December 7, 2009
Tuesday
Video Seminar Series
J. Tilouine (U. Paris 13)
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Noon, Mudd 644
Applied Mathematics
No meeting this week.
2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Richard Schoen (Stanford)
"Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
5:30 p.m., Math 312
Wednesday
Special Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Simon Brendle
"Ancient Solutions to the Ricci Flow with Pinched Curvature"
5 p.m., Math 520
Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
Mark Branson (Columbia)
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The Action-Maslov Homomorphism for Monotone Symplectic Manifolds
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5 p.m.
, Math 417.
Please note the special date and time.
Thursday
Geometry and Analysis
Xiao Wei Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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Stability of Nodal Curve
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4:30 p.m., Math 507
Joint Number Theory
Marvin Tretkoff (Texas A&M)
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An Introduction to Transcendence Properties of Special Functions
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RTG Seminar: 4-4:45 p.m.
Paula Tretkoff (Texas A&M)
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Transcendence Properties of Hypergeometric Functions and Monodromy
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Number Theory Seminar: 5:30-7 p.m.
Both lectures at CUNY Graduate Center in Room C415. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in C415 (C-level, one floor down from lobby).
Algebraic D-Modules
"Twisted Differential Operators"
2:30 p.m., Math 528.
Please note the special day.
Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
Valentino Tosatti (Columbia)
"Kähler-Einstein Metrics on Fano Surfaces I"
2:40 p.m., Math 203
Friday
Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
Matt Hedden (MSU)
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Recent Results in Concordance
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9:30 a.m.
, Math 417.
Please note the special time.
Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv)
Title: TBA
10:45 a.m., Math 417.
Probability
Paul Bourgade (Télécom-ParisTech)
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Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Zeta Zeros
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Noon, Math 520
Geometric Topology
Peter Brinkmann (CCNY)
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Characteristic Polynomials of Pseudo-Anosov Maps
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1:15 p.m., Math 520
Algebraic Geometry
David Nadler (Northwestern)
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Character Sheaves for Complex Groups
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2:30 p.m., Math 417