Week of November 7, 2011
Monday (Academic Holiday - No Classes)
- Informal KRF Seminar
Adam Jacob
"Introduction to stability on projective varieties"
5:00pm, Room 507 Math
Tuesday (University Holiday - Election Day)
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Pavel V. Gapeev (LSE)
"Pricing of perpetual American options in multi-dimensional diffusion models"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW - Department Colloquium
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
"Holomorphic Poisson manifolds and their deformations"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math - Undergraduate Math Society
Harold Sultan (Columbia)
"Pants Decomposition, the Pants Complex, and Teichmuller Space"
7:00pm, Room 507/508 Math
Thursday
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Tristan Collins (Columbia)
"The transverse entropy functional and the Sasaki-Ricci flow"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
Speaker TBA
4:15pm, Room 528 Math - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Costante Bellettini (Princeton University)
"Tangent cones to calibrated currents"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ NYU Courant Institute)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 121 Myer Hall
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Myer Hall Lobby
Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
"Motives and the inverse Galois problem"
5:30pm, Room 121 Myer Hall
Friday
- Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
No Seminar This Week (See Symplectic Geometry Seminar) - Graduate Student Seminar
Johan de Jong (Columbia)
"Brauer groups and K_2 of number fields + the result of Merkurjev-Suslin on K_2 and the Brauer group of a field"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Steven Sivek (Harvard University)
"Monopole Floer homology and Legendrian knots"
10:45am, Room 417 Math - Probability Seminar
Soumik Pal (Washington-Seattle)
"Random matrix theory for sparse random regular graphs"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math - Geometric Topology Seminar
Anne Pichon (Marseille)
"Bilipschitz classification of singularities of complex surfaces"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math - General Relativity Seminar
No Seminar This Week
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Joint Columbia-Courant-Princeton Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Duiliu Diaconescu (Rutgers)
"BPS states, Donaldson-Thomas invariants and the Hitchin system"
4:00pm, Room 417 Math
Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
"Cohomology of Hilbert schemes of curves with planar singularities"
5:30pm, Room 417 Math
