COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17, 2008

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Physics Colloquium:
 Tony Heinz (Physics, Columbia)
"Carbon nanotubes and graphene: Electrons in model one and two dimensional materials"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
 Mark Hoefer (APAM Department, Columbia)
 "Dispersive Shock Waves and Their Interactions"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Dan Bienstock
 "Recent results on lifted formulations for integer programs"
5:00 p.m., 507 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

 Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
 Neil Trudinger (Australian National University)
"The higher order Yamabe problem"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
 Tuomo Kuusi (Columbia and TKK)
"Harnack estimates for weak supersolutions to nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
 RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
Number Theory
(D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel, A.. Venkatesh, S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
 Tonghai Yang  (Wisconsin)
"A variant of the Gross-Zagier formula"
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

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.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
No seminar this week instead there will be:
 Northeast Probability Seminar (Nov. 20-21)
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

 Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
 Danny Calegari (Caltech)
"Stable commutator length in free groups"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory and the
NY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Cagatay Kutluhan (U. Michigan)
"Seiberg-Witten Floer homology and symplectic forms on S^1xM^3"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Michael Hutchings (U.C. Berkeley)
"The Weinstein conjecture for stable Hamiltonian structures"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 David Harbater (Penn)
"Applications of a local-global principle to quadratic forms and Brauer groups"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

 Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
No seminar this week: NY Joint Symplectic Geometry 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.