MONDAY, APRIL
16
Physics Colloquium:
Saul Teukolsky
(Hans A. Bethe Professor of
Physics and Astrophysics Chair, Physics, Cornel)
"Black
holes and gravitational waves"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
TUESDAY,
APRIL 17
Applied
Mathematics Colloquium: (
A.
Sobel)
Michael Tippett (Columbia University/IRI)
"Measuring predictability with singular vectors"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
THURSDAY,
APRIL 19
ISCAP
Journal Club: (S.
Judes)
12:00 p.m., 908
Pupin.
SPECIAL
Number Theory
: (S.W.
Zhang)
Serge Cantant (Rennes,
France)
"Dynamics and Diophantine geometry on K3 surfaces"
4:00 p.m., 622 Math.
Geometry/Analysis
Seminar:
(Z. Hou,
N. Sesum)
Chiung-Nan
Tsai & Tung To
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number
Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh,
S. Zhang,
L. Szpiro)
Wei Zhang
"Special cycles on
Shimura varieties"
Columbia, 312 Math,
5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.
Mathematics
of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
FRIDAY,
APRIL
20
Number Theory Workshop: (E.
Urban)
Eric Urban
"Stabilization and endoscopy III"
10:00
a.m.-11:30am., 417 Math.
Probability:
(P.
Bank, I. Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
Chris Burdzy (University of
Washington)
"A particle
representation for the heat equation solution"
11:00 a.m., 520
Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
Geometric Topology:
(D.
Thurston)
Genevieve Walsh (Tufts)
"Commensurability
classes of 2-bridge knots"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Algebraic Geometry:
(J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Carlos Simpson
(Université de Nice)
"Local
systems on Deligne-Mumford stacks"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.
ISCAP
Seminar:
William Linch (Stony Brook)
"Covariant
N=2 heterotic string in 4 dimensions"
2:00 p.m., 908
Pupin.
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
geometry:
(C.
Manolescu, M. Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth)
Joel Fish (NYU)
"Think
global, act local - a new approach to Gromov compactness for pseudo-holomorphic
curves "
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Samuel
Eilenberg Lectures:
William Fulton (Michigan
& Columbia)
“Equivariant cohomology in algebraic geometry"
3:30 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508
Math.
Ellis R.
Kolchin Memorial Lectures
Gregory F. Lawler (Chicago)
"Conformal invariance and two-dimensional statistical physics"
4:30 p.m.,
312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.