MONDAY, OCTOBER 11

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Jose Burillo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
"Combinatorial and metric properties of Thompson's group T"
NOTE: ADDITIONAL SEMINAR THIS WEEK, DAY AND TIME: 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, 5:00 p.m.

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Xander Faber
"Fixed field Kabey sets"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Jerry Ostriker (Princeton)
"Concordance cosmology: Is it correct?"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Alex Barnett (NYU)
"Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian: Quantum ergodicity, chaos, & fast numerical methods"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Joan Birman
“Recognizing the unknot”
6:00 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Gerhard Huisken (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)
"Radial foliations in asymptotically flat 3-manifold"
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)
Minhyong Kim (Arizona & Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"The motivic fundamental group and diophantine geometry"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00 p.m.,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Probability: (P. Bank)
Savas Dayanik (Princeton)
"Adaptive Poisson disorder problem"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Kevin Wortman (Cornell U.)
"Finiteness properties of arithmetic groups over function fields"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Joseph Coffey (CIMS)
"Failure of parametric H-principle for maps with prescribed Jacobian"
2:40 p.m., 507 Math.