LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Physics Colloquium:
Cumrun Vafa
(Harvard)
"Stringy predictions for particle physics"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
10
Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia)
"Locality in Morse theory and Floer
homology"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (D. Keyes)
Pierre Gentine (M.I.T.)
"Spectral analysis of a linearized
land-atmosphere system: modeling and applications"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar: (D. Bayer, M.
Chudnovsky)
Gregory
Bard (Fordham)
"Exponential generating functions, high powers of random
permutations, and very iterated block ciphers "
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 303 Mudd
and 507 Math.
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Peter Toth (ICE)
"Commodities"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Columbia
Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar: (M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Robert Lipshitz and Maksim Lipyanskiy*
"More Fukaya category basics;
compactness in T*M"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: 1:10-2:40 p.m., LOCATION: TBA
Geometry and Analysis:
(Z. Hou, O. Savin)
Christina Sormani (CUNY)
"A new convergence for oriented Riemannian manifolds with
boundary"
Please
note special time: 3 p.m., 507 Math
Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
Sophie Chen (IAS)
“Asymptotically flat manifolds and elliptic systems”
4:30 p.m., 507 Math
Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,
Y. Tschinkel, A. Venkatesh,
S. Zhang, L. Szpiro)
Joe Silverman (Brown)
"Specialization theorems and unlikely intersections"
NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m. also in room 202 WWH
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Alexey Surkov (Deloitte)
"Credit models"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Andrei
Okounkov (Princeton)
“Random surfaces and algebraic curve"
9:30 a.m., 520 Math. Coffee and Tea will be served at 9:00 a.m. 508 Math
Barnard Colloquium: (D. Bayer)
Daniela De Silva (Barnard)
"A Lipschitz bound for free boundary
graphs"
11 a.m., 507 Math
Geometric Topology: (D.
Thurston)
Jeremy
Kahn (SUNY)
Title: "Random ideal triangulations and the Weil-Peterson Ehrenpreis conjecture"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math
Probability: (J. Dubedat,
I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Vincent Vargas (Paris Dauphine)
"Stochastic
scale invariance and KPZ"
12:00 noon, 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st
& 122nd Street)
Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work
Symplectic Geometry
and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P.
Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Sucharit Sarkar (Princeton)
"Constructing CW complexes from grid diagrams"
1:10 p.m., 520 Math.
Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong,
M. Thaddeus)
Johan Martens (Toronto)
"Moduli