MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Physics Colloquium:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Michael Khovanov
"Categorification of the bureau representation"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Nathan Dunfield (Caltech)
"Surfaces in finite covers of 3-manifolds: the virtual Haken conjecture"
5:00 p.m., Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 520 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Nathan Dunfield (Caltech)
"The superpolynomial for knot homologies"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar: (B. Mezhericher)
Lior Silberman
"Finding arithmetic flavor in quantum chaos"
4:15 p.m., 622 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Hsiao-Bing Cheng (Cornell)
"Minimization with the affine normal direction"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 3:00 p.m., 622 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang,  X-D. Cao, S. Paul)
Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine)
"Weil-Petersson geometry on CY moduli"
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)
Ben Brubaker (Stanford)
"Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series, L-functions, and Young tableaux"
Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Michael Khovanov
"Triply-graded link homology and Hochschild homology of Soergel bimodules"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK