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Academic Year 2017-2018

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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Umut Varolgunes, MIT
Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Umut Varolgunes, MIT
Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available

Friday, September 22, 2017

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:05pm
Greg Edwards, Nilay Kumar, Xavier Garcia,
Title: Get to know you talks: Day 1
Abstract and details available

Monday, September 25, 2017

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Yihang Zhu, Columbia University
Title: The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Adi Glucksam, Tel Aviv University
Title: Measurably entire functions and their growth.
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm
Jun Zhang, Tel Aviv University
Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Jun Zhang, Tel Aviv University
Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Special Note: Pre-talk at 1:00pm
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
Title: Microlocal methods: from classical mechanics to quantum/wave mechanics
Abstract and details available
Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
Title: Microlocal methods in dynamical systems
Special Note: (First Bellow Lecture)
Contact Info here

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Bellow Lecture Series , 4:10pm
Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
Title: From quantum/wave mechanics to classical mechanics: microlocal analysis of dynamical zeta functions
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Eviatar Procaccia, Texas A&M
Title: On covering monotonic paths with simple random walk
Abstract and details available

Friday, September 29, 2017

Bellow Lecture Series , 4:10pm
Maciej Zworski, Berkeley
Title: A discrete view of correlations: Ruelle resonances and their stochastic stability
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 2, 2017

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Long Jin, Purdue
Title: Fractal Uncertainty Principles and Applications to Some Problems in Quantum Chao
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Hang Xue, University of Arizona
Title: Arithmetic theta lifts and the arithmetic Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Clover May, University of Oregon
Title: A structure theorem for RO(G)-graded cohomology
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
John Lott,
Title: Long-time behavior in geometric flows
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Laura Starkston, Stanford University
Title: Weinstein handles: symplectic Morse theory
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Laura Starkston, Stanford University
Title: Weinstein skeleta and arboreal singularities
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
Title: Gauss curvature flow: the fate of the rolling stones
Contact Info here

Friday, October 6, 2017

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Elton Hsu (moderator),
Title: Academic Job Forum/Panel Discussion for Graduate Students
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 9, 2017

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Kyeongsu Choi, MIT
Title: Relation between singularity analysis and regularity theory of the Gauss curvature flow
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ruochuan Liu, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research
Title: Logarithmic p-adic Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and periods on Shimura varieties
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Bena Tshishiku, Harvard University
Title: Geometric cycles and manifold bundles
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Donald Robertson, University of Utah
Title: Ergodicity of skew-products over linearly recurrent interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Asad Lodhia, University of Michigan
Title: Mesoscopic central limit theorem for general β-ensembles
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Moon Duchin, Tufts
Title: Metric geometry and gerrymandering
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 101, 1:00pm
Harrison Chen, UC Berkeley
Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Harrison Chen, UC Berkeley
Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: The M-ellipsoid, Symplectic Capacities and Volume
Contact Info here
Special Event Lunt 105, 2:45pm
Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina
Title: Two Themes in Dynamical Network Models: Critical Scaling Limits and Reinforcement Processes, I
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Special Event Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina
Title: Two Themes in Dynamical Network Models: Critical Scaling Limits and Reinforcement Processes, II
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here

Friday, October 13, 2017

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Perry Kleinhenz,
Title: Can you hear the shape of a drum?
Abstract and details available
Special Event Swift Hall 107, 3:30pm
Ruth Williams, University of California, San Diego
Title: Reflected Diffusions, Stochastic Networks and Biology, I
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Special Event Swift Hall 107, 5:00pm
Wei-Kuo Chen, University of Minnesota
Title: Energy Landscape of Mean Field Spin Glasses
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Special Event Swift Hall 107, 9:00am
Ruth Williams, University of California, San Diego
Title: Reflected Diffusions, Stochastic Networks and Biology, II
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Special Event Swift Hall 107, 10:30am
Xin Guo, University of California, Berkeley
Title: How Much Aggregation is Too Much: Play Mean Field Games Through Several Examples
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here
Special Event Swift Hall 107, 1:30pm
Nike Sun, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Phase Transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Special Note: The 39th Midwest Probability Colloquium
Contact Info here

Monday, October 16, 2017

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Chen Wan, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: The local trace formula for the Ginzburg-Rallis model and the generalized Shalika model
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Nima Rasekh, UIUC
Title: A Theory of Elementary Higher Toposes
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kurt Vinhage, University of Chicago
Title: Polynomial Entropy of Unipotent Flows
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Brett Kolesnik, Berkeley
Title: Sharp threshold for K4-percolation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Yuan Wang, Northwestern
Title: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yuan Wang, Northwestern
Title: Characterization of abelian varieties for log pairs
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gregory Edwards, Northwestern University
Title: Geometric estimates for complex Monge-Ampere equations
Contact Info here

Monday, October 23, 2017

Analysis Seminar Parkes Hall 212, 3pm
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern
Title: The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index on manifolds with non-compact boundary
Special Note: Note earlier than usual time, special location
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon
Title: p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis University
Title: Higher G-torsion, polylogarithms and Mackey functors
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Diletta Martinelli, Univ. of Edinburgh
Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to the MMP with a focus on the Abundance Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Diletta Martinelli, Univ. of Edinburgh
Title: Rational curves on fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Alena Erchenko, Penn State University
Title: Flexibility of some dynamical and geometrical data
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Elliot Paquette, The Ohio State University
Title: The law of large numbers for the maximum of the log-potential of random matrices
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mihalis Dafermos,
Title:
Contact Info here
Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton, Cambridge
Title: Black holes and spacetime singularities in general relativity: I. The Schwarzschild and Kerr family of black holes and the problem of stability
Contact Info here

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 5:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math challenges in Mathematical Induction, Recurrences, and Generating Functions
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey, Northwestern University
Title: The minimum sets and free boundaries of strictly plurisubharmonic functions
Contact Info here
Yamabe Lecture Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton, Cambridge
Title: Black holes and spacetime singularities in general relativity: II. On falling into black holes
Contact Info here

Friday, October 27, 2017

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4pm
Wolfgang Arendt, University of Ulm
Title: Kernels, Spectral Theory and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator
Special Note: Note unusual day, room.
Contact Info here

Monday, October 30, 2017

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Oran Gannot, Northwestern
Title: Logarithmic decay of waves on spacetimes bounded by event horizons
Contact Info here
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Carl Wang-Erickson, Imperial College London
Title: The rank of the Eisenstein ideal
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Inbar Klang, Stanford University
Title: Factorization homology and topological Hochschild cohomology of Thom spectra
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 5:30pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math challenges with Inequalities
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Stéphane Guillermou, Grenoble
Title: The microlocal theory of sheaves
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Stéphane Guillermou, Grenoble
Title: The three cusps conjecture
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gang Liu, Northwestern
Title: Positivity of holomorphic sectional curvature and a conjecture of Yau
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 3, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University
Title: Geometry and Arithmetic of Crystallographic Packings
Special Note: Note the unusual day
Abstract and details available

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 9:00am
Jacopo De Simoi, University of Toronto
Title: Spectral rigidity and planar convex billiards
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 10:00am
Rohini Ramadas, Harvard University
Title: Algebraic dynamics from topological and holomorphic dynamics
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 11:30am
Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
Title: Automorphisms of the shift: Lyapunov exponents and the dimension representation
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 2:30pm
Joel Moreira, Northwestern University
Title: Multiple recurrence along sparse sequences over thick sets
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 4:00pm
Daniel Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Uniform versus non-uniform convergence action on the two-sphere
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 9:00am
Patrick Ingram, York University
Title: The critical height and its depleted variants
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 10:00am
Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
Title: Scattering methods for skew-product parabolic maps
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Tech M345, 11:30amm
Boris Kalinin, Penn State University
Title: Normal forms on contracting foliations
Special Note: Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 6, 2017

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Koji Shimizu, Harvard University
Title: Existence of a compatible system of a local system
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Eva Belmont, MIT
Title: Localizing the E_2 page of the Adams spectral sequence
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Wenbo Sun, Ohio State University
Title: Pointwise multiple convergence for commuting transformations on distal systems
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame
Title: Yang-Mills theory and the large-N limit
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Locy 213, 3:00pm
Jasmin Raissy, Universite de Toulouse
Title: A local approach to holomorphic dynamics
Contact Info here

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 5:30pm
Khashayar Filom, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Andrei Caldararu, Madison
Title: Algebraic structures for categorical Gromov-Witten invariants
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Andrei Caldararu, Wisconsin
Title: Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 13, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Locy 318, 3:00pm
Alex Wright, Stanford University
Title: Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Special Note: Note: unusual time and place!
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jeremy Hahn, Harvard University
Title: Structure in the Stable Splitting of Affine Grassmannians
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 1:00pm
Max Chaudkhari,
Title: Dixmier Unitarizability problem
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Victor Veitch , Columbia
Title: The role of subsampling and exchangeability in modelling (sparse) graphs
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Title: Gravitational allocation to uniform points on the sphere
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Howard Nuer, UIC
Title: Pre-talk: Connections between cubic fourfolds and hyperkähler manifolds via derived categories and Bridgeland stability
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Howard Nuer, UIC
Title: Stability conditions in families and families of Hyperkähler varieties
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 5:30pm
Khashayar Filom, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math challenges in Abstract and Linear Algebra
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern
Title: The Hormander proof of the Bourgain–Milman theorem
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 20, 2017

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jan Vonk, McGill University
Title: Singular moduli for real quadratic fields
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 1:00pm
Chaudkhari,
Title: Unitarizability problems II
Contact Info here
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Nicole Looper, Northwestern University
Title: A lower bound on the canonical height for polynomials
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 27, 2017

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Bing Wang, U of Wisconsin
Title: The extension problem of mean curvature flow.
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Qirui Li, Columbia University
Title: Intersection number formula on Lubin-Tate spaces
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Yan Mary He, University of Chicago
Title: Topology of the shift locus via big mapping class groups
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Hans Chaumont, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Exactly Solvable Lattice Directed Polymer Models
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Michael Gröchenig, Freie Universität Berlin
Title: Mirror symmetry for Higgs bundles and the fundamental lemma
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 5:30pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math challenges in Analysis
Special Note: Training session for the Putnam competition
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Title: Reeb Dynamics and Contact Invariants
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Jo Nelson, Columbia University
Title: Reeb dynamics of prequantization bundles via contact homology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar TBA, 3:00pm
Pavel Mnev, University of Notre Dame
Title: Two-dimensional abelian BF theory in Lorenz gauge as a B-twisted (2,2)-superconformal field theory
Contact Info here
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Ben Landon, Harvard University
Title: Local statistics of Dyson Brownian motion
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 8, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dennis Krivensov, Courant Institute
Title: Regularity for Spectral Optimizers
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Shrenik Shah, Columbia University
Title: Class number formulae for some Shimura varieties of low dimension
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Agnès Beaudry, University of Colorado
Title: The Equivariant Dual of Morava E-Theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Kate Juschenko, Northwestern University
Title: Liouville property for actions of groups
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Columbia University
Title: Mirror symmetry and Hodge theory
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00pm
Martin Kassabov, Cornell
Title: On soficity of variations of Higman group
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sung-Jin Oh, KIAS
Title: The Threshold Theorem for the hyperbolic Yang-Mills equation
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Andreas Koutsogiannis,
Title: On the limiting behavior of multiple ergodic averages
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Aaron Greicius, Loyola University Chicago
Title: Serre's Open Image Theorem
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 102, 03:00pm
Yu Wang, Northwestern University
Title: Long time existence for Yang-Mills flow
Contact Info here

Friday, January 19, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Adam Boocher, University of Utah
Title: From Magic Squares to Polynomials
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 22, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Steven Sam, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Noetherianity in representation theory
Special Note: Note: unusual time and place!
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sean Gomes, Northwestern
Title: Non quantum ergodicity in KAM systems
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Nicole Looper, Northwestern University
Title: A lower bound on the canonical height for polynomials
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Algebra Seminar , 2:00pm
Avraham Aizenbud, Weizman Institute
Title: Bounds on multiplicities of spherical spaces over finite fields
Contact Info here
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
Title: Some rigidity theorems for Riemannian manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 26, 2018

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt B9, 4:00pm
Khashayar Filom,
Title: The Schwarzian Derivative, a Ubiquitous Object
Contact Info here
Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3pm
John Johnson, The Ohio State University
Title: Making static theorems dynamic: Connections between dynamics and combinatorial number theory
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 29, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Liang Xiao, University of Connecticut
Title: Cycles on the special fiber of some Shimura varieties and Tate conjecture
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Samuel Petite, University of Picardie
Title: Restrictions on the automorphism group of a fixed subshift
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Erik Bates, Stanford
Title: Low-temperature localization of directed polymers
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jordan Tirrell, Mount Holyoke College
Title: The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Algebra Seminar , 11:00am
Arie Levit, Yale
Title: Asymptotic properties of lattices in semisimple groups
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Greg Edwards,
Title: Direct images of fiberwise Ricci-flat metrics on Calabi-Yau fibrations
Contact Info here

Friday, February 2, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Brett Smith, Yale University
Title: Bounding treewidth of planar graphs using three-sided brambles
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 5, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Lue Pan, Princeton University
Title: Fontaine–Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Lisa Hartung, Courant Institute
Title: Extreme Level Sets of Branching Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Yuchen Liu,
Title: Pre-talk: normalized volumes of valuations and K-stability of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yuchen Liu, Yale University
Title: K-stability of cubic threefolds
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: Effective very ampleness
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 9, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Alice Mark, Arizona State University
Title: Farey, Ford, and PSL_2(Z)
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 12, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Julius Ross, UIC
Title: Complex PDEs and Planar Flows
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Lucia Mocz, Princeton University
Title: A new Northcott property for Faltings height
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Craig Westerland,
Title: Structure theorems for braided Hopf algebras
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Yair Hartman, Northwestern
Title: Which groups have bounded harmonic functions?
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Arjun Krishnan, University of Rochester
Title: Stationary coalescing walks on the lattice
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Bahar Acu, Northwestern
Title: Iterated planar contact manifolds
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: Effective very ampleness
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 19, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Moritz Doll, Hannover
Title: Refined Weyl law for the perturbed harmonic oscillator
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Daniel Kriz, Princeton University
Title: A new p-adic Maass-Shimura operator and supersingular Rankin-Selberg p-adic L-functions
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mingcong Zeng, University of Rochester
Title: Mackey functors and equivariant Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectra
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Ayse Sahin, Wright State University
Title: Classifying general odometers: spectrum, geometric group theory, and orbit equivalence
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Vadim Gorin, MIT
Title: Gaussian Free Field in random tilings
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
James Conway, UC Berkeley
Title: Contact structures: fillings, knots, and surgery
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
James Conway, UC Berkeley
Title: Fillability of positive contact surgeries
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Albert Chau,
Title: The cusp Kahler Ricci flow on Quasi projective Varieties
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 23, 2018

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt B9, 4:00pm
Elden Elmanto,
Title: Topological Hochschild Homology and the theory of Motives
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 26, 2018

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Anush Tserunyan,
Title: Ergodic hyperfinite decomposition of pmp equivalence relations
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jingren Chi, University of Chicago
Title: Geometry of generalized affine Springer fibers
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kirsten Wickelgren,
Title: An arithmetic count of the lines on a cubic surface.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sheldon Katz, UIUC
Title: Enumerative Geometry and Physics
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sam Nariman, Northwestern University
Title: On characteristic classes in symplectic topology
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 2, 2018

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt B9, 4:00pm
Rachel McEnroe and Yajit Jain,
Title: Grad Student Seminar for Prospective Students
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 5, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Martin Vogel, Orsay/Berkeley
Title: Spectrum of random non-selfadjoint operators.
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Isabel Leal, University of Chicago
Title: Generalized Hasse-Herbrand functions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Vivian Healey, University of Chicago
Title: Tree Embedding via the Generalized Loewner Equation
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Yu Pan, MIT
Title: Pretalk: Introduction to the Legendrian contact homology
Special Note: Please note the change of room!
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yu Pan, MIT
Title: Augmentations and exact Lagrangian cobordisms
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
Title: A brief overview of the Yamabe problem
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Marco Mendez,
Title: Geometric aspects of semilinear elliptic PDEs and minimal hypersurfaces on closed manifolds
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Professor Molei Tao, Georgia Tech
Title: Hyperbolic periodic orbits, heteroclinic connections, and semi-analytical characterization of rare events in some nongradient systems
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Matthew Baker, Georgia Tech
Title: Matroids and Grassmannians over Hyperfields
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Thursday, March 15, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Alexander Perry,
Title: Pre-talk: Derived categories, birational geometry, and Hodge theory
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Alexander Perry, Columbia University
Title: Deformation and derived equivalent but non-birational Calabi-Yau threefolds
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Monday, April 2, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ari Schnidman, Boston College
Title: A higher order Gross-Kohnen-Zagier formula
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Anh Le, Northwestern University
Title: Nilsequences and multiple correlations along subsequences.
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Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Boris Hanin, Texas A&M
Title: Gradients in Deep Neural Networks at Initialization
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
John Duncan,
Title:
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Manuel Krannich, University of Copenhagen
Title: Detecting exotic smooth structures in diffeomorphism groups
Special Note: **Special day and time**
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Monday, April 9, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dean Baskin, Texas A&M
Title: Radiation fields on asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Ben Knudsen, Harvard University
Title: Edge stabilization in the homology of graph braid groups
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Roland Roeder, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Title: Lee-Yang zeros for the Cayley Tree and expanding maps of the circle
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Enrico Arbarello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
Title: Brill-Noether Theory Old and New
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Enrico Arbarello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
Title: Hyperplane Sections of K3 Surfaces
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: Invariance of plurigenera
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University
Title: Vojta's conjecture and uniform boundedness of full-level structures on abelian varieties over number fields
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Victor Turchin, Kansas State University
Title: Delooping the Goodwillie-Weiss tower for closed discs
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Aaron Brown, University of Chicago
Title: Recent progress in the Zimmer program
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Andras Vasy,
Title: The stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes
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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gang Liu,
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ihsan Topaloglu, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Droplet breakup in the liquid drop model
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado - Boulder
Title: Inertia Groupoids and their singularity structure or why we need a concept of stratified groupoids
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ron Donagi,
Title: Super geometry and the foundations of perturbative string theory
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

Algebra Seminar , 1:00pm
Alexander Yom Din, Caltech
Title: Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for (g,K)-modules
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Benjamin Bakker, Univ. of Georgia
Title: Hodge theory and o-minimal geometry
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Probability Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00PM
Timo Seppäläinen, University of Wisconsin
Title: Shifted weights and restricted path length in first-passage percolation
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár, Princeton University
Title: How Small Can a Polynomial Be Near Infinity?
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00
Mike Boyle,
Title: The automorphism group of a shift of finite type
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces I
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sergey Fomin,
Title: Morsifications and mutations
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
Title: Pre-talk: Mumford's simplicity criterion for normal surface singularities
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Tommaso de Fernex, Univ. of Utah
Title: A simplicity criterion for normal isolated singularities
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 9:30am
John Franks, Northwestern University
Title: Non-expansiveness in Z^2 symbolic dynamics
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 10:45am
Sabya Mukherjee, Stony Brook University
Title: Dynamics of Schwarz reflections: mating polynomials with groups
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Clark Butler, University of Chicago
Title: Characterizing symmetric spaces by their Lyapunov spectra
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Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:30pm
Olga Lukina, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Symmetries of laminations
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nicholas McCleerey, Northwestern University
Title: On the singularity type of full mass currents in big cohomology classes
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Monday, May 7, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Elena Maeder-Baumdicker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/Princeton
Title: The area preserving curve shortening flow in a free boundary setting
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesota
Title: Nearby cycles of automorphic étale sheaves
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Harrison,
Title: The h-principle and totally convex immersions
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jon Chaika, University of Utah
Title: Horocycle orbits in strata of translation surfaces
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces II
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Michael Larsen,
Title: Rationality of Zeta Functions via Cutting and Pasting
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Thursday, May 10, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Brian Lehmann, Boston College
Title: Pre-talk: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Brian Lehmann, Boston College
Title: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: Compact Kahler threefolds without nontrivial subvarieties
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Friday, May 11, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Michael Singer, University College London
Title: On asymptotically hyperbolic anti-self-dual Einstein metrics
Special Note: Note unusual day, time.
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Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces III
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Celso Viana, University of Chicago/University College London
Title: Index one minimal surfaces in spherical space forms
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Charlotte Chan, University of Michigan
Title: Periods identities of CM forms on quaternion algebras
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Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Dan Berwick-Evans, UIUC
Title: Modular forms, physics, and topology
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Kitty Yang,
Title: Normal amenable subgroups of automorphism groups of shifts of finite type
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Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Louis Fan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: PDE and stochastic PDE arising from individual-based models
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Special Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces IV
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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
Title: Constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics - existence results
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dana Mendelson, University of Chicago
Title: Probabilistic wellposedness and scattering results for nonlinear wave and Schrodinger equations on Euclidean space
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Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jayce Getz, Duke University
Title: Summation formulae for triples of quadratic forms
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Claire Merriman,
Title: Coding geodesic flows and various continued fractions
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Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Nick Cook, UCLA
Title: The maximum of the characteristic polynomial for a random permutation matrix
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories I: Surfaces and Strings
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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gregory Edwards,
Title: Relative volume comparison along the Kahler-Ricci flow
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Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories II: The topology of moduli spaces
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt Hall 105, 4.10pm
Ulrike Tillmann, University of Oxford
Title: Moduli Spaces and Quantum Field Theories III: Operads from TQFTs
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Hexi Ye, Zhejiang University
Title: Subvarieties with dense preperiodic points for an endomorphism of (\P^1)^n
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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
Title: An epsilon regularity theorem for the Ricci flow
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Monday, June 4, 2018

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Piotr Pstragowski, Northwestern University
Title: Synthetic spectra and the cellular motivic category
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Mehrdad Kalantar, University of Houston
Title: A topological boundary for unitary representations of discrete groups
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Algebra Seminar , 11:00am
Wai Kit Yeung, Indiana University
Title: Weak Calabi-Yau structures and moduli of representations (pre-talk)
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Algebra Seminar , 4:00pm
Wai Kit Yeung, Indiana University
Title: Weak Calabi-Yau structures and moduli of representations
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Monday, July 16, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Complex zeros of random polynomials
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Ezra Getzler ,
Title: The Chern character as a differential form on the derived stack of perfect complexes
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Boris Tsygan,
Title: Chern character of a perfect complex
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University
Title: GT-shadows and their action on child's drawings
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