COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Physics Colloquium:
No Seminar this week.
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M. Weinstein)
 Matania Ben Artzi, Hebrew University
 "Nonlinear conservation laws on surfaces"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Eli Berger (Haifa University)
"On a conjecture of Linial and Berge"
5:00 p.m., 507 Mudd.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd and 507 Math.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

 Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Ovidiu Munteanu
"The structure of complete manifolds with positive spectrum"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

 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)
Daniel Krasner
"Equivariant sl(n)-link homology"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Michael Damron (Courant)
"Invasion percolation in two dimensions"
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)
Stephan Wehrli
Title: TBA
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Weizhe Zheng
"Traces in l-adic cohomology over local fields"
2:10 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.