COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
Sylvia Serfaty (NYU)
"A discrete deterministic control approach to curvature flows and second order fully nonlinear equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Frans Oort (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
“Moduli of Abelian Varieties"
10:30-11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology: (W. Neumann)
Ilya Kofman
"A new twist on Lorenz links"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Special Joint Courant-Columbia Seminar
Ofer Zeitouni, (Weizmann Institute & University of Minnesota)
"Exit measures for isotropic Random walk in random environments: a perturbative approach"
NOTE: LOCATION and TIME: (Courant Institute-Warren Weaver Hall Room 312 at 10:00 am)

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Probability will be replaced by a Joint Courant-Columbia Seminar

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Krzysztof Putyra (Jagiellonian U., Krakow)
"Cobordisms with chronology and a functorial description of odd link homology"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Johan de Jong
"Serre's Conjecture II for function fields"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Graduate Student Seminar in Algebraic Geometry: (F. Oort, J. de Jong)
"Abelian varieties over finite fields"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 312 Math.