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

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

Physics Colloquium:
Philip Kim (Columbia, Physics)
"Quantum physics at your pencil tips: Dirac Fermion in graphitic carbon"

4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Doron Levy (Stanford)
"Modeling the dynamics of the immune response to chronic myelogenous leukemia"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. SesumZ. Hou)
Dan Knopf (UT, Austin)
"Asymptotics of Ricci flow neckpinches"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Brian Conrad
  (Michigan/Columbia)

"Introduction to $p$-adic period rings"

5:30 p.m., 312 Math

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Brian Conrad
  (Michigan/Columbia)

"Wiles' strategy for proving modularity theorems"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

Probability: (P. Bank)
Jin Ma (Purdue)

"Weak solutions for forward-backward SDEs and their uniqueness"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Dylan Thurston
"A combinatorial definition of Heegaard Floer homology for links"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Valery Alexeev (Georgia)
"
Moduli of weighted stable maps and their gravitational descendants"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Yi Ni (Princeton)
"
Knot Floer homology detects fibred knots"
2:30 p.m., 507 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.