COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

 

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Colloquium: (P. Daskalopoulos, E. Urban and M-T Wang)
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
"The space of icosahedra"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
"Poisson modules and generalized geometry"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Frans Oort (Utrecht University, The Netherlands
)
Moduli of Abelian Varieties"
10:30-11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m., 312 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar in Algebraic Geometry: (F. Oort, J. de Jong)
Frans Oort
First-Introductory Lecture
:
"Abelian varieties over finite fields"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 312 Math.


SPECIAL: Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Demetrios Christodoulou (ETH)
"
Formation of black holes in general relativity"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 2:00 p.m., 507 Math.