Mathematics Colloquia, Spring 2005

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Spring 2005 Mathematics Colloquia

February | March | April | May | Department Seminar Calendar

Tuesday, January 18, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Dylan Thurston, Harvard University; Title: How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?; Abstract

Wednesday, January 19, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Hanfeng Li, University of Toronto; Title: Morita equivalence of noncommutative tori; Abstract

Thursday, January 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University; Title: Stability of periodic solutions in dynamical phase transition models; Abstract

Friday, January 21, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Tommaso de Fernex, University of Michigan; Title: Non-rationality and birational rigidity of algebraic varieties; Abstract

Monday, January 24, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Elena Mantovan, University of California at Berkeley; Title: The role of the geometry of Shimura varieties in the Langlands program; Abstract

Tuesday, January 25, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Thomas Graber, University of California at Berkeley; Title: Generalization's of Tsen's theorem; Abstract

Wednesday, January 26, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Indira Chatterji, Cornell University; Title: The Rapid Decay Property for Groups; Abstract

Thursday, January 27, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Philip Gressman, Princeton University; Title: Endpoint estimates for certain classes of Radon-like operators; Abstract

Friday, January 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Jozsef Balogh, Ohio State University; Title: A Threshold Growth Cellular Automata: Bootstrap Percolation; Abstract

Monday, January 31, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Stefanie Petermichl, Brown University; Title: Bellman functions, averages and singular integrals and a non-technical approach to new techniques; Abstract

Wednesday, February 2, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: David E. Nadler, University of Chicago; Title: Loop spaces and Langlands duality

Friday, February 4, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Christopher Leininger, Columbia University; Title: Quadratic differentials in low dimensional topology; Abstract

Thursday, February 10, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California at Riverside; Title: Representations of Affine Lie algebras; Abstract; Host: Bill Haboush

Thursday, February 17, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina; Title: On Cachazo-Douglas Seiberg-Witten Conjecture for Simple Lie Algebras; Abstract; Host: Bill Haboush

Thursday, March 3, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan; Title: Combinatorics and geometry of some interesting convex bodies

Thursday, March 10, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Sheldon Katz, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Title: Geometry, Duality, and Topological Amplitudes; Abstract

Thursday, March 17, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: CANCELLED DUE TO THE DEATH OF THE SPEAKER'S FATHER; Speaker: Kazuya Tohge, Kanazawa University, Japan

Thursday, March 31, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Spring Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, April 5, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Alexander Varchenko, University of North Carolina; Title: From numbers to q-numbers and to elliptic numbers: the elliptic gamma function

Thursday, April 7, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California at Berkeley; Title: Random surfaces, perfect matchings, and plane partitions; Abstract; Host: Rinat Kedem

Thursday, April 14, KUO-TSAI CHEN CELEBRATION

245 Altgeld Hall

Speakers:

2:00 p.m., Richard Hain, Duke University
"An introduction to Chen's Iterated Integrals"
and
4:00 p.m., Alexander Goncharov, Brown University
"The Hopf algebra of iterated integrals on the complex projective line"

Tuesday, April 19, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Leonid Vainerman, University of Caen, France; Title: The bicrossed product construction for locally compact quantum groups; Abstract; Host: Zhong-Jin Ruan

Wednesday, April 20, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m., SPECIAL LECTURE: Speaker: Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University; Title: Quasiconformal Geometry and its Governing PDEs; Abstract; Host: Aimo Hinkkanen

Thursday, April 21, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Department of Mathematics Student Awards Ceremony

Thursday, April 28, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.: Speaker: Jean-Camille Birget, Rutgers University; Title: On the complexity of the word problem for groups; Abstract; Host: Ilya Kapovich and Paul Schupp

May 3-5, ARTHUR B. COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES: 4:00 p.m.; Speaker: Peter Sarnak, Princeton University; Title: Zeta functions and spectral theory

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

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