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Year 2018

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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!
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Yu Pan, MIT
Title: Augmentations and exact Lagrangian cobordisms
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
Title: A brief overview of the Yamabe problem
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Matthew Baker, Georgia Tech
Title: Matroids and Grassmannians over Hyperfields
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 15, 2018

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

Monday, April 2, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Ari Schnidman, Boston College
Title: A higher order Gross-Kohnen-Zagier formula
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
John Duncan,
Title:
Contact Info here
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**
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 9, 2018

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

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
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Enrico Arbarello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
Title: Brill-Noether Theory Old and New
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 12, 2018

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

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
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Victor Turchin, Kansas State University
Title: Delooping the Goodwillie-Weiss tower for closed discs
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Aaron Brown, University of Chicago
Title: Recent progress in the Zimmer program
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Andras Vasy,
Title: The stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 23, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ihsan Topaloglu, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Droplet breakup in the liquid drop model
Abstract and details available
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
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Ron Donagi,
Title: Super geometry and the foundations of perturbative string theory
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 26, 2018

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

Friday, April 27, 2018

Nemmers Lectures Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár, Princeton University
Title: How Small Can a Polynomial Be Near Infinity?
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00
Mike Boyle,
Title: The automorphism group of a shift of finite type
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces I
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sergey Fomin,
Title: Morsifications and mutations
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available
Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Tommaso de Fernex, Univ. of Utah
Title: A simplicity criterion for normal isolated singularities
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 9:30am
John Franks, Northwestern University
Title: Non-expansiveness in Z^2 symbolic dynamics
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 10:45am
Sabya Mukherjee, Stony Brook University
Title: Dynamics of Schwarz reflections: mating polynomials with groups
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 2:00pm
Clark Butler, University of Chicago
Title: Characterizing symmetric spaces by their Lyapunov spectra
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 3:30pm
Olga Lukina, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Symmetries of laminations
Abstract and details available
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
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesota
Title: Nearby cycles of automorphic étale sheaves
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Harrison,
Title: The h-principle and totally convex immersions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Jon Chaika, University of Utah
Title: Horocycle orbits in strata of translation surfaces
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces II
Contact Info here

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Michael Larsen,
Title: Rationality of Zeta Functions via Cutting and Pasting
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jian Xiao, Northwestern University
Title: Compact Kahler threefolds without nontrivial subvarieties
Contact Info here

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.
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces III
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Charlotte Chan, University of Michigan
Title: Periods identities of CM forms on quaternion algebras
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Dan Berwick-Evans, UIUC
Title: Modular forms, physics, and topology
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Louis Fan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: PDE and stochastic PDE arising from individual-based models
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
János Kollár , Princeton
Title: Lecture series: Rigidity of hypersurfaces IV
Contact Info here

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 03:00pm
Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University
Title: Constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics - existence results
Contact Info here

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
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jayce Getz, Duke University
Title: Summation formulae for triples of quadratic forms
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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

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
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gregory Edwards,
Title: Relative volume comparison along the Kahler-Ricci flow
Contact Info here
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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 4, 2018

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Piotr Pstragowski, Northwestern University
Title: Synthetic spectra and the cellular motivic category
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

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

Monday, July 16, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University
Title: Complex zeros of random polynomials
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Boris Tsygan,
Title: Chern character of a perfect complex
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 1, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Xiaochun Li, UIUC
Title: Recent progress on Schrodinger equations
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Laura DeMarco, Northwestern University
Title: Height pairings and torsion points
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern
Title: Variational calculus in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and general covariance
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Bogdan Georgiev,
Title: Doubling and frequency for harmonic functions
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Megan Bernstein, Georgia Tech
Title: Cutoff with window for the random to random shuffle
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 8, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Bogdan Georgiev,
Title: Nodal geometry: tubular neighbourhoods around nodal sets and inner radii of nodal domains.
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Padmavathi Srinivasan, Georgia Tech
Title: Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Maxime Bergeron,
Title: The Topology (and Arithmetic) of Representation Varieties
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University
Title: Kummer rigidity for K3 surface automorphisms
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Putnam Competition Organizational Meeting
Special Note: Organizational meeting for the Putnam competition.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Eric Friedlander,
Title: The Mathematics of Andrei Suslin
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Nikon Kurnosov, University of Georgia
Title: About Kuga-Satake construction and its generalizations
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Tim Large , MIT
Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Tim Large , MIT
Title: Steenrod operations and the Floer homotopy type
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jianchun Chu,
Title: Geometric estimates for complex Monge-Ampère equations
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Will Perkins, UIC
Title: Algorithmic Pirogov-Sinai theory
Abstract and details available
Special Event Lunt 104, 4pm
Job panel,
Title: Academic job panel for graduate students and post-docs
Contact Info here

Monday, October 15, 2018

Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
Title: Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Algebra Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Yotam Handel, Weizmann Institute
Title: Singularity properties of convolutions of algebraic morphisms and applications
Abstract and details available
Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
Title: Statistical mechanics of the classical Coulomb gas I
Abstract and details available
Bellow Lecture Series Lunt 107, 4:30pm
Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute at NYU
Title: Statistical mechanics of the classical Coulomb gas II
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
No seminar: Bellow Lecture,
Title:
Contact Info here

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 103, 4:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Periodic cyclic complex as a homotopy crystal
Special Note: First talk of Noncommutative geometry seminar
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Putnam Selection Test
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Steve Zelditch,
Title: A relativistic Duistermaat-Guillemin Trace formula
Abstract and details available
The 40th Midwest Probability Colloquium

Monday, October 22, 2018

Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Periodic cyclic complex as a homology crystal, Ii
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Allen Yuan, MIT
Title: The Frobenius in higher algebra
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Florian Richter, Northwestern University
Title: Uniform distribution of polynomial and non-polynomial sequences in nilmanifolds
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Searle Center ,
Title: SIREN Faculty Workshop
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Mihai Fulger, Universiy of Connecticut
Title: Seshadri constants for vector bundles
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Analysis
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
James Pascaleff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Monotone Lagrangians and disk counting
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
James Pascaleff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Wall-crossing formulas for Lagrangian mutations
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Sisi Shen,
Title: Kähler-Ricci flow on manifolds with negative holomorphic sectional curvature
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 29, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Hui Yu, Columbia University
Title: Regularity of optimal transport between planar convex domains
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Cyclic and cyclotomic modules (after Kaledin)
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Renee Bell, University of Penssylvannia
Title: Local-to-Global Extensions for Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
JD Quigley, Notre Dame University
Title: The parametrized Tate construction
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Agnieszka Zelerowicz, Penn State
Title: Equilibrium states in dynamics via geometric measure theory
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Nir Avni,
Title: Words, words, words
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Charles Stibitz, Northwestern
Title: Birational superrigidity and K-stability of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Induction and Recurrences
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Harold Williams, UC Davis
Title: Pretalk
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Harold Williams, UC Davis
Title: Kasteleyn operators from mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Siyi Zhang, Princeton
Title: A conformally invariant gap theorem characterizing complex projective space via the Ricci flow
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00PM
Julian Gold,
Title: 450-$\infty$
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Matt Junge, Duke University
Title: Diffusion-Limited Annihilating Systems
Abstract and details available

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Special Event Lunt 105, 10am
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Title: Mini-conference on Topological cyclic homology
Abstract and details available

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Special Event Lunt 105, 10am
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Title: Mini-conference on Topological cyclic homology
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 5, 2018

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan , Northwestern University
Title: Cyclotomic modules (after Kaledin) Ii
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Daniil Rudenko, University of Chicago
Title: Non-Euclidean tetrahedra and rational elliptic surface
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Myrto Mavraki, Northwestern University
Title: Equidistribution and preperiodic points for families of rational maps
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Steven D. Miller ,
Title: Sphere packing, Fourier interpolation, and Universal Optimality
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Wenyuan Li, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges in Combinatorics
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Michele Schiavina, Berkeley
Title: Pre-talk
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Michele Schiavina, Berkeley
Title: Equivalence of gauge theories in the presence of boundaries: insights from General Relativity (there will be a pre-talk at 1pm)
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Emmett Wyman ,
Title: Low-frequency generalized period integrals of eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00PM
Sean Pohorence,
Title: Short time dynamics in spherical p-spin models (450-∞)
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Ruojun Huang, Courant Institute
Title: On some instances of random walk in changing environment
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 12, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Xumin Du,
Title: Schrodinger maximal estimates and refined Strichartz type estimates
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan , Northwestern
Title: Cyclotomic modules, after Kaledin III
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Sungyoon Cho, Northwestern University
Title: The supersingular locus of some unitary Shimura varieties.
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Yan Gao, Sichuan/Northwestern
Title: Introduction to the core entropy theory of complex polynomials
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Vadim Kaloshin,
Title: On integrable billiards, Birkhoff conjecture, and deformational spectral rigidity.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Chuanhao Wei, Stony Brook University
Title: Zeros of log-one-forms and families of log-varieties
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Elton Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: Elementary Math Challenges (miscellaneus)
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Kevin Sackel, MIT
Title: Convex surfaces in contact 3-manifolds
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Kevin Sackel, MIT
Title: Convex contact handle decompositions
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey,
Title: A Liouville theorem for the complex Monge-Ampère equation
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Han Gan, Northwestern
Title: Malliavin calculus (450-∞)
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 19, 2018

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
David Zureick-Brown, Emory University
Title: Progress on Mazur’s program B
Abstract and details available

Wednesday , November 21, 2018

Graduate Student Seminar Locy 110, 10:30am
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Title: 2. Relations among Morse A_\infty-Category, De Rham A_\infty-Category and Fukaya Category
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Locy 110, 12:00pm
Kevin Sackel ,
Title: Open books in contact geometry
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 101 , 3:00pm
John Snadden ,
Title: Bott-Morse Floer theory for toric manifolds
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 101, 4:30pm
Honghao Gao ,
Title: Sheaves for a Legendrian sphere
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Locy 110, 9:00am
Pyongwon Suh ,
Title: The Landau-Ginzburg A-Model M = C^n,W = z_1…z_n
Special Note: Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology
Abstract and details available

Monday, November 26, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Hans Christianson, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Quantum ergodic properties of eigenfunctions on triangles
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Michal Zydor, University of Michigan
Title: Periods of automorphic forms over reductive groups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Osama Khalil, Ohio State University
Title: Divergent Orbits of Homogeneous Flows and Diophantine Approximation.
Special Note: Special time
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Brandon Seward, NYU
Title: Bernoulli shifts and entropy theory
Special Note: Special Location
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Soren Galatius,
Title: Genus g Riemann surfaces, varying in (4g-6)-parameter families.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Yaroslav Khromenkov, Northwestern
Title: Dimensions of triangulated categories and Orlov's conjecture
Abstract and details available
Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Frederick Manners, Stanford
Title: Approximate polynomials, higher order Fourier analysis and placing queens on chessboards
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
Elementary Math Challenges Lunt 104, 6:00pm
Miguel A. Lerma, Northwestern University
Title: Easy Putnam Problems
Special Note: This is a training session for the Putnam Competition
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Honghao Gao, Institut Fourier
Title: An Odyssey of Augmentations
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Honghao Gao, Institut Fourier
Title: Augmentations and sheaves for knot conormals
Special Note: Note the unusual time.
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 104, 2:00PM
Cathy Chen,
Title: Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Equations for Spin Glasses (450-infinity)
Contact Info here

Monday, December 3, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
John Toth,
Title: Pointwise bounds for joint eigenfunctions of quantum completely integrable (QCI) systems
Abstract and details available

Tuesday , December 4, 2018

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Michael Hitrik , UCLA
Title: Spectra for non-selfadjoint operators and integrable dynamics
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Simion Filip, IAS
Title: Discrete groups, Lyapunov exponents, and Hodge theory
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 101, 3:00PM
Han Gan, Northwestern University
Title: Malliavin calculus (450-infinity)
Contact Info here

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Mingyi Zhang, Northwestern
Title: Stable irrational hypersurfaces of small slopes
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 1:00pm
Dmitry Tonkonog, UC Berkeley
Title: Lagrangian tori in Fano manifolds
Special Note: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Dmitry Tonkonog, UC Berkeley
Title: Disk potentials and mirror symmetry
Special Note: Note the unusual time.
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Ilya Khayutin, Princeton
Title: Arithmetic and dynamics on homogeneous spaces
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available

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