COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 20, 2008

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

Physics Colloquium:
 Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton)
Title: TBA
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

 MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
 Shige Peng (Institute of Mathematics, Sandong University)
 "Coherent and convex risk measures, and the related time-consistent nonlinear expectations"
10:00-11:30 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
 Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
 Paul François (Rockefeller University)
 "Deriving structure from computational evolution"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Dan Cranston (DIMACS and Bell Labs)
"Colorings, crossings, and cliques"
5:00 p.m., 303 Mudd.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
 Shige Peng (Institute of Mathematics, Sandong University)
 "Coherent and convex risk measures, and the related time-consistent nonlinear expectations"
10:00-11:30 a.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
 Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

 Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
 Jian Song (Rutgers)
"Canonical measures and Kahler-Ricci flow"
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)
Ulrich Derenthal  (Princeton)
"Rational points on cubic surfaces"
5:30-7:00 p.m.
NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m. also in room 202 WWH

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

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 Bachman (Pitzer College)
"Topological index theory for surfaces in 3-manifolds"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Brian Rider (U. Colorado, Boulder)
"Beta ensembles, random Schroedinger, and diffusion"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:15 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
12:00 noon., 520 Math.

New York Joint Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Aleksey Zinger (SUNY Stonybrook)
"From Gromov-Witten invariants to integer counts"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT)
"A restriction functor in Lagrangian Floer homology"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.

 Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
David Smyth (Harvard)
Title: TBA
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

 Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week: NY Area Joint Symplectic Seminar instead.
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.