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

LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK

WEEK OF DECEMBER 1,  2008

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1

Physics Colloquium:
Chris Sachrajda (Southampton)
"
Flavour physics, lattices and the LHC"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (
D. Keyes)
Mayya Tokman (UC-Merced)
"Construction and performance of exponential integrators"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Van Vu (Rutgers)
"
On Erdos conjecture on square-free sets"

NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 4:00 p.m., 622 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 3

Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Avraham Aizenbud and Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"
Gelfand pairs and invariant distributions"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 4

Special Number Theory:
Avraham Aizenbud and Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"
Multiplicity one theorems"
3:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Xiaofeng Sun (Lehigh)

"
Moduli and Teichmuller spaces of curves and Calabi-Yau manifolds"
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)
Madhav Nori
(Chicago)
"Galois image
"
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, DECEMBER 5

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.
This is the last in this series.
In this lecture I will give a SURVEY of the material treated so far,
and I will finish a PROOF of the Hecke Orbit Conjecture
(joint work with Ching-Li Chai).

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Pierre Nolin (Courant)
"Universality of some random shapes: inhomogeneity and SLE(6)"
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)
Josh Greene (Princeton)
"
Closed 3-braids with unknotting number one"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
Michael Chance (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Title: TBA
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Joint Columbia-Courant-Princeton Algebraic Geometry:  (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Seán Keel (Texas)
"Morrison, Mori and Mumford: mirror symmetry, birational geometry, and moduli spaces"
2:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Rob Lazarsfeld
  (Michigan)
"Convex bodies associated to linear series"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION.


Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry:
Reza Rezazadegan (Rutgers)
"
Seidel-Smith invariant of links and beyond"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION:
3:45 p.m., 507 Math.