COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
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WEEK OF DECEMBER 8, 2008

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

Physics Colloquium:
 Tsung-Dao Lee
"From CKM and neutrino mapping matrices to the theory of timeon"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
 Guy Baruch (Tel Aviv University)
 "Numerical Solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
 Manuel del Pino (Universidad de Chile)
"On a conjecture by De Giorgi in large dimensions"
NOTE TIME: 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Gerhard Huisken (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam)
"Mean curvature flow with surgeries"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
 Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 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)
 Daniel Allcock (Austin)
"A Banach space determined by the Weil height"
5:30-7:00 p.m.
NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m. also in room 202 WWH

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

 Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
Matthias Kreck (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics)
"Codes and 3-manifolds"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Adam Lowrance (Louisiana State U.)
"Cube diagrams and a homology theory for knots"
NOTE LOCATION: 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
Gerhard Huisken (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam)
"Inverse mean curvature flow and isoperimetric inequalities"
4:00 p.m., 312 Math.
 Tea will be served at 3:15 p.m., 508 Math.