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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
Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Spring Department Faculty Meeting
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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