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2002-2003 Colloquium Schedule-in-progress


Wednesday, September 18, 2002 Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)
Representation of integers by quadratic forms [J. Quastel]
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Claude LeBrun (SUNY Stony Brook)
4-Manifolds, Einstein Metrics and the Yamabe Problem [G. Maschler]
Wednesday, October 2, 2002 Neil Trudinger (Australian National University)
On the affine Plateau problem [R. McCann]
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Mikhail Khovanov (Univeristy of California at Davis)
Link homology [Ragnar Buchweitz; 3:10 PM - 4PM NOTE SPECIAL TIME; Tea to follow.]
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 Charles Fefferman (Princeton University)
Hedging simple options with small transaction costs [A. Nachman]
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Matilde Marcolli (Max Planck Institute, Bonn)
New perspectives on infinity-adic Arakelov geometry [K. Consani]
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford University)
Counting rational points on algebraic curves and surfaces [J. Friedlander]
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Claus Hertling (Max Planck Institut, Bonn)
Frobenius manifolds and moduli spaces for singularities [R. Buchweitz]
*THURSDAY*, November 7, 2002 Adrien Douady (University of Paris at Orsay) NOTE SPECIAL ROOM SS1072
Polynomial vector fields on C , and an application to a problem of holomorphic dynamics [M. Lyubich]
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 John Smillie (Cornell University)
Complex methods in nonlinear dynamics [M. Lyubich]
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers University)
A connectedness principle in the geometry of positive curvature [Alex Nabutovsky]
Wednesday, November 27, 2002 Roland Speicher (Queen's University)
Free Probability Theory [G. Elliott]
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Florin Boca (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne)
Spectral properties of almost Mathieu operators [G. Elliott]
Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute)
Center-Focus Problem, Moments and Compositions [P. Milman]
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt University)
Isoperimetric functions of groups: connections between group theory, topology and computer science [A. Nabutovsky]
*MONDAY* January 13, 2003 Grigory Mikhalkin (University of Utah) NOTE SPECIAL TIME 2:10 PM SS5017A
Toric surfaces, Gromov-Witten invariants and tropical algebraic geometry [P. Milman]
Wednesday, January 15, 2003 Michael Farber (Tel Aviv University)
Topology of convex billiards [P. Milman]
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 RESERVED ()
[J. Quastel]
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Hugh Bray (MIT)
[A. Butscher]
Wednesday, February 5, 2003 RESERVED ()
[J. Quastel]
Wednesday, February 12, 2003 RESERVED ()
[J. Quastel]
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Reading Week
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 RESERVED ()
[J. Quastel]
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Michael Anderson (SUNY Stony Brook)
TBA [A. Nabutovsky]
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 John Milnor (SUNY Stony Brook)
TBA [M. Lyubich]
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Andrew Granville (Universite de Montreal)
TBA [J. Friedlander]
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Howard Garland (Yale University)
***CANCELLED*** [H. Kim]
Monday, March 30, 2003.....4:10 PM * SS 2102 *
Tuesday, April 1, 2003.........4:10 PM * SS 5017A
Wednesday, April 2, 2003...1:10 PM * SS 5017A
BLYTH LECTURE Optimal shapes: from the beauty of soap films to the construction of light roofs followed by Faculty Club Reception 5 - 7 PM
Juergen Jost (Max-Planck Insitut, Leipzig) [Alex Nabutovsky] The existence of minimal surfaces
Harmonic maps between metric spaces: Analytic, geometric, algebraic, and stochastic aspects
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Justin Roberts (University of California at San Diego)
TBA [E. Meinrenken]

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