Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10,
2007

 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Probability: Minerva Foundation Lectures: (I. Karatzas)
Alison Etheridge (Oxford)

"Some mathematical models from population genetics-Lecture 4:  Spatial models
4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (P. Ozsváth)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Paul Seymour (Princeton)
"Making perfect graphs"
4:00 p.m.,
750 Shapiro CEPSR
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Zuoliang Hou
"Energy functional and parabolic complex Monge-Ampere equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: Minerva Foundation Lectures: (I. Karatzas)
Alison Etheridge (Oxford)

"Some mathematical models from population genetics"-
Lecture 5:  Muller's ratchet and the rate of adaptation
4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m., Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Alison Etheridge (Oxford)

"Drift, draft and structure: Mathematical models of evolution"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Michel Boileau (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FRANCE)
"Sequences of metrics given by the long term Ricci Flow on aspherical 3-manifolds"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.


Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford
& Columbia)
Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
3:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.