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

WEEK OF OCTOBER 29, 2007

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29

Physics Colloquium:
Geralyn Sam Zeller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"MiniBooNE: Not Just for Neutrino Oscillations Anymore"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

 Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
Tim Perutz
"Lagrangian correspondences for fibered four-manifolds: Part 3"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30


 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G. Bal)
 John Schotland (University of Pennsylvania)
"3D optical imaging at the nanoscale"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Mark Zuckerberg (BHP Billiton)
"A 3-D Tiling problem in mine scheduling"
4:00 p.m., 750 Shapiro CEPSR
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31

Colloquium: ( P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban, M-T Wang)
 Charles Fefferman (Princeton & Columbia)
 "Some unsolved problems on turbulent fluids"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Xiaodong Cao (Cornell)
"Cross Curvature Flow on Locally Homogenous Three-manifolds"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
 Rob Benedetto (Amherst)
"Another n-point abc conjecture"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Predrag Jelenkovic
"Characterizing heavy-tailed distributions induced by retransmissions"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 Peter Kronheimer (Harvard)
"Knot invariants from singular instantons"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
 Jacques Tilouine (Paris 13)
"Companion forms for GSp(4)"
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 622 Math.

 Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Gordana Matic  (University of Georgia)
"Contact invariant in sutured Floer homology"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
 Brent Doran  (IAS)
"'Let X x A^1 = A^n. Please solve for X', and related questions"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
“Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds"
3:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.