Week of February 2, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium
  No Seminar This Week

Tuesday

• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Triet Le (Yale)
  "Extracting Local Information in Images"
  2:45 p.m, 214 Mudd
• Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
  Paul Seymour (Princeton)
  "Packing Seagulls"
  5:30 p.m,  303 Mudd
  The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Mikhail Smirnov
  "Dynamic Leverage"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Jie Qing (UC Santa Cruz)
  "A Positive Mass Theorem for Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifold with Corners"
  4:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the three universities)
  RTG Seminar 4-4:45 p.m.
  Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
  Abhinav Kumar (MIT)
  "K3 surfaces, Shioda-Inose structures, and Real Multiplication"
  5:30-7 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center.  Tea will be from 5-5:30 p.m. served in Room C415. C-level: one floor down from lobby.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Jonathan Schachter (IFS State Street)
  "Topics in Risk"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Friday

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
  "Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
  9:30 a.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  "Fibered Knots and the Bennequin Bound"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Guillaume Bal (Columbia AP&AM)
  "Some Convergence Results in Equations with Random Coefficients"
  Noon, 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street), Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
  (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
  John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
  "Duality exact sequences in contact homology"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Matt DeLand
  "Cubic Hypersurfaces Are Rationally Simply Connected"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
  NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
  3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 Math.