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November 9, 2009

Tuesday

• Algebraic D-Modules
  No meeting this week.
  2:30 p.m., Math 528
• Applied Mathematics
  Vadim Zharnitsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  "Near-Linear Dynamics in KdV with Periodic Boundary Conditions"
  2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
  
• Discrete Math
  Yori Zwols (Columbia)
  "Fractionally and Integrally Co-Strongly Perfect C Law-Free Graphs "
  3 p.m., Mudd 303
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  "Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
  5:30 p.m., Math 312

Wednesday

• Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry
  Pal Ambrus (Imperial College London)
  "The Manin Constant of Elliptic Curves Over Function Fields"
  1:30-4:30 p.m., Math 622
• Mathematics Colloquium
  Haim Brezis (Rutgers, Paris 6, and Technion)
  "Can You Hear the Winding Number?"
  5 p.m., Math 520. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. in Mathematics Room 508.

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis
  Xiaodong Cao
  "Differential Harnack Inequalities Under the Ricci Flow"
  4:30 p.m., Math 507
• Joint Number Theory
  Antoine Chambert -Loir (Rennes and IAS)
  "Heights, Equidistribution, Analytic Spaces, and a Formula of Mahler"
  RTG Seminar 4-4:45 p.m.
  Number Theory Seminar: 5:30 p.m.
  CUNY Graduate Center C415. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in C415, C-level, one floor down from lobby.
  
• Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
  Tien-Cuong Dinh
  "Exponential Estimates for Plurisubharmonic Functions and Applications to Dynamics"
  2:40 p.m., Math 203

Friday

• Informal Symplectic Geometry
  TBA
  9:30 a.m., 417 Math
  
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Joan Licata (Stanford)
  "Differential Algebras for Legendrian Knots in Contact Lens Spaces"
  10:45 a.m., Math 417
• Probability
  Yuri Bakhtin (Georgia Tech)
  "SPDE Approximation for Random Trees"
  12 p.m., Math 520
• Geometric Topology
  Daniel Moskovich (RIMS, Kyoto)
  "Surgery and Bordism for Colored Knots"
  1:15 p.m., Math 520
• Algebraic Geometry
  Joint Columbia-Courant-Princeton Algebraic Geometry Seminar