Congratulations to Ivan Corwin for being awarded the prestigious Rollo Davidson prize in Probability for 2014.

This award recognizes Prof. Corwin’s outstanding achievements in the area of stochastic growth processes and their relation to integrable systems.

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The Spring 2014 Minerva Lectures by Prof. Martin Hairer (University of Warwick) will take place during the week of February 24, 2014.

Prof. Hairer will deliver a five talk series titled:

“Regularity Structures”

Abstract: When considering the large-scale behaviour of physical models arising naturally in statistical mechanics, one is often lead to stochastic partial differential equations that seem to be nonsensical: they are typically nonlinear with nonlinearities involving products of distributions. Examples of such models are the KPZ equation, the dynamical $\Phi^4_3$ model, the continuous parabolic Anderson model, etc. The theory of regularity structures provides a unified way of interpreting and analysing these equations in a robust way. It also provides a clean separation of the problem into an algebraic, an analytic, and a probabilistic component. I will give an introduction to the main concepts and results of the theory, as well as a number of applications.

February 24 – 27, 2014 from 5:30pm-7pm, Room 507 Math
February 28, 2014 from 11am-1pm, SSW 903 (1255 Amsterdam Ave.)

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The Fall 2013 Ritt Lectures by Professor Sir Simon Donaldson will take place on November 7th and November 8th. Professor Donaldson (Imperial College; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) will deliver a two talk series titled:

“Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds”

Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 5:30pm in Room 312 Math
Friday, November 8, 2013 at 5:30pm in Room 203 Math

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Eugene Gorsky has been awarded the 2013 Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society for his work “The homology of algebraic knots”. The prize is awarded to young scientists for work or series of works on mathematics, representing a significant scientific interest.

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Columbia counts six faculty members among the invited speakers at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, more than any other institution.

They are Mohammed Abouzaid, Maria Chudnovsky, Ivan Corwin, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Michael Harris, and Davesh Maulik. They join fourteen current Columbia faculty who have given invited addresses at past Congresses. Congratulations to all our speakers!

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Prof. Joe Harris (Harvard University) will give a weekly lecture every Friday during the Fall 2013 semester for the Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series. The lectures begin on Friday, September 6, 2013.

Title: Parameter Spaces in Algebraic Geometry

Abstract: One of the most fundamental aspects of algebraic geometry is the existence of parameter spaces: in other words, the fact that certain classes of objects (for example, curves of given degree and genus in projective space) are themselves naturally parameterized by other varieties and schemes. The presence of these parameter spaces enriches the subject tremendously, both helping us frame questions about varieties and giving us tools to answer them. In this series of talks, we’ll explore this idea, focusing on examples and open problems.

Time: 12pm – 1pm

Venue: Room 312 Math

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The GTiNY Conference will be held at Columbia University from Monday, August 12, 2013 through Friday, August 16, 2013.

Mathematics Building, Room 312

Please click HERE for more information regarding the conference.

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Analysis, Complex Geometry, and Mathematical Physics: A Conference in Honor of Duong H. Phong

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 – Saturday, May 11, 2013

*Conference Program*

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Congratulations to Dusa McDuff for her election as a member of the American Philosophical Society.

The APS promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Congratulations to Herve Jacquet & Duong H. Phong for their election as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Academy is an international learned society aimed to elect membership to men and women of exceptional achievement drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts. The Academy also conducts a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs and problems of society.

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