Week of May 4, 2009

Monday

• Physics Colloquium:
  Ali Yazdani (Princeton University)
  "Visualizing Pair Formation on the Nanometer Scale and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity"
  4:15 p.m., 428 Pupin Hall

Tuesday

• Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
  Student Project Presentations
  7:40-9 p.m., 207 Math

Thursday

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture (M.Thaddeus)
  Richard Kenyon (Brown)
  "Laplacians on Graphs and Integral Laminations"
  4 p.m, 312 Math.  Tea will be served in 507 Math at 3:30 p.m.

Friday

• Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, T. Perutz, R. Lipshitz)
  Maksim Maydanskiy (MIT)
  "'Exotic' Symplectic Manifolds Via Lefschetz Fibrations"
  Please note the special location: 1:10 p.m., 507 Math
• Geometric Topology: (D. Thurston)
  Peter Teichner (Berkeley)
  "Whitney Towers in 4-Manifolds"
  2:30 p.m., 520 Math
• Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture (M.Thaddeus)
  Richard Kenyon (Brown)
  "Laplacians on Graphs and Integral Laminations"
  4 p.m, 312 Math.  Tea will be served in 507 Math at 3:30 p.m.