September 28, 2009

Tuesday

• Applied Mathematics
  Pierre Gentine (Columbia)
  "Understanding the Spectral Behavior of a Simple Coupled Land-Atmosphere Model" 
  2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
• Discrete Math
  Don Goldfarb (Columbia)
  "Fast First-Order Methods for Semidefinite Programming Relaxations of Combinatorial Optimization Problems"
  3 p.m., Math 622
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  "Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
  5:30 p.m., Math 312

Wednesday

• Mathematics Colloquium
  Richard Schoen (Stanford and Columbia)
  "Scalar Curvature: An Overview of the Eilenberg Lectures"
  5 p.m., Math 520

Thursday

• Algebraic D-Modules
  "Differential Operators"
  Please note the change of day for this week only: 2:30 p.m., Math 528
• Geometry and Analysis
  Nader Masmoudi (Courant)
  Title: TBA
  4:30 p.m., Math 507
• Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
  Valentino Tosatti (Columbia)
  "Lower Boundedness of the K-Energy on Deformations of the Mukai Threefold (II)"
  2:40 p.m., Math 203

Friday

• Informal Symplectic Geometry
  Michael Brandenbursky (Technion)
  "Knot Theory and Quasi-Morphisms"
  Please note the special time: 10:45 a.m., 417 Math
  
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis - NY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar
  Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia)
  "Mean Curvature Flows of Lagrangian Submanifolds and Isotopy Problems in Symplectic Geometry"
  Please note the special time and location: 1:15 p.m., Math 520
• Probability
  Not meeting this week.
  12 p.m., Math 520
• Algebraic Geometry
  Andrew Obus (Columbia)
  Title: TBA
  2:30 p.m., Math 417
• Geometric Topology
  Meeting with NY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis - NY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar
  Dusa McDuff (Barnard/Columbia) 
  "Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions"
  Please note the special time and location: 3:45 p.m., Math 520