Week of March 23, 2009

Monday

• Hiroyuki Yoshida (Kyoto University)
  "Cohomology and L-values"
  2:45 p.m., 622 Math
• Physics Colloquium:
  David A. Weitz (Harvard)
  "Elasticity of Active Biopolymer Networks"
  4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall

Tuesday

• Minerva Foundation Lectures:
  Hans Foellmer (Humboldt)
  "Convex Risk Measures and Their Dynamics"
  10 a.m., 1025 SSW (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Joint with IGERT Colloquium
  Brian Soden, (University of Miami)
  "Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming"
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Wednesday

• Discrete Math
  Po-Shen Loh (Princeton and UCLA)
  "Maximizing the Number of Colorings"
  3 p.m., 303 Mudd

Thursday

• Minerva Foundation Lectures:
  Hans Foellmer (Humboldt)
  "Convex Risk Measures and Their Dynamics"
  10 a.m., 1025 SSW (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Knut Smoczyk (Hannover)
  "On the Structure of Lagrangian Submanifolds"
  4:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
  Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
  Ivan Fesenko (Nottingham)
  "Adelic Analysis on Arithmetic Surfaces
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NYU Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102, 5:30-7 p.m.  Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in WWH 102.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Friday

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
  "Random Surfaces and Algebraic Curves"
  9:30 a.m., 520 Math
  Coffee and tea will be served at 9 a.m. in 507 Math
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Yakov Savelyev (U. Massachussetts, Amherst)
  "Flow Categories and Dirac Loopspace"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Alexander Felshtyn (University of Szczecin)
  "How to Categorify Dynamical Zeta Functions"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  James Norris (Cambridge)
  "Planar Aggregation and the Coalescing Brownian Flow"
  Noon, 903 SSW Building (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street). A tea will be served at 11:30 a.m. on the 10th floor of the SSW building. 
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Charles Cadman (UBC)
  "Weighted Stable Maps to [C^N/Z_r] and Gromov-Witten Invariants"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  Joseph Johns
  "Constructible Sheaves, Part 2"
  Please note the different room number, 3:45 p.m., 528 Math
• Mathemathics Colloquium and Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Sir Roger Penrose, (Oxford)
  "Aeons Before the Big Bang?"
  4:30 p.m., 312 Math