Week of September 26, 2011

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Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Daniel Rubin
"The Calabi functional on a ruled surface"
5:00pm, Room 507 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
C.L. Epstein (University of Pennsylvania)
"Analytic foundations for a class of degenerate diffusions arising in population genetics"
2:45pm, Room 214 Mudd
Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Rama Cont (Columbia University)
Title TBA
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Ron Aharoni (Technion)
"Erdos-Ko-Rado like theorems for rainbow matchings "
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd

Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Claudio Procesi (Rome)
"Splines, partition functions, index and infinitesimal index"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Rahul Krishna (Columbia)
"Dirichlet's Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progressions"
7:00pm, Room 507/508 Math

Minerva Lectures $Seminar Homepage$
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Donovan McFeron
"The Mabuchi metric and the Kähler-Ricci flow"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xavier Cabre (ICREA and UPC, Barcelona)
"New geometric-type Sobolev inequalities and applications to the regularity of minimizers"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week

Graduate Student Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Raju Krishnamoorthy (Columbia)
"A bit about Etale cohomology"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Anthony Licata (IAS/Australian National University)
"Affine Lie algebras, Hilbert schemes and Categorification"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Alex Ellis (Columbia)
"Odd Symmetric Functions"
9:30am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Craig Tracy (UC Davis)
"The asymmetric simple exclusion process: Recent progress and open problems"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Anastasia Tsvietkova (UTK)
"An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements"
1:15p, Room 520 Math
General Relativity Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Fernando Schwartz (University of Tennessee)
"Mass-capacity inequalities for conformally flat manifolds"
1:30pm, Room 507 Math
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Maksym Fedorchuk (Columbia University)
"Moduli spaces of singular curves via GIT for canonical curves"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math