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Spring 2004 Mathematics Colloquia

February   |  March   |  April  |  May

Monday, January 12, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Gregory Smith, Barnard College, Columbia University
Title: Orbifold Cohomology of Toric Stacks
Abstract
Tuesday, January 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University
Title: Hypergeometric systems after Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky and their cohomological properties
Abstract
Tuesday, January 13, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Mireille Boutin, Purdue University
Title: Which point configurations are reconstructible from the distribution of their pairwise distances?
Abstract
Wednesday, January 14, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Nitya Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Topology of Infinite Dimensional Groups
Abstract
Thursday, January 15, 245 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Thomas Weston, Amherst College
Title: Families of Galois representations
Abstract
Thursday, January 15, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Govind Menon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Dynamic Scaling in Models of Coalescence
Abstract
Friday, January 16, 245 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Irina Mitrea, Cornell University
Title: On the Spectral Radius Conjecture in Two Dimensions
Abstract
Friday, January 16, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: M. Burak Erdogan, University of California at Berkeley
Title: Distance set problem and weighted Fourier extension estimates
Abstract
Tuesday, January 20, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Anton Malkin, MIT
Title: Hall algebras, quiver varieties, and generalized Schur-Weyl duality
Abstract
Tuesday, January 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan
Title: Soliton equations and algebraic geometry
Abstract
Wednesay, January 21, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Diane Maclagan, Stanford
Title: Toric Hilbert schemes
Abstract
Thursday, January 22, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon
Title: Etale homotopy theory and the Hurwitz sums-of-squares problem
Abstract
Friday, January 23, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Romyar Sharifi, Max Planck Institute of Mathematics
Title: The various faces of a pairing on p-units
Abstract
Monday, January 26, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Seattle
Title: Face numbers of simplicial manifolds
Abstract
Tuesday, January 27, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Marek Biskup, UCLA
Title: Graph distance in long-range percolation models
Abstract
Tuesday, January 27, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Martin Olsson, MIT
Title: Monodromy and Algebraic Stacks
Abstract
Wednesday, January 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Malabika Pramanik, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: On sets defined by polynomial inequalities
Abstract
Thursday, January 29, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Piotr Hajlasz, Warsaw University, Poland
Title: Sobolev mappings between manifolds and matric spaces
Abstract
Thursday, January 29, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Ely Kerman, SUNY at Stony Brook
Title: Floer homology, periodic orbits and symplectic topology
Abstract
Friday, January 30, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Xiaochun Li, UCLA
Title: Hilbert transform along C1+ε vector field
Abstract
Thursday, February 19, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Heegaard splittings, the curve complex, and hyperbolic geometry
Abstract
Thursday, February 19, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Laszlo Lovasz, Microsoft
Title: Graph homomorphisms, statistical physics, and quasirandom graphs
Abstract
Host: Alexandr Kostochka
Thursday, February 26, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Anthony To-Ming Lau, University of Alberta
Title: A separation property of positive definite functions on locally compact groups
Abstract
Host: Zhong-Jin Ruan
Thursday, March 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota
Title: Random walks in Random Environments
Abstract
Host: Richard Sowers
Thursday, March 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Spring Faculty Meeting
Tuesday, March 16, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Joseph Landsberg, Georgia Tech
Title: What are exterior differential systems good for?
Abstract
Coble Memorial Lectures
March 16-18, 4:00 p.m.
David Eisenbud, Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Aspects of Elimination Theory
David Eisenbud is Director of MSRI, President of the American Mathematical Society, and a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
Abstract
Thursday, April 8, 243 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Xuding Zhu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Title: Graph homomorphisms and circular chromatic number
Abstract
Thursday, April 8, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kenneth S. Williams, Carleton University, Ottawa
Title: Elliptic integrals and binary quadratic forms
Abstract
Host: Bruce Berndt
Thursday, April 15, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Uri Srebro, Technion, Isreal
Title: Beltrami equation
Abstract
Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
Thursday, April 22, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. - Lecture cancelled due to illness
Speaker: Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
Thursday, April 29, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Title: Finding invariants of Outer space
Abstract
Host: Ilya Kapovich
Tuesday, May 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
Title: The search for a natural transversally elliptic Dirac operator
Abstract
Hosts: James Glazebrook and Franz Kamber
Friday, May 7, 245 Altgeld Hall, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Charles W. Curtis, University of Oregon
Title: Historical Notes on Emmy Noether's 1932 ICM Lecture on Noncommutative Methods in Number Theory
Abstract
Host: Gerald Janusz
Tuesday, May 11, 245 Altgeld Hall, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker: William Johnson, Texas A & M University
Title: Weakly null sequences in L1
Abstract
Hosts: Denka Kutzarova and Zhong-Jin Ruan

Items for inclusion in the calendar can be submitted via the web on the calendar webpage or by sending an e-mail to Hilda Britt at seminar@math.uiuc.edu.

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