Week of October 17, 2011
Monday
- Informal KRF Seminar
Donovan McFeron
"Finite time extinction of the Kahler-Ricci flow"
CANCELLED
Tuesday
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Bjorn Birnir (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"The Kolmogorov-Obukov Theory of Turbulence"
2:45 PM, 214 Mudd - Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
Pedro Vaz (University of Zurich and IST Lisbon)
"Categorified q-Schur algebra and the BMW algebra"
4:15pm, Room 528 Math
- Discrete Math Seminar
Andrew King (SFU)
"Optimal decompositions of quasi-line trigraphs"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Sasha Stoikov (Cornell University)
"Forecasting prices from level-1 quotes in the presence of hidden liquidity"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
- Department Colloquium
No Seminar This Week - Undergraduate Math Society
No Seminar This Week
Thursday
- Minerva Lectures
Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
"Phase transitions in stochastic processes with long-range interactions: a multiscale analysis approach"
9:10am, Room 507 Math - Special Geometric Topology Seminar
Matthias Kreck (Bonn)
"From cutting and pasting to topological quantum field theories"
11:00am, Room 622 Math
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
Ben Cooper (University of Virginia)
"Handle slides and localizations"
4:15pm, Room 528 Math - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Marcelo Mendes Disconzi (Stony Brook)
"A Compactness Theorem for the Yamabe Problem on Manifolds With
Boundary"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ NYU Courant Institute)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 121 Myer Hall
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room 121 Myer Hall
Jacob Tsimerman (Harvard)
"Lower Bounds for Galois Orbits of CM Points"
5:30pm, Room 121 Myer Hall
Friday
- Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Graduate Student Seminar
Johan de Jong (Columbia)
"Groupes de Brauer III"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Emmanuel Wagner (Institut Mathématique de Bourgogne)
"Alexander polynomial and enhanced Kauffman states"
9:30am, Room 417 Math
Sobhan Seyfaddini (UC Berkeley)
"C^0 limits of Hamiltonian paths and spectral invariants"
10:45am, Room 417 Math - Probability Seminar
Alexander Fribergh (Courant)
"Phase transition for the speed of a biased random walk on a supercritical percolation cluster"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math - Geometric Topology Seminar
Feng Luo (Rutgers)
"Solving Thurston's equation in the real numbers"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math - General Relativity Seminar
No Seminar This Week
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Anand Deopurkar (Harvard)
"Alternate compactifications of Hurwitz spaces"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
