November 30, 2009

Tuesday

• Video Seminar Series
  Kenneth Tignor (Columbia)
  Title: TBA
  Noon, Mudd 644
• Algebraic D-Modules
  Sato-Kashiwara
  "Filtration and Duality"
  2:30 p.m., Math 528
• Applied Mathematics
  Sinan Gunturk (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
  "Random Frames and Quantization of Compressed Sensing Measurements"
  2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
• Discrete Math
  Liviu Ilinca (Rutgers)
  "The Number of 3-SAT Functions"
  3 p.m., Mudd 303
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  "Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
  5:30 p.m., Math 312

Wednesday

• Mathematics Department Colloquium
  Canceled.

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis
  Bill Minicozzi (JHU)
  Title: TBA
  4:30 p.m., Math 507
• Joint Number Theory
  Min Ru (University of Houston)
  "An Effective Schmidt's Subspace Theorem for Projective Varieties Over Function Fields"
  RTG Seminar: 4-4:45 p.m., Math 622
  Number Theory Seminar: 5:30-7 p.m., Math 622.
  Both lectures at Columbia University. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in Math 508.
• Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
  TBA.
  2:40 p.m., Math 203
• Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
  Hendryk Pfeiffer (UBC)
  "The Modular Categories Associated with sl_2 in Terms of Diagrams"
  5:45 p.m., Math 622

Friday

• Informal Symplectic Geometry
  No seminar this week.
  9:30 a.m., 417 Math
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Hendryk Pfeiffer (UBC)
  "Fusion Categories in Terms of Graphs and Relations"
  9:30 a.m., Math 417. Please note the special time.
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Rumen Zarev (Columbia)
  "Bordered Floer Homology and Sutured Floer Homology"
  10:45 a.m., Math 417
• Probability
  Jan Hannig (UNC Stats)
  "Continuum Modeling of Large Networks"
  Noon, Math 520
• Geometric Topology
  Cameron Gordon (U Texas Austin)
  "Knots with Small Rational Genus"
  1:15 p.m., Math 520
• Algebraic Geometry
  David Rydh (Berkeley)
  "Compactification of Deligne-Mumford Stacks
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2:30 p.m., Math 417