Week of November 14, 2011
Monday
- Informal KRF Seminar
Thomas Nyberg
"Contracting divisors along the KRF I"
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
- Informal Categorification and Representation Theory Seminar
Michael McBreen (Princeton)
"Introduction to geometric representation theory"
4:15pm, Room 528 Math
- Discrete Math Seminar
Kathrine Edwards (Princeton)
"Packing T-joins in Planar Graphs"
4:30pm, Room 303 Mudd
Wednesday
- Risk Seminar
Phillip Protter (Columbia)
"Estimating the volatility coefficient in a simple model of a risky asset price"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW - Department Colloquium
No Seminar This Week - Undergraduate Math Society
David Vela-Vick (Columbia)
"Seeing and believing Gauss-Bonnet"
7:00pm, Room 507/508 Math
Thursday
- Probability Seminar
Northeast Probability Seminar (NYU Courant Institute)
- Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Adam Jacob (Columbia)
"The Yang-Mills flow and the Atiyah-Bott formula on compact Kähler manifolds"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math - Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Artem Pulemotov (University of Chicago)
"Prescribed Ricci curvature on a solid torus"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ Columbia University)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 622 Math
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room 508 Math
Nicolas Templier (Princeton)
"Sup-norm of automorphic forms"
5:30pm, Room 312 Math
Friday
- Probability Seminar
Northeast Probability Seminar (NYU Courant Institute) - Informal Heegaard Floer Seminar
Rumen Zarev
"Overview of bordered Heegaard Floer invariants"
9:30am, Room 417 Math - Graduate Student Seminar
Daniel Disegni (Columbia)
"Brauer-Manin obstruction to existence of rational points"
10:30am, Room 312 Math
- Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Rumen Zarev (UC Berkeley)
"Toward a minus version of bordered Heegaard Floer homology"
10:45am, Room 417 Math - Geometric Topology Seminar
Greg Kuperberg
"Zariski denseness of mapping class group representations"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math - General Relativity Seminar
Carla Cederbaum (Duke University)
"The Newtonian Limit of Geometrostatics"
1:30pm, Room 507 Math
- Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Lev Borisov (Rutgers)
"On the conjecture of King for smooth toric Deligne-Mumford stacks"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
