MONDAY, DECEMBER 5
Physics
Colloquium:
Chris Dawson (RIKEN BNL
Research Center)
"CP
violation and lattice QCD"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.
Informal
Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth)
Mikhail Khovanov
"Link homology"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Alexander
Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and IAS)
"Property
'tau', pro-p groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 520 Math.
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 8
Geometry
and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,
X-D.
Cao, S. Paul)
Regina Rotman (Penn
State)
"Curvature-free
estimates for the length of geodesic loops and related topics"
NOTE TIME: 3:00
p.m., 622 Math.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
Fritz Grunewald
(Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and IAS)
"Zeta functions of groups and rings"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served at
5:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9
Probability: (I.
Karatzas, P. Bank)
Robert Neel
"The heat kernel at the cut
locus with connections to Brownian motion"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
Geometric
Topology: (P.J. Lamberson,
K.
Kawamuro)
Jason Behrstock (Utah)
"Dimension
and rank in the mapping class group"
1
:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
geometry: (P.S.
Ozsváth)
Stefan Friedl
(Rice)
"Twisted
Alexander polynomials and symplectic structures"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Sean Keel (UT, Austin)
"Modular
and log canonical compactifications of moduli of del Pezzo surfaces"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.