COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF DECEMBER 4,  2006

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4

Physics Colloquium:
Michael Douglas (Rutgers)
"Supersymmetric gauge theory: an overview
"
4:10 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5


Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (A. Sobel)
Qiang Fu (Washington)
"Global warming seen from satellites"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Special Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. SesumZ. Hou)
Jan Metzger (MaxPlanck/Stanford University)
"
Stable marginally trapped surfaces and dynamical horizons"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Brian Conrad (Michigan & Columbia)
"Asymptotics for prime specialization over finite fields"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

Special Lecture: D.H. Phong
Scipio Cuccagna (Universitŕ di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
"Estimates on the Schreodinger kernel for space periodic Schreodinger operators in 1D"
4:30 p.m., 622 Math.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (Tufts)
"Cosmic superstring dynamics"
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (N. SesumZ. Hou)
Andrew Comech (Texas A&M)
"Global attraction to solitary waves for the Klein-Gordon equation coupled to
     anharmonic oscillators"

4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. SarnakL. Szpiro)
Brian Conrad (Michigan & Columbia)
"Finiteness for class numbers for groups over global fields"

Columbia, 312  Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8

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

Probability: (P. Bank)
Scott Sheffield (NYU)
"SLE and the Gaussian free field"

11:00 a.m., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (W. Neumann)
William Jaco (OSU & IAS)
"The homeomorphism problem (following the geometrization conjecture)"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
No seminar / Volker Springer "Big Apple Colloquium"

JOINT DOUBLE HEADER I:
Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddues, J. Ross)
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu

"Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds"
Note Time and Location: 1:30 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II:
Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Mohammed Abouzaid (Chicago)
"
Homological mirror symmetry for toric varieties"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

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