Mathematical Colloquia and Seminars

May 1 – May 9, 2008

Thursday, May 1
2:55 PM LOGIC SEMINAR
Michael O’Connor, Cornell University
The logic of toposes and smooth infinitesimal analysis
Malott 224
3:00 PM LIE GROUPS SEMINAR
David Renard, Ecole Polytechnique
Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for unitary representations
Note unusual day, time, and location.
Malott 310D
4:00 PM FINANCIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Delia Coculescu, ETH Zurich
Credit risk modeling, no arbitrage and imperfect information
Rhodes 253
4:25 PM OLIVER CLUB
Ilijas Farah, York University
Rigidity of quotient structures
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Friday, May 2
12:15 PM FINANCIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Ashkan Nikeghbali, University of Zurich
A classification of random times with financial models in view
Rhodes 253
4:30 PM OLIVER CLUB
Peter Ozsváth, Columbia University
Heegaard diagrams and Holomorphic disks
This is also the opening talk of the Topology Festival.
Malott 253
Saturday, May 3
9:00 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Workshop: Introduction to Floer theory for Lagrangian submanifolds
Malott 406
10:15 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Ian Leary, Ohio State University
Infinite Smith groups
Malott 406
11:30 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
Equivariant cohomology in symplectic geometry
Malott 406
2:30 PM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Hansjörg Geiges, University of Cologne
Workshop: Contact 3-manifolds and geometric topology
Malott 406
3:45 PM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Viktor Ginzburg, University of California at Santa Cruz
Leaf-wise coisotropic intersections
Malott 406
Sunday, May 4
9:00 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Richard Kenyon, Brown University
The configuration space of branched polymers
Malott 406
10:30 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Kaoru Ono, Hokkaido University
Floer theory for Lagrangian submanifolds
Malott 406
1:30 PM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Construction of topological invariants via decomposition and representation in a symplectic category
Malott 406
Monday, May 5
9:00 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Hansjörg Geiges, University of Cologne
Contact Dehn surgery
Malott 406
10:15 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
Symplectic versus hyperkahler geometry
Malott 406
11:30 AM TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Manifolds whose universal covers have finite type
Malott 406
1:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Albert Chau, University of British Columbia
Kahler Ricci flow and the structure of negatively curved complete Kahler manifolds
Malott 406
4:00 PM PROBABILITY SEMINAR
Vlada Limic, Marseille
The Lambda-coalescent speed of coming down from infinity
Malott 406
Tuesday, May 6
4:15 PM OR&IE COLLOQUIUM
Andrew Goldberg, Microsoft Research
Reach for A*: an efficient point-to-point shortest path algorithm
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.
Rhodes 253
Friday, May 9
3:00 PM NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Jason Martin, James Madison University
Parallel implementations of basic arithmetic
Malott 206

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