MONDAY, OCTOBER 18
Applied
Mathematics Colloquium:
Jerry Marsden (Caltech)
"Discrete
mechanics, variational integrators and optimal control"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY,
TIME AND ROOM:
4:05 p.m., 227 Mudd
Elementary Methods: (B.
Mezhericher)
Ming-Lun (Eric) Hsieh
"Galois
group as fundamental group"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.
Physics Colloquium:
Hal Evans (Columbia)
“The b-Quark a vertex of new physics”
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.
COLLOQUIUM:
Joint Colloquium with Applied Mathematics (E. Urban, M.T. Wang)
Jerrold Marsden (California Institute of
Technology)
"Discrete
mechanics, variationalintegrators and optimal control"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND LOCATION: 4:15 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19
Junior Colloquium:
(A. Kontorovich)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
6:00 p.m., 507 Math.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20
Gauge Theory/Symplectic
Geometry:
(P.
Ozsvath)
Matthew Hedden
"Knot Floer
homology and cable knots"
2:40 p.m., 507 Math.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau
(Columbia &
Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
2:40 p.m-3:55 p.m., 203 Math
Geometry and Analysis: (M.T.
Wang,
M.P. Tsui)
Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
(Rotating
among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D.
Goldfeld,
V. Kolyvagin,
P. Sarnak,
L. Szpiro)
Akshay
Venkatesh (Clay Institute & NYU)
"Equidistribution,
periods, and subconvexity"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 5:00
p.m.
Geometric Topology:
(C.
Leininger)
Ben McReynolds (U.T.
at Austin)
"Peripheral
separability and cusps of arithmetic orbifolds"
NOTE: TIME HAS NOT AS YET BEEN DETERMINED, 507
Math.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
DOUBLE HEADER I:
Columbia-Stony Brook
Junior Geometry Seminar: (J.
Martens)
Li Li (Stony
Brook)
"Introduction
to intersection theory"
11:00 a.m., 207 Math.
Probability: (P.
Bank)
Bruno
Dupire (Bloomberg LP - Quantitative Research)
"The Skhorohod embedding problem and its applications
to finance"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Geometric Topology:
(C.
Leininger)
MOVED TO 10/21
Bridson day at C.U.N.Y.
DOUBLE HEADER
II: Columbia-Stony
Brook Junior Geometry Seminar: (J.
Martens)
Radu Laza
"Torelli
theorems for cubic hypersurfaces"
1:30 p.m., 203 Math.
