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

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3, 2008

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Physics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
5:00 p.m., 507 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.


THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 6

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Zbigniew Błocki (Jagiellonian)

"
A gradient estimate in the Calabi-Yau theorem"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG  Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Thomas Tucker (University of Rochester)
"Dynamical Mordell-Lang problems"
5:30-7:00 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C415.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Frans Oort (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Moduli of Abelian Varieties"
10:30-11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m., 312 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
Dragomir Saric (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"
The mapping class group cannot be realized by homeomorphisms"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Arnaud Doucet (UBC)
"
Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods"
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

New York Joint Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
Liam Watson (UQŔM and CIRGET, Canada)
"
Involutions on 3-manifolds and Khovanov homology"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Vera Vertesi (Eötvös Loránd U., Hungary)
"Legendrian knots and Heegaard Floer homologies"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.


Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Radu Laza (Michigan)
"
Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.


Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week:
symplectic seminar instead.

3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar in Algebraic Geometry: (F. Oort, J. de Jong)
"
Abelian varieties over finite fields"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 312 Math.