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
TUES
DAY, 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.