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



WEEK OF OCTOBER 22, 200
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22

Physics Colloquium:
Saul Teukolsky (Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics, Cornell)
"Black holes and gravitational waves"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL


Informal Symplectic Geometry
: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
R. Inanc Baykur
"
Topology of broken Lefschetz fibrations"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
David Srolovitz (Yeshiva University)

"Soap bubble evolution and grain growth in all dimensions: beyond von Neumann-Mullins"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Michael Anderson (SUNY Stony Brook)
"
Local rigidity for Einstein manifolds 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
)
Christophe Breuil  (Columbia, IHES and CNRS)
"
From Diamond-Serre weights to GL2(F)"
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Andrew Lyasoff  (Boston)

"Integral functionals of Brownian motion and Asian options revisited
"
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)
Anar Akhmedov (Georgia Tech)
"
Exotic 4-manifolds with small Euler characteristics"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"On locally analytic principal series after Schneider-Teitelbaum"
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Liam Watson  (UQŔM)
"
Knots with identical Khovanov homology"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Maksym Fedorchuk
  (Harvard)
"
Linear sections of the Severi variety and moduli of curves"
2:15 p.m., 417 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.