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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 21
4:00-5:00 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.

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