Columbia University Mathematics ColloquiumFall 2011 |
The Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 approximately 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. 28th |
Claudio Procesi (Rome) |
Splines, partition functions, index and infinitesimal index |
| Oct. 5th |
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton) |
On the rigidity of black holes |
| Oct. 12th |
Hsian-Hua Tseng (Ohio State University) |
On the geometry of étale gerbes |
| Nov. 2nd |
Gunther Uhlmann (U. Washington) |
Cloaking and Transformation Optics |
| Nov. 9th |
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford) |
Holomorphic Poisson manifolds and their deformations |
| Dec. 7th |
Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) |
The symplectic topology of Stein manifolds |
| Dec. 14th |
Jeremy Kahn (Brown University) |
The Surface Subgroup Theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture |
Past semesters' pages: Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
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Co-Organizers: Julien Dubédat, Mikhail Khovanov and Rachel Ollivier