Physics Colloquium:
Harmen Bussemaker (Columbia Genome Center/Biological Sciences)
"Data-driven biophysical modeling of gene expression regulation"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D.Keyes)
Edmond Chow (D. E. Shaw Research)
"Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Michael Douglas (Rutgers)
"The unreasonable effectiveness of the
Dirichlet brane in (inspiring) mathematics"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
Amol Upadhye (Princeton)
"Flat barriers and multistability in curved spacetime instantons"
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. Sesum,  Z. Hou)
Daniela de Silva  (John Hopkins)
"A-priori gradient bound for the Lipschitz constant of free boundary graphs"
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)
Matthew Emerton (Northwestern)
"The p-adic Langlands conjecture for GL(2) over Q"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

Number Theory Workshop: (E. Urban)
Brian Conrad (Michigan and Columbia)
"Potentially semistable deformation rings I"
9:30 a.m.-11:00am., 207 Math.

Probability: (P. Bank)
Julien Dubedat  (NYU)
"Schramm-Loewner evolutions on Riemann surfaces"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math., Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Anna Wienhard (Chicago)
"Representations of surface groups and higher Teichmueller spaces "
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Helmut Hofer (Courant)
Title: TBA
Note Special Time: 1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

JOINT DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Paul Seidel (Chicago)
"Homological algebra of Lefschetz fibrations"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Tamas Hausel (Oxford & UT, Austin)
"Kac's conjectures on quiver representations via arithmetic harmonic analysis"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Sergey Prokushkin (CITA)
"Ensemble of Kaehler moduli/axion inflations"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.