COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 5, 2007

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Physics Colloquium:
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.  ACADEMIC HOLIDAY.

 Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.  ACADEMIC HOLIDAY.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6


 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G. Bal)
 NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK.  UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY.

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.  UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Gabriele LaNave (Yeshiva)
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
 Noam Elkies  (Harvard)
"How many points can a genus 2 curve have?"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor .at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Geometric Topology: DOUBLE HEADER I:  (D. Thurston)
Lev Birbrair (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil)
"Metric properties of conflict sets"
10:00 a.m., 507 Math.

 Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Steven Shreve (Carnegie-Mellon University)
"The double Skorohod map and real-time queues"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology: DOUBLE HEADER II: (D. Thurston)
Dan Silver (University of South Alabama)
"When knots don't fiber"
NOTE TIME: 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 Josh Greene (Princeton)
"Concordance order and three-stranded pretzel knots"
NOTE TIME: 2:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
 Benjamin Schraen (ENS)
"Local analytic induction for GL(2,F)"
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 621 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Kai Behrend  (University of British Columbia)
"Donaldson-Thomas invariants"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
“Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
3:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.