Previous Seminars, by year/semester

2012

• Spring

2011

• Fall
• Spring

2010

• Fall
• Spring

2009

• Fall
• Spring

We maintain an archive for lectures prior to 2009.

Previous Lectures and Conferences, by year

2012  |  2011  |  2010  |  2009  |  2008  |  2007  |  2006

2012

• Columbia-Princeton Probability Day
  March 2, 2012

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  Pierre Colmez (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
  “p-adic analysis and Galois representations”
  April  19, 5:30pm / April 20 3:30pm

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture
  Tom Bridgeland (All Souls College, Oxford)
  “Tilting in Calabi-Yau Categories”
  April 23rd, 4:30pm

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2012
  Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley)
  “The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory”
  Tuesdays, 2:40pm, Room 520 Math
  **Video of lectures available here**

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2012
  Grigori Olshanski
  “Determinantal processes and related topics”
  Fridays, 3:15pm, Room 520 Mathematics

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2011

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2011
  Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht)
  “The Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov system and Polydifferentials”
  February 3 & 4, 2011

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2011
  Benson Farb (University of Chicago)
  “Permutations and Polynomiality in Algebra and Topology”
  December 15, 4:30pm
  “Hidden Symmetry”
  December 16, 4:30pm

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2011
• Johannes Muhle-Karbe (ETH Zurich)
  “Shadow Prices in Portfolio Optimization with Transaction Costs”
  February 1, 3, 7 & 8
• Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
  “Dark Markets”
  March 29-April 1
• Joseph Teichmann
  “Affine Processes: Theory & Applications”
  April 18-29, 2011

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2011
• Denis Talay (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
  “Model Risk: Modeling, Analysis, Control and Numerics”
  September 7-15, 2011
• Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
  “Phase transitions in stochastic processes with long-range interactions: a multiscale analysis approach”
  September 22 – October 27, 2011

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2011
  Claire Voisin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  “Hodge Structures on Cohomology Algebras”
  Friday, March 11, 2011

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2011
  Claude Viterbo (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
  “Sympletic Topology from insights to interactions”
  February 23 – April 28, 2011

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2011
  Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
  “Representation theory and number theory”
  Tuesdays, beginning Sept 20, 2:40pm
  **Video of lectures available here**

• The Versatility of Integrability
  A Conference on Integrable systems in algebra, geometry, and physics: celebrating Igor Krichever’s 60th Birthday
  May 4-7, 2011. Conference photos*
  *Photos copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J

• Moduli Spaces and Moduli Stacks
  A conference on moduli of curves, stable maps, vector bundles, coherent sheaves, and the like, and on recent developments in the theory of algebraic stacks.
  May 23-27, 2011

• Walterfest!
  Faces of geometry: 3-manifolds, groups and singularities; a conference in honor of Walter Neumann
  June 6-10, 2011

• Periods of Automorphic forms and Applications to L-functions
  List of speakers and talks
  September 15 – 18 at Columbia University

• Workshop on Equivariant Quantum Differential Equations
  List of speakers/times/locations
  September 16-19

2010

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2010
  David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley)
  “Vector Bundles and Free Resolutions“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2010
  John Horton Conway (Princeton)
  “Pascal’s Hexagram Mysticum and the Hexagrammatic Mystery“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2010
  Clifford Taubes (Harvard University)
  “The Principle of Universal Equivalence”
  December 9th and 10th, 4:30pm

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2010
• Walter Schachermeyer(Vienna)
  “The Asymptotic Theory of Transaction Costs“
• Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge)
  “Lattice Models in Probability“
• Ofer Zeitouni (UMN & Weizmann Institute)
  “Random Walks in Random Environments“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2010
  Boris L. Rozovski (Brown University)
  “Generalized Malliavin Calculus and Stochatstic PDEs“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2010
  Ngô Bào Châu (Institute for Advanced Study)
  “The Hitchin Fibration and the Fundamental Lemma“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2010
  Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago)
  “Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory“

• Ninth Northeast Probability Seminar
  CUNY Graduate Center
  November 18 – 19, 2010

• Benoit Stroh (CNRS-Paris)
  “Do Vanishing Cycles Compute the Cohomology of Shimura Varieties?“

• Mathematics and Statistics/JAFEE, March 9-10, 2010 (Organizers: Jan Vecer, Mikhail Smirnov and Takaki Hayashi).

2009

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2009
  Jacob Lurie (MIT)
  “On the Classification of Topological Field Theories“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2009
  Richard Kenyon (Brown)
  “Laplacians on Graphs andIntegral Laminations“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2009
  Bao Chau Ngo (Institute for Advanced Study)
  “Report on the Fundamental Lemma“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2009
• Hans Foellmer (Humboldt)
  “Convex Risk Measures and Their Dynamics“
• Sara Biagini (University of Pisa)
  “Topics in Portfolio Optimization with General Underlying Assets“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2009
  Jean Bertoin (Universite Paris VI)
  “Exchangeable Coalescents“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2009
  Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
  “Random Surfaces and Algebraic Curves“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2009
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  “Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry“

• Summer 2009 Research Conference in Algebraic Geometry, Spaces of Curves and Their Interaction With Diophantine Problems

• Summer 2009 Workshop and Conference, Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory

• Video Seminar Series with University of Paris 13 and Columbia University

• Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar, Fall 2009

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2008

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2008
  Constantin Teleman (Berkeley)
  “Representations of Groups Over the Category of Vector Spaces“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2008
  David Gabai (Princeton)
  “Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Heegard Splittings of 3-manifolds“

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2008
  Gerhard Huisken (Potsdam)
  “Inverse Mean Curvature Flow and Isoperimetric inequalities“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2008
  Michel Emery (Strasbourg)
  “Five Lectures on Manifold-valued Semimartingales“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2008
  Shige Peng (Sandong)
  “Coherent and Convex Risk Measures, and the Related Time-Consistent Nonlinear Expectations“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2008
  Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
  “Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2008
  Michael Harris (Jussieu)
  “Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representations“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2008
  Frans Oort (Utrecht)
  “Moduli of Abelian Varieties“

2007

• Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2007
  Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2007
  Joseph Harris (Harvard University)

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2007
  David Vogan
  “Geometry and Representations of Reductive Groups“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2007
  William Sudderth (University of Minnesota)
  “Stochastic Dynamic Programming“

• Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2007
  Alison Etheridge (Oxford)
  “Some mathematical models from population genetics“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2007
  William Fulton (University of Michigan, visiting Columbia)
  “Equivariant Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2007
  Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)
  “Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds“

• Conference in honor of Dorian Goldfeld’s 60th birthday, May 18-23, 2007 (Organizers: Jeffrey Hoffstein, Stephen Kudla, Ken Ono, Peter Sarnak and Shouwu Zhang). Conference photos*
  *Photos copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J

2006

• Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2006
  Andrei Okounkov (Princeton)
  “Counting Curves on Algebraic Threefolds“

• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2006
  Graeme Segal (All Souls’ College, Oxford)
  “The Mathematics of Quantum Field Theory“

• Around the Volume Conjecture
  March 13-19, 2006

• Conference on Topology, Geometry and Physics in honor of John Morgan’s 60th Birthday. May 1-4, 2006. Conference photos*
  *Photos copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J

• Automorphic Galois Representations, L-functions and Arithmetic
  June 17-22, 2006

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