Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Fall 2005

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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.

Sep. 14	Johan de Jong (Columbia University)	Something we still do not know over finite fields
Sep. 28	Lenny Ng (Stanford University)	Legendrian knots and topology
Oct. 5	William Meeks (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)	Recent advances on the classical theory of Minimal surfaces
Oct. 26	Neil Trudinger (Australian National University and U. C. Berkeley)	Monge Ampere equations and optimal transportation
Nov. 2	William Goldman (University of Maryland)	3-dimensional affine actions and hyperbolic geometry on 2-manifolds
Nov. 30	Nathan Dunfield (Caltech)	Surfaces in finite covers of 3-manifolds: the Virtual Haken Conjectur
Dec. 7	Alexander Lubotzky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and IAS)	Property 'tau', pro-p groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Fall 2004 schedule, Spring 2005schedule

Organizer: Eric Urban and Mu-Tao Wang

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