MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Physics Colloquium:
Alain Aspect (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
"From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new
quantum age"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 9
Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C.
Wiggins)
Xaq Pitkow
(Columbia, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience)
"A neural computation for visual acuity in the
presence of eye movements -
how can we see fine detail so well when our eyes are constantly jittering so
much?"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Geometry and Analysis:
(Z.
Hou)
Nicolaos Kapouleas (Brown)
"Gluing
construction of special Lagrangian cones"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
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.
Geometric Topology: (W.
Neumann)
Jason Behrstock
"Quasi-isometric classification 3-manifold groups"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.
Probability:
(I.
Karatzas, E. Schertzer)
Louis Pierre Arguin (Courant)
"Competing
particle systems"
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee
and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.
Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Aaron Lauda
"Categorification of quantum groups"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.
Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Jarod Alper
"Good moduli spaces for Artin stacks""
2:00 p.m., 417 Math.
Graduate Student Seminar in Algebraic Geometry:
(F. Oort, J. de Jong)
"Abelian
varieties over finite fields"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 312 Math.