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

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19, 2007

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Physics Colloquium:
Massimo Porrati (Physics,
NYU)
"
The Invisible Hand, or How String Theory Changed Our View of the Visible Universe"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Kai Germaschewsk (CUNY, Staten Island)

"Computational results for the tearing mode and its diamagnetic stabilization"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
David Phillips (Columbia and College of William and Mary)
"Approximating semidefinite packing problems"
4:00 p.m., 750 Shapiro CEPSR
The location of the seminar will alternate between 750 Shapiro CEPSR and 622 Mathematics

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Thanksgiving Holiday
 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Thanksgiving Holiday