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**** Monday August 20 (Classes begin) ****
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Thursday August 23
No colloquium
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Thursday August 30
Mohammad Ghomi (Univ. of South Carolina), host: McCuan
Knot energies, unfoldings, and distortion
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Thursday September 6
Andre Zelevinsky (Northeastern University), host: Landsberg
An introduction to cluster algebras
Preparatory lecture Wednesday September 4 by J.M. Landsberg. 3:00 in Room 269
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Thursday September 13
Emilia Mezzetti, host: Landsberg
Focal loci of families of algebraic varieties
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Friday September 14
Marie-Francois Roy (Universite de Rennes, France), host: Basu
Three problems in real algebraic geometry and their applications
Cancelled
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Thursday September 20
Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Tech)
Mushrooms and Generic Behavior of Hamiltonian Systems
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Thursday September 27
Stephan Mohrdiek, host: Landsberg
Isomorphism classes of non-degenerate bilinear
forms and conjugacy classes of O(n)
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Special Colloquium (Note the unusual day.)
Wednesday October 3, 4:30
Robert Finn (Stanford), host: McCuan
Six remarkable properties of capillary surfaces
Preparatory lecture Wednesday October 3 by J. McCuan. 3:00 in Room 269
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Thursday October 11
Chikako Mese (Connecticut College), host: McCuan
A variational construction of the Teichmuller map
Preparatory lecture Wednesday October 10 by J. McCuan. 3:00 in Room 269
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Thursday October 18
Professor Steven Hoffman (University of Missouri, Columbia), host: Lacey
The solution of the square root problem of Kato
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Thursday October 25
Robert Ghrist (Georgia Tech)
Braids and the comparison principle
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Thursday November 1
Joint Mathematics/ACO Lecture
Professor Rekha R. Thomas (University of Washington), host: Duke
An algebraic perspective of group relaxations
in integer programming
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Thursday November 8
Boris Solomyak (University of Washington), host: Wang
Pure point spectrum for aperiodic systems in R^d
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Thursday November 15
Bill Banks (University of Missouri), host: McCuan
Chains of consecutive prime numbers with modest gaps
Preparatory lecture Wednesday November 14 by W.D. Banks. 3:00 in Room 269
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Thursday November 22
HOLIDAY
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Thursday November 29
Alexander Koldobsky (University of Missouri, Columbia), host: Mockenhaupt
Sections of star bodies and the Fourier transform
Preparatory lecture Wednesday November 28 by A. Koldobsky. 3:00 in Room 269
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Thursday December 6
Bertram Kostant (MIT), host: Landsberg
The Weyl algebra and the structure of all Lie
superalgebras of Riemannian type
Preparatory lecture Wednesday December 5 3:00 \in Room 269
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Monday December 10; Final colloquium of Fall semester
Viviane Baladi (CNRS - Inst. des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Host: Bunimovich
Ruelle zeta functions, Lefschetz zeta functions, and spectrum
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