MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Physics Colloquium:
NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK.
Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)
"Legendrian knot
theory"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Applied
Mathematics Colloquium:
Steven
Shipman (Louisiana State)
"Study of open linear systems via their closed extensions"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)
"Legendrian
knots and topology"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Gauge Theory: (P.S.
Ozsváth)
Lenny Ng (Stanford University)
"Knot
invariants from contact homology"
(NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION) 4:00 p.m., 622 Math
Geometry
and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,
X-D.
Cao, Sean Paul)
Robert McCann ( Univ. of Toronto)
"Sharp
decay rates and next asymptotics for fast nonlinear diffusion"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
Dan Goldston (San Jose State)
"Primes
in tuples"
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 30
Probability: (I.
Karatzas, P. Bank)
Peter Imkeller (Humboldt, University of Berlin)
"Levy noise induced transitions"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
Geometric
Topology: (P.J. Lamberson,
K.
Kawamuro)
Mikami Hirasawa (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and
Columbia)
"Studies of fibred knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Radu Laza
"Deformations
of singularities and variations of GIT quotients II"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.
