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Fall 2004 Mathematics Colloquia

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Thursday, August 26, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Richard W. Kenyon, University of British Columbia
Title: Shapes of crystalline surfaces
Abstract
Host: Richard Sowers

Thursday, September 9, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Fall Faculty Meeting

Thursday, September 16, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Saugata Basu, Georgia Tech
Title: Efficient Algorithms for Computing the Betti Numbers of Semi-algebraic Sets
Abstract
Host: Robert Ghrist

Thursday, September 23, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Liming Ge, University of New Hampshire
Title: Introduction to Free Probablity and Free Entropy
Abstract
Host: Zhong-Jin Ruan

Thursday, September 30, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Laszlo Lempert, Purdue University
Title: Complex Approximation
Abstract
Host: John D'Angelo

Thursday, October 7, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joan Birman, Columbia University and Barnard College
Title: Recognizing the Unknot
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich and Paul Schupp

Thursday, October 14, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Oscar Garcia-Prada, CSIC, Madrid
Title: Moduli spaces of representations
Abstract
Host: Steve Bradlow

Thursday, October 21, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona, Tucson
Title: Fundamental groups, multiple polylogarithms, and Diophantine geometry
Abstract
Host: Anand Pillay

Thursday, October 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Stan Wagon, Macalester College
Title: The SIAM 100-Digit Challege: A contest in high-accuracy numerical computing
Abstract
Host: Alexandr Kostochka and Doug West

Thursday, November 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Martin Barlow, University of British Columbia
Title: Random Walks on Percolation Clusters
Abstract
Host: Renming Song

November 10-12, CAIRNS MEMORIAL LECTURES
4:00 p.m., 245 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Dusa McDuff, SUNY at Stony Brook
Title: Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups
Abstract
Host: Susan Tolman

Thursday, November 18, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
Title: Long-time stability of multidimensional viscous shock fronts, and hyperbolic-parabolic evolution systems
Abstract
Host: Richard Laugesen

Thursday, December 2, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Pavel Bleher, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Title: Double scaling limit in random matrix models and a nonlinear hierarchy of differential equations
Abstract
Hosts: F. Boca and A. Zaharescu

Monday, December 6, 241 Everitt Lab, 12 Noon, SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: William Stein, Harvard University
Title: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular Abelian Varieties at Higher Level
Abstract

Thursday, December 9, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vadim Kaimanovich, CNRS, Rennes, France
Title: Amenability, self-similarity and entropy
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich

Monday, December 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 12 Noon, SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Christian Rosendal, California Institute of Technology
Title: Incomparable and Minimal Banach Spaces

Wednesday, December 15, 245 Altgeld Hall, 12 Noon, SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr, University of Chicago
Title: Resonance Phenomena in Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations

Friday, December 17, 245 Altgeld Hall, 12 Noon, SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago
Title: Stability of Waves in Conservation Laws and Reaction-Diffusion Equations
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