COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 2,  2006
 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2


Physics Colloquium:
No Colloquium this week.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (L. Polvani)
 Mario Feingold (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva)
"Dynamics of septum formation in E. coli"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum,  Z. Hou)
Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers)
"Marguls lemma for compact Lie groups and applications"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
Matt Baker (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Arithmetic of dynamical Green's functions"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Ming-Lun Hsieh
"P-adic representations of local fields: Examples"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

Probability: (P. Bank)
 No Seminar this week.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Joan Licata 
 "Pretzel links and the Thurston norm"
NOTE TIME: 10:45 a.m.., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus, J. Ross)
Nicholas Proudfoot
"Hypertoric varieties"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No Seminar this week.

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