Week of October 10, 2011

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Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Thomas Nyberg
"Bounding sectional curvature along a KRF"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Assad Oberai (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Biomechanical Imaging: A Window Into Tissue Microstructure and Pathology"
2:45pm, Room 214 Mudd
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Stefan van Zwam (Princeton)
"Fragility in matroid theory"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd

Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Kasper Larsen (CMU)
"Unspanned endowment and face-lifting"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Hsian-Hua Tseng (Ohio State University)
"On the geometry of étale gerbes"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Kryzsztof Putyra (Columbia)
"Distributive Structures in Knot Theory"
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 $Seminar Homepage$
Valentino Tosatti
"Volume estimates for Kähler-Einstein manifolds"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Robert Hashlhofer (ETH Zurich)
"Singularities in 4d Ricci flow"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ CUNY Graduate Center) $Seminar Homepage$
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room Room C415
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room Room C415
Philipp Habegger (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Some unlikely intersections beyond André-Oort"
5:30pm, Room Room C415

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Graduate Student Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xia Jie (Columbia)
"Groupes de Brauer II"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Maksim Lipyanskiy (Columbia)
"Gromov-Uhlenbeck Compactness"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Amir Dembo (Stanford)
"Factor models on locally tree-like graphs"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Vaibhav Gadre (Harvard)
"Curve complex translation lengths"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
General Relativity Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Yefeng Shen (Michigan)
"Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence in all genera for elliptic orbifold projective lines"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math