Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
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Academic Year 2003-2004
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Friday, September 5, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Prof. P. Tabeling, Ecole Superieure de Pysique et Chimie Industrielles and Ecole Normale Superieure
- Title: What Can Be Learned from Microfluidics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor ,
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Emma Carberry, M.I.T.
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Thursday, September 25, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
- Title: Affine Manifolds for Mirror Symmetry
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Cheolhyun Cho, Northwestern University
- Title: Floer cohomology and disc instantons of Lagrangian torus fibers in Fano toric manifolds
Abstract and details available
Monday, September 29, 2003
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jens Hornbostel, University of Regensburg
- Title: Bott periodicity and motivic homotopy groups of spheres
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 2, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Naichung Conan Leung, University of Minnesota
- Title: Instantons and Lagrangians on manifolds with vector cross product
Contact Info here
Monday, October 6, 2003
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Anders Linner, Northwestern University
- Title: A closer look at closed geodesics in S^2(g): rescheduled for October 13
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 9, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Cheolhyun Cho, Northwestern University
- Title: Floer cohomology and disc instantons of Lagrangian torus fibers in Fano toric manifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 10, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Yuri Manin, Northwestern University
- Title: Diophantine Equations of Degree 3: Case of Cubic Surfaces
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Igal Szleifer, Purdue University
- Title: Kinetics of protein adsorption: multi-scale approach for bridging time scales
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Saturday, October 11, 2003
First Chicago Area PDE Workshop
Monday, October 13, 2003
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Anders Linner, Northwestern University
- Title: A closer look at closed geodesics in S^2(g), continued
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 16, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. P. Huerre, Ecole Polytechnique
- Title: Self-sustained oscillatory states in shear flows: linear and nonlinear selection mechanisms
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Paul Seidel, University of Chicago
- Title: Homological mirror symmetry for the quartic surface
Contact Info here
Friday, October 17, 2003
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Howard Weiss, Pennsylvania State
- Title: Remarkable Dynamics of an Overcompensatory Leslie Population Model
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 20, 2003
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Anders Linner, Northwestern University
- Title: A closer look at closed geodesics in S^2(g), continued
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. H. Levine, Iowa State Univ.
- Title: A blow-up conjecture of Nagai chemotaxis
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Peter Symonds, UMIST
- Title: Group Actions on Algebraic Varieties
Contact Info here
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Danny Calegari , Caltech
- Title: Loose ends in the theory of planar groups
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 23, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Sema Salur, Northwestern University
- Title: Asymptotically Cylindrical Coassociative Submanifolds
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor William P. Ziemer, Indiana University
- Title: The Co-Area Formula in Metric Spaces
Special Note: Joint with Analysis Seminar
Contact Info here
Friday, October 24, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Sigurdur Helgason, MIT
- Title: The Non-Euclidean World, History, Geometry and Analysis
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Herman Makse, City College of the City University of New York
- Title: Thermodynamics of Jammed Matter
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 27, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Andras Vasy, MIT
- Title: Scattering theory on symmetric spaces and for N-body Hamiltonians
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Igor Rivin, Temple University
- Title: Walks on groups and graphs
Contact Info here
Thursday, October 30, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Bryna Kra, Penn State
- Title: Non-conventional ergodic averages
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 31, 2003
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Erik Luijten, University of Illinois
- Title: How to Stabilize Colloidal Suspensions? Application of a New Algorithm for Complex Fluids
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 3, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. D. Olagunju, Univ. of Delaware
- Title: Non-isothermal viscoelastic torsional flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
, 3:00pm
- Professor Dan Freed, University of Texas at Austin
- Title: Cubic forms, differential cohomology, and M-theory.
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dan Dugger, University of Oregon
- Title: Axial maps and the Hurwitz problem in characteristic p
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 6, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Emma Carberry , MIT
- Title: Special Lagrangian T^2-cones in C^3
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 7, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor John Loftin, Rutgers University Newark
- Title: Degenerate Semi-Flat Calabi-Yau Metrics on S^2.
Special Note: Special Friday Seminar
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Malcolm MacIver, Northwestern University
- Title: Congruence of sensing and locomotor volumes in an omnidirectional animal
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 10, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. H. Wong, LSU
- Title: A slope-dependent disjoining pressure for nonzero contact angles: derivation and application
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Kari Ragnarsson, MIT
- Title: Transfers and p-local finite groups
Contact Info here
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Dafermos, MIT
- Title: The Analysis and Geometry of Black Holes, Price's law, and the Cosmic Censorship Conjectures
Contact Info here
Thursday, November 13, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Melissa Chiu-Chu Liu, Harvard
- Title: Virtual fundamental classes and virtual localization in open Gromov-Witten theory
Special Note: Note special day, time.
Abstract and details available
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:15pm
- Professor Anda Degeratu , Duke University
- Title: Geometrical McKay Correspondence
Special Note: Seminar will be held at 4:15, later than usual.
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Laurence Nedelec, Rouen
- Title: Spectrum of the non-self-adjoint harmonic oscillator
Contact Info here
Friday, November 14, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford
- Title: Positive scalar curvature and Poincare-Einstein fillings
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Charles R. Doering, Department of Mathematics and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
- Title: The stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscunov equation,
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. A. Class, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
- Title: Flames in inhomogeneous mixtures as gasdynamic discontinuities
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Viorel Costeanu, MIT
- Title: On the 2-typical de Rham-Witt complex
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Madhav Nori, University of Chicago
- Title: Motives and Galois theory
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor David Fisher, Lehman College
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 104, 3:00pm
- Professor Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
- Title: The Dirichlet to Neumann map and boundary rigidity
Special Note: Note special time.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 20, 2003
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: Deformation of coisotropic submanifolds and strongly homotopy Lie algebroids
Contact Info here
Friday, November 21, 2003
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Robert Clewley, Boston University
- Title: Multiple scale analysis and local models generate low-dimensional maps
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 24, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. M. Mineev, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
- Title: New experimental and theoretical advances in 2D viscous fingering
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Michael Sullivan, Southern Illinois University
- Title: G-weighted flow equivalence
Contact Info here
Monday, December 1, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion
- Title: Long wave pattern formation
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
Friday, December 5, 2003
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Gang Tian, MIT
- Title: Geometry of Complex Monge-Ampere Equations
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Nikos V. Mantzaris, Rice University Chemical Engineering Department, , Houston, TX
- Title: A Computational Study of the Signal Transduction Mechanisms and Wave Propagation in Astrocytic Glial Cells
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, December 8, 2003
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. E. Knobloch, U. Calif.
- Title: Nearly inviscid Faraday Waves
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Michael Finkelberg , Independent Moscow University
- Title: Equivariant (K-)homology of affine Grassmannian and Toda lattice
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 107, 2-4pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern University
- Title: Algberaic geometry of formal groups and stable homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Friday, January 9, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- H.-G. Purwins, University of Muenster, Germany
- Title: Dissipative solitons in physical systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 12, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. A. Rucklidge, U. Leeds
- Title: Boundary Effects and the Onset of Taylor Vortices
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105 , 4:10pm
- Professor Mihalis Dafermos, MIT
- Title: A proof of Price's law and the problem of stability for black holes
Special Note: Special Time
Contact Info here
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 107, 2-4pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern
- Title: Formal groups and homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 15, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Izzet Coskun, Harvard University
- Title: Characteristic Numbers For Surfaces
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 16, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Jeff Moehlis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Title: The Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 19, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. F. Bloom, Northern Illinois University
- Title: Modeling Pulse Combustor Driven Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Enhancement
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Y. Eliashberg, Stanford University
- Title: Deformation of Stein Manifolds
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:30pm
- Max Lieblich, MIT
- Title: Moduli of Twisted Sheaves and Azumaya Algebras
Special Note: special time
Abstract and details available
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 107, 2-4pm
- Professor Goerss, Northwestern
- Title: The algebraic geometry of formal group laws and stable homotopy theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 22, 2004
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Walter Craig, McMaster University
- Title: Hamiltonian PDE and Small Divisors
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 23, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Walter Craig, McMaster University
- Title: Traveling Water Waves
Abstract and details available
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- C. McKinstrie, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
- Title: Phase jitter in soliton communication systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Cleopatra Christoforou, Brown University
- Title: Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws by Vanishing Viscosity
Contact Info here
Monday, January 26, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Note unusual location: Tech M345, 4:00PM
- Prof. M. Short, UIUC
- Title: Structure and Dynamics of Flames in Microchannels
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue-Calumet and Northwestern
- Title: Multicategories in K-theory and stable homotopy
Contact Info here
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 107, 2-4pm
- No speaker,
- Title: Discussion
Contact Info here
Thursday, January 29, 2004
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Dr. Ionel Popescu, MIT
- Title: Morse Inequalities, a Probabilistic View
Contact Info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Paul Horja, University of Michigan
- Title: Hypergeometric functions and homological mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available
Friday, January 30, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- none, none
- Title: no seminar due to NSF site visit of the IGERT program
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 2, 2004
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Kazufumi Shimano, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Title: Viscosity solutions for a class of infinite systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and their diffusion limit
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. M. Glicksman, RPI
- Title: Topological Analysis of Network Structures in 3D
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Vahagn Minasian,
- Title: Splitting criteria for algebras over operads
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
- Representation Theory Seminar
Lunt 107, 2-4pm
- Professor Matt Emerton, Northwestern
- Title: The local Langlands conjecture and the Carayol conjecture
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor ,
- Title: Ricci Flow and the Poincare's Conjecture
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor ,
- Title: Ricci Flow and the Poincare's Conjecture
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 5, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Lawrence Ein, UIC
- Title: Space of arcs and singularity of pairs
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Plamen Stefanov, Purdue
- Title: Boundary rigidity of Riemannian manifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 6, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- R. Morimoto, Northwestern University
- Title: The Biological Response to the Stress of Misfolded Proteins: Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 9, 2004
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Richard Sowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title: Random perturbations of certain flows on the torus
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Y. Lvov, RPI
- Title: Energy Spectra in the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 12, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Nero Budur, Johns Hopkins University
- Title: Different views on singularities
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Zhongmin Qian, Northwestern University & Universite Paul-Sabatier (France)
- Title: Ricci Flow and the Poincare's Conjecture
Contact Info here
Friday, February 13, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Tom Solomon, Bucknell University
- Title: Reaction-advection-diffusion systems with chaotic advection
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 16, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. C. Muratov, NJIT
- Title: Transmission of Autocrine Signals in Epithelial Layers: Modeling and Analysis
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Prof. Geoffrey Powell, University of Paris 13
- Title: Unstable Modules Revisited
Contact Info here
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
- PDE Seminar
ECE Conference Room L324, 3: 00 pm
- Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
- Title: Locally Divergence-Free Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Special Note: Joint seminar with ECE; special time and place
Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 19, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Yuan-Pin Lee,
- Title: Invariance of tautological equations and Gromov-Witten theory
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 20, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Ute Ebert, CWI Amsterdam
- Title: Branching sparks --- the dynamics of electric breakdown
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 23, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. A. Neimark, Princeton University
- Title: Statistical Mechanics and Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase Transformations and Nucleation in Nanoconfined Fluids
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Alina Marian, Harvard University
- Title: Intersection theory on the moduli space of stable bundles
Abstract and details available
Tuesdat, February 24, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Alexander Braverman, Brown University
- Title: Counting Instantons via affine Lie algebras
Contact Info here
Thursday, February 26, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Osamu Fujino, Nagoya University & IAS
- Title: Toric Mori theory
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Hailiang Liu, Iowa State University
- Title: Computing Multi-Valued Physical Observables for the Schroedinger Equation
Contact Info here
- Special Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00 pm
- Heather Lehr, University of Texas
- Title: Modeling Flow in Vuggy Porous Media
Abstract and details available
Friday, February 27, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston
- Title: How to Find out when Bones may Break
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 1, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. A. Kapila, RPI
- Title: Nonplanar Detonations in High-Energy Explosives
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Friday, March 5, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Alex Gaeta, Cornell University
- Title: Nonlinear Wave Collapse of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 8, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. A. Povitsky, U. Akron
- Title: Fluid Dynamics Issues in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
- PDE Seminar
Tech M120, 1:00 pm
- Professor Chuck Gartland, Kent State University
- Title: "Numerical Modeling of Periodic Structures in Liquid Crystal Films"
Special Note: Joint with Mechanical Eng. Special time and place
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor William Goldman, University of Maryland
- Title: Flat Lorentz 3-Manifolds and 2-Dimensional Hyperbolic Geometry
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 3pm
- Professor Mark Williams, University of North Carolina
- Title: The small viscosity limit for multidimensional shocks I
Abstract and details available
Thursday, March 11, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Dr. Anna Talitskaya, Penn State
- Title: Ergodicity and Hyperbolicity in Dynamical Systems
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Mark Williams, University of North Carolina
- Title: The small viscosity limit for multidimensional shocks II
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 12, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Mark Newman, University Of Michigan
- Title: Community structure in complex networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Mark Williams, University of North Carolina
- Title: The small viscosity limit for multidimensional shocks III
Abstract and details available
Monday, March 15, 2004
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University
- Title: Critical points of smooth processes and suprema distributions
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Andrei Caldararu, University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Desigularizing stable singularities: an example of Vafa and Witten
Special Note: special date
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Roman Grigoriev, Georgia Tech
- Title: Chaotic mixing in microdroplets: theory and experiment
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. K. K. Tung, Univ. of Washington
- Title: On 2D and QG Turbulence
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
- Title: On the regularity of potentials in optimal transportation
Contact Info here
Monday, March 29, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. C. Cui, Northwestern University
- Title: Flame Propagation in Channels: Effects of Heat Loss and Differential Diffusion
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Richard Melrose, MIT
- Title: Index, determinant bundle and loop groups
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 2, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4.00pm
- Professor Anton Kapustin, Department of Physics, Caltech
- Title: Coisotropic submanifolds and mirror symmetry
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Steven T. Cundiff, JILA, NIST
- Title: Pulse dynamics in modelocked lasers
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 5, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. J. Choi, Northwestern University
- Title: Effect of Lean Premixed Combustion on Near-Critical Swirling Flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Tony Elmendorf, Northwestern and Purdue-Calumet
- Title: Introduction to spectra
Contact Info here
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Fred J. Hickernell, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Title: Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Numerical Integration of Multivariate Functions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 8, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Anton Kapustin, Department of Physics, Caltech
- Title: Non-commutative Geometry, Generalized Complex Structures and D-Branes
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 9, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Michael Brenner, Harvard University
- Title: Packing spheres with capillary forces
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 12, 2004
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Paul Goerss, Northwestern
- Title: What is tmf?
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy
- Title: Homotopy invariance in algebra I
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 15, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Tommaso de Fernex, U. Michigan
- Title: String-theoretic Chern classes of singular varieties
Contact Info here
Friday, April 16, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin
- Title: Spatiotemporal dynamics of intracavity second harmonic generation:
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Neil Trudinger, Australian National University
- Title: On the regularity of potentials in optimal transportation
Contact Info here
Monday, April 19, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. D. Luss, Univ. of Houston
- Title: Transversal temperature patterns on top of packed bed reactors
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Andrew Blumberg, University of Chicago
- Title: S^1 equivariant infinite loop space theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Vadim Vologodsky, University of Chicago
- Title: Nonabelian Hodge theory in characteristic p
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Kari Vilonen, NU
- Title: Topology of algebraic varieties and the Langlands program
Abstract and details available
Thursday, April 22, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 2:45pm
- Professor Anatoly Libgober, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Title: McKay correspondence for elliptic genera.
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 3:00pm
- Professor Giovanni Forni, Northwestern
- Title: Weak mixing for suspensions of interval exchange transformations
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Percy Deift, Courant Institute
- Title: Universality for mathematical and physical systems
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 23, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois
- Title: Optimal coordination in robotics
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, April 26, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. I. Epstein, Brandeiss Univ.
- Title: Chemistry in very small spaces: Pattern formation in microemulsions
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Jeff Strom, Western Michigan
- Title: A-Complexity and Good Spaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy
- Title: Homotopy invariance in algebra II
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research
- Title: The densest lattice in twenty-four dimensions
Contact Info here
Thursday, April 29, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Jean-Yves Welschinger , MSRI, École normale supérieure de Lyon
- Title: Enumerative invariants of simple antibirational involutions on symplectic\r\n4-manifolds
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 30, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer, Bell Labs
- Title: Ultra-Long-Haul Dense WDM with Dispersion-Managed Solitons: The paradox of best performance from this most nonlinear of transmission modes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
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Monday, May 3, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. S. Abarzhi, Stanford Univ.
- Title: Nonlinear evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable fluid interface
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University
- Title: Lie theory for differential graded Lie algebras
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitry Kaledin, Steklov Institute
- Title: Mckay equivalence for symplectic quotient singularities.
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 6, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:00pm
- Professor Chenchang Zhu, Berkeley
- Title: Integrating Lie algebroids via stacks
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 7, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Robert Behringer, Duke University
- Title: Science in the Sandbox: Forces and Flucutations in Granular Materials
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Saturday, May 8, 2004
- PDE Seminar
Eckhart Hall 206, University of Chicago, 10:00am
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- Title: Second Chicago-Area PDE Workshop
Special Note: Workshop schedule can be found at: http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~gqchen/pde04a/index.html
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 10, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. V. Entov, Russian Acad. Sci.
- Title: Mathematics of enhanced oil recovery: Models, advances and open issues
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Matt Ando, University of Illinois
- Title: Two constructions of E_\infty complex orientations of p-adic K-theory
Contact Info here
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Dmitry Tamarkin, Northwestern University
- Title: Renormalization from the homotopy theoretical point of view
Contact Info here
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
- Title: Topological quantum computation
Contact Info here
Friday, May 14, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Jerry Gollub, Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Internal Structure of Granular Shear Flows*
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 17, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University
- Title: Passive and Active Array Imaging in Clutter
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University
- Title: High Capacity Communication Systems in Complex Environments
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Don Davis, Lehigh University
- Title: Stable Geometric Dimension
Contact Info here
Friday, May 21, 2004
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Kevin Bassler, University of Houston
- Title: The Evolution of Developmental Canalization in Networks of Competing Boolean Nodes
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Tom Bridgeland, Edinburgh
- Title:
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Geometry and Topology of String Theory
Contact Info here
Monday, May 24, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Geometry and Topology of String Theory
Contact Info here
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. T. Jackson, Univ. of Illinois
- Title: Recent advances in the numerical simulation of composite solid propellant combustion
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
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- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Maury Bramson, University of Minnesota
- Title: Tightness for the minimum displacement of branching random walk and some other old problems
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Nick Kuhn , University of Virginia
- Title: The periodic homology of infinite loopspaces
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Geometry and Topology of String Theory
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- Algebra Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Elena Mantovan, Berkeley
- Title: Moduli spaces of Barsotti-Tate groups with relation to the local Langlands correspondences
Abstract and details available
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Geometry and Topology of String Theory
Contact Info here
Thursday, May 27, 2004
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Geometry and Topology of String Theory
Contact Info here
Friday, May 28, 2004
- Algebra Seminar
Garrett, All day
- ,
- Title: Emphasis Year Conference - Workshop on noncommutative geometry and mirror symmetry
Contact Info here
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Joceline Lega, U. Arizona
- Title: Instability of local deformations of an elastic filament
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=93">Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, May 31, 2004
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. V. Entov, Russian Acad. Sci.
- Title: Mathematics of enhanced oil recovery: Models, advances and open issues
Special Note: More current information may be available at http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/public/calendar.cgi?id=92">Plan-it Purple
Contact Info here
Friday, June 4, 2004
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor K. C. Chang, Peking University and University of Wisconsin
- Title: "Heat flow of the Plateau Problem for minimal surfaces"
Contact Info here
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Georg Biedermann, Bonn/UWO
- Title: Interpolation categories for homology theories
Contact Info here
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor ,
- Title: Testing
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor ,
- Title: te
Abstract and details available
- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Math,
- Title: Test
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- Dynamical Systems Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Someone,
- Title: Someting
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- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
- Title:
Contact Info here
- Analysis and Probability Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Professor Sundar Sethuraman, Iowa State University
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:00pm
- Professor Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
- Title: TBA
Contact Info here
- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University- Calumet
- Title: TBA
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- PDE Seminar
Lunt 105, 4:10pm
- Colin Guillarmou, Purdue
- Title:
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- Topology Seminar
Lunt 104, 4:10pm
- Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet
- Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories
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