November 16, 2009

Monday

• D.E. Shaw Group Tech Talk (Special Informal Seminar by Mathematical Finance)
  Janos Csirik
  " My Experiences with Mathematics Outside Academia"
  7:40 p.m., Math 207

Tuesday

• Video Seminar Series
  Vincent Pilloni (Columbia)
  "Overconvergent Modular Forms and Abelian Surfaces"
  Noon, Mudd 644
  
• Algebraic D-Modules
  "Non-Commutative Localization"
  2:30 p.m., Math 528
• Applied Mathematics
  Willy Wriggers (D.E. Shaw Research/Weill Cornell Medical College)
  "Coarse Grained Models for Molecular Structure Refinement and Dynamics"
  2:45 p.m., Mudd 214
  
• Discrete Math
  Alexandra Fradkin (Princeton)
  "A Polynomial Algorithm for the Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem in Tournaments"
  3 p.m., Math 622
• Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  Richard Schoen (Stanford)
  "Scalar Curvature in Differential Geometry"
  5:30 p.m., Math 312

Wednesday

• Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry
  Dennis Eriksson (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  " A Deligne-Riemann-Roch Isomorphism and Some Geometric Consequences"
  1:30-4:30 p.m., Math 622 
  

Thursday

• Geometry and Analysis
  Jeff Streets (Princeton University)
  Title: TBA
  4:30 p.m., Math 507
• Joint Number Theory
  David Harbater (University of Pennsylvania)
  "Patching and a Local-Global Principle"
  RTG Seminar 4-4:45 p.m.
  Number Theory Seminar: 5:30 p.m.
  NYU Courant Institute. All talks in Warren Weaver Hall 317. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. in WWH 312.
  
• Informal Complex Geometry and PDE
  Gábor Székelyhidi
  "K-Stability of Constant Scalar Curvature Kähler Manifolds"
  2:40 p.m., Math 203

Friday

• Informal Symplectic Geometry
  Evan Fink (Columbia)
  "Floer Homology of Mapping Tori"
  9:30 a.m., 417 Math
  
• Symplectic Geometry and Analysis
  Mark McLean (MIT)
  "Exotic Non-Finite Type Stein Manifolds."
  10:45 a.m., Math 417
• Probability - Northeast Probability Seminar
  Rick Kenyon (Brown University) "The vector-bundle Laplacian on a graph"
  Claudia Neuhauser (University of Minnesota)"When Genealogy Meets Ecology"
  Giovanni Peccati (Université Paris Ouest)"Universality of the Gaussian Wiener Chaos"
  Craig Tracy (University of California, Davis) "Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: Integrable Structure and Limit Theorems"
• Geometric Topology
  Jeremy Kahn (Stony Brook)
  "Essential Immersed Surfaces in Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds"
  1:15 p.m., Math 520
• Algebraic Geometry
  Tobias Dyckerhoff (Pennsylvania)
  "Isolated Hypersurface Singularities as Noncommutative Spaces"
  2:30 p.m., Math 417