Columbia University Mathematics ColloquiumSpring 2011 |
The Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 approximately every three weeks on Wednesday afternoons at 5:00, and is preceded by tea at 4:30. Colloquia are of general mathematical interest and aimed at both faculty and graduate students.
Please click on the title for the abstract of the talk.
| Jan. 26 | Zoltán Szabó (Princeton) | A geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology |
| Feb. 16 | Jacob Rasmussen (Cambridge and the Simons Center) | Genus-minimizing surfaces in 3 and 4 dimensions |
| March 2 | Michael Harris (Paris 7 and the IAS) | Adjoint L-functions and families of Galois representations |
| March 9 | H. Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook) | Geometric Aspects of the Dirichlet Problem |
| March 23 | Claude Viterbo (Columbia and Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) | Homogenization and symplectic topology |
| April 6 | Christopher Skinner (Princeton) | Algebraicity of special values of L-functions |
| April 13 | Toby Gee (Northwestern) | Potential Automorphy |
| April 20 | Yongbin Ruan (U. of Michigan) | Towards a global mirror symmetry |
| April 27 | John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) | Invariants of embeddings and immersions via contact geometry |
| May 4 | Juan Luis Vazquez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) | Fast Diffusion Equation. Entropies, Functional Analysis and Asymptotics |
Past semesters' pages: Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010.
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Co-Organizers: Robert Lipshitz, Rachel Ollivier, and Mu-Tao Wang