WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6, 2006

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Academic Holiday - No Classes

Physics Colloquium:
No Colloquium this week

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 - ELECTION DAY

University Holiday - No Classes

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (M.Weinstein)
Lincoln Labs (MIT)
"Adaptive multi-channel SAR processing for moving vehicle detection"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum, Z. Hou)
Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)
"Fast soliton scattering by delta impurities"
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)
Paul Garrett (Minnesota)
"Integral moments for GL(n): Toward breaking convexity (in the t-aspect)"
Columbia, 312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Eric Urban
"Crystalline representations and \phi-modules after Kisin"-continued
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math

Probability: (P. Bank)
Grzegorz Swirszcz (IBM)
"A strange alliance: Random graphs and dynamical systems"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
Lev Birbriar (Universidade Federal do Ceará)
"Lipschitz geometry of complex surfaces"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Robert Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
"Local syzygies of multiplier ideals"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Peter Albers (Courant)
"Vanishing of the fundamental class of displaceable Lagrangian submanifolds"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

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