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Academic Year 2014-2015

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Gaëtan Borot, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Title: Topological recursion and enumerative geometry (note unusual time)
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Gaëtan Borot, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Title: Asymptotic expansion in beta matrix models (joint with Analysis Seminar)
Abstract and details available

Friday, September 26, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Epsilon-regularity theorems
Abstract and details available

Monday, September 29, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Cristián Huepe Minoletti, Labo Labs
Title:  Elasticity-based mechanism for collective motion in natural 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
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Joël Bellaïche, Brandeis
Title: Modular forms mod p
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Guozhen Wang, MIT
Title: Monochromatic unstable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Algebra Seminar Linguistics department's seminar room, 11:00am
Lena Gal, Tel Aviv University
Title: Symmetric Self-adjoint Hopf categories and a categorical Heisenberg double
Special Note: Note the special day!
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Alejandro Maass, University of Chile
Title: Eigenvalues of Cantor minimal systems of finite topological rank
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
N/A,
Title: Putnam Competition Organizational Meeting
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Repeated differentiation evens out spacings of zeros
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Yanki Lekili, UIC
Title: Pretalk: An introduction to symplectic cohomology
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yanki Lekili, UIC
Title: Equivariant Lagrangian branes and Representations
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 3, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
Title: The uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 6, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
Title: Strict convexity of the Parisi functional
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Giovanni Rosso, KU Leuven
Title: Derivative of the symmetric square p-adic L-function via pull-back formula
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Andrews, MIT
Title: Non-nilpotent elements in motivic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Adam Kanigowski, Torun University
Title: Mixing properties of smooth flows on surfaces
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
N/A,
Title: Putnam Selection Test
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: A Smorgasbord of Topics for the Seminar
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: The Hitchin System, the Airy Equation, the Trefoil, and a Cluster Variety
Abstract and details available
The 36th Midwest Probability Colloquium

Friday, October 10, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Jian Song, Rutgers University
Title: The Ricci flow on the sphere with marked points
Abstract and details available
The 36th Midwest Probability Colloquium

Monday, October 13, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Matthew Blair, University of New Mexico
Title: Strichartz and refined local smoothing estimates for wave equations in strictly concave domains
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Rolf Ryham, Fordham University
Title:  Control of Lipidic Pore Dynamics by Aqueous Viscosity
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, 4:00PM
Michael Lipnowski, Duke
Title: Growth of torsion in the cohomology of arithmetic groups
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Omar Antolin Camarena, Harvard
Title: The universal property of the multiplicative structure of Thom spectra
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Laura DeMarco, Northwestern
Title: Complex dynamics and elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Mihnea Popa, Northwestern
Title: Pretalk: (Generic) vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Mihnea Popa, Northwestern
Title: Recent results on holomorphic one-forms
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 17, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Frank Calegari, Paul Goerss, Ursula Porod, and Eric Zaslow,
Title: How To Look For Academic Jobs
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Tao Zheng, Beijing Institute of Technology / Northwestern
Title: Gradient estimates for harmonic functions on manifolds
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 20, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Kiril Datchev, Purdue
Title: Quantitative limiting absorption principle in the semiclassical limit
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
Title:  Sparsity and Equation-Free Methods for Complex Systems
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, 4:00PM
Carl Wang Erickson, Brandeis
Title: Potentially semi-stable pseudodeformation rings
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Saul Glasman, MIT
Title: The Cyclotomic Hodge Filtration
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Yair Hartman, Weizmann Institute
Title: The Furstenberg entropy realization problem
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges on Inequalities
Special Note: Putnam competition training session.
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Higher Lie groupoids I
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Algebra Seminar Linguistics Department Seminar Room (2016 Sheridan Road), 2:00pm
Collin Bleak, University of St Andrews
Title: De Bruijn Automorphisms of the Full Shift
Abstract and details available
Chicago Operator Algebra and Group Theory Seminar Linguistic Department, 2:00
Collin Bleak, University of St Andrews
Title: De Bruijn Automorphisms of the Full Shift
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Alex Küronya, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Title: Pretalk: Positivity concepts in projective geometry
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Alex Küronya, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Title: Kodaira vanishing for partially ample line bundles
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 24, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Paul VanKoughnett,
Title: Stable homotopy theory and geometry
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: A numerical characterization of the Kähler cone
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Emanuele Dotto, MIT
Title: On higher versions of Quillen's theorem B
Special Note: An informal talk before tomorrow's Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Topology Seminar Swift 107, 10:00am
Emanuele Dotto, MIT
Title: Trace methods in Real algebraic K-theory
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Swift 107, 11:30am
Greg Arone, University of Virginia
Title: Bredon homology of partition posets, a theorem of Kuhn, and its $ku$ analogue
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Swift 107, 2:30pm
Teena Gerhardt, Michigan State University
Title: An approach to the algebraic K-theory of Z[C_2]
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Swift 107, 4:00pm
Mike Hill, University of Virginia
Title: On the spectrum of an equivariant commutative ring
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact Info here
Special Day on Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on manifolds

Monday, October 27, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Hamid Hezari, UC Irvine
Title: L^p noms of eigenfunctions on negatively curved manifolds
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 5:00pm
Guillaume Roy-Fortin, Université de Montreal
Title:
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Martin Golubitsky, Ohio State University
Title: Patterns of Synchrony: From Animal Gaits to Binocular Rivalry
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, 4:00PM
George Boxer, Harvard
Title: Torsion in the coherent cohomology of Shimura varieties and Galois representations
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Prasit Bhattacharya, Indiana University
Title: Higher Associativity of Moore spectra
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kiran Parkhe,
Title: Groups of polynomial growth and 1D dynamics
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Calculus
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Higher Lie groupoids II
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tyler Lawson, University of Minnesota
Title: Homotopy theory and modular surfaces
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Yannick Bonthonneau, ENS
Title: Resonance free regions for cusp manifolds
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Higher moment maps and classical field theory
Contact Info here

Friday, October 31, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Paul VanKoughnett,
Title: Manifolds and the Kervaire invariant
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Greg Edwards, Northwestern
Title: Perelman's work on the Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 3, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Philip M. Wood, University of Wisconsin
Title: The empirical spectral distribution (ESD) of a deterministic matrix plus small random noise.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Andreas Waechter, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department,
Title:  A Derivative-Free Method for Solving Nonlinear Optimization
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, 4:00PM
Chan-Ho Kim, Univ. of California, Irvine
Title: Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Eric Peterson, University of California Berkeley
Title: Determinantal K-theory and an application
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm
Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
Title: Finitely presented groups associated with expanding maps
Special Note: the reading seminar will be replaced by this talk. Joint with algebra seminar.
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kenneth Jacobs, University of Georgia
Title: A new type of equidistribution result in non-archimedean dynamics
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Kate Juschenko ,
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Algebra
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Higher Lie groupoids III
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Luis Silvestre, University of Chicago
Title: On equations with drift and diffusion.
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 7, 2014

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Shouwen Fang, Yangzhou University / Northwestern
Title: The Li-Yau Harnack inequality
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 10, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Michael Wolf, Rice University
Title: Geometric Analysis of Affine Spheres over Polygons
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Ira Schwartz, US Naval Research Laboratory
Title:  Predicting epidemic rare events: A dynamical systems perspective
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, 4:00PM
Tonghai Yang, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Chowla-Selberg formula and a conjecture of Colmez
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rune Haugseng, Bonn
Title: The higher Morita category of E_n-algebras
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00PM
Miguel Walsh, Oxford University
Title: The algebraicity of sieved sets
Special Note: Note the unusual time/date
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
Title: Exploring the parameter space of an IFS
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Pigeonhole Principle and Combinatorial Construction
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
Title: Higher Lie groupoids IV
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Miguel Walsh, University of Oxford
Title: Bounded rational points on curves
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Paul Hacking, UMass Amherst
Title: Geometry of cluster algebras
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Paul Hacking, UMass Amherst
Title: Mirror symmetry and cluster algebras
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 14, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Elden Elmanto,
Title: The Six Operations and Other Tomfooleries
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Xiaokui Yang, Northwestern
Title: A numerical characterization of the Kähler cone
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 17, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Ved Datar, University of Notre Dame
Title: Convexity of regular set of singular Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Oskar Hallatschek,  University of California, Berkeley
Title:  The Role of Noise in the Dynamics of Evolution: The Evolutionary
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, 4:00PM
Bryden Cais, Univ. of Arizona, Tuscon
Title: Ramification in crystalline p-adic Galois representations
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontarios
Title: Cocycles and pro-objects
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Howard Masur, University of Chicago
Title: Ergodic Theory of Interval Exchange Transformations
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Siyuan Cai, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges on Counting
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Adam Marcus, Yale University
Title: Controlling Eigenvalues (at least in theory)
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Linhui Shen, Northwestern University
Title: Configurations, potentials, components and canonical bases
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 21, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Matthew Mahowald,
Title: Enumerative Geometry and Mirror Symmetry
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 101, 04:00pm
Tristan Collins, Harvard University
Title: C2,α estimates for fully nonlinear equations
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 24, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University
Title: Bergman kernel along the Kahler Ricci flow and Tian’s Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Cheng-Chiang Tsai, Harvard
Title: Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Zhen Huan, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Title: Quasi-elliptic cohomology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Igors Gorbovickis, University of Toronto
Title: Parameterizing degree n rational maps by multipliers of periodic orbits
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Shu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Calculus
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
Title: Courant Algebroids
Abstract and details available

Monday, December 1, 2014

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Phil Sosoe, Harvard University
Title: Infinite-volume Gibbs measures and dynamics for defocusing NLS
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University and Courant Institute
Title:  Fluid Flows Created by Swimming Bacteria Drive Self-Organization
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
Michael Donovan, MIT
Title: Operations in the Adams spectral sequence for simplicial F_2-algebras
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges - Easiest Putnam Problems
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 2:00pm
Stefan Schreieder, University of Bonn
Title: Theta divisors with curve summands and the Schottky problem
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Yuri Tschinkel , New York University
Title: Geometry of numbers
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Joshua Greene, Boston College
Title: Dehn surgery, combinatorial methods, and Floer homology
Abstract and details available

Friday, December 5, 2014

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Cara Mullen, UIC
Title: The p-adic Mandelbrot Set and Other Peculiarities of Arithmetic Dynamics
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 5, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Christopher Danforth, University of Vermont
Title:  Remote Sensing of Emotional States in Real-Time --
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
Yifeng Liu, MIT
Title: Diophantine equations, Selmer groups and L-functions
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
Title: A Presheaf Construction for Generalized Multicategories
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 102, 1:00pm
Van Cyr, Bucknell University
Title: Automorphisms and ergodic measures for subshifts with low factor complexity
Special Note: Unusual time
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Donald Robertson, Ohio state Universtiy
Title: The Corners Theorem for Quasirandom Groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Brendan Hassett, Rice University
Title: Fibrations in rational surfaces and their sections
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton
Title: A Khovanov stable homotopy type
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 9, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Alexander Jon Stathis, UIC
Title: A Brief Introduction to Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Kołodziej's uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 12, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Hassan Masoud, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) and Princeton
Title:  Fluid-Structure Interactions from Nano- to Macro-Scale, from
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, 4:00PM
David Zywina, Cornell
Title: Elliptic surfaces and the Inverse Galois Problem
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Diana Davis,
Title: Transition diagrams for Bouw-Möller surfaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Andrew Neitzke, University of Texas, Austin
Title: The many uses of saddle connections
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 15, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 11:15AM
 Dr. Anand Oza, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU)
Title:  A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets: Hydrodynamic Pilot-
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

Friday, January 16, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Dylan Wilson,
Title: A talk about ODEs
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 04:10pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Kołodziej's uniform estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem
Special Note: Note the special time
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Jennifer Hom, Columbia University
Title: The knot concordance group
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Paul Reschke, University of Michigan
Title: Dynamically canonical measures for birational transformations defined over number fields
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alex Furman , University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Rigidity for groups with hidden symmetries
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 23, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Vlad Serban,
Title: Manin-Mumford and sons
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Shouwen Fang, Yangzhou University / Northwestern
Title: Perelman's W functional and no local collapsing
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 26, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Junyan Zhu, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Holomorphic Line Bundles over a Tower of Coverings
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Kang-Ling Liao, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
Title:  A Mathematical Model for the Anti-PD-1 and IL-27 Drugs in Cancer
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, 4:00PM
Ana Caraiani, Princeton
Title:
Special Note: Cancelled
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Charmaine Sia, Harvard University
Title: Structures on forms of K-theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Jeff Xia, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Contact Info here

Friday, January 30, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Xavier Garcia,
Title: A Curious Trickshot
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Tao Zheng, Beijing Institute of Technology / Northwestern
Title: The Schwarz Lemma
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 2, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Alexander Wray, Imperial College London
Title:  Electrostatically-Controlled Film Dynamics in Curved Geometries
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, 4:00PM
Bao Viet Le Hung, University of Chicago
Title: Modularity of elliptic curves over real quadratic fields
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Ben Knudsen, Northwestern University
Title: Rational homology of configuration spaces via factorization homology
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
Ben Antieau, UIC
Title: Dg categories, Hochschild cohomology, and the twisted Brauer space
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Ben Antieau, UIC
Title: Derived categories of elliptic fibrations
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 6, 2015

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Hörmander's uniform integrability of plurisubharmonic functions
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 9, 2015

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Brandon Levin, University of Chicago
Title: Moduli of finite flat group schemes with descent
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Zhouli Xu, University of Chicago
Title: Homotopy groups of spheres and the strong Kervaire invariant problem in dimension 62
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: Minicourse Lecture I: Introduction to moduli spaces of curves
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Karl-Theodor Sturm, University of Bonn
Title: Metric Measure Spaces with Synthetic Ricci Bounds
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Annenberg G32, 1:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: Minicourse Lecture II: The tautological cohomology ring
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Stavros Garoufaludis, Georgia Tech
Title: Quantum modularity and complex Chern-Simons theory
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 13, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Chris Elliott,
Title: Some Representation Theory in Physics
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Aaron Peterson, Northwestern
Title: Carnot-Carathéodory metrics
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 16, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Professor Jané Kondev,  Brandeis University
Title:  Building a Proportional Cell: How Cells Control the Size of Their
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
Deborah Vicinsky, University of Oregon
Title: Stabilizations of categories and graphs
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Holly Krieger, MIT
Title: A case of the dynamical André-Oort conjecture
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: Minicourse Lecture III: The ELSV formula
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: An ELSV formula for the space of r-spin structures.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Annenberg G32, 1:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: Minicourse Lecture IV: Double ramification cycles
Special Note: Mini-course for graduate students (and others)
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Dimitri Zvonkine, CNRS, Jussieu
Title: Pixton's conjecture on double ramification cycles
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 20, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Laura DeMarco,
Title: Capacity, integers, and dynamics
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Tamás Darvas, University of Maryland
Title: Geometry of the space of Kähler metrics
Abstract and details available

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Special Day on Complex Geometry and Analysis on real analytic Riemannian manifolds


Monday, February 23, 2015

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Preston Wake, University of Chicago
Title: Eisenstein Hecke algebras and pseudorepresentations
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Dr. Jacopo De Simoi, University of Toronto
Title: An integrable billiard close to an ellipse of small eccentricity is an ellipse
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Robert Lazarsfeld, Stony Brook
Title: Geometry and syzygies of algebraic curves
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Birgit Richter, Hamburg
Title: Higher topological Hochschild homology of rings of integers in number fields
Special Note: Note unusual day and UPDATED time!
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 27, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Guchuan Li,
Title: Cobordism groups and homotopy groups of Thom spaces
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Greg Edwards, Northwestern
Title: The conical Kähler-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 2, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Aaron Peterson, Northwestern
Title: Estimates for the Szegő kernel on the boundary of uniformly finite type domains in C2
Contact Info here
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Professor Horacio Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title:  Frequency Preference Response to Oscillatory Inputs in Neuronal
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, 4:00PM
Mohammad Hadi Hedayatzadeh, Purdue
Title: Exterior powers of Lubin-Tate groups
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kate Ponto, University of Kentucky
Title: Amazing consequences of simple properties of the trace
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 6, 2015

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 104, 03:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 9, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
Title: Holder continuous solutions of active scalar equations
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Alex Roxin, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Title:  Synchrony and Firing Rate in Neuronal Networks: An Exact
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, 4:00PM
Aaron Silberstein, University of Chicago
Title: Geometric reconstruction of function fields
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 04:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 13, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Laura DeMarco,
Title: The Mandelbrot Set: What we know today
Special Note: Prospective Graduate Student event. Faculty are welcome.
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 16, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm
Zhenlei Zhang, Capital Normal University (Beijing) / Princeton
Title: On the limit of a family of Monge-Ampere equations
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Gui-Qiang Chen , University of Oxford
Title: Weak Continuity and Compactness for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 30, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Michael Damron, Indiana University
Title: The chemical distance in critical percolation
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Professor Sophie Denéve,  École Normale Supérieure
Title:  Efficient Coding in Balanced Neural Networks
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, 4:00PM
Xin Wan, Columbia
Title: Iwasawa main conjecture for supersingular elliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3pm
Bruno Klingler, Jussieu
Title: Bi-algebraic geometry and its application to Diophantine problems
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
Claire Voisin, CNRS and IAS
Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to Chow groups
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Claire Voisin, CNRS and IAS
Title: Universally defined cycles
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 3, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Valentino Tosatti,
Title: A symplectic Calabi-Yau theory?
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Annenberg G29, 01:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
Title: Singular metrics on holomorphic line bundles
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 6, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Zoran Vondracek, University of Zagreb
Title: On minimal thinness for jump processes
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Qiang Zeng, Harvard University
Title: Noncommutative martingales, Poincare inequalities, and mixed q-Gaussian algebras
Special Note: Qiang will be a Boas starting next year.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Petia Vlahovska, Brown University
Title: Complex fluid interfaces in electric fields: belted drops, patchy
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, 4:00PM
John Bergdall, Boston University
Title: Arithmetic properties of Fredholm series
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Bena Tshishiku, University of Chicago
Title: Point-pushing and Nielsen realization
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kathryn Lindsey, University of Chicago
Title: The horocycle flow on strata of translation surfaces
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Clemens Koppensteiner, Northwestern
Title: A Microlocal Characterization of Perverse Coherent Sheaves
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 10, 2015

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 04:00pm
Xiaolan Nie, Ohio State University
Title: Weak solutions of the Chern-Ricci flow
Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Special Day on Analytic Methods in Algebraic Geometry


Monday, April 13, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Professor Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington
Title:  Why has global warming paused for the past 15 years?
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, 4:00PM
Francesc Castella, University of California at Los Angeles
Title: p-adic height of Heegner points and Beilinson-Flach elements
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
John Francis, Northwestern University
Title: Formal consequences of stratified regularity
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Andras Vasy, Stanford
Title: The Feynman propagator and its positivity properties
Special Note: Note unusual day
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Alex Furman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Simplicity of the Lyapunov spectrum via Boundary theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sébastien Boucksom, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Title: Thermodynamical limits and (pluri)potential theory
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 04:00pm
Dror Varolin, Stony Brook
Title: Two Bergman-type interpolation problems on finite Riemann surfaces
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 17, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Mihnea Popa,
Title: Vanishing theorems and holomorphic forms
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 20, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
Title:  Phases and Phase Transitions in the Collective Motility of the
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, 4:00PM
Martin Luu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Numerical local Langlands duality and Weil’s Rosetta Stone
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Inna Zakharevich, University of Chicago
Title: CANCELLED
Contact Info here

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:00pm
Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
Title: Nodal curves, old and new
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:00pm
Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
Title: The KKV conjecture
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 04:00pm
Richard Thomas, Imperial College, London
Title: Homological projective duality
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 103, 11:00 am
Dimitri Gurevich, Valenciennes University, France
Title: From Quantum Groups to Noncommutative Geometry
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 24, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Eric Zaslow,
Title: From ODE's to higher groupoids: The bizarre, category-cutting world of Mathematical Physics
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 04:00pm
Lei Wu, Northwestern
Title: Variations of Hodge structures and Hodge metrics
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 27, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Ken Maclaughlin, University of Arizona
Title: Asymptotic analysis of d-bar problems and Riemann-Hilbert problems: applications to random matrix theory and singular limits of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Michael Singer, University College, London
Title: A new approach to monopole metrics
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Vinayak Vatsal, University of British Columbia
Title: Congruences for modular forms of half-integer weight
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 103, 2:00pm
Simion Filip, University of Chicago
Title: Pre-talk: K3 surfaces and dynamics
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Simion Filip, University of Chicago
Title: Families of K3 surfaces and their asymptotic properties
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Susan Holmes, Stanford University
Title: Using Metric Methods for Non Standard Statistical Data
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Annenberg G29, 2:00pm
Junecue Suh, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Pre-talk: Esnault and Viehweg's proof of the Kodaira vanishing theorem
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Junecue Suh, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Kawamata-Viehweg type vanishing theorems with coefficients, with focus on applications
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 107, 3pm
Agnes Beaudry, University of Chicago
Title: The Chromatic Splitting Conjecture at $n=p=2$
Special Note: Note unusual day, time and room!
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 1, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Rebecca Wei,
Title: A glimpse at iterated integrals
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 04:00pm
Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University / Northwestern
Title: Convexity of the K-energy
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 4, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Hung Tran, University of Chicago
Title: Selection problems for a discounted degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation.
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Professor Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland
Title:  Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks: Insights 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
Number Theory Annenberg 101, 3:00PM
Bianca Viray, Univ. of Washington
Title: An arithmetic intersection formula for denominators of Igusa class polynomials
Special Note: Unusual time and location
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles I
Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
Title: Parabolic Manifolds Associated to Formal Invariant Curves
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Rick Kenyon, Brown University
Title: Fixed-energy harmonic functions and acyclic orientations
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 8, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Peng Zhou,
Title: The contour integral and the asymptotic expansion
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 04:00pm
Lei Wu, Northwestern
Title: Variations of Hodge structures and Hodge metrics
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 11, 2015

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Rebecca Bellovin, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Local \(\varepsilon\)-isomorphisms in families
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles II
Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles
Special Note: Professor Hopkins is the current Nemmers Prize Winner
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Jon Fickenscher, Princeton University
Title: Boshernitzan's Bound for Shifts with Eventually Constant Growth
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Pham Huu Tiep, University of Arizona
Title: Adequate subgroups
Abstract and details available
Special Event Swift 107, 05:00 pm
Annalisa Crannell, Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Franklin & Marshall College
Title: In the Shadow of Desargues
Special Note: ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE LECTURE
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Nicolò Sibilla, University of British Columbia
Title: The topological Fukaya category and mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau threefolds
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 15, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Bryna Kra,
Title: Complexity and periodicity in dynamics: local and global
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 04:00pm
Wenshuai Jiang, Peking University / Northwestern
Title: Convexity of the K-energy
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 18, 2015

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Ben Green, University of Oxford
Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 1: Approximate groups
Contact Info here

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Ben Green, University of Oxford
Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 2: Approximate polynomials
Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Ben Green, University of Oxford
Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure 3: Problems about points and lines
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles III
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 22, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Jeff Meyer, University of Oklahoma
Title: The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond.
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 26, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Claudio Landim, IMPA
Title: Macroscopic fluctuation theory
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Matthew Bainbridge, Indiana University
Title: Finiteness of Teichmüller curve in genus three
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Special Event Lunt Common Room, 3:30 pm
,
Title: Postdoctoral Faculty and Graduate Awards (with wine & cheese)
Contact Info here
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles IV
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Tyler Kelly, Cambridge University
Title: Toric Mirror Constructions and Derived Equivalence
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Ricci Curvature

Friday, May 29, 2015

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Elden Elmanto,
Title: A Smorgasbord of Homotopical Ideas
Abstract and details available
Workshop on Ricci Curvature

Monday, June 1, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Nguyen Ngoc Cuong, Jagiellonian University
Title: Stability and regularity of the complex Monge-Ampère equation on Hermitian manifolds
Contact Info here
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ariane Mézard, Jussieu
Title: Genetic of local \(p\)-adic Galois representations
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame
Title: Moment maps and stability in complex geometry
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Paolo Rossi, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Dijon
Title: Double ramification cycles and quantum integrable hierarchies
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 8, 2015

Analysis Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Aukosh Jagannath, New York University
Title: Some properties of the phase diagram for mixed p-spin glasses
Abstract and details available

Friday, June 19, 2015

Special Event Lunt Common Room, 1 - 2:30 pm
,
Title: Reception and light lunch for graduating seniors and faculty
Contact Info here

Friday, August 21, 2015

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Conan Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: Witten deformation and the scattering diagram in the A-model
Abstract and details available

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