MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
Physics Colloquium:
Greg Bryan (Physics, Columbia)
"The first stars in the universe"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.
Informal
Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth)
Mikhail Khovanov
"Introduction to sl(2) link homology"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Applied
Mathematics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
William Meeks (Amherst)
"Recent
advances on the classical theory of Minimal surfaces"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
geometry:
(P.S.
Ozsváth)
Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton)
"Topology of
the Khovanov-Rozansky homology"
(NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION) 4:00 p.m., 622 Math
Geometry
and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,
X-D.
Cao, Sean Paul)
Natasa Sesum
"The rate of convergence for the mean curvature flow"
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)
Gerd Faltings
(Max Planck Institute, Bonn)
"Theta divisors on moduli spaces of vector bundles on curves"
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 7
Probability:
(I. Karatzas,
P. Bank)
Anne Gundel (Humboldt Univeristy of Berlin)
"Utility maximization under
model uncertainty and robust f-Projections"
11:00 a.m., 520
Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
DOUBLE HEADER l:
Geometric
Topology: (P.J. Lamberson,
K.
Kawamuro)
Stephan Tillmann (Université du Québec, Canada)
DOUBLE HEADER Il:
Geometric
Topology: (P.J. Lamberson,
K.
Kawamuro)
Marc Culler (Chicago)
"The A-polynomial and the FFT"
Algebraic Geometry:
(R. Friedman, J. Ross)