Week of November 28, 2011

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Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Adam Jacob
"A study of the Hilbert-Mumford criterion for stability of projective varieties"
5:00pm, Room 507 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Yanhong Yang (Columbia)
"Introduction to crystalline cohomology, part 1"
4:15pm, Room 528 Math
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Ankur Moitra (IAS)
"Vertex Sparsification"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd

Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Costis Maglaras (Columbia University)
"Optimal Order Flow Routing, Make/Take Fees, and their effect on market behavior"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
Harold Sultan (Columbia)
"Pants Decomposition, the Pants Complex, and Teichmuller Space"
7:00pm, Room 507/508 Math

Special Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Dustin Ross (Colorado State University)
"Open GW Theory and the Orbifold Vertex"
2:00pm, Room 622 Math
Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xiaowei Wang
"b-stability and blowups II"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Yanhong Yang (Columbia)
"Introduction to crystalline cohomology, part 2"
4:15pm, Room 528 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Vincent Duchene (Columbia University)
"One-dimensional scattering and localization properties of highly oscillatory potentials"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ CUNY Graduate Center) $Seminar Homepage$
1) Juna Rivera Letelier (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
"Ergodic Theory of p-adic rational maps"
4:30pm, Room C198
Tea served 5:30-6:00, Room C198
2) David McKinnon (University of Waterloo)
"Rational maps repel each other, so they can't be densely packed"
6:00pm, Room C198

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Maksim Lipyanskiy (Columbia)
"Gromov-Uhlenbeck Compactness and the Donaldson-Fukaya Category"
9:30am, Room 417 Math
Graduate Student Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xuanyu Pan (Columbia)
"Birational invariance of the unramified Brauer group"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Yang Huang (USC)
"An absolute grading of Heegaard Floer homology by homotopy classes of 2-plane fields"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Special Joint Applied Math / CVGC Colloquium
Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University)
"Soft materials: Functionality through instabilities and deformations"
11:00am, 750 Interschool - CEPSR
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Jaksa Cvitanic (CalTech)
"Equilibrium in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Agents"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Jeff Brock (Brown U)
"The Weil-Petersson metric and the geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
General Relativity Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xin Zhou (Stanford)
"Some recent progress on mass angular-momentum inequality"
1:30pm, Room 507 Math
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Anatoly Preygel (MIT)
"Thom-Sebastiani & duality for matrix factorizations (via derived algebraic geometry)"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math