Columbia University
Department of Mathematics

Colloquium

Organizer: Panagiota Daskalopoulos
 

Spring 2002


George Lusztig

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Homomorphisms of the Icosahedral Group Into Reductive Groups

 

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2002

THIS SEMINAR WILL MEET AT 4:00 p.m. INSTEAD OF 4:15
AND TEA WILL BE SERVED AT 3:30 p.m. INSTEAD OF 3:45

Colloquia are held once or twice a month on Wednesdays, 4:15pm, in Math 520.  They are of general mathematical interest and aimed at both faculty and graduate students.  Tea will be served at 3.45pm, in Math 508.

All are welcome.
 

 

Schedule of talks

Date

Speaker/Affilation

Title

January 30, 2002

Albert Marden / Minnesota

Thurston's K=2 conjecture about hyperbolic convex hulls

February 20, 2002

Yakov Eliashberg / Stanford & IAS

Geometry of contact domains and transformations

March 6, 2002

Dan Stroock / MIT

A probabilistic analysis of what is happening at the cut locus

March 27, 2002

Tatiana Toro / Washington & Harvard A geometric approach to free Boundary regularity below the continuous threshold
April 10. 2002

Richard Melrose / MIT

Families of operators, forms and gerbes

April 17, 2002 Rahul V. Pandharipande / Caltech & Princeton

Gromov-Witten theory and integrable hierarchies

May 1, 2002 - 4:00 p.m.

George Lusztig / MIT

Homomorphisms of the icosahedral group into reductive groups

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