MONDAY, OCTOBER 25
Elementary Methods: (B.
Mezhericher)
John Baldwin
"Homotopy
groups, Thom Spaces, and the oriented Cobordism ring"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.
Physics Colloquium:
Steve Koonin (British
Petroleum)
"A physicist's view of the
world's energy situation"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26
Applied Mathematics Colloquium:THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau
(Columbia &
Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
2:40 p.m-3:55 p.m., 203 Math
Geometry and Analysis: (M.T.
Wang,
M.P. Tsui)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
Wenzhi
Luo (Ohio State)
"New nonvanishing theorems for automorphic L-functions
on GL(n)"
Columbia, 520 Math,
5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
Probability: (P.
Bank)
Paul Dupuis (Brown)
"Subsolutions to an Isaacs equation and importance sampling for stochastic
networks"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Geometric Topology:
(C.
Leininger)
Tim Cochran (Rice)
"Knots,
Gropes and von Neumann rho-invariants"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
Geometry:
(P.
Ozsvath)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
TRIPLE
HEADER I:
Algebraic Geometry: (M.
Thaddeus)
Gabriele Mondello
(MIT)
"Combinatorial
and tautological classes on the moduli space of curves"
2:00 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.
TRIPLE
HEADER II:
Algebraic Geometry:
(M. Thaddeus)
Maryam Mirzakhani
(Princeton)
"Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves and simple closed
geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.
TRIPLE
HEADER III:
Algebraic Geometry:
(M. Thaddeus)
Nikita Nekrasov
(IHES)
"Instanton
counting and Seiberg-Witten curves
"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.