Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Fall 2008

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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 of the talk.

Sept. 3	Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)	The space of icosahedra
Oct. 8	Frans Oort (Utrecht and Columbia)	Monodromy
Oct. 29	Andrei Okounkov (Princeton and Columbia)	Noncommutative geometry of random surfaces
Nov. 12	Igor Rodnianski (Princeton)	From rough space-time to black holes. Evolution problem in General Relativity
Nov. 19	Neil Trudinger (Australian National University)	The higher order Yamabe problem
Dec. 3	Avraham Aizenbud an Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute, Israel)	Gelfand pairs and invariant distributions

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Co-Organizer: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Eric Urban, and Mu-Tao Wang

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