Week of November 29, 2010
Monday
- No seminars scheduled
Tuesday
- Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Yves Capdeboscq (University of Oxford)
"Recent Progresses in Electro-acoustic Imaging"
2:45-3:45pm, Room 210 Mudd - Discrete Math
David Phillips (The College of William & Mary / Brown University)
"First-order methods for finding weighted graphs with high algebraic connectivity"
4:00-5:00pm, Room 303 Mudd - Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification
Richard Hind (Notre Dame)
"Symplectic embeddings of polydisks"
4:45pm, Room 507 Math
Wednesday
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification
Matthew Borman (University of Chicago)
"Symplectic Reduction of Quasi-morphisms and Quasi-states"
4:10-5:00pm, Room 507
- Department Colloquium
Simon Brendle (Stanford and Princeton)
"Min-Oo's conjecture for the hemisphere"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math - Undergraduate Mathematics Society
No Meeting This Week
Thursday
- Special Number Theory Seminar
Xander Faber (University of Georgia)
"Torsion Sections of Elliptic Curves"
11:00am, Room 528 Math
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia University)
"Sobolev inequalities on Riemannian manifolds"
2:40-4:00pm, Room 520 Math - Geometry and Analysis
No Meeting This Week - Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ Columbia University)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 520 Math
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room 508 Math
Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University)
"The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics and related problems"
5:30-7:00pm, Room 312 Math
Friday
- Geometric Topology
Joan Birman (Columbia University)
"Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes with minimum dilatation"
10:45pm, Room 417 Math - Probability
Boris Rozovsky (Brown University)
"Generalized Malliavin Calculus and Stochatstic PDEs"
Lecture I: "Introduction to Malliavin Calculus"
12:00-1:00pm, Room 520 Math
- Informal General Relativity
Poning Chen (Harvard University)
"Gravitational Radiation of Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations in General Relativity"
1:30pm, Room 507 Math
- General Relativity, Joint w/ Stony Brook
No Meeting This Week - Algebraic Geometry
Davesh Maulik (MIT)
"Relative Behrend functions"
2:00-3:00pm, Room 417 Math - Minerva Foundation Lectures
Boris Rozovsky (Brown University)
"Generalized Malliavin Calculus and Stochatstic PDEs"
Lecture I: "Stochastic Quantization and Navier-Stokes Equation"
2:30-3:20pm, Room 1025 Stat
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
"Dilogarithms and graphs with 1 loop"
3:30pm, Room 312 Math
