THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
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)
Kai-Wen Lan (Princeton)
"Extensions over toroidal boundaries of Shimura varieties"
5:30-7:00 p.m.
NYU, All talks in 202 Warren Weaver Hall (WWH)
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m. also in room 202 WWH

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

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)
Helge Moeller Pedersen
"Splice diagrams and universal abelian covers"
10:45 a.m., 520 Math.

Probability: (J. Dubedat, I. Karatzas, R. Neel, E. Schertzer)
Tim Leung (Johns Hopkins)
"Exponential utility hedging with optimal stopping and application to ESO valuation"
12:00 noon., 520 Math.
Coffee and tea will be served at 11:30 a.m., The Math Lounge, 508 Math.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Marco MacKaay (U. do Algarve)
"The 1, 2-coloured HOMFLY-PT link homology"
1:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Alistair Savage (Ottawa)
"Moduli spaces of sheaves and the boson-fermion correspondence"
2:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Columbia Informal Symplectic Geometry Seminar:
(M. Khovanov, D. McDuff, P. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Tim Perutz
"A hypercube for the Floer homology of symplectic monodromy maps?"
3:30-5:00 p.m., 520 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.