Week of September 20, 2010
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification
Adam Knapp (Columbia)
"Monopoles, cobordisms, and exact triangles "
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability
Fredrik Johansson Viklund (Columbia University)
"Convergence rates for loop-erased random walk "
12:00-1:00pm, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology
Peter Storm
"Infinitesimal rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary "
1:20pm, Room 520 Math
Informal General Relativity
Joint Seminar at Columbia, see General Relativity
General Relativity, Joint w/ Stony Brook
Alexandru Ionescu (Princeton University)
"On the uniqueness of stationary black holes in vacuum "
2:00-3:00pm, Room 507 Math; Tea Break 3:00-3:30 in Room 508 Math
Catherine Williams (Columbia University)
"Good and bad asymptotic behavior of marginally trapped tubes "
3:30-4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Algebraic Geometry
Ben Bakker (NYU)
"Higher rank Donaldson-Thomas invariants of K3 surfaces "
2:00-3:00pm, Room 417 Math
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
"Algebraic geometry and quantum field theory "
3:30pm, Room 417 Math