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

WEEK OF OCTOBER 6, 2008

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6

Physics Colloquium:
Katherine Freese (Michigan)
"Dark Matter in the Universe"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
Jason Fleischer (Princeton)
"Towards Optical Hydrodynamics"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd


Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Zeev Dvir (IAS)
"
The finite field Kakeya conjecture"

5:00 p.m., 303 Mudd.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Frans Oort (Columbia and Utrecht)
"
Monodromy"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine)
"
Normal scalar curvature conjecture and its applications"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG  Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh, S. Zhang,  L. Szpiro)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Frans Oort (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Moduli of Abelian Varieties"
10:30-11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m., 312 Math.

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

Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
David Futer (Temple)

"
Cusp volume of fibered 3-manifolds"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Bruce Driver (UCSD)
"Integrated Harnack inequalities and the Cameron-Martin theorem"

12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
Frol Zapolsky (Tel Aviv U.)
"
Symplectic quasi-states and applications"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Gueorgui Todorov (Princeton
)
"
Pluricanonical maps on threefolds"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.


Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar
:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz
)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar in Algebraic Geometry
: (F. Oort, J. de Jong)

"Abelian varieties over finite fields"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 312 Math.