COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF OCTOBER 10, 2005

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10

Physics Colloquium:
Stefan Westerhoff (Physics, Columbia)
 "The highest energy cosmic rays"
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-continuation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11

Special Number Theory:
Eknath Ghate (TIFR and Cornell)
"The local behaviour of ordinary modular Galois representations"
 2:30 p.m., 622 Math.

 Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Danny Gillam
"Lie groups acting on manifolds"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13


Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Jian Song (Johns Hopkins)
 "Energy functionals and canonical Kahler metrics"
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)
Gérard Laumon (CNRS & Université Paris-Sud)
"The fundamental Lemma for unitary groups"
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 14

Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Shiri Arstein  (Princeton)
"Solution of Shannon's problem on the monotonicity of entropy"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Yi Ni (Princeton)
"Topmost terms in knot Floer homology"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Brendan Owens (Louisiana State)
"Definite four-manifolds with boundary"
2:15  p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.