COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Physics Colloquium:
 Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia, Physics)
"Neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetized fields"
 4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum,  Z. Hou)
 Ovidiu Savin
"On a conjecture of Di Giorgi"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
 Brian Conrad
"Motivation for p-adic Hodge theory through modularity theorems"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

Probability: (P. Bank)
 Eric Gautier (Yale)
"Some applications of large deviations for stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equations"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Matthias Kreck (Heidelberg)
"Elementary computation of low dimensional bordism groups and Rohlin's theorem"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
 Matthias Kreck (Heidelberg)
"Simply connected asymmetric manifolds"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
 Brian Conrad  (Michigan/Columbia)
"Arithmetic moduli of generalized elliptic curves"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Graeme Segal (All Souls' College, Oxford & Columbia)
"The Mathematical Stucture of Quantum Field Theories"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.