Speaker: Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley) Title: How not to define cylindrical contact homology Abstract: We consider the problem of defining cylindrical contact homology, in the absence of contractible Reeb orbits, […]
Hecke Algebras in Number Theory & Categorification Date & Time: Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 9:30am – 5:30pm Sunday, May 12, 2013 from 9:30am – 4:15pm Location: All lectures take […]
Hecke Algebras in Number Theory & Categorification Date & Time: Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 9:30am – 5:30pm Sunday, May 12, 2013 from 9:30am – 4:15pm Location: All lectures take […]
~*~*~*The Colloquium is preceded by tea at 4:30pm.*~*~*~ Speaker: Nalini Anantharaman (Université Paris-Sud – Orsay) Title: Quantum Ergodicity on Large Regular Graphs Abstract: “Quantum ergodicity” usually deals with the study […]
Speaker: Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State University) Title: Toric Open GW Invariants and the Crepant Resolution Conjecture Abstract: The question that the Crepant Resolution Conjecture (CRC) wants to address is: given […]
Speaker: Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (ETH) Title: On level-set percolation for the Gaussian free field Abstract: We consider the Gaussian free field on the lattice Z^d, with dimension d greater or equal […]
Speaker: Peter Tankov (Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)) Title: Asymptotics for sums of log-normal random variables and applications to finance Abstract: We provide sharp asymptotic estimates for the density of the […]
Speaker: Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Title: Towards a model theory of global fields Abstract: The logic of diophantine or geometric structures appears to exhibit a sharp local-global dichotomy. […]
Speaker: Peter Teichner (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics & UC Berkeley) Title: Topological 4-manifolds Revisited Abstract: We’ll review Freedman’s classification of simply-connected manifolds of dimension four, focusing on the exotic […]
A conference in honor of Prof. Ioannis Karatzas’ 60th birthday June 4 – June 8, 2012 Conference Website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/procofin/ Photos Reception Dinner Speakers Group photo All photos copyright Sara […]