Week of September 19, 2011
Monday
- "Workshop on Equivariant Quantum Differential Equations"
Multi-day Workshop
List of speakers/times/locations
Tuesday
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Applied Mathematics Colloquium
No Seminar This Week - Discrete Math Seminar
Irena Penev (Columbia University)
"Coloring Bull-Free Perfect Graphs"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Issac Sonin (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
"Optimal Stopping of Markov Chains and Related Problems "
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
- Department Colloquium
No Seminar This Week - Undergraduate Math Society
Chun Ye (Columbia)
"The Geometry of a Linear Program"
7:00pm, Room 508/507 Math
Thursday
- Minerva Lectures
Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
"Phase transitions in stochastic processes with long-range interactions: a multiscale analysis approach"
9:10am, Room 507 Math
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Jian Song
"Bounding scalar curvature for global solutions of the Kähler-Ricci flow"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Charles Smart (MIT)
"The Obstacle Problem of the Abelian Sandpile"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU
No Seminar This Week
Friday
- Graduate Student Seminar
Rahul Krishna and Ioan Filip (Columbia)
"Brauer groups of fields and Galois cohomology and a bit about cohomological dimension of fields/Tsen's theorem"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Nicolo Sibilla (Northwestern University)
"Mirror Symmetry and Ribbon Graphs"
10:45am, Room 417 Math - Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
Krzysztof Putyra (Columbia)
"Odd Khovanov Homology"
9:30am, Room 417 Math
- Probability Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Geometric Topology Seminar
Dan Margalit (Georgia Tech)
"Mapping class groups, symplectic groups, and the Burau representation"
1:15p, Room 520 Math - Special Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Brian White (Stanford)
"Boundary behavior in mean curvature flow"
1:30pm, Room 507 Math
- General Relativity Seminar
No Seminar This Week
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Qile Chen (Columbia University)
"The stack of stable log maps and its product structure"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
