DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
FALL 2009
WEDNESDAY 4:30-5:30 pm
Tea served at 4:00
Fine Hall 314


DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Oct.14

Lewis Bowen,
Texas A & M
Entropy in Measurable Dynamics
Oct. 21
Dusa McDuff,
Columbia University
Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions
Nov. 11 Jonathan Pila,
University of Bristol
A model-theoretic approach to certain diophantine problems
Nov. 18 Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda,
University of Geneva
Abelian sandpile model and self-similar groups
Nov. 24 Joachim Krieger,
University of Pennsylvania
Concentration Compactness for critical Wave Maps
Dec. 2 William Minicozzi,
Johns Hopkins University
Generic singularities of mean curvature flow
Dec. 9 Van Vu,
Rutgers University
Random Matrices: Universality of Local Eigenvalues Statistics
Dec. 16 Helmut Hofer,
Institute of Advanced Study
Ideas around Symplectic Field Theory