COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF OCTOBER 25, 2004

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
John Baldwin
"Homotopy groups, Thom Spaces, and the oriented Cobordism ring
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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:
James Glimm (SUNY-SB)
"Recent developments in front tracking & its applications"

2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

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.