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Spring 2006 Mathematics Colloquia

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Jason M. Starr, MIT
Title: Solutions of families of polynomial equations
Host: S. Katz
Thursday, January 19, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Evgueni Tevelev, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Modular, log canonical, and tropical compactifications
Host: S. Katz
Friday, January 20, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Sergiy A. Merenkov, University of Michigan
Title: Uniformization and Rigidity in Conformal Geometry
Hosts: J.-M. Wu and J. Tyson
Monday, January 23, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Lenhard L. Ng, Stanford University
Title: Contact geometry, holomorphic curves, and topology
Hosts: E. Kerman and G. Francis
Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Benjamin B. Brubaker, Stanford University
Title: Understanding multiple Dirichlet series
Hosts: S. Ahlgren
Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Shortwave instabilities of ideal fluid and the cocycle theory
Host: V. Zharnitsky
Thursday, January 26, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Ismar Volic, University of Virginia
Title: Calculus of the embedding functor and spaces of knots
Host: R. McCarthy
Friday, January 27, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Denis V. Osin, City College of CUNY
Title: Relatively hyperbolic groups and 3-dimensional topology
Host: P. Schupp
Monday, January 30, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Antoine Mellet, University of Texas at Austin
Title: On the homogenization of some free boundary problems
Hosts: R. Sowers and E. Kirr
Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Kartik A. Prasanna, UCLA
Title: Elliptic curves, quadratic twists and L-values
Host: B. Berndt
Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Peter A. Storm, Stanford University
Title: Topological lower volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Hosts: R. Ghrist and C. Leininger
Friday, February 3, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Alfred R. Dolich, McMaster University
Title: Model Theory Associated to Planar Vector Fields
Host: C.W. Henson
Friday, February 10, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Shane Ross, University of Southern California
Title: New Methods in Celestial Mechanics and Space Mission Design
Hosts: Rich Sowers and Rob Ghrist
Monday, February 13, 2006, 341 Altgeld Hall, 1:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Olga Radko, UCLA
Title: Isomorphisms and Morita equivalencies of Poisson manifolds
Host: Ely Kerman
Monday, February 13, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. --SPECIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
Title: Free Entropy Dimension for Groups
Thursday, March 2, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Stephen Buckley, National University of Ireland at Maynooth
Title: Ends of metric measure spaces and Sobolev inequalities
Host: Jeremy Tyson
Abstract
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
Title: A Coupling and the Darling - Erdos Conjectures
Abstract
Host: R. Song
Thursday, March 23, 2006, SPRING BREAK
Thursday, April 6, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida
Title: Orthogonal Polynomials, Discriminants, and Electrostatic Equilibrium Problems
Abstract
Host: B. Berndt
COBLE MEMORIAL LECTURES, April 11-13, 2006, 314 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Efim Zelmanov, University of California at San Diego
Abstract
Host: Paul Schupp
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: M. Cranston, University of California, Irvine
Title: Intermittency and the parabolic Anderson model.
Abstract
Host: R. Sowers
Thursday, April 27, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Juha Heinonen, University of Michigan
Title: Bi-Lipschitz parametrizations of metric spaces and smoothability of topological manifolds
Abstract
Host: Jang-Mei Wu
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Victor Ginzburg , University of Chicago
Title: Noncommutative geometry of symplectic resolutions
Abstract
Host: William Haboush

Coming in Fall 2006:

Thursday, August 31, 2006, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: M. Fukushima
Title: TBA
Host: Renming Song
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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