Week of February 9, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
  "Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics"
  4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall

Tuesday

• Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
  Robert Lipshitz (Columbia)
  "Locality in Morse theory and Floer homology"
  2:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Pierre Gentine (M.I.T.)
  "Spectral Analysis of a Linearized Land-Atmosphere System: Modeling and Applications"
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
  Gregory Bard (Fordham)
  "Exponential Generating Functions, High Powers of Random Permutations, and Very Iterated Block Ciphers"
  5:30 p.m., 507 Math
  The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Peter Toth (ICE)
  "Commodities"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Thursday

• Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
  Robert Lipshitz and Maksim Lipyanskiy*
  "More Fukaya Category Basics; Compactness in T*M"
  NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 1:10-2:40 p.m.,
  LOCATION: TBA
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Christina Sormani (CUNY)
  "A New Convergence for Oriented Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary"
  Please note special time: 3 p.m., 507 Math
• Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
  Sophie Chen (IAS)
  "Asymptotically Flat Manifolds and Elliptic Systems"
  4:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
  RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
  Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
  Joe Silverman (Brown)
  "Specialization Theorems and Unlikely Intersections"
  NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
  Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in Room 202 WWH
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Alexey Surkov (Deloitte)
  "Credit Models"
  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. Coffee and Tea will be served at 9 a.m. in 508 Math
• Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
  Daniela De Silva (Barnard)
  "A Lipschitz bound for free boundary graphs"
  11 a.m., 507 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Jeremy Kahn (SUNY)
  "Random Ideal Triangulations and the Weil-Peterson Ehrenpreis Conjecture"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Vincent Vargas (Paris Dauphine)
  "Stochastic scale invariance and KPZ"
  12:00 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)
  Sucharit Sarkar (Princeton)
  "Constructing CW Complexes from Grid Diagrams"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Special Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Colloquium
  Jan Hesthaven
  Title: TBA
  1:30-2:30 p.m., 214 Mudd
  
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Johan Martens (Toronto)
  "Moduli of Parabolic Higgs Bundles and Atiyah Algebroids
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2:10 p.m., 417 Math