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

WEEK OF DECEMBER 3,  2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3

Columbia Vision and Graphics Center: Distinguished Lecture Series
Ron Goldman (Rice)
"How blossoming can simplify your life"
11:00 a.m., 414 CEPSR (Sindeband East)

Physics Colloquium:
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

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

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
 Don Estep (Colorado State)
"Stability, adjoints, and uncertainty"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Melvyn Nathanson (CUNY /IAS )
"Combinatorial problems in additive number theory"
4:00 p.m., NOTE LOCATION: 622 Mathematics
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
Nicolas Bergeron (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris)
"Nonvanishing theorems for L-functions and cohomology"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor .at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7

ISCAP Seminar:
 10th Northeast String Cosmology Meeting
11:00 a.m. –6:00 p.m.
The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, NYC

 Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Davar Khosnevisan (Utah)
"A local time correspondence for stochastic PDEs"
 11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
 Christophe Breuil (IHES, CNRS and Columbia)
"More on the p-adic local correspondence for GL2(Qp)"
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Bruce Kleiner (Yale)
"A new proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Dan Abramovich (Brown)
 "Counting curves with tangency conditions: comparison of approaches"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

New York Area Joint Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 4:00 p.m.: Larry Guth (Stanford)
"Symplectic embeddings of polydisks"
5:15 p.m.: Soren Galatius (Stanford)
"Holomorphic curves and stable homotopy theory"
NOTE LOCATION: 312 Math.