COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26,  2007

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26

Physics Colloquium:
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton)
"Extreme magnetospheres: from pulsars to accretion disks"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
 Ross Tulloch (Courant)
"The effect of tropopause temperature anomalies on the atmospheric energy spectrum"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Allen Knutson (UC, Berkeley)
"Vertex decompositions of simplicial complexes from algebraic geometry"
 4:00 p.m., 622 Mathematics
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban, P. Daskalopoulos)
Yakov  Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
"Folded maps and their applications"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers)
"Kahler-Ricci flow and stability"
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)
Laura DeMarco (Illinois, Chicago)
"The transfinite diameter"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30

Geometric Topology: DOUBLE HEADER I:  (D. Thurston)
 Koji Fujiwara (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Rank-1 isometries on CAT(0) spaces and quasi-homomorphisms"
10:00 a.m., 507 Math.

 Probability: (I. Karatzas)
 4th CCCP Mathematical Finance Workshop
November 30th-December 1st
Event Website for the CCCP Workshop  -  http://orfe.princeton.edu/cccp/

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 Andrew Cotton-Clay (UC, Berkeley)
"Symplectic Floer homology of pseudo-Anosov and reducible maps"
 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Benjamin Schraen (ENS)
"Derived categories and mathematical invariants for GL_3(Qp).
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology: DOUBLE HEADER II: (D. Thurston)
 Weiping Li (Oklahoma State)
"Regulator for the character variety"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
 Joint Columbia-Courant-Princeton Algebraic geometry seminar
 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - NYU

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.