WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13, 2006

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Physics Colloquium:
Peter Fisher (MIT)
"How will we know it when we have found weakly interacting dark matter?"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D.Keyes)
Kevin Long (Sandia National Labs)
"Building high-performance, optimization-enabled
PDE simulations with Sundance"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Jacob Lurie (Harvard)
"Elliptic cohomology"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum, Z. Hou)
Khuri Marcus (Stony Brook)
"On the Penrose inequality"
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)
Brian Conrey (American Institute of Mathematics)
"42"
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, NOVEMBER 17

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)
5th Northeast Probability Seminar
Davis Auditorium

Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
Joseph Masters (Buffalo)
"1-relator groups and Heegaard splittings"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Igor Kritchever
"Characterizing Jacobians via trisents of the Kummer variety"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Joanna Dunkley (Princeton)
"Probing cosmic inflation: WMAP and beyond"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Scott Morrison (Berkeley)
"Fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology"
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.