Columbia University Mathematics ColloquiumSpring 2008 |
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.
|
Feb 6 |
Joel Spruck (Johns
Hopkins) |
Locally
convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature with |
| Feb 27 |
Erez Lapid (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem) |
From
volume of polytopes to Arthur's trace formula |
| March 5 |
Jean-Michel Bismut
(Orsay) |
Index Theorem in
Probability Theory |
| March 12 |
Ko Honda (USC) |
Reeb
vector fields and open book decompositions |
| March 26 |
Conan Leung (Chinese
University of Hong Kong) |
Geometry
of special holonomy |
|
April 16 |
Sai-Kee Yeung (Purdue) |
On
fake projective planes |
| April 23 |
Alexei Borodin
(Caltech) |
Random
surfaces in dimension two, three and four |
| April 30 |
Mihalis Dafermos (M I
T) |
The
non-linear stability problem for black hole spacetimes in general |
| May 1 |
Richard Schoen
(Stanford University) |
Recent
progress on Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature |