This Week

Week of February 20, 2012

Informal KRF Seminar $Seminar Homepage$
Adam Jacob (Columiba)
"Volume and capacity of sublevel sets of a Lelong class of plurisubharmonic functions"
4:00pm, Room 507 Math

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
Edward Frenkel (UC Berkley)
"The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Applied Mathematics Colloquium $Seminar Homepage$
Gideon Simpson (School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota)
"Analysis of Parallel Replica Dynamics"
2:45pm, Room 214 Mudd
Discrete Math Seminar
Stavros Kolliopoulos (University of Athens and Columbia)
"Planar Disjoint-Paths Completion"
3:30pm, Room 317 Mudd
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Joshua Beach
"Entrepreneurship"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Department Colloquium
Michel Broué (Paris VII)
"GLn(x) where x is an indeterminate ?"
5:00pm, Room 520 Math
Undergraduate Math Society
Speaker TBA
7:00pm, Room 508 Math

Informal Complex Geometry and PDE Seminar
Sławomir Dinew
"Hölder continuous solutions to Monge-Ampère equations"
2:40pm, Room 520 Math
Risk Seminar
Alexander Tartakovsky (University of Southern California)
"Recent Advances in Quickest Changepoint Detection"
4:10pm, Room 903 SSW
Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Tuomo Kuusi (Aalto University)
"Linear potentials in nonlinear potential theory"
4:30pm, Room 507 Math
Number Theory, Joint w/ CUNY and NYU (@ Columbia University)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45, Room 528
Tea served 5:00-5:30, Room 508 Math
Lucien Szpiro (CUNY)
"Local and global invariants of polarized self maps"
5:30pm, Room 312 Math
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar
Yury Blyakhman (JPMorgan Chase)
"Mathematical Modelling in Emerging Markets. Practical Aspects"
7:40pm, Room 207 Math

Graduate Student Seminar
A.J. de Jong (Columbia)
"Crystalline Cohomology"
10:00am, Room 312 Math
Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar
Alexandru Oancea (Strasbourg/IAS)
"S^1-equivariant symplectic homology and linearized contact homology"
10:45am, Room 520 Math
Special Probability Seminar
Alexander Tartakovsky (University of Southern California)
"Monotone Properties of the First Exit Time of a Markov Process Started at a Quasistationary Distribution"
11:00am, Room 903 SSW
Geometric Topology
Joseph Maher
"Growth rates for stable commutator length"
1:15pm, Room 520 Math
Probability Seminar
Chris Burdzy (University of Washington)
"Shy couplings, lion and man, and rubber band domains"
12:00pm, Room 903 SSW
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Weizhe Zheng (Columbia)
"Enhanced six operations on Artin stacks"
2:00pm, Room 417 Math
Minerva Foundation Lectures
Grigori Olshanski
"Determinantal processes and related topics"
3:15pm, Room 520 Math