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Year 2005

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Monday, January 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jung Choi, Northwestern University
Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories
Contact Info here

Thursday, January 6, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago
Title: The distance functionals for wave patterns in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
Contact Info here

Friday, January 7, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Inwon Kim, MIT
Title: The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Flow
Special Note: Professor Kim is a candidate for a tenure track position
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Baruch Meerson, The Hebrew University
Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Sunder Sethuraman, Iow State University
Title: Diffusive estimates for a tagged particle in zero-range particle
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
David Gepner, University of Illinois
Title: The Thom Isomorphism in Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Youngna Choi, Montclair State University
Title: Topology of Attractors from Expanding Maps with One Discontinuity
Contact Info here

Thursday, January 13, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Lagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic equations in physical space
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Michael Goldberg, Caltech
Title: Dispersive Estimates for the Three-Dimensional Schrodinger Equation
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 14, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Victoria Booth, University of Michigan
Title: Mean theta phase of model CA1 pyramidal cell firing changes with location of synaptic stimuli
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
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor David Nadler, University of Chicago
Title: Loops spaces and Langlands duality
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 17, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107 (or another room), 2:30pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, MIT
Title: A simple algebraic proof of the algebraic index theorem
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Peter Carr, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Time Changed Levy Processes and Option Pricing
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jonathan B. Freund, UIUC
Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor William Stein, Harvard University
Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 24, 2005

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Yimin Xiao, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University
Title: Geometric Properties of the Brownian Sheet
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University
Title: Every compact manifold carries a hyperbolic ergodic map
Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Fukaya theory and string topology (after Fukaya)
Contact Info here
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
Title: Recent developments on the well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive equations
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Angela Grant, University of Maryland
Title: Finding Optimal Orbits of Chaotic Systems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Colin Guillarmou, Purdue
Title: Scattering theory for hyperbolic manifolds
Contact Info here

Friday, January 28, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mona Mocanasu, UCLA
Title: Borel-Moore Functors and Algebraic Oriented Theories
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Rigidity for actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Zhu Chenchang, (ETH Zurich)
Title: CANCELLED - Symplectic (stacky) groupoids of Poisson manifolds - CANCELLED
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Title: Murphy's Law in Algebraic Geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 4, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Gary Blasdel, Northwestern University
Title: Optical Imaging of non-vascular Intrinsic Signals in Monkey 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

Monday, February 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Francois Blanchette, University of Chicago
Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Renming Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Two-sided estimates on the density of Brownian Motion with singular drift
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University
Title: Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
André Henriques,
Title: A Lie algebra for the String group
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: The 2--Wasserstein metric and its applications to PDEs
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 10, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Volker Elling, Stanford University
Title: Maximum principles in self-similar potential flow
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 11, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science, NYU
Title: Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations in Communicating Fish
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Monday, February 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Ziad Musslimani, University of Central Florida
Title: Multiscale Asymptopic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Chaotic billiards with polynomial mixing rates
Abstract and details available
Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern
Title: Fukaya theory and string topology, II
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 18, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Richard Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle 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

Monday, February 21, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Mary Silber, Northwestern University
Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Steve Lalley, University of Chicago
Title: Stochastic Competition and First-Passage Percolation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 24, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor C. Klingenberg, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany)
Title: Conservation laws with discontinuous flux functions: well-posedness
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Friday, February 25, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Chad Topaz, UCLA
Title: Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and 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
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jim Colliander, University of Toronto
Title: On rough blowup solutions of L2 critical NLS
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 28, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University
Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Eric Carlen, George Institute of Technology
Title: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Julie Bergner, University of Notre Dame
Title: Three models for the homotopy theory of homotopy theories
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Representation Theory Seminar Lunt 101, 2-4pm
Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan
Title: An overview of spaces of arcs
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan
Title: An overview of spaces of arcs, continued
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Friday, March 4, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Daniel Grunbaum, University of Washington
Title: Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish.
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 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Laser Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Thursday, March 10, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws
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Friday, March 11, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame
Title: On Multiscale Approaches to Three-Dimensional Modeling of Morphogenesis
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 14, 2005

Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 2:30pm
Professor Dayue Chen, Peking University
Title: The anchored expansion constant of random graphs
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jerrold Marsden, Caltech
Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (2)
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Thursday, March 17, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (3)
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Westdickenberg, University of Bonn
Title: Structure of Entropy Solutions of Conservation Laws (4)
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Monday, March 28, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Lev Rozhansky (UNC at Chapel Hill),
Title: Commutative algebra and the categorification of the SU(N) HOMFLY
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame
Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
Special Note: CANCELLED
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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Terence Tao, UCLA
Title: Geometric Renormalization of Wave Maps
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:30pm
Professor Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
Title: Einstein Geometry and Nonlinear Waves
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Friday, April 1, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Andre Levchenko, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Quantification of NF-kappaB: marriage of genetics, biochemistry and mathematical modeling
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
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Terence Tao, UCLA
Title: Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
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Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor tba,
Title: tba
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Monday, April 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Andrew Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Mark Pollicott, University of Warwick
Title: Sierpinski Gaskets with Overlaps
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Pancoe 1-401 (2000 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus), 5:00PM
Daniel Stouffer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering and NSF /IGERT Dynamics of Complex Systems , Northwestern University
Title: A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Natural Ecosystems
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, April 8, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University
Title: Physical Limits to Biochemical Signaling
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 11, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Sunil Chebolu, University of Washington
Title: A K-theoretic approach for refining the chromatic towers
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Dan Rudolph, Colorado State
Title: Mixing, disjoint factors and isometric extensions
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Daniel Rudolph, Colorado Sate University
Title: Entropy and Orbit Equivalence in Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Thomas Mason, UCLA
Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Andrew Hassell, Australian National University
Title: The Riesz transform on manifolds with Euclidean ends
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College
Title: A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres
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Friday, April 15, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Constantine Dafermos, Brown University
Title: Involutions and Polyconvexity in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Applications to Electromagnetism and Elastodynamics
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Monday, April 18, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Fred Hickernell, IIT
Title: Fast Spline Methods for High Dimensional Problems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University
Title: Topological methods for instability and diffusion in Hamiltonian systems
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 1 of 2 talks)
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 21, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Feimin Huang, Academia Sinica (Beijing, PRC)
Title: Convergence of Viscosity Solutions for Isothermal Gas Dynamics
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ya-Guang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title: A Microlocal Approach in Studying Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 22, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
John Maddocks, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - EPRL
Title: TBA
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 25, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. James Grotberg, University of Michigan
Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Robert Neel, Columbia University
Title: The Behavior of the Heat Kernel at the Cut Locus
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Chris Dwyer, University of Wisconsin
Title: Twisted equivariant K-theory and twisted Bredon cohomology
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
Professor Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
Title: Unique ergodicity for nonuniquely ergodic horocycle flows (Joint work with Omri Sarig)
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 2 of 2 talks)
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 29, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Title: Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical 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

Monday, May 2, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. John Bush, MIT
Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Mikhail Gromov, IHES
Title: From protein foldings to Morse theory
Special Note: Professor Gromov is the 2005 Nemmers Prize Winner in Mathematics
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jacques Fejoz, University Paris 6
Title: TBA
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Title: Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 3 of 3 talks)
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 5, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM
Prof. John Hudson, University of Virginia
Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Friday, May 6, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dante R. Chialvo, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Title: Critical Brain Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Monday, May 9, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Watson, Northwestern University
Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame
Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Omri Sarig, Penn State University
Title: Ergodic theory for the horocycle flow on periodic hyperbolic surfaces (joint with F. Ledrappier)
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Howard Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
Title: How smooth is your wavelet? A dynamical systems approach
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Friday, May 13, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Robert Buchler, University of Florida
Title: Chaos in the Music of the Stars
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 16, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois- Champaign/Urbana
Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rochelle Pereira, University of Chicago
Title: Higher Order Cohomology Operations and Minimal Atomicity
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
Title: An almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 19, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 2:00pm
Professor Anupam Garg, Northwestern University (Physics Department)
Title: Path Integral Approach to Spin Semiclassics
Special Note: Note special time, location
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Friday, May 20, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Tim Elston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Regulation of MAP kinase activity revealed by mathematical modeling and experimental analysis
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Monday, May 23, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Title: Bifurcations and Geometry
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Soren Galatius, Stanford University
Title: Classifying spaces of cobordism categories
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Nikos Frantzikinakis, Penn State University
Title: Counting polynomial configurations in dense subsets of the integers.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:00pm
Alissa Crans, UC Riverside
Title: From Loop Groups to 2-Groups
Abstract and details available
Mathematical Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Paul Bressler, University of Arizona
Title: Riemann-Roch for circle bundles
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Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Dana Randall, Computer Science Department, Georgia Tech
Title: Algorithms for Finding a Random Needle in a Combinatorial Haystack
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 26, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Extensions of hyperbolic systems of balance laws
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Frederic Rochon, MIT
Title: Bott Periodicity for fibred cusp operators
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Friday, May 27, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Werner Mueller, University of Bonn
Title: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces and scattering theory
Special Note: First talk of Scattering Theory and Singular Spaces conference
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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota
Title: Motion in random environment: conjectures, counter examples, and "obvious" theorems
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 2, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10
Professor Yaguang Wang, Northwestern University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title: Zero-Viscosity Limit of the Linearized Navier-Stokes Equations with Highly Oscillatory Forces in the Half-Plane
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Friday, June 3, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Werner Pesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Title: Rayleigh-Benard convection with modulated acceleration
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Friday, June 10, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Marc Barthelemy, CEA, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France
Title: Heterogeneity and predictability of global epidemics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Andres Navas-Flores, IHES and Universidad de Chile
Title: Sharp regularity for group actions on the circle
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Tom Graber, California Institute of Technology
Title: Towards a quantum McKay correspondence
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties
Abstract and details available

Friday, September 23, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Nail Akhmediev, The Australian National University
Title: Dissipative solitons in life and science
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, September 26, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Craig Westerland, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Equivariant operads and string topology
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Kevin Costello, University of Chicago
Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category
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Friday, September 30, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Title: Multi-Scale Models of Sequence-Dependent DNA Mechanics
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, October 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Alex Nepomnyashchy, Technion
Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Evaporating Binary Mixtures
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor John Franks, Northwestern University
Title: Fixed Points of Group Actions on Surfaces
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia
Title: Counting blocks
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Thursday, October 6, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen, Northwestern University
Title: Characterizing projective spaces
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Friday, October 7, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Iain Couzin, Oxford University
Title: Collective animal behavior
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 L211, 4:00PM
Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology
Title: How Flies Fly
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, October 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Katja Lindenberg, UCSD
Title: Reactions of Subdiffusive Particles and Subdiffusive Traps
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Analysis and Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Stokolos, De Paul University
Title: On Gurov-Reshetnyak property
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Jacek Graczyk, Universite de Paris-Sud
Title: Negative Schwarzian and non-linear cohomological inequality
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
Title: Cyclic homology, $cdh$-cohomology and negative $K$-theory
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Monday, October 17, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Andrew Norris, Rutgers
Title: Stability of Propagating Cracks and Front Waves using Matched Asymptotic Expansions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Steffen Sagave, Mathematisches Institut Bonn
Title: Universal Toda brackets of ring spectra
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Christian Bonatti, Université de Bourgogne
Title: North-south dynamics and Anosov flows
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Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University
Title: Homology of linear groups via cycles in BG x X
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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics
Title: Enumerative Geometry on Enriques Surfaces
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Friday, October 21, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Thierry Emonet, U Chicago
Title: Towards a digital bacterium
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, October 24, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Steven Roper, Northwestern University
Title: Fluid Driven Fracture in Geophysics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Title: The large gap problem in Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Homotopy decompositions at p =2 of sporadic simple groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11am-12:30pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev, Northwestern University
Title: Formality of the Lie algebra of polyvector fields and Frobenius manifold
Special Note: http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~vald/mirror.htm">Topics in Mirror Symmetry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky
Title: Elliptic genus test for the mirror of some complete intersection
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 28, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell
Title: Energetics of Walking
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, October 31, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. David Dunand, Northwestern University
Title: Metallic Foams
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Thermodynamics Associated to Induced Schemes".
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3pm
Professor Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Is chaotic behavior typical among dynamical systems?
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11:30am-12:30pm
Melissa Liu, Northwestern University
Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Nan-Kuo Ho, The Fields Institute (Canada) and National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
Title: On the volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a non-orientable 2-manifold
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Henri Berestycki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Title: Reaction-diffusion equations and propagation phenomena in heterogeneous environment
Special Note: co-sponsored with FIG
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 4, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
George Lauder, Harvard University
Title: How fishes swim: experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors
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
Workshop

Monday, November 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Sahraoui Chaieb, U of Illinois
Title: Large Deformations in Biomembranes: From the Golgi to Drug Delivery
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar Swift 107, 4:00pm
Professor Michael Entov , Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology
Title: "Almost homomorphisms", "almost linear" functionals and "almost measures" in symplectic topology
Special Note: Special time and location
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:05pm
Professor Jonathon Alperin, University of Chicago
Title: Unipotent conjugacy in general linear groups
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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm
Melissa Liu, Northwestern University
Title: Gromov-Witten classes, quantum cohomology, and enumerative geometry II
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10 pm
Yoichiro Mori , Courant Institute, New York University
Title: A Three Dimensional Model of Cellular Electrical Activity: mathematical analysis and numerical simulation
Special Note: Special PDE seminar
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Difference operators, Hilbert schemes, and the Ruijsenaars-Schneider system
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Friday, November 11, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. Tasso Kaper, Boston University
Title: Dynamics of patterns in activator-inhibitor 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

Monday, November 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Kenneth Schweizer, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
Title: Microscopic Theories of Hybrid Soft Materials: Structure, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago
Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Steve Hurder, UIC
Title: Hyperbolic minimal sets
Abstract and details available
Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Steven Doty, Loyola University
Title: Is there a twisted tensor product theorem for indecomposable modules?
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Topics in Mirror Symmetry Tech M166, 11.30am-12:30pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and Gromov-Witten theory
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 2:30pm
Professor Lev Borisov , University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Analytic continuation of solutions of GKZ system and homological mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
Title: Stability and convergence of efficient Navier-Stokes solvers via a commutator estimate
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 18, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. M. Grae Worster, Cambridge, UK
Title: The interior of mushy layers revealed
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, November 22, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Keith Burns, Northwestern University
Title: A proof of Sharkovsky's theorem
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 28, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Mike Hill, MIT
Title: A New Hopf Algebra for Computing tmf Homology and the tmf Homology of B\Sigma_3
Special Note: Note the time change: this talk is at 3 pm, not 4:10 pm
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Michael Graham, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Title: Transition, turbulence and drag reduction in flowing polymer solutions: the role of self-sustained coherent structures
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Thursday, December 1, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
Title: On Some Two-Dimensional Problems of Conservation Laws
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Friday, December 2, 2005

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
Title: An Articulated Fish Swimming with Point Vortices
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, December 5, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Tyler Lawson, MIT
Title: Ring spectra associated to Shimura varieties and the K(n)-local sphere
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Professor Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
Title: Some unsolved problems in Ergodic Theory
Abstract and details available

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