Physics Colloquium:
Gerhard Abstreiter (Technische Universität München)
“Manipulating and Controlling Semiconductor Quantum Dots”
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Avy Soffer (Rutgers)
"A new approach to solving dispersive wave equations by absorbing boundaries:
     Time dependent phase space filtering"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Frank Calegari (Harvard)
"Galois representations over general number fields"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
"Overview of topics for projects"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Special Number Theory:
Ralph Greenberg (University of Washington)
"Elliptic curves with supersingular reduction"
10:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Princeton Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2006 & Special Day on Markov Processes in honor of
     Erhan Çinlar on his 65th Birthday

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Jozef Przytycki (George Washington)
"Hochschild homology and combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Jake P. Solomon (MIT)
"Open Gromov-Witten theory"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
Burt Totaro (Cambridge)
"When does a curve move on a surface, especially over finite fields?"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.

Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lectures
Robert MacPherson (IAS)
"Topology and the Langlands program"
4:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.