Department of Mathematics
Northeastern University

Seminars and Colloquia

Calendar of Talks, September-October, 1996

Title of Seminar Organizer
Algebra-Geometry-Singularities Seminar Anthony Iarrobino
Analysis-Geometry Seminar Robert McOwen
Basic Notions Seminar Mikhail Shubin
Caustics Seminar Samuel Blank
Combinatorics Seminar Egon Schulte
Probability and Statistics Seminar Mikhail Malioutov
Singularities Seminar Terence Gaffney


Wednesday, September 25

Combinatorics Seminar:

Speaker:   Alex Suciu (Northeastern University)
Title:   Combinatorics and Topology of Complex Line Arrangements
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Thursday, September 26

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University)
Title:   Quantum Adiabatic Theorem
Speaker:   Alex Suciu (Northeastern University)
Title:   Bounded Cohomology
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Friday, September 27

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   Shunhui Zhu (Dartmouth)
Title:   Constant Mean Curvature Hypersurfaces in Euclidean and Minkowski Space
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Monday, September 30

Probability and Statistics Seminar:

Speaker:   Mikhail Malioutov (Northeastern University)
Title:   Entropy, Types and Exponents of Error Probability of Tests
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Wednesday, October 2

Combinatorics Seminar:

Speaker:   Alexander Postnikov (MIT)
Title:   Deformations of Coxeter Arrangements
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Thursday, October 3

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Alex Suciu (Northeastern University)
Title:   Bounded Cohomology
Speaker:   Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University)
Title:   Quantum Adiabatic Theorem
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Friday, October 4

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University)
Title:   L^2-Holomorphic Functions on Noncompact Manifolds
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Monday, October 7

Algebra-Geometry-Singularities Seminar:

Speaker:   Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University)
Title:   Total Positivity in Schubert Varieties
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall

Probability and Statistics Seminar:

Speaker:   Mikhail Malioutov (Northeastern University)
Title:   Entropy, Types and Exponents of Error Probability of Tests (continued)
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Wednesday, October 9

Caustics Seminar:

Speaker:   Daniel Matei (Northeastern University)
Title:   Invariants for Immersions (after Arnol'd)
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Thursday, October 10

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Liming Ge (MIT)
Title:   Noncommutative Probability and Free Entropy
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Friday, October 11

Combinatorics Seminar:

Speaker:   Erik Mendelsohn (University of Toronto)
Title:   Intercalates (and Other Partial Latin Squares in 4 Cells) Everywhere
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Place: 544 Nightingale Hall

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   Bong Lian (Brandeis University)
Title:   The Large Radius Problem in Mirror Symmetry
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Tuesday, October 15

Algebra-Geometry-Singularities Seminar:

Speaker:   Jun Yang (visiting Northeastern University)
Title:   Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Bloch invariants
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Wednesday, October 16

Caustics Seminar:

Speaker:   Daniel Matei (Northeastern University)
Title:   Invariants for Immersions (after Arnol'd) (continued)
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Thursday, October 17

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Liming Ge (MIT)
Title:   Noncommutative Probability and Free Entropy
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Friday, October 18

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   George Kamberov (U. Mass., Amherst)
Title:   Quaternions, Dirac Spinors, and Prescribing Mean Curvature
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Monday, October 21

Algebra-Geometry-Singularities Seminar:

Speaker:   Michael Johnson
Title:   Varieties with a Numerically Degenerate Higher Secant Variety
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall

Probability and Statistics Seminar:

Speaker:   A. Kushnir (SYNAPSE and Moscow Institute of Theoretical Geophysics)
Title:   Statistical Aspects of Monitoring of Comprehensive Ban Treaty
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Wednesday, October 23

Combinatorics Seminar:

Speaker:   Igor Pak (Harvard)
Title:   Partition identities, bijections and Groebner bases
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall

Caustics Seminar:

Speaker:   Daniel Matei (Northeastern University)
Title:   Invariants for Immersions (after Arnol'd) (continued)
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Thursday, October 24

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University)
Title:   Non-Selfadjoint Quantum Adiabatic Theorem
Speaker:   Alex Suciu (Northeastern University)
Title:   Gromov Norm of Hyperbolic Manifolds
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Friday, October 25

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   John Lott (University of Michigan)
Title:   The Zero-in-the-Spectrum Question
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Monday, October 28

Algebra-Geometry-Singularities Seminar:

Speaker:   Nicolae Gonciulea (Northeastern University)
Title:   Singular Loci of Ladder Determinantal Varieties
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall


Tuesday, October 29

Analysis-Geometry Seminar:

Speaker:   Walter Strauss (Brown)
Title:   Breathers as Harmonic Maps
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall
Comments: You are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Meet at 445 LA at 1 pm.


Wednesday, October 30

Combinatorics Seminar:

Speaker:   Ludwig Danzer (University of Dortmund)
Title:   SCD, a space-filler of 3-space with some surprising properties
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall

Caustics Seminar:

Speaker:   Daniel Matei (Northeastern University)
Title:   Invariants for Immersions (after Arnol'd) (continued)
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 544 Nightingale Hall


Thursday, October 31

Basic Notions Seminar:

Speaker:   Boris Khesin (University of Toronto)
Title:   Leray residues vs. Stokes formula
Time: 1:15-2:45 pm
Place: 509 Lake Hall

Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Mathematics Colloquium:

Speaker:   Friedrich Knop (Rutgers University)
Title:   Symmetric via non-symmetric polynomials
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Place: Northeastern University, 300 Richards Hall

Math Department Directory Faculty Seminars

Created: December 22, 1996
Comments or corrections to: alexsuciu@neu.edu