd the derived category 2
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 3, 2001

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France)
Title: Generic Types and Transitions in Hyperbolic Initial-Boundary Value Problems
Contact Info here

Friday, May 4, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Title: Stability of Stationary Patterns of $L^1$-Contracting Semi-Groups
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eberhard Fetz, University of Washington
Title: Neural computation in dynamic recurrent networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Alexandru Ionescu, MIT & Wisconsin
Title: Singular integrals on symmetric spaces
Contact Info here

Monday, May 7, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elena Kosygina, Northwestern University
Title: On coupled Brownian motion with jumps
Contact Info here
Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Configurational Forces, Gradient Flows and the Motion of Interfacial Curves and Surfaces
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with ESAM
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Probabilistic stability of dynamical systems
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Title: Configurational forces, gradient flows, and the motion of interfacial curves and surfaces
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Mandell, University of Chicago
Title: Integral Cochains
Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Christopher Bendel,
Title: Extensions for finite Chevalley groups and Frobenius kernels
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Vadim Kaloshin, Courant Institute and AIM
Title: Superexponential growth of number of periodic points is generic
Contact Info here
Graduate Algebra Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Julia Pevtsova, Northwestern University
Title: Support varieties for finite groups
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Laverne Chambers, Northwestern University
Title: Chaos!
Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
nobody - just videos,
Title: Geometry videos screening
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 10, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 101, 9:30pm
Vadim Kaloshin , Courant Institute and AIM
Title: Newton interpolation polynomials and growth of number of periodic points
Special Note: This talk will last 2-2 1/2 hours
Contact Info here
Faculty Lectures Series Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University
Title: Using algebraic topology in algebraic geometry
Contact Info here
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:30pm
Professor ,
Title:
Contact Info here

Friday, May 11, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title: Synaptic mechanisms underlying computation in the auditory cortex in vivo: The cocktail party problem
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Saturday, May 12, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Norris Center Michigan Room, 12:00pm
Professors Bodenschatz, Lynch, Lee, Ferster, Balkovsky, Ottino,
Title: 2001 U Chicago Northwestern U. Nonlinear Workshop
Special Note: More information at http://www.complex-systems.northwestern.edu
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 14, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor George Gasper,
Title: Multivariable q-Racah polynomials
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Lai-Sang Young , Courant Institute
Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, I
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. B. Keller, Caltech and UCSD
Title: Continuation, bifurcation and homotopy in scientific computation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Duane Randall, Loyala University
Title: Some Remarks on the Triangulation Conjecture
Contact Info here

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 http://www.tech.nwu.edu/facilities/roomfinder.html">here to find the location of the talk (enter at front of Tech and go to third floor).
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Lai-Sang Young , Courant Institute
Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, II
Special Note: This talk will last 1 1/2-2 hours
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. B. Keller, Caltech and UCSD
Title: The recursive projection method: Stabilization and acceleration of iterative processes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Graduate Algebra Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Mark Pearson, Northwestern University
Title: Introduction to Morava K-theory
Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4pm
vcr,
Title: geometry videos
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 17, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 101, 10:00am
Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute
Title: Strange attractors with one direction of instability, III
Special Note: This talk will last 1 to 1 1/2 hours
Contact Info here
Faculty Lectures Series Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Daniel Tataru, Northwestern University
Title: Linear and nonlinear waves
Contact Info here

Friday, May 18, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Cranston, University of Rochester
Title: Transport by stochastic flows and random velocity field
Abstract and details available
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Javier Movellan, UCSD
Title: The Morton-Massaro Law of Information Integration: Implications for Models of Perception
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 21, 2001

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Multiplicative Functionals Associated With Boundary Value Problems For Differential Forms
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Peter Trapa, Harvard University
Title: Local Langlands conjecture for covering groups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute
Title: Mixing and Chaos
Special Note: This is Professor Young's Kreeger-Wolf Lecture
Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Tom Graber, Harvard University
Title: Families of rationally connected varieties
Contact Info here
Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Boris Rozovskii, Director, the Center for Applied Mathematical Science, University of Southern California
Title: On Equations of Stochastic Fluid Mechanics
Special Note: This is a special analysis and probability seminar
Abstract and details available
Graduate Algebra Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Graham Herrick, Northwestern University
Title: Lubin-Tate formal group laws
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 101, 9:00am
Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr
Title: New examples of embedded surfaces with Anosov geodesic flow
Contact Info here
Faculty Lectures Series Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: Mathematics in the physics metric
Contact Info here

Friday, May 25, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Karim Shariff, NASA Ames Research Center
Title: Non-linear Lessons from Axisymmetric Vortex Rings
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 29, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Transportation Center, 9:00pm
Michael Shub , IBM Watson Research Center
Title: Partial hyperbolcity as a tool
Special Note: This is the first talk of a conference. The schedule can be found at http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~parthyp/schedule>http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~parthyp/schedule
Contact Info here
Graduate Algebra Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Graham Herrick, Northwestern University
Title: Lubin-Tate formal group laws II
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar TBD, 4:00pm(?)
Alex Yang, Northwestern University
Title: The Arnold conjecture on the 2n-torus
Contact Info here

Friday, June 1, 2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar Transportation Center, 3:00pm
Clark Robinson , Northwestern University
Title: The work of Charles Pugh
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Transportation Center, 4:30pm
Bill Bloch , Wheaton College
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Tobin Driscoll, University of Delaware
Title: Fast simulation of semilinear time-dependent PDEs
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 4, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. B. Meerson, Hebrew University, Israel
Title: Symmetry breaking instabilities in two dimensional granular flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Tuesday, July 17, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
M. Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Some recent results on the zero surface tension limit for Hele-Shaw
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy, The Technion
Title: Convection in Layered Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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.