Northeastern University, Department of Mathematics Seminars and Colloquia · Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Colloquium · WPI Math Gazette Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Colloquium JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM Spring 2005 Date Place Speaker Title January 20 Brandeis 317 Goldsmith Manfred Einsiedler University of Vienna Measure Rigidity and Number Theory January 27 Northeastern 509 Lake Bernd Sturmfels Berkeley Algebraic Statistics February 3 MIT Room 2-190 Konstantin Oskolkov Univ. of South Carolina The Schroedinger's density and the Talbot's effect February 10 Northeastern 509 Lake Florian Pop University of Penselvania From topological covers to algebraic numbers February 17 Harvard Science Center D Charles Fefferman Princeton University Whitney's extension problems February 24 Northeastern 509 Lake Michael Taylor Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Identifying a region by how its boundary vibrates: analytical and geometrical aspects March 3 MIT Room 2-190 Clarence Wilkerson Purdue University An overview of the classification program for p-compact groups March 10 MIT Room 2-190 Anatole Katok Penn. State University New developments in differentiable rigidity of orbit structure for actions of higher rank abelian groups March 17 Harvard Science Center D Yasha Eliashberg Stanford University Geometry of contact transformations: orderability vs. squeezing March 24 Harvard Science Center D Sergey Fomin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Catalan combinatorics of arbitrary type March 31 Brandeis 317 Goldsmith Karen Vogtmann Cornell University Automorphisms of Free Groups and Outer space April 7 Harvard Science Center D Joan Birman Columbia University Some open problems about mapping class groups of surfaces April 214:00-5:00 NOTE CHANGE OF TIME Brandeis 317 Goldsmith Walter Neumann Columbia University Complex surface singularities of splice type May 5 MIT Room 2-190 Marco Gualtieri Fields Institute The Colloquium is held on Thursday afternoons. Tea is from 4:00 to 4:30. Talks are from 4:30 to 5:30. Colloquium Organizers Brandeis University Ruth Charney charney@brandeis.edu Harvard University Laurent Berger Andreea Nicoara laurent@math.harvard.edu anicoara@math.harvard.edu MIT Jason Starr András Vasy jstarr@math.mit.edu andras@math.mit.edu Northeastern University Maxim Braverman maxim@neu.edu Colloquium archive Winter-Spring 1998 Fall 1998 Winter-Spring 1999 Fall 1999 Winter-Spring 2000 Fall 2000 Winter-Spring 2001 Fall 2001 Winter-Spring 2002 Fall 2002 Winter-Spring 2003 Fall 2003 Winter-Spring 2004 Fall 2004 Last modified: August 16, 2004 Page maintained by: Maxim Braverman Math Home | People | Undergraduate | Graduate Program | Research | Talks | Resources | Contact Info | Sitemap © 2004 Northeastern University Department of MathematicsURL: www.math.neu.edu
