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Academic Year 2009-2010

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Matthew Emerton, Northwestern
Title: An introduction to the mod p and p-adic Langlands program for GL_2.
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Problems and results in random complex geometry, I
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ke Zhang, University of Maryland
Title: Speed of Arnold diffusion for analytic Hamiltonian systems
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Hillel Furstenberg, Northwestern University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title: From Prediction Theory to Arithmetic Progressions
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Kwok Wai Chan, Harvard
Title: The Ooguri-Vafa Metric, Holomorphic Disks, and Wall Crossing
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 5, 2009

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Pierre Colmez, Ecole Polytechnique
Title: On the p-adic Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p)
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel, University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
William O. Bray, University of Maine
Title: Growth Properties of Fourier Transforms; Classical and Recent Results
Special Note: Prof. Bray wil be visiting NU for the entire week of Oct 5-9.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel, University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00 pm
Steve Zelditch,
Title: Donaldson theory pretalk
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Steve Zelditch,
Title: Donaldson Theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Department Meeting Lunt 105, 4:00PM
,
Title: Faculty Meeting
Contact Info here

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Zhenghe Zhang, Northwestern University
Title: An Introduction to the Classical KAM Theorem I
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:30pm
Austin Ford, Northwestern University
Title: The Schrödinger equation on flat euclidean cones
Contact Info here

Monday, October 12, 2009

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Ellen Eischen, Northwestern
Title: p-adic differential operators on automorphic forms and applications
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Todd Murphey, Northwestern University
Title: Efficient Hybrid Optimization for Skid-Steering Estimation and
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Problems and results in random complex geometry, II
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
David Ralston, Ohio State
Title: Constructing Families of Non-Orbit-Equivalent Systems
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yuri I. Manin, Northwestern
Title: Renormalization and computation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Tasho Kaletha,
Title: Depth-zero local Langlands correspondence and endoscopic transfer
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Zhenghe Zhang, Northwestern University
Title: An Introduction to the Classical KAM Theorem II
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:30pm
Amanda Potts, Northwestern University
Title: The Dynamics of Tilings
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Seabury 231, 4:10pm
Matthew Gelvin, MIT
Title: Actions of fusion systems on finite sets
Special Note: DIFFERENT DAY and ROOM
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 16, 2009

31 Midwest Probability Colloquium


Monday, October 19, 2009

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Teruyoshi Yoshida, Cambridge
Title: Converse of the weight-monodromy conjecture
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch, University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Volker Elling, University of Michigan
Title: Existence of weak and strong shock reflections
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hill, University of Virginia
Title: Equivariant Computations
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch, University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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, October 20, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Alex Furman, UIC
Title: Invariant and stationary measures for groups of toral automorphisms
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00
Christopher Schommer-Pries,
Title: Classifying Extended Topological Field Theories in Low Dimensions
Special Note: There will be an expository seminar "pre-talk" from 3pm to 4pm
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mike Hill, University of Virginia
Title: On the Non-Existence of Kervaire Invariant One Manifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Matilde Marcolli, Caltech
Title: Feynman integrals and algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Daniel Visscher, Northwestern University
Title: Expanding Maps on the Circle
Contact Info here

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson


Monday, October 26, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
Title: Noise-driven order via multiple scales in biological models
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
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Bei Zhang, Northwestern
Title: p-adic L-function of supersingular Hilbert modular form
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Anssi Lahtinen, Stanford
Title: Twisted K-theory and String Topology
Abstract and details available
Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Roland Roeder, IUPUI
Title: Lee-Yang zeros and rational dynamics in two variables
Abstract and details available
Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Valentino Tosatti, Columbia University
Title: The Calabi Conjecture
Special Note: Graduate Student Colloquium
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Owen Gwilliam,
Title:
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Kal Nanes, Northwestern University
Title: On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic flows
Contact Info here

Friday, October 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Guy Baruch, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical Solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 3:00PM
Guy Baruch, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz equation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 2, 2009

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Austin Ford, Northwestern
Title: The Schroedinger propagator on 2D Euclidean cones
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Eric Forgoston, United States Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Improving Prediction of Random Epidemic Outbreaks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Nick Ramsey, DePaul
Title: Euclidean Ideal Classes
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jeremiah Heller, Northwestern University
Title: Vanishing Theorems for Real Algebraic Cycles
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Andrey Gogolev, U Texas
Title: The space of Anosov diffeomorphisms and new examples of Anosov diffeomorphisms on exotic nilmanifolds.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University
Title: The growth of cohomology in towers of manifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Amanda Potts, Northwestern University
Title: Multiple ergodic averages for flows and configurations in sets of positive density in $\mathbb{R}$
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:30pm
Ted Stadnik, Northwestern University
Title: Representation theory
Contact Info here

Monday, November 9, 2009

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Bruce Driver, University of California, San Diego
Title: Holomorphic functions and subelliptic heat kernels over Lie groups
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Erik Luijten, Northwestern University
Title: Simulating the self-assembly and hydrodynamics of anisotropic
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
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
David Savitt, Arizona
Title: Lifting local Galois representations
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario
Title: CANCELLED/RESCHEDULED
Contact Info here

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Hillel Furstenberg, Northwestern University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title: Stationary Measures for Non-Amenable Group Actions and a Szemeredi Theorem for SL(2, R)
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sam Payne, Stanford University
Title: Tropical Brill-Noether theory
Special Note: There will be an expository seminar pre-talk from 3 to 4pm.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: The dynamical shape of a complex polynomial
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Doris Bohnet, Northwestern University
Title: Absolutely continuous foliations and leaf spaces
Contact Info here
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:30pm
Mike Skirvin, Northwestern University
Title: The Borel-Weil-Bott theorem
Contact Info here

Friday, November 13, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Accurate, Stable, and Scalable Algorithms for Convection-Dominated
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 16, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Abrams, Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Topography: Why Isn't the Earth Flat?
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
Number Theory Lunt 103, 2:00PM
Florian Herzig, Northwestern
Title: The classification of irreducible mod p representations of a p-adic GLn
Special Note: Note the unusual time and location!
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Sug Woo Shin, Chicago
Title: Plancherel density theorem
Special Note: Note the unusual location!
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Martin Frankland, MIT
Title: Quillen cohomology of Pi-algebras
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Kevin McGoff, University of Maryland
Title: Orders of accumulation of entropy
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Title: 30 Years of Calder\'on's Problem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Vesna Stojanoska, Northwestern University
Title: The J-homomorphism and stable homotopy groups of spheres
Special Note: Seminar will be fifteen minutes earlier than usual.
Contact Info here

Friday, November 20, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. A. Class, University of Karlsruhe
Title: Hierarchical Modeling of Flames as Gasdynamic Discontinuities
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 23, 2009

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Artem Pulemotov, University of Chicago
Title: Gradient Estimates for the Heat Equation on Manifolds with Boundary
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Michael Hochman, Princeton and IAS
Title: Local entropy averages and projection of fractal measures
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Harris Wong, Louisiana State University
Title: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Dual-wet Micro Heat Pipe
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
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Joel Bellaiche, Brandeis
Title: Critical p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Kevin Walker,
Title: pretalk: TQFTs via fields
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Kevin Walker,
Title: The blob complex and the higher dimensional Deligne conjecture.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 3, 2009

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 345, 4:00PM
Dr. Alexander Eydeland, Morgan Stanley
Title: Commodity Models: From Ags to Zinc
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Pat Hooper, Northwestern University
Title: Renormalization in translation surfaces with symmetry
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Toby Gee, Harvard University
Title: The Sato-Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular forms
Special Note: Note the unusual time and location!
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 4, 2010

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Le Thai Hoang, UCLA
Title: Arithmetic Combinatorics in Function Fields
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Justin Thomas,
Title: the Swiss cheese operad of Voronov
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 8, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:00pm
James Yorke, University of Maryland
Title: How Chaos arises
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 11, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Myoungjean Bae, Northwestern University
Title: Transonic Shocks and Free Boundary Problems
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Reduction of Viscosity in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Reimundo Heluani, UC Berkeley
Title: On quantum sigma models with non-Abelian winding
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:15pm
Maria Stadnik, Northwestern University
Title: Class field theory and the Langlands correspondence
Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Danny Calegari, Caltech
Title: Faces of the stable commutator length norm ball
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Chi-Sheng Jan, Northwestern University
Title: The Furstenberg correpsondence principle
Contact Info here

Monday, January 18, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
Title: Optimization, Differential Equations and Machine Learning
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Hiro Tanaka, Northwestern University
Title: Knots, tangles, and braid groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Bhargav Bhatt,
Title:
Contact Info here
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Pengfei Zhang, Northwestern University
Title: Stable and unstable density points of a hyperbolic set
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 25, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Mihai Tohaneanu, Purdue
Title: Local Energy Estimates in Schwarzschild and Kerr
Special Note: Note unusual time, room.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Marta C. Gonzalez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Understanding individual human mobility patterns using location
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Frank Calegari, Northwestern
Title: The Galois Groups of Graphs
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Tim Austin, UCLA
Title: Some recent convergence results on non-conventional ergodic averages
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Takuo Matsuoka, Northwestern University
Title: On usefulness of spectra
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Special Event Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St. (Transportation Center), 4:00 PM
John Franks, Northwestern University
Title: What mathematicians actually do: some examples from dynamics.
Special Note: Noyes Chair Inaugural Lecture
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm
David Hyeon, Postech and Marshall University
Title: Geometric invariant theory and birational geometry of moduli
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yulia Peet, Northwestern University
Title: On the stability of grid overlapping methods with spectral elements
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Dave Constantine, University of Chicago
Title: Compact forms of homogeneous spaces and group actions
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 107, 5:15pm
Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University
Title: Think microlocally, act globally
Contact Info here

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Feynman diagrams and the Inverse Spectral Problem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Conan Wu, Northwestern University
Title: Example of a non-ergodic C^1 Anosov diffeo
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 5, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Jonathan Schwalbe, Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics of Lipid Bilayer Membranes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 8, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tanya Christiansen, University of Missouri, Columbia
Title: Probabilistic Weyl laws for quantized tori
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Neelesh A. Patankar, Northwestern University
Title: The hydrodynamics of aquatic locomotion and its potential impact on
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Howard Masur, University of Chicago
Title: Is a "random" element in the mapping class group Pseudo-Anosov?
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Algebraic statistics for random graph models
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dmitry Kaledin, Steklov Mathematics Institute and Independent University of Moscow
Title: Hodge theory in non-commutative algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Eric Zaslow,
Title: Applications of Microlocalization
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Zhenghe Zhang, Northwestern University
Title: One dimensional Schrodinger operators with quasiperiodic potentials and Schrodinger cocycles
Contact Info here

Friday, February 12, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
Title: Modeling Ionic Flow in Biological Cells
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar ESAM Conference Room, 2:00 pm
Professor Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
Title: Modeling Ionic Flow in Biological Cells
Special Note: Joint with ESAM (RTG seminar)
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Adilson E. Motter, Northwestern University
Title: Sensitive Dependence on Network Structure: To Sync or Not to Sync
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario
Title: Pointed torsors and Galois groups
Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Dan Thompson, Penn State
Title:
Contact Info here
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Owen Gwilliam, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10 pm
Justin Noel, RMA, Strasbourg
Title: On the Morava K-theory of some infinite loop spaces
Special Note: Special Time and Place.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Department Meeting Lunt 105, 4:10pm
,
Title: Departmental Meeting
Contact Info here

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Kevin Costello,
Title: A geometric construction of the Witten genus
Abstract and details available
Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Kiran Parkhe, Northwestern University
Title: A Foray into the World of Interval Exchange Transformations
Contact Info here

Monday, February 22, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Michael Buice, National Institutes of Health
Title: Correlations, fluctuations and stability of a finite-size network
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Kai-Wen Lan, Princeton/IAS
Title: Vanishing theorems for torsion automorphic sheaves
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: The Kervaire Invariant Problem
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: See Pinsky Lecture
Contact Info here

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul
Title: On a two-parameter family of continued fraction transformations
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri, Northwestern University
Title: Moduli of curves through examples
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: The Kervaire Invariant Problem
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: The Kervaire Invariant Problem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Erik Carlsson,
Title: Vertex operators and localization
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Steve Cox, Rice University
Title: Toward a Minimal Model of a Large Spiking Cell
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Frank Calegari, Northwestern
Title: Galois representations and the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Marian Gidea, NEIU
Title: Shadowing and Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:15pm
Sam Gunningham, Northwestern University
Title: Character theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota and Weizmann Institute
Title: Sharp thresholds for the mixing time of random permutation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 4, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Sheldon Natenberg, Chicago Trading Company
Title: Option Market-Making, Pricing, and Risk Management
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 8, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Bernard Schiffman, Johns Hopkins
Title: Asymptotics of the Bergman-Szego kernel and applications to random zeros
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Carson C. Chow, National Institutes of Health
Title: A tractable theory of ligand-mediated gene induction
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
David Geraghty, Harvard
Title: Congruences between weight 2 Hilbert modular forms
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Megan Guichard Shulman, University of Chicago
Title: RO(Z/p)-graded cohomology of some classifying spaces
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Title: Fitting a smooth function to data
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Robert Bryant, MSRI and University of California, Berkeley
Title: Auf Wiedersehen Surfaces, Revisited
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Sergey Bezuglyi, Institute for Low Temperature Physics (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Title: Invariant Measures on Bratteli Diagrams
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4pm
Alina Marian, UIC
Title: The moduli space of stable quotients
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Vesna Stojanoska, Northwestern University
Title: Topological modular forms, group cohomology, and duality
Special Note: Special Day
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 5, 2010

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Jared Weinstein, UCLA
Title: Non-abelian local class field theory and the Lubin-Tate tower
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Ted Stadnik, Northwestern University
Title: The Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence of Emerton-Kisin
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ben Green, Cambridge University and Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
Title: Approximate groups and their applications
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Friday, April 9, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Lisa Melanson, Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Modeling of Intracranial Aneurysms
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy, I
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy, II
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg, MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
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Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy, Colloquium
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg, MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Sy Levin, Princeton University There will be a reception following the
Title: The Challenges of Sustainability
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Graduate Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Zhenghe Zhang, Northwestern University
Title: One dimensional quasi-periodic discrete Schrodinger operators and Schrodinger cocycles II
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Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy, IV
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 16, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Sy Levin, Princeton University Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.
Title: Collective Motion in Animal Populations
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Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 3:30pm
Prof. Simon Donaldson, Imperial College
Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy, V
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Hamid Hezari, MIT
Title: Spectral Rigidity of Integrable Systems
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Title: Entropy maximizing measures for some partially hyperbolic systems
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Snezhana I. Abarzhi, The University of Chicago
Title: The effect of heterogeneities and noise on pattern formation and
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Ekin Ozman, Wisconsin
Title: Local Points on Quadratic Twists of the Classical Modular Curve
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Marcy Robertson, UIC
Title: Derived Morita Theory for Enriched Symmetric Multicategories
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 102, 10:0am
Alex Gorodnik, University of Bristol
Title: Exponential mixing for automorphisms on nilmanifoldsq
Special Note: unusual time
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
Title: Lyapunov functions: continuous, Lipschitz or smooth? Aubry-Mather Formalism for Homeomorphism.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Max Lipyanskiy,
Title: Semi-Infinite Cycles in Floer Theory
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Quantum chaos and random waves
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill
Title:
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Topology Seminar Swift 107, 9.30AM
Midwest Topology Seminar,
Title: Midwest Topology
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 26, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alexander Gorodnik, University of Bristol
Title:
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor C. Wolverton, Northwestern University
Title: First-Principles Discovery of Materials for Hydrogen Storage
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Liang Xiao, Chicago
Title: Ramification theory for complete discrete valuation field with imperfect residue field
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Special Event Ryan Hall 4026, 08:30 am
Chi-Wang Shu, Sirui Tan, Eric Polizzi, Ashraf Alam, Mark Lundstrom, Jon Servaites, Tobin Marks, and Mark Ratner, Brown University Applied Mathematics, Univ. Massachusetts Elec. Comp. Eng., Purdue Univ. Elec. Comp. Eng., Northwestern Chemistry
Title: Solar Cell Modeling: Perspectives from Mathematics and Chemistry
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 5:15pm
Vaibhav Kukreja, Northwestern University
Title: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Shocks and One-dimensional Cauchy Problem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Andras Vasy, Stanford University
Title: Wave propagation on asymptotically de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter spaces
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Jean Bellissard, Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Riemannian Geometry of Compact Metric Spaces
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 30, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00
Michael Douglas,
Title: Spaces of quantum field theories
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Frank Merle, Chicago/Cergy
Title: Interaction of soliton in the nonintegrable case
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Tsynkov, North Carolina State
Title: On SAR Imaging through the Earth's Atmosphere
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Guillermo Mantilla-Soler, Wisconsin
Title: Mordell-Weil ranks in towers of modular Jacobians
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Natalie Frank, Vassar College
Title: Self-similar tilings, finite local complexity, and generalized beta-transformations
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
Title: Ergodic theory and combinatorics
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Larry Guth, University of Toronto
Title: Metaphors in systolic geometry
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Friday, May 7, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Peter Stewart, Northwestern University
Title: Local and Global Instabilities of Flow in a Flexible-Walled Channel
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Paolo da Pelo, OSU/Bari
Title: Gaussian Stochastic Calculus and Heat Equation
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Double or nothing: driving the visual system
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Maria Stadnik, Northwestern
Title: Ray class fields of conductor (p)
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth
Title: Inverse spectral problems on Riemann surfaces and locally symmetric spaces
Special Note: Note unusual date.
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ayse Sahin, DePaul
Title: Directional entropy and orbit equivalence for measurable Z^d actions
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Tom Braden, U Mass Amherst
Title: Deformations of standard Koszul algebras and localization in equivariant cohomology.
Special Note: Note special time (3pm)
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Tom Dunlap, Northwestern University
Title: Representation theory via polytopes
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Special Event NOTE CHANGE OF PLACE: SWIFT 107, 5:00 pm
Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth,
Title: You Can't Hear the Shape of a Drum
Special Note: Undergraduate Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 14, 2010

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Goncalo Tabuada, Universidade Nova de Lisboa/UIC
Title: Non-commutative motives
Special Note: Special Day
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 17, 2010

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Randy Qian, Purdue
Title: Diffractive Theorems for the Wave Operators of Cone Type
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. W. Rappel, University of California - San Diego
Title: Which way to go? Modeling eukaryotic chemotaxis
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Simona Paoli, Penn State Altoona
Title: Homotopical Properties of a weakly globular model of homotopy types
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
D. Ben McReynolds, U. of Chicago
Title: Symmetry and Teichmuller curves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Vasiliy Dolgushev,
Title: Formality theorem for Hochschild cochains via transfer
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Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 5:15pm
Jesse Wolfson, Northwestern University
Title: Intro to (Complex) K-Theory
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California
Title: Elementary Representation Theory
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 24, 2010

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Mirela Çiperiani, Austin
Title: Divisibility of Heegner points on Z_p extensions
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Yamabe Lecture , 4:10pm
Simon Brendle, Stanford University
Title: Curvature, sphere theorems, and the Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Anthony Quas, Victoria
Title: Semi-invertible Oseledets Theorems and Applications
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Yamabe Lecture , 4:10pm
Simon Brendle, Stanford University
Title: Blow-up phenomena for the Yamabe equation
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin
Title: The geometry and topology of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Dima Tamarkin,
Title: Microlocal category for a symplectic manifold
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Friday, May 28, 2010

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. David Salac, Northwestern University
Title: Dynamic Behavior of Lipid Vesicles in Viscous Flows
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Bruce Williams, Notre Dame
Title: Family Hirzebruch Signature Theorem with Converse
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Eigenfunctions Workshop