Fall 2009 talk schedule

We usually meet in 508 Math at 7:00 and the talk takes place in 520 or 507 nearby.

September 16 **Wednesday**Andre Carneiro
Columbia Grad Student
Ergodic Theory
September 23 **Wednesday**Harold Sultan
Columbia Grad Student
Geometric Group Theory, an Introduction
September 30 **Wednesday**Allison Gilmore
Columbia Grad Student
The strong perfect graph conjecture
October 7 **Wednesday**Karol Koziol
Columbia Grad Student
What you can do with $p$-adic analysis
October 14 **Wednesday**James McIvor
Columbia Undergrad
Coxeter Complexes and Buildings
October 21 **Wednesday**Jonathan Bloom
Columbia Grad Student
The Jones Polynomial, Khovanov Homology, and Link Mutation
October 28 **Wednesday**Alexander Ellis
Columbia Grad Student
Kirchoff's Circuit Laws
November 4 **Wednesday**Shou-Wu Zhang
Columbia
Rational points on curves
November 11 **Wednesday**Atanas Atanasov
Columbia Undergrad
Morse theory and homology
November 18 **Wednesday**Alexander Perry
Columbia Undergrad
Categories and Sheaves Geometrically
November 25 **Wednesday**No talk.
Happy Thanksgiving.
December 2 **Wednesday**Atanas Atanasov
Columbia Undergrad
Categorification and Khovanov homology
December 9 **Wednesday**Tom Peters
Columbia Grad Student
Topology and distributed computing

Past talks