Kempf Memorial Lectures

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Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mathematics
404 Krieger Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

410-516-7397 Phone
410-516-5549 Fax

Kempf Lectures Series

The math department has initiated a new series of special lectures,
in honor of George Kempf.

Lectures in Fall 2008

James McKernan (MIT)	Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 4:30-5:30 pm Maryland 109	Finite generation of the canonical ring
James McKernan (MIT)	Friday, Oct 10, 2008 2:00-3:00 pm Krieger 413	The cone theorem revisited

Lectures in Spring 2008

János Kollár (Princeton)	Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 4:00-5:00 pm Krieger 302	Which Powers of Holomorphic Functions are Integrable
János Kollár (Princeton)	Thursday, Mar 6, 2008 4:00-5:00 pm Krieger 302	Diophantine Subsets of Function Fields of Curves
János Kollár (Princeton)	Friday, Mar 7, 2008 10:30-11:15 am Krieger 413	Which Powers of Holomorphic Functions are Integrable: Part II

Lectures in Fall 2007

Valery Alexeev (UGA)	Monday, Dec 3, 2007 4:30-5:30 pm Krieger 308	Canonical Limits of Varieties
Valery Alexeev (UGA)	Monday, Dec 4, 2007 4:30-5:30 pm Krieger 308	Tropical Geometry Versus Classical Geometry
D.H. Phong (Columbia)	Monday, Nov 5, 2007	Stability and Constant Scalar Curvature Part I
D.H. Phong (Columbia)	Tuesday, Nov 6, 2007	Stability and Constant Scalar Curvature Part II
Lars Hesselholt (MIT)	Monday, October 8, 2007	Homeomorphisms of Manifolds and Algebraic K-theory
Lars Hesselholt (MIT)	Tuesday, October 9, 2007	The absolute de Rham-Witt Complex and the Fundamental Theorem
Lars Hesselholt (MIT)	Wednesday, October 10, 2007	Introduction to algebraic K-theory

Lectures in Spring 2007

Kazuhiro Fujiwara	Tuesday, April 3, 2007	COUNTING THE NUMBER OF SOLUTIONS IN FINITE FIELDS
Kazuhiro Fujiwara	Wednesday, April 4, 2007	GALOIS REPRESENTATIONS AND ARITHMETIC GEOMETRY OF SHIMURA VARIETIES

Ravi Vakil	Thursday, February 22, 2007	A GEOMETRIC LITTLEWOOD-RICHARDSON RULE
Ravi Vakil	Friday, February 23, 2007	MURPHY'S LAW IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY: BADLY-BEHAVED MODULI SPACES

Lectures in Fall 2006

Yves André	Tuesday, November 28, 2006	AMBIGUITY THEORY, OLD AND NEW
Yves André	Wednesday, November 29, 2006	PERIODS AND MOTIVES I
Yves André	Thursday, November 30, 2006	PERIODS AND MOTIVES II
Wilhelm Schlag	Tuesday, September 5, 2006	ON THE SCHROEDINGER FLOW ON SURFACES OF REVOLUTION
Wilhelm Schlag	Friday, September 8, 2006	DISPERSIVE ESTIMATES FOR WAVE EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO STABILITY OF SOLITONS

Lectures in Spring 2006

Robert Bryant	Tuesday, April 25, 2006	AUFWIEDERSEHEN SURFACES, REVISITED
Robert Bryant	Thursday, April 27, 2006	GRADIENT KAHLER-RICCI SOLITONS

Lectures in Fall 2005

Ezra Getzler	Monday, December 5	LIE THEORY FOR DIFFERENTIAL GRADED LIE ALGEBRAS
Ezra Getzler	Tuesday, December 6	OPEN/CLOSED MODULAR OPERADS
Ezra Getzler	Wednesday, December 7	OPEN/CLOSED DELIGNE-MUMFORD MODULI SPACES AND TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY
Yuri Tschinkel	Tuesday, November 1	GEOMETRY OVER FINITE FIELDS
Yuri Tschinkel	Thursday, November 3	ARITHMETIC OVER FUNCTION FIELDS

Lectures in Spring 2005

Michael Douglas	Tuesday, Feb 22	STRING THEORY AND GEOMETRY
Matilde Marcolli	Tuesday, May 3	QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF Q-LATTICES
Matilde Marcolli	Thursday, May 5	RENORMALIZATION AND MOTIVIC GALOIS THEORY