Week of October 31, 2011
Monday
- Special Probability Seminar
Walter Schachermayer (University of Vienna)
"Doob's maximal inequality, the Bichteler-Dellacherie theorem, and Arbitrage"
12:00pm, Room 1025 Stat - Informal KRF Seminar
Daniel Rubin
"The KRF through singularities"
5:00pm, Room 507 Math
Tuesday
- Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
"Representation theory and number theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Applied Mathematics Colloquium
No Seminar This Week
- Discrete Math Seminar
Martin Loebl (Charles University, Prague)
"Perfect matchings and 2-dimensional graph embeddings"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Aaron Brown (AQR Capital Management)
"Revenge of the rocket scientists"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW - Department Colloquium
Gunther Uhlmann (U. Washington)
"Cloaking and Transformation Optics"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math - Undergraduate Math Society
Speaker TBA
7:00pm, Room 507/508 Math
Thursday
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia)
"Bounds on volume growth of geodesic balls under Ricci flow"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
No Seminar This Week - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Henrik Shahgholian (The Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden)
"On the singularities of a free boundary through Fourier expansion"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ CUNY Graduate Center)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room C197
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room C197
Emmanuel Breuillard (Université Paris-Sud)
"Heights on character varieties of reductive groups and a uniform Tits alternative"
5:30pm, Room C197
Friday
- Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
No Seminar This Week (See Geometric Topology Seminar) - Graduate Student Seminar
Xue Hang (Columbia)
"The period-index problem for the Brauer group of an algebraic surface"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Florent Schaffhauser (University of Los Andes)
"Yang-Mills equations over Klein surfaces"
10:45am, Room 417 Math
Raphael Rouquier (UCLA)
"Kazhdan-Lusztig theory and Calogero-Moser spaces"
3:30pm, Room 507 Math - Probability Seminar
Marcel Nutz (Columbia)
"A Quasi-Sure Approach to the Control of Non-Markovian Stochastic Differential Equations"
12:00pm, Room 520 Math - Geometric Topology Seminar
Tali Pinsky (Technion)
"Knotted geodesics on Hecke triangles"
9:30am, Room 520 Math
Joan Licata
"Legendrian knot invariants in Seifert fibered spaces"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math - General Relativity Seminar
No Seminar This Week
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Alastair King (Bath)
"Mysterious duality"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
