Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Fall 2006

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Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 every three weeks on Wednesday afternoons at 5:00, and is preceded by tea at 4:30. Colloquia are of general mathematical interest and aimed at both faculty and graduate students. Please click on the title for the abstract.

Sept. 27	Bong Lian (Brandeis)	Chiral Equivariant Cohomology
Oct. 18	Paul Biran (Tel Aviv)	Symplectic Points of View on Some Questions in Classical Algebraic Geometry
Nov. 15	Jacob Lurie (Harvard)	Elliptic Cohomology
Nov. 29	Michael Douglas (Rutgers)	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Dirichlet Brane in (inspiring) Mathematics
Dec. 6	Brian Conrad (U. of Michigan & Columbia)	Asymptotics for prime specialization over finite fields

Fall 2004 schedule, Spring 2005schedule, Fall 2005schedule, Spring 2006schedule

Organizer: Eric Urban and Mu-Tao Wang

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