MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 17
Physics Colloquium:
Michael Witherell (Fermilab)
"The
next discoveries in particle physics"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
20
Samuel Eilenberg
Lectures:
Tom Ilmanen (ETH Zürich
& Columbia)
"Mean
curvature flow"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508
Math.
Geometry and
Analysis: (H. Bray,
M.T. Wang)
Dan Knopf (Iowa)
"Anatomy
of a Ricci flow neckpinch"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
William Stein
(Harvard)
"Visualizing
Mordell-Weil groups"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00
p.m.,
Tea will be served
on
the fourth floorMath Lounge at 5:00 p.m.,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Probability: (I.
Karatzas)
CUNI Northeast Probability Seminar (No
Seminar at Columbia).
Geometric Topology:
(J. Birman,
W. Neumann,
I. Kofman)
Igor Mineyev (UIUC, IAS)
"Geodesic
flows on hyperbolic spaces"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 11:00 a.m., 507 Math.
ISCAP:
(B.
Greene,
T. Baltz)
Tomislav Prokopec (University of
Heidelberg)
"Production of Massless Fermion in Inflation"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.
Joint
COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON
(Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential
Geometry:
(J. Cheeger,
D.H. Phong,
G. Tian)
Richard Hamilton (Columbia)
"The Ricci flow I"
Courant, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Richard Hamilton (Columbia)
"The Ricci flow II"
Courant, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
TRIPLE HEADER:
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman,
M. Thaddeus)
2:00 Ravi Vakil (Stanford)
"A
geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule"
3:30 William Fulton (Michigan) "Equivariant
cohomology and degeneracy loci"
5:00
Robert MacPherson
(IAS) TITLE: TBA
All seminars will take place in room 417 Math.
