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
TUES
DAY, 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