TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
4
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)
Thomas Tucker
(University
of Rochester)
"Dynamical
Mordell-Lang problems"
5:30-7:00 p.m.,
CUNY Graduate Center, Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C415.
C-level: one
floor down from lobby.
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
7
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)
Dragomir Saric
(SUNY,
Stony Brook)
"The
mapping class group cannot be realized by homeomorphisms"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.
Probability:
(J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R.
Neel, E. Schertzer)
Arnaud
Doucet (UBC)
"Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods"
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee
and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.
New York Joint
Symplectic Geometry and Gauge
Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Liam Watson (UQŔM and CIRGET,
Canada)
"Involutions
on 3-manifolds and Khovanov homology"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Vera Vertesi (Eötvös Loránd U.,
Hungary)
"Legendrian
knots and Heegaard Floer homologies"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Radu Laza
(Michigan)
"Triangulations
of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.
Columbia Informal
Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week:
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.