Week of April 20, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
  "Superfluidity in a Gas of Strongly Interacting Fermions
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4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Laszlo Szekelyhidi (U. Debrecen)
  "Fourier Transform of Mean Periodic Functions"
  Please note the special day, time and location: 4:30 p.m., 406 Math.

Tuesday

• Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
  Nathan Paldor (Hebrew University)
  "Laboratory Experiments and a Non-harmonic Theory of Waves in Steeply
  Sloping Shelves"
  2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd 
• Discrete Math
  Yori Zwols (Columbia)
  "Large Cliques or Stable Sets in Graphs With No P_4 and No P_5^c" 
  5:30 p.m., 507 Math
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  David Schwartz (Dynamic Credit Partners)
  "Preparing for Quantitative Finance Interview"
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Nick Alikakos
  "Entire Solutions to Equivariant Elliptic Systems with Variational Structure"
  Please note the special time: 3 p.m., 507 Math
• Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, O. Savin)
  Slawomir Kolodziej (Jagiellonian)
  "Some Generalizations of the Calabi-Yau Theorem"
  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)
  Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford)
  "Torsion in the Homology of Arithmetic Groups"
  Columbia University, Mathematics Building, Room 312.  Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in the Math Lounge, Mathematics Building, Room 508.
• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Student Project Presentations
  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
• Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
  Natalia Mosina (Columbia)
  "Strong Law of Large Numbers on Graphs and Groups with Applications"
  Noon, 903 SSW Building (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street). Tea will be served at 11:30 a.m. on the 10th floor of the SSW building.
• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)
  "Legendrian Links, Causality, and the Low Conjecture"
  1:10 p.m., 520 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt)
  "Geometric Complexity and Topological Rigidity"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
  Alessio Corti (Imperial)
  "The Quantum Cohomology of Toric Stacks"
  2:10 p.m., 417 Math
• Informal Symplectic Geometry: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz)
  Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
  "The Fukaya-Nadler-Zaslow Category and Microlocalization (II)"
  3:45 p.m., 520 Math