Spring 2009 Mathematics Colloquia
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Seminar Calendar
- Friday, January 16, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
- Title: Blocking geodesics in Riemannian manifolds
- Abstract
- Host: Jeremy Tyson
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Michael Zieve, Institute for Advanced Study
- Title: Polynomial mappings
- Abstract
- Host: Iwan Duursma
- Friday, January 23, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Frank Vallentin, CWI Amsterdam
- Title: Optimization in geometry: Kissing and coloring
- Abstract
- Host: Hal Schenck
- Monday, January 26, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Tobias Kaiser, University of Regensburg
- Title: The first order content of the Riemann Mapping Theorem
- Abstract
- Hosts: L. van den Dries, C.W. Henson, S. Solecki
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Mirela Ciperiani, Columbia University
- Title: Genus one curves over the rationals
- Abstract
- Hosts: Kevin Ford
- Friday, January 30, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Vera Mikyoung Hur, MIT
- Title: Dispersive properties of surface water waves
- Abstract
- Hosts: V. Zharnitsky and L. DeVille
- Thursday, February 19, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Allen Knutson, Cornell University
- Title: Why do matrices commute? Algebraic geometry meets statistical mechanics
- Abstract
- Host: Alex Yong
- Thursday, February 26, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Title: Kt minors in large t-connected graphs
- Abstract
- Host: Douglas West
- Thursday, March 5, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: K. Soundararajan, Stanford
- Title: Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory
- Abstract
- Host: Kevin Ford
- Thursday, April 2, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Ilpo Laine, University of Joensuu, Finland
- Title: Tropical Nevanlinna theory and ultradiscrete equations
- Abstract
- Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
- Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
- Title: Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
- Abstract
- Host: Randy McCarthy
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Jayadev Athreya, Yale
- Title: Logarithm laws, Diophantine approximation, and the geometry of numbers
- Abstract
- Host: Chris Leininger
- Thursday, April 16, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
- Title: Quasiconformal Homogeneity of Hyperbolic Manifolds
- Abstract
- Host: Aimo Hinkkanen
- Monday, April 20, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m. -- SPECIAL LECTURE
- Speaker: Karl Schwede, University of Michigan
- Title: Singularities in characteristic zero and singularities in characteristic p
- Abstract
- Host: Tom Nevins
- Thursday, April 23, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Mikael Rordam, University of Copenhagen
- Title: C*-algebras and their invariants
- Abstract
- Host: Marius Junge
- Thursday, April 30, 2009, 245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 p.m.
- Speaker: Philippe Di Francesco, CEA Saclay/University of Illinois
- Title: Integrable Combinatorics
- Abstract
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