Spring 2007 Mathematics Colloquia

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Jian Song, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Canonical Kähler metrics and the Kähler-Ricci flow

Hosts: S. Alexander, E. Kerman

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Csaba Tóth, MIT

Title: Extremal problems for triangle areas and tetrahedra volumes in Euclidean space

Host: J. Balogh

Friday, January 19, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Nathan Dunfield, California Institute of Technology

Title: Surfaces in finite covers of 3-manifolds: the Virtual Haken Conjecture

Hosts: I. Kapovich and C. Leininger

Monday, January 22, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Ciprian Demeter, University of California at Los Angeles

Title: Breaking the duality in the Return Times Theorem

Hosts: E. Berkson, X. Li

Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Kirsten Eisentraeger, University of Michigan

Title: Hilbert's Tenth Problem for algebraic function fields

Host: I. Duursma, S. Ahlgren

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Thomas Chen, Princeton University

Title: Quantum dynamics in random media and renormalization

Host: V. Zharnitsky

Friday, January 26, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Brian Osserman, University of California at Berkeley

Title: Branched covers of the Riemann sphere and algebraic curves

Host: T. Nevins

Monday, January 29, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Nicholas Proudfoot, Columbia University

Title: Toric and hypertoric combinatorics

Host: E. Lerman

Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Ioan Bejenaru, University of California at Los Angeles

Title: Local and global results for Schroedinger Maps

Host: B. Erdogan

Thursday, February 1, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: On the algebraic K-theory of singularities

Host: D. Grayson

Friday, February 2, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Daniel Groves, California Institute of Technology

Title: Decision problems and curvature in group theory

Host: I. Kapovich

Monday, February 5, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Mihran Papikian, Stanford University

Title: Drinfeld modular varieties and the Weil-Deligne bound

Host: S. Ahlgren

Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Patricia Hersh, Indiana University at Bloomington

Title: Connectivity Bounds in Combinatorics

Hosts: R. Ghrist, B. Reznick

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Robert DeVille, NYU, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Title: Regularity and synchrony in stochastic systems

Host: V. Zharnitsky

Thursday, February 15, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. - CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

Speaker: David Nualart, University of Kansas

Title: The Malliavin Calculus and its applications

Abstract

Host: R. Sowers

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dipendra Prasad, Institute for Advanced Study

Title: Period integrals of automorphic functions and L-values

Abstract

Host: B. Berndt

Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 243 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. (Note the different day and location for this colloquium!)

Speaker: Burglind Juhl-Jöricke, Stockholm University

Title: On polynomial approximation

Abstract

Host: A. Tumanov

Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Special Department Faculty Meeting

Note: This is a special department faculty meeting to discuss the P & T Review Committee's report.

Thursday, March 22, 2007, SPRING BREAK

Thursday, March 29, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Viktor Ginzburg, University of California at Santa Cruz

Title: The Conley conjecture: infinitely many periodic points of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms

Abstract

Host: E. Kerman

Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Peter Newstead, University of Liverpool, UK

Title: 200 years (well almost) of linear systems on Riemann surfaces

Abstract

Host: S. Bradlow

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Vicki Powers, Emory University

Title: The moment problem and real algebraic geometry

Abstract

Host: B. Reznick

Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Henry K. Schenck, Texas A&M, College Station

Title: Geometry, Algebra, and Topology of Hyperplane Arrangements

Host: S. Dutta

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Vladimir Eiderman, (Moscow) visiting University of Kentucky

Title: Cartan type estimates for the Cauchy potential

Abstract

Host: A. Tumanov

Friday, April 13, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Timur Oikhberg, University of California, Irvine

Title: Representations of Banach algebras as algebras of completely bounded maps

Host: F. Boca

Thursday, April 19, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Alexander Razborov, Moscow Steklov Institute and IAS Princeton

Title: A Product Theorem in Free Groups

Abstract

Hosts: P. Schupp and I. Kapovich

Coble Memorial Lectures, April 24-26, 2007

Speaker: I.M. Singer, MIT

Title: Index Theory: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

Thursday, May 3, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Niels Lauritzen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Title: Computational algebra, convex bodies and Frobenius numbers

Abstract

Host: W. Haboush

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