~*~*~*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 […]
Bernard Teissier (Université de Paris 7) “Polar varieties, limits of tangent spaces, equisingularity“
Bernard Teissier (Université de Paris 7) “An approach to resolution of singularities”
Congratulations to Connor Mooney, winner of a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!