NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT


Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar

Spring 2001

Date Speaker Title
Mar. 26  John Mckay
(visiting Princeton University
A-D-E, the Monster, the Baby, and F24 
Apr. 2 Stefan Schroeer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Unobstructed deformations in characteristic p>0
Apr. 9 Frank Sottile
(University of Massachusetts,
Amherst)
Elementary Transversality in the Schubert Calculus
Apr. 16 Alexander Postnikov
(Berkeley)
 Totally nonnegative grassmannian and networks
Apr. 23 Georg Hein 
(Humboldt University at Berlin, 
visiting Boston University)
Duality between moduli spaces
May 10
(special time)
Harm Derksen
(University of Michigan)
Record-breaking codes
May 14 Joseph Landsberg
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Construction and classification of complex simple Lie algebras  via geometry 
May 21 Vladimir Retakh
(Rutgers University)
Algebra and Combinatorics of Pseudo-roots of Noncommutive Polynomials
May 31
(special time)
Anne Schilling
(MIT)
Virtual crystals 
The Seminar is usually held on Mondays, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in 509 Lake Hall.
For the announcement of a talk, click on the corresponding title.
Here are some directions on how to get to the Seminar.

Seminar organizers

Marc Levine
marc@neu.edu
Misha Kogan
misha@neu.edu
Andrei Zelevinsky 
andrei@neu.edu

Past and Present Seminars

Spring 1998  | Fall 1998  |    Winter 1999   |    Spring 1999   |    Fall 1999  |    Winter 2000  |    Spring 2000  |    Fall 2000  |  Winter 2001
Math Seminars  Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu
Started: April 22, 1998.  Last modified: May 25, 2001 
Math Department  Maintained by: Misha Kogan  URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/GASC/mathindex.html