Week of December 5, 2011

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Special Seminar
Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley)
"Refined Chern-Simons Theory and Knot Homology"
4:00pm, Room 507 Math
Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Tristan Collins
"Alpha invariants and K-stability of Q-Fano 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 $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Discrete Math Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week

Risk Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Frederi G. Viens (Purdue University)
"Stochastic volatility with long-memory in discrete and continuous time"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Department Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT)
"The symplectic topology of Stein manifolds"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week

Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Tristan Collins (Columbia)
"The ACC Conjecture for log canonical thresholds"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Geometry & Analysis Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Xiaodong Cao (Cornell)
"Harnack Inequalities, Heat Kernel Estimates and the Ricci flow "
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ NYU Courant Institute) $Seminar Homepage$
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 121, Myer Hall
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Myer Hall Lobby
Andrew Snowden (MIT)
"Integral structures on de Rham cohomology"
5:30pm, Room 121, Myer Hall

Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Graduate Student Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Johan de Jong (Columbia)
"Brauer groups and quotient stacks"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
John Baldwin (Princeton University)
"The equivalence of transverse link invariants in knot Floer homology"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Probability Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Tom Kurtz (Wisconsin)
"Particle representations for SPDEs and a model of asset price determination"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math
Geometric Topology Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Harold Sultan (Columbia)
"Large Scale Geometry of Teichmuller Space; Thickness and Divergence"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
General Relativity Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
No Seminar This Week
Algebraic Geometry Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Andrew Snowden (MIT)
"Syzygies of Segre embeddings"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
ORDERS OF INFINITY: DATAMATICS
A Conversation About Art, Physics and Mathematics
Ryoji Ikeda (electronic composer and visual artist)
Brian Greene (Professor Mathematics and Physics, Columbia)
Benedict Gross (Professor of Mathematics, Harvard/visiting Eilenberg Lecturer)
6:30pm, Prentis Hall, Room 101