COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF OCTOBER 8, 2007

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G. Bal, M. Weinstein)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
Lecture I: Mathematical problems in array and distributed sensor imaging
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Jozsef Solymosi (UBC)
"A variant of the Hales-Jewett theorem"
4:00 p.m., 750 Shapiro CEPSR
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10

Joint Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Colloquium: ( P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban, M-T Wang, G. Bal, M. Weinstein)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series (Lecture II of III of the 10/9-10/11 Series)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford)
"Optimal Illumination and wave form design for imaging edges"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

IGERT Colloquium: (G. Bal, M. Weinstein)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
Lecture III: Imaging in clutter
2:45 p.m., 825 Mudd

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Artem Pulemotov (Cornell)
"The Li-Yau-Hamilton estimate for the heat equation on a manifold with boundary"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, )
Andrew Granville (Montréal)
"Pretentiousness in analytic number theory"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Elton HSU (Northwestern)
"Extension of the Cameron-Martin theorem to a complete Riemannian manifold"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Ciprian Manolescu
"Symplectic instanton homology"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
Shelly Harvey (Rice)
"Knot concordance and Blanchfield duality"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Max Lieblich (Princeton)
"Boundedness of families of canonically polarized manifolds"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
“Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
3:30 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THIS WEEK ONLY-203Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.