October 26, 2009

Monday

• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Denis Auroux (MIT/Berkeley)
  "Fukaya Categories of Symmetric Products and Bordered Heegaard-Floer Homology"
  10:30 a.m., Math 622
  Please note the special day and time.

Tuesday

• p-adic Modular Forms and p-adic Hodge Theory
  Video Seminar Series with Universite Paris 13 and Columbia University
  A. Mokrane (Univ. Paris 13) "Periods of Unit Roots and Overconvergent Igusa Towers, Part II" Noon-2 p.m., Mudd 644
• Algebraic D-Modules
  "Differential Operators"
  2:30 p.m., Math 528
• Applied Mathematics
  Sharad Goel (Yahoo! Research)
  "Contract Auctions for Web Advertising"
  2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
• Discrete Math
  Wesley Pegden (Rutgers)
  "Applying a Local Lemma to Thue Game"
  3 p.m., Math 622
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  "Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
  5:30 p.m., Math 312

Wednesday

• Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium
  Yuri Tschinkel (Courant, NYU)
  "K3 Surfaces and their Higher-Dimensional Analogs"
  5 p.m., Math 520. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. in Mathematics Room 508.

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis
  Kyril Tintarev (Uppsala University)
  "Is the Trudinger-Moser Nonlinearity a True Critical Nonlinearity?"
  4:30 p.m., Math 507
• Joint Number Theory
  Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University & IAS)
  "Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres and Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian"
  RTG Seminar 4-4:45 p.m.
  Number Theory Seminar: 5:30 p.m.
  NYU, Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall Room 317. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in WWH 317.
• Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
  Jacob Sturm
  "Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds II"
  2:40 p.m., Math 203

Friday

• Informal Symplectic Geometry
  Josh Greene (Columbia)
  "Lens Space Surgeries and Genus Bounds"
  9:30 a.m., 417 Math
  
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Adam Levine (Columbia)
  "Sliceness of Whitehead and Bing Doubles"
  10:45 a.m., Math 417
• Probability
  Mihyun Kang, Technische University Berlin
  "Critical Behavior of Random Planar Graphs"
  12 p.m., Math 520
• Geometric Topology
  Roland van der Veen (University of Amsterdam)
  "Asymptotics of the Colored Jones Polynomial of Knotted Graphs"
  1:15 p.m., Math 520
• Algebraic Geometry
  Fabio Nironi (Columbia)
  "Moduli of Semistable Sheaves on Projective Deligne-Mumford Stacks"
  2:30 p.m., Math 417