COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10, 2008

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series 2008-2009:
 Herbert Edelsbrunner (Computer Science and Mathematics, Duke)
"Measuring scale before simplification"
11:00 a.m., Schapiro Center Davis Auditorium, CEPSR Building

Physics Colloquium:
Alexander Grosberg (NYU)
 "To knot or not to knot"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
 Mike Shelley (Courant)
 "Dynamics and transport in active suspensions"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Bernard Ries
 "On blockers and transversals"
5:00 p.m., 303 Mudd.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

 Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
 Igor Rodnianski (Princeton)
"From rough space-time to black holes.  Evolution problem in general relativity"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Yanyan Li (Rutgers)
"A liouville theorem, a Harnack inequality and some remarks on nonlinear elliptic equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
 RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
Rachel Ollivier  (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
"Mod p representations of p-adic GL(n) and Hecke modules"
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

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.
 THIS WEEK ONLY
Guest speaker: Ching-Li Chai (UPenn)
 "Hilber modular varieities"

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Erhan Bayraktar (Michigan)
"Regularity of the American put price in exponential L evy models"
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

 Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
 Peter Kronheimer (Harvard)
"Instanton homology and the Alexander polynomial"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Chris Woodward (Rutgers)
"Gauged Gromov-Witten theory and morphisms of CohFT's"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:30 p.m., 520 Math.

 Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Frederick van der Wyck (Harvard)
 "Moduli of crimping data"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

 Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
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.