Colloquium 2006-07

Fall 2006

August 24

August 31

September 7

September 14

September 21

Christoph Hauert (Harvard University)

Evolutionary Dynamics and the Problem of Cooperation

Host: IMS

September 28

Jacob Lurie (Harvard University)

Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Geometry

Host: Nick Kuhn and Greg Arone

October 5

Petronela Radu (University of Nebraska)

Existence and Blow-up for Semilinear Wave Equations

Host: Irena Lasiecka

October 12

Bob Palais (University of Utah)

Modeling and analyzing DNA melting transitions for molecular diagnostics

Host: John Imbrie and the IMS

October 19

Tailgating by football boosters in our parking lot prior to a 7:30 football game: no colloquium

October 26

Nikolai Saveliev (University of Miami)

On the homology cobordism group

Host: Tom Mark

November 2

Alexei Oblomkov (Princeton University)

Gauge/String theory duality

Host: Weiqiang Wang

November 9

Ben Bolker (University of Florida)

Spatial moment equations for the dynamics of ecological systems and the evolution of dispersal shape

Host: IMS

November 16

Stefan Schwede (Bonn and MIT)

Rigidity of the Stable Homotopy Category

Host: Nick Kuhn and Greg Arone

November 23

Thanksgiving break: no colloquium

November 30

V. Lakshmibai (Northeastern University)

Schubert varieties - finite and affine

Host: K.Paramasamy and Weiqiang Wang

December 7

December 14

Richard Weiss (Tufts University)

Affine buildings

Host: Peter Abramenko

Spring 2007

January 11

Kirsten Eisentraeger (University of Michigan)

Hilbert's Tenth Problem for algebraic function fields

Host: Len Scott

January 12 (note: this is a Friday, and the talk will be at 2)

Ivan Shestakov (University of San Paulo)

Representation Types of Jordan Algebras

Host: Kevin McCrimmon

January 16 (Tuesday)

Mikhail Ershov (University of Chicago)

An introduction to Golod-Shafarevich groups

Host: Andrei Rapinchuk

January 19 (Friday)

Jonathan Brundan (University of Oregon)

Symmetric functions, Spaltenstein varieties and the category O

Host: Len Scott

January 23 (Tuesday)

Ioan Bejenaru (UCLA)

Local and global solutions for Schroedinger Maps

Host: Irena Lasiecka

January 25

Mark Shimozono (Virginia Tech)

Kac-Moody Schensted identities and affine Schubert calculus

Host: Weiqiang Wang

January 30 (Tuesday)

David Sherman (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Operator algebras and relative operator theory

Host: Barbara MacCluer

February 1

Matthew Blair (Johns Hopkins University)

Estimates for Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on Bounded Domain

Host: Roberto Triggiani

February 6 (Tuesday)

Abdelmalek Abdesselam (U. Paris 13)

The central limit theorem made complicated

Host: John Imbrie

February 8

Christian Haesemeyer (University of Illinois)

On the algebraic K-theory of singularities

Host: Nick Kuhn

February 15

February 22

Jon Carlson (U Georgia)

Modules of Constant Jordan type

Host: Brian Parshall

March 1

David Russell (Virginia Tech)

Nonlinear systems for highly compressive elasticity simulations

Host: Irena Lasiecka

March 8

Spring Break: no colloquium

March 15

Soren Galatius (Stanford University)

The stable homology of Aut(F_n)

Host: Nick Kuhn and Greg Arone

March 22 (the first talk of the Faulkner/Ward Fest weekend)

Bruce Allison (University of Alberta)

Lie Tori

Host: Kevin McCrimmon

March 29

Ben Raphael (Brown)

Explorations of Cancer Genomes: Mutation, Permutation, and Duplication

Host: Christian Gromoll and the IMS

April 5

Tomoyuki Arakawa (Nara Women's University, Japan)

Quantum BRST reduction and representation theory

Host: Weiqiang Wang

April 12

April 19

Kenneth Koenig (Ohio State University)

Comparing Interior and Boundary Operators in Complex Analysis

Host: Irina Mitrea

April 26

May 3

May 10

Peter Symonds (University of Manchester)

Group actions on polynomial rings

Host: Nick Kuhn

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