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Academic Year 2018-2019

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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

Monday, January 7, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Raju Krishnamoorthy, University of Georgia
Title: Rank 2 local systems and abelian varieties
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Oran Gannot, Northwestern
Title:
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 14, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Yannik Sire, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Title: “ Isoperimetry and extremal metrics on Riemannian manifolds”
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Shahed Sharif, Cal State University San Marcos
Title: Multiparty Key Exchange From Isogenies on Elliptic Curves
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 105, 4:00pm-5pm
Manuel Rivera, University of Miami
Title: The Tate-Hochschild complex and algebraic string operations
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Takumi Murayama, University of Michigan
Title: Fujita-type conjectures and Seshadri constants
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Perry Kleinhenz, Northwestern
Title:
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 18, 2019

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt B9, 04:10pm
Anthony McCormick,
Title: Topological Quantum Field Theory
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 21, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Aaron Pollack, Duke University
Title: Modular forms on exceptional groups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Jeffrey Galkowski, Northeastern
Title: Concentration and Growth of Laplace Eigenfunctions
Special Note: Note special time and date
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
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Title: No Seminar Today
Contact Info here

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard University
Title: The Fundamental Local Equivalence for Quantum Geometric Langlands
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Kyler Siegel, Columbia University
Title: Introduction to symplectic embedding problems and symplectic capacities
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Kyler Siegel, Columbia University
Title: Higher symplectic capacities
Special Note: Note the unusual time and room.
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Abe Rabinowitz, Northwestern
Title: Herman-Kluk Semiclassical Approximation
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Vadim Gorin, MIT
Title: Macroscopic fluctuations through Schur generating functions
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 25, 2019

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Dusty Grundmeier, Harvard
Title: A Few of My Favorite Polynomials
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 28, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Yunqing Tang, Princeton University
Title: Reductions of abelian surfaces over global function fields
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Maria Nastasescu, Brown
Title: The secret life of primes
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jens Kjaer, University of Notre Dame
Title: Unstable $v_1$-periodic homotopy groups through Goodwillie calculus
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Xi Sisi Shen, Northwestern
Title: Kahler-Ricci flow on blowups along submanifolds
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 1, 2019

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Sarah Yeakel, University of Maryland
Title: Social choice and topology
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 4, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Levent Alpoge,
Title: The average number of rational points on odd genus two curves over \Q is bounded.
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Donald Robertson, University of Utah
Title: Uniform distribution of saddle connection lengths
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Special Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Rebecca Patrias, UQAM
Title: Symmetric Functions and Tableau Combinatorics
Special Note: NOTE THE NEW TIME AND ROOM
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Sebastián Olano, Northwestern
Title: Extending holomorphic forms from the regular locus of a complex space
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Emmy Murphy, Northwestern
Title: Weinstein manifolds and wrapped Fukaya categories
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Emmy Murphy, Northwestern
Title: Inductively collapsing wrapped Fukaya categories and flexibility
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Mitchell Faulk, Columbia
Title: Calabi-Yau metrics on asymptotically conical manifolds with prescribed decay rates
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 8, 2019

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Dima Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Topological Periodic Cyclic Homology.
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 11, 2019

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Elden Elmanto, Harvard University
Title: Spaces of algebraic cobordism and derived algebraic geometry
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Dong Chen, Ohio State University
Title: C^r closing lemma for geodesic flows on Finsler surfaces
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Sebastián Olano, Northwestern
Title: Extending holomorphic forms from the regular locus of a complex space II
Contact Info here
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Sara Venkatesh, IAS
Title: Hamiltonian Floer theory and symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Sara Venkatesh, IAS
Title: Symplectic cohomology of subdomains
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 15, 2019

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Grigory Papayanov,
Title: Inequalities for Riemannian surfaces
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Dima Tamarkin, Northwestern University
Title: Topological periodic cyclic homology, 2
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 18, 2019

Department Meeting Lunt 105, 4:00pm
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Title: Math Department Meeting
Special Note: Meeting for permanent faculty (with continuing appointments).
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Eric Chang, Northwestern University
Title: A Sierpinski Mandelbrot spiral
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Laura DeMarco, Northwesern University
Title: Complex dynamics and arithmetic equidistribution
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 2:00pm
Harold Blum, University of Utah
Title: Uniqueness of K-polystable degenerations of Fano varieties
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Oleg Lazarev, Columbia University
Title: Flexibility and rigidity for Weinstein domains
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Oleg Lazarev, Columbia University
Title: Weinstein presentations and K-theory
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Eric Zaslow ,
Title: Dimer models, quantum integrable systems, mirror symmetry, limit shapes and Mahler entropy
Abstract and details available

Monday, February 25, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Giorgeos Moschidis,
Title: A proof of the instability of AdS spacetime
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Nicole Looper, University of Cambridge
Title: Uniform boundedness, equidistribution, and the arithmetic of dynamically small points
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
Title: Langlands functoriality, the converse theorem, and integral representations of L-functions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Algebra Seminar , 11:00am
François Thilmany, UCSD
Title: Lattices of minimal covolume in SL(n,R)
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 102, 10:00am
Nicole Looper, University of Cambridge
Title: Uniform Boundedness Conjecture for polynomials Part 2
Special Note: This is a 2-hour seminar
Abstract and details available
Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Daniel Glasscock, Northeastern University
Title: Dimension of sumsets of restricted digit Cantor sets in the integers
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Damien Gayet, Univ. Grenoble
Title: Percolation and smooth random functions
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4: 10 M
Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
Title: Navigating PU(2) with Golden Gates
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Giulia Saccà, Columbia University
Title: Intermediate Jacobian fibration and wall crossing
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Steve Zelditch,
Title: Nodal intersections and geometric control
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 1, 2019

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt B9, 4:00pm
Perry Kleinhenz,
Title: Quantum Ergodicity: Billiards and Eigenfunctions
Abstract and details available
Special Event Common Room, 05:10pm
Math Graduate Students, Northwestern University
Title: Graduate Student Poster Presentation
Special Note: Wine and cheese will be served!
Contact Info here

Monday, March 4, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Daniel Hast, Rice University
Title: The geometry of the unipotent Albanese map
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Gabe Angelini-Knoll, Michigan State University
Title: Iterated K-theory of the integers and the Greek letter family red-shift conjecture
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes
Title: Front projections and Lagrangian cobordisms
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes
Title: Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds and Lagrangian surgeries
Special Note: Note the unusual time and room.
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey, Northwestern
Title: Lower bounds for the Calabi functional
Abstract and details available

Monday, March 11, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Daniele Valtorta, University of Zurich
Title: Energy quantization for Yang-Mills connections
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Jingwei Xiao, MIT
Title: Endoscopic fundamental lemma for unitary groups and the Jacquet-Rallis transfer
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 102, 11:00am
Olivier Martin, Univ. of Chicago
Title: Measures of Irrationality for Very General Abelian Varieties
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 15, 2019

Graduate Student Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Adam Holeman,
Title: Galois Categories and the Etale Fundamental Group
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Pax Kivimae, Northwestern
Title: Directed Polymers in Random Environment are Diffusive at Weak Disorder
Contact Info here

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Christian Gorski, Northwestern
Title: Asymptotic laws for the spatial distribution and the number of connected components of zero sets of Gaussian random functions
Contact Info here
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Semyon Klevtsov,
Title: Geometry and large N limits in Quantum Hall states
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Khashayar Filom, Northwestern University
Title: Monotonicity of entropy for real quadratic rational maps
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 12:00PM
Julian Gold, Northwestern
Title: Information Percolation And Cutoff For The Stochastic Ising Model
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago
Title: Modular representation theory and representations of Galois groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Nicholas Switala, UIC
Title: Matlis duals and local cohomology
Abstract and details available
Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 105, 1:00pm
Alberto Cattaneo, University of Zurich
Title: An Introduction to the BV-BFV Formalism
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Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Alberto Cattaneo, University of Zurich
Title: Poisson sigma model by cut and paste
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Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Jianchun Chu, Northwestern
Title: Stability of solutions of complex Monge-Ampère equations
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 8, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tristan Collins, MIT
Title: Stability and Nonlinear PDE in mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jeremy Miller, Purdue University
Title: High dimensional cohomology of congruence subgroups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Pierre Flurin, ENS
Title: Gaussian multiplicative chaos and Liouville Quantum Gravity
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Friday, April 12, 2019

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Philip Boalch, Université Paris-Sud
Title: Stokes decompositions and wild monodromy
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 15, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Tamas Darvas, University of Maryland
Title: The isometries of the space of Kahler metrics
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Cathy Chen, Northwestern
Title: Inequalities with Applications to Percolation and Reliability
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Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10PM
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
Title: From Geodesic Flow to Riemannian Brownian Motion
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Ziquan Zhuang, Princeton University
Title: Birational superrigidity and K-stability of complete intersections of Fano index one
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Sisi Shen,
Title: The continuity method for cscK metrics
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 22, 2019

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
Title: Rigidity, the Goodwillie regulator, and the Gauss-Manin connection over p-adic integers.
Abstract and details available
Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Karol Koziol, University of Alberta
Title: Serre weight conjectures for unitary groups
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Han Gan, Northwestern
Title: The continuum random tree
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Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Atilla Yılmaz, Temple University
Title: Homogenization of a class of one-dimensional nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with random potential
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Faculty Meeting Lunt 105, 04:00pm
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
Title: Faculty meeting
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Kenny Ascher, Princeton University
Title: Hyperbolicity of varieties of log general type
Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Special Seminar Swift 107, 11:00am
Gang Liu,
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature lower bound
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Swift 107, 2:30pm
Juncheng Wei​,
Title: $C^{2, \alpha}$ estimates of interfaces for Allen-Cahn equation
Abstract and details available
Special Seminar Swift 107, 4:00pm
Robert McCann,
Title: Displacement convexity of Boltzmann's entropy characterizes positive energy in general relativity
Abstract and details available

Monday, April 29, 2019

Analysis Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Paul Wiegmann,
Title: Attempts to quantize 2D hydrodynamics
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Nick Rozenblyum, University of Chicago
Title: Deformations of Calabi-Yau categories and Poisson structures
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Dylan Wilson, University of Chicago
Title: Spoke algebras in equivariant and chromatic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Hoàng Lê,
Title: Sets of single recurrence and combinatorial number theory
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 12:00PM
Pax Kivimae, Northwestern
Title: Stochastic Burgers and KPZ Equations from Particle Systems
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Thursday, May 2, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gang Liu, Northwestern University
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature lower bound, II
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 6, 2019

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Foling Zou, University of Chicago
Title: Nonabelian Poincare duality in equivariant factorization homology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Howard Masur, University of Chicago
Title: Ergodic theory of interval exchange transformations
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
Title: Dirichlet forms on loop space
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
Title: The (In)Compatibility Of 3 And 5 Dimensional Heisenberg Geometry With Lebesgue Spaces
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Geometry/Physics Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Roger Casals, UC Davis
Title: Contact Submanifolds in Higher-Dimensions
Abstract and details available
Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Gregory Edwards, Notre Dame
Title: The Chern-Ricci flow on primitive Hopf surfaces
Abstract and details available

Monday, May 13, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Izzet Coskun, UIC
Title: The stabilization of the cohomology of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces
Special Note: Joint Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory talk
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Anna Duwenig, University of Victoria
Title: The non-commutative torus and duality
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rick Jardine, Western University
Title: Data and homotopy types
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Dynamical Systems Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Wenbo Sun,
Title: Sarnak's Conjecture for nilsequences on arbitrary number fields and applications
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 103, 2-3:00pm
Andrea D’Agnolo, University of Padova
Title: On the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence
Abstract and details available
Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Christian Gorski, Northwestern
Title: Holder Regularity And Dimension Bounds For Random Curves
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Probability Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00PM
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
Title: Metric X_p inequalities.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Man-Chun Lee, University of British Columbia
Title: Existence of Kahler Ricci flow via non-Kahler approximation
Abstract and details available
Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 103, 1-3:00pm
Andrea D’Agnolo, University of Padova
Title: On the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 17, 2019

Noncommutative Geometry Lunt 107, 3-4:00pm
Andrea D’Agnolo, University of Padova
Title: On the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Pablo Boixeda, MIT
Title: Components, fixed points and cohomology of equivalued affine Springer fibers
Abstract and details available
Trends in Noncommutative Geometry

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Julien Dubedat, Columbia University
Title: Stochastic Ricci Flow on surfaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Semyon Dyatlov ,
Title: What is quantum chaos?
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar Lunt 107, 03:00pm
Nick McCleerey, Northwestern University
Title: Analytic test configurations and geodesic rays
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Yi Gu, Northwestern University
Title: Fourier Transforms with Only Real Zeros
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4 PM
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
Title: Introduction to flexible mathematics: What is the h principle?
Special Note: Pinsky Lecture 3
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Antoni Rangachev, Univ. of Chicago
Title: Local volumes, equisingularity, and generalized smoothability
Abstract and details available
Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4 PM
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
Title: Symplectic flexibility
Special Note: Pinsky Lecture 2
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 31, 2019

Pinsky Lecture Series Lunt 105, 4:00 pm
Yakov Eliashberg ,
Title: How to get rid of singularities
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 3, 2019

Number Theory Lunt 107, 4:00PM
Mihnea Popa, Northwestern
Title: Minimal exponents of singularities
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Anna Marie Bohmann, Vanderbilt University
Title: A multiplicative comparison of Segal and Waldhausen K-theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Probability Seminar Lunt 107, 12:00PM
Yi Gu, Northwestern
Title: Schaeffer bijection and scaling limit of space of quadrangulation.
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Bhargav Bhatt, University of Michigan
Title: Interpolating p-adic cohomology theories
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar Lunt 107, 11:00am
Emanuel Reinecke, Univ. of Michigan
Title: The cohomology of moduli spaces of curves at infinite level
Abstract and details available

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