Columbia University Mathematics Colloquium

Fall 2007


Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium meets in Math 520 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.

 Sept. 19

 Michel Boileau (Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

On the Geometrization of 3-manifolds

 Sept. 26

 Christophe Breuil (IHES & Columbia)

On some modulo p local Langlands correspondance

  Oct. 10

 George C. Papanicolaou (Stanford)

 Optimal Illumination and wave form design for imaging edges
 Oct 31
 Charles Fefferman (Princeton & Columbia)
 Some unsolved problems on turbulent fluids
 Nov. 28
 Yakov  Eliashberg (Stanford & Columbia)
  Folded maps and their applications
 Feb. 6
 Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins)
  T B A


co-Organizers:   Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Eric Urban and Mu-Tao Wang


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