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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

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

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Avi Wigderson (IAS)
"
Randomness extractors
"

5:00 p.m., 507 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between Mudd and 507 Math.

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.