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

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12, 2007

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
Carl Wunsch (MIT)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
"The First of Three  Lectures on Inverse Methods and State Estimation"
2:45 p.m., 750 CEPSR


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Benny Sudakov (UCLA/IAS)
"Density theorems for bipartite graphs and related Ramsey-type results"
4:00 p.m., 622 Mathematics
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Northeast Probability Seminar
Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
Carl Wunsch (MIT)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
"Second of Three Lectures on Inverse Methods and State Estimation"
2:45 p.m., 825 Mudd

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Jim Isenberg (U. Oregon)
"Black hole rigidity"
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)
Alexander Goncharov  (Brown)
"Hodge correlators and a generalization of Rankin-Selberg integrals"
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, NOVEMBER 16

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
“Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION TODAY: 10:00 a.m., 207 Math.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
Carl Wunsch (MIT)
Part of the IGERT Distinguished Lecture Series
"Third of Three Lectures on Inverse Methods and State Estimation"
11:00 a.m., Lamont-Doherty campus, Monell Auditorium

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Northeast Probability Seminar
Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Michael Usher (Princeton)
"Spectral numbers in Floer theories."
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Benjamin Schraen (Université Paris-sud XI, Orsay)
"Derived catergoy of locally analytic representations of GL_2(F) and Fontaine's modules"
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Dave Futer (Michigan)
"The Jones polynomial and highly non-fibered surfaces"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Samuel Grushevsky  (Princeton)
"A geometric characterization of Prym varieties"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.