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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

SPECIAL Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Dani Wise (McGill)
"
Special cube complexes"
NOTE TIME and LOCATION: 4:00 p.m., 622 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Dan Kabat (Columbia, Physics)

TITLE: TBA

4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
John Wilson (GFDL and Princeton)
"Simulations of transient eddies and frontal systems in the Martian atmosphere"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

SPECIAL Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Tech)
"Gevrey series in quantum topology"
NOTE TIME and LOCATION: 4:00 p.m., 622 Math.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Bong Lian (Brandeis)
"Chiral equivariant cohomology"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. SesumZ. Hou)
Robert Neel

"Small time asymptotics of the heat kernel at the cut locus"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. SarnakL. Szpiro)
Richard Taylor (Harvard)
"The Sato-Tate conjecture"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Ming-Lun Hsieh
"P-adic representations of local fields (after Fontaine)"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

DOUBLE HEADER I: Probability: (P. Bank)
Martin Schweizer
(ETH, Zurich)
TITLE: TBA
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Tech)
"Resurgent functions in quantum topology"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Alina Marian  (Yale)
"
Verlinde formulas on moduli spaces of vector bundles via Quot schemes"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Probability: (P. Bank)
Peter Friz (Cambridge)
"Some applications of rough path theory to stochastic analysis"
2:30 p.m., 622 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Mike Usher (Princeton)

"The topology of symplectic sums of four-manifolds"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Graeme Segal (All Souls' College, Oxford
& Columbia)
"The Mathematical Structure of Quantum Field Theories"

3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.