Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Algebra Seminar
Year 2001

Tuesday, January 9, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Wei-Dong Ruan, UIC; Title: Lagrangian torus fibrations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry
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Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Dmirty Arinkin, Harvard University and University of Chicago; Title: Connections with a small parameter on a curve
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Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm: Professor Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Title: Crystalline Differential Operators
Special Note: Note unusual time
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Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Dr Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University and University of Muenster; Title: Perturbations of homotopy types and Mixed Tate Categories
Special Note: Joint algebra/topology talk
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Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor David Eisenbud, MSRI, Berkeley; Title: Chow forms and resultants, old and new
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Tuesday, March 6, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Mikhail Grinberg, Northwestern University; Title: Versal Deformations of Formal Arcs
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Monday, April 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia; Title: Differential graded schemes
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Tuesday, May 1, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Yuri Manin,; Title: The distribution of continued fractions and modular symbols
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Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Professor Christopher Bendel,; Title: Extensions for finite Chevalley groups and Frobenius kernels
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Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Algebra Seminar Tech M349, 2:00pm: Professor Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University; Title: Non-commutative differential calculus and applications
Special Note: Click here to find the location of the talk (enter at front of Tech and go to third floor).
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Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:00pm: Tom Graber, Harvard University; Title: Families of rationally connected varieties
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Tuesday, October 9, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Thomas Wenger, Northwestern University; Title: On analogs of the motivic K(\pi,1)-conjecture for absolute Hodge (resp. etale) cohomology of the generic point of varieties
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Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University; Title: Spanning spaces of modular forms by theta series
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Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Julia Pevtsova, Northwestern University; Title: Support varieties for infinite dimensional modules
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Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Esther Beneish, Northwestern University; Title: Stable rationality of the center of the generic division ring
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Tuesday, November 13, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Christian Serpe, Muenster; Title: On a triangulated category of equivariant motives
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Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Algebra Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Jon Carlson, University of Georgia; Title: Support varieties for modules over Chevalley groups and classical Lie algebras
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