COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S   -  WEEK OF DECEMBER 6, 2004

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Xander Faber
"
An introduction to Hausdorff dimension and a collection of applications of measure zero"

TIME: TBA,  528 Math. *LAST SEMINAR OF THE SEMESTER*

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis)
"sl(2) link homology and its applications"
NOTE DAY AND TIME: 4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Stephen Reynolds (North Carolina State)
"Cosmic-ray acceleration in supernova remnants"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Junior Colloquium:
(A. Kontorovich)
Peter Ozsvath

“Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks”
NOTE DAY AND LOCATION: 6:00 p.m., 621 Math

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Anirvan Sengupta (Rutgers)
"Classifiers for detection of regulatory elements"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Columbia & Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
NOTE: DAY & TIME: 4:15 p.m-5:30 p.m., 507 Math  -  LAST LECTURE.
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Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis)
"Matrix factorizations and sl(n) link homology"
NOTE DAY AND TIME & LOCATION: 4:15 p.m., 621 Math.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

COLLOQUIUM: (E. Urban, M.T. Wang)
Ted Chinburg (U. Penn)
"Euler Characteristics and Mordell-Weil Groups"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis)

"Link homology and representation theory"

NOTE DAY AND TIME: 4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Shing-Tung Yau (Columbia & Harvard)
"Nonlinear equations in string theory and general relativity"
2:40 p.m-3:55 p.m., 203 Math

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Vincent Moncrief (Yale)
"Curvature propagation in general relativity--exploiting the Yang-Mills analogy"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math
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Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Phillipe Michel (Montpellier)
"Julia's method of overlapping intervals and subconvexity"
NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,  Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

Probability: (P. Bank)
Jochen Blath (Oxford)
"Coexistence in locally regulated competing populations"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Hossein Namazi (Yale)
"Heegaard Splittings and Hyperbolic Geometry"
11:00 a.m
., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Tara Brendle (Cornell)
"Commensurations of the Johnson kernel"
1:15 p.m
., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic Geometry:  (P. Ozsvath)
Eaman Eftekhary (Harvard/IAS)
TITLE: TBA
2:40 p.m., 507 Math.