LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Physics Colloquium:
Tony Heinz (Physics,
Columbia)
"Carbon
nanotubes and graphene: Electrons in model one and two dimensional materials"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
(M.
Weinstein)
Mark Hoefer
(APAM Department, Columbia)
"Dispersive Shock Waves and Their Interactions"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:
(D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Dan Bienstock
"Recent
results on lifted formulations for integer programs"
5:00 p.m., 507 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 19
Colloquium:
(P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Neil
Trudinger (Australian National University)
"The
higher order Yamabe problem"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Geometry and Analysis:
(Z.
Hou)
Tuomo Kuusi (Columbia and TKK)
"Harnack
estimates for weak supersolutions to nonlinear degenerate parabolic 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)
Tonghai Yang
(Wisconsin)
"A
variant of the Gross-Zagier formula"
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 21
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.
Probability:
(J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R.
Neel, E. Schertzer)
No seminar this week instead there
will be:
Northeast Probability Seminar (Nov. 20-21)
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)
Danny Calegari
(Caltech)
"Stable
commutator length in free groups"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.
Symplectic Geometry and
Gauge Theory and the
NY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Cagatay Kutluhan (U. Michigan)
"Seiberg-Witten
Floer homology and symplectic forms on S^1xM^3"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Michael Hutchings (U.C. Berkeley)
"The
Weinstein conjecture for stable Hamiltonian structures"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
David Harbater (Penn)
"Applications of a local-global
principle to quadratic forms and Brauer groups"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.
Columbia Informal
Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week:
NY Joint Symplectic Geometry 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.