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DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR JENS HOPPE (KTH STOCKHOLM) Membrane Equations and Singularities abstract June 06, 2008, 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR TOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI (TOKYO AND HARVARD) Restriction of unitary representations of real reductive groups abstract May 28, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR KIRAN S. KEDLAYA (MIT) Semistable reduction for overconvergent F-isocrystals abstract May 21, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR MARK REEDER (BC) Pro-p-Sylow subgroups and supercuspidal representations abstract May 14, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR GORDAN SAVIN (UTAH) On the inverse problem in Galois theory abstract May 07, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR PAOLO CASCINI (UC SANTA BARBARA) On the Minimal Model Program abstract May 06, 2008, 3 pm at MIT (4-149)
BRANDEIS-HARVARD-MIT-NORTHEASTERN JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM RICHARD HAMILTON (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) Geometry of the Ricci flow abstract May 01, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm at Science Center, Hall D
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR MIKE HOPKINS (HARVARD) State sums and 2 dimensional topological field theories (ctd) abstract May 01, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL EVENT A FILM BY AGNES HANDWERK AND HARRIE WILLEMS () Wolfgang Doeblin- a mathematician rediscovered abstract April 30, 2008, 4:15 PM at Maxwell Dworkin G115, Harvard University
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR ANDREA MILLER (HARVARD) Chow motives of some mixed Shimura varieties abstract April 30, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR MIKE ROTH (QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY) Cup products for line bundles on complete flag varieties abstract April 29, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM DAVID JERISON (MIT) Free boundary problems abstract April 28, 2008, 3 PM at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR ROSA SENA-DIAS (MIT) Spectral measure and asymptotics of algebraic metrics on toric varieties abstract April 25, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR MIKE HOPKINS (HARVARD) State sums and 2 dimensional topological field theories abstract April 24, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMNAR ROBERT POLLACK (BU) Stickelberger elements of non-ordinary modular forms abstract April 23, 2008, 3 - 4 PM at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR JAMES BORGER (AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) Witt vectors, Lamb da-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry abstract April 22, 2008, 3 pm at MIT (4-149)
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR ALESSANDRO TOMASIELLO (HARVARD) Generalized Complex Geometry and String Vacua abstract April 22, 2008, 4:30 PM at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM WILFRIED SCHMID (HARVARD) L-Functions and functional equations abstract April 21, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY RON STERN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE) Reverse engineering 4-manifolds abstract April 18, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
BRANDEIS-HARVARD-MIT-NORHTEASTERN JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM RONALD STERN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE) 4-manifolds, big and small abstract April 17, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm at Science Center, Hall D
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR BRIAN MUNSON (HARVARD) Higher order linking & the Blakers-Massey theorem II abstract April 17, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR SERIES WILFRIED SCHMID (HARVARD) Current Trends in US K-12 Mathematics Education, as Exemplified by TERC's Investigations' Program abstract April 17, 2008, 1 - 2 pm at Science Center, Room 530
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR DINESH THAKUR (IAS) Multi-zeta and related structures in function field arithmetic abstract April 16, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR MARCO GUALTIERI (MIT) Constructions of Generalized Kaehler Metrics abstract April 15, 2008, 4:30 PM at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR CONCETTINA GALATI (UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA) Degenerating curves and surfaces: first results and applications to enumerative geometry of curves on surfaces abstract April 15, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM CUMRUN VAFA (HARVARD) Topological Strings abstract April 14, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY YONGBIN RUAN (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) Written equation and its moduli theory abstract April 11, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR BRIAN MUNSON (HARVARD) Higher order linking & the Blakers-Massey theorem abstract April 10, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR OLIVER BULTEL (HEIDELBERG) PEL moduli spaces without C-valued points abstract April 09, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR GIORGIOS DASKALOPOULOS (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Harmonic Maps Between Singular Spaces abstract April 08, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR RAGNI PIENE (UNIVERSITY OF OSLO) Classifying lattice polytopes via toric fibrations abstract April 08, 2008, 3 pm at MIT (4-149)
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM ALBERTO DE SOLE (HARVARD) Hamiltonian equation, their integrals of motion and related algebraic structure. abstract April 07, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY ANDRAS STIPSICZ (COLUMBIA) Invariants of Legendrian knots in Heegaard Floer homology abstract April 04, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR TOM GOODWILLIE (HARVARD) What is pseudoisotopy? (Part 3) abstract April 03, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR NOAM ELKIES (HARVARD) Genus-2 Jacobians with real multiplication via K3 surfaces abstract April 02, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR CRISTIAN GONZALEZ MARTINEZ (TUFTS UNIVERSITY) The Hodge-Poincare' polynomial of the moduli space of stable vector bundles abstract April 01, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR STEPHEN YAU (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHICAGO) Classification of Weighted dual graphs with only complete intersection singularities structures abstract April 01, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM MIKE HOPKINS (HARVARD) Algebraic topology and topological field theories abstract March 31, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR MAKSIM LIPYANSKI (MIT) A semi-infinite cycle construction of Floer homology abstract March 21, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR TOM GOODWILLIE (HARVARD) What is pseudoisotopy? (Part 2) abstract March 20, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR SERIES TOM JUDSON (HARVARD) High School Calculus in Japan and the United States abstract March 20, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 530
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR KAI-WEN LAN (HARVARD) Arithmetic compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties abstract March 19, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR FRED VAN DER WYCK (HARVARD) Moduli of curves with prescribed normalization and singularities abstract March 18, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR MU-TAO WANG (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) Isometric Embeddings and Quasi-Local Mass abstract March 18, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM TOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI (HARVARD) Existence Problem of Compact Locally Symmetric Spaces abstract March 17, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY VERONIQUE GODIN (HARVARD) Applications of string topology abstract March 14, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR TOM GOODWILLIE (HARVARD) What is pseudoisotopy? (Part 2) abstract March 13, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL SEMINAR LASZLO SZEKELYHIDI (UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN HUNGARY) Spectral Analysis and Spectral Synthesis abstract March 13, 2008, 4 pm at Science Center, Room 232
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR MICHAEL HARRIS (JUSSIEU) Endoscopic transfer and theta correspondences for close unitary groups abstract March 12, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR JIXIANG FU (FUDAN UNIVERSITY P. R. CHINA) Solving the strominger system for non-kahler complex manifolds abstract March 11, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD- MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR KLAUS HULEK (UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER) Moduli of polarized symplectic manifolds abstract March 11, 2008, 3 pm at MIT ( 4-149)
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM BEN WEINKOVE (HARVARD) The Calabi-Yau equation abstract March 10, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR MIKE HOPKINS (HARVARD) Algebraic topology of topological fields abstract March 07, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR ZHIGANG SUO (SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES, HARVARD.) Mechanics of soft active materials abstract March 06, 2008, 2:30 - 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR TOM GOODWILLIE (HARVARD) What is pseudoisotopy abstract March 06, 2008, 3:30 - 5:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL SEMINAR PETER MARCH (DIRECTOR OF THE NSF DIVISION OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES.) An overview of NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences abstract March 05, 2008, 4 - 5 pm at Maxwell Dworkin 115
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR SUG WOO SHIN (IAS) Galois representations arising from some compact unitary Shimura varieties abstract March 05, 2008, 3 - 4 PM at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR STEVEN KLEIMAN (MIT) The Canonical model of a singular curve abstract March 04, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR JOHN LOFTIN (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY) Affine Hermitian-Einstein Metrics abstract March 04, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM MARTIN NOWAK (HARVARD) Evolutionary dynamics abstract March 03, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR ANDREEA NICOARA (HARVARD) Equivalence of types abstract February 29, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
THE THURSDAY SEMINAR VERONIQUE GODIN (HARVARD) Review of equivariant Morse theory and geodesics abstract February 28, 2008, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM HENRI DARMON (MCGILL UNIVERSITY) Rational points on elliptic curves and cycles on Shimura varieties abstract February 28, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Hall D
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR SKIP GARIBALDI (EMORY) Dense orbits and Spin groups abstract February 27, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR SPIRO KARIGIANNIS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY) G-2 Manifolds with isolated conical singularities abstract February 26, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR DAN ABRAMOVICH (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Counting curves with tangency conditions: comparison of approaches abstract February 26, 2008, 3 pm at MIT ( 4-149)
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM PETER KRONHEIMER (HARVARD) Knots, slice genus and knot homologies abstract February 25, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR DYLAN THURSTON (BARNARD COLLOGE) Using Combinatorial Link Floer Holomology to Detect Transverse Knots abstract February 22, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
COLLOQUIUM PETER SARNAK (PRINCETON) Equidistribution and primes abstract February 21, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Hall D
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR WEE TECK GAN (UCSD) Formal degree and local theta correspondence abstract February 20, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR ILYA TYOMKIN (MIT) Tropical curves, toric stacks, and enumerative geometry abstract February 19, 2008, 3 PM at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR YONGBIN RUAN (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) Dichotomy of uniruled submanifold in symplectic geometry abstract February 19, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM THOMAS LAM (HARVARD) "Graphs, towers, and categorifying Hopf algebras" abstract February 18, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY CHRIS BEASLEY (HARVARD) "More About Localization For Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory" abstract February 15, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR CECILIA BUSUIOC (BU) "Eisenstein Cohomology, The Steinberg Symbol and Special Values of L-functions". abstract February 13, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERGEY GRIGORIAN (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY - UNITED KINGDOM) "Local Geometry of the G2 Moduli Space" abstract February 12, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR FRANCISCO MARTIN (UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA- SPAIN) "Complete proper minimal sufaces in bounded domains of R^3" abstract February 12, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 232
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR IVAN CHELTSOV (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) Birational automorphisms and alpha-invariants abstract February 12, 2008, 3 pm at MIT 4-149
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM HORNG-TZER YAU (HARVARD) " A review on regularity of axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations" abstract February 11, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR YUM-TONG SIU (HARVARD) "Analytic techniques in algebraic geometry and algebraic-geometric techniques in analysis." abstract February 08, 2008, 3:30- 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR BENEDICT GROSS (HARVARD) "Some supercuspidal parameters for p-adic groups and their formal degrees" abstract February 06, 2008, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR JIN-YI CAI (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON) "The Permanent and Determinant Problem" abstract February 05, 2008, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR OVIDIU PASARESCU (INST. OF MATHEMATICS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY AND COLORADE STATE.) "On the classification of embedded curves" abstract February 05, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM JOE HARRIS (HARVARD) "Galois Groups of Enumerative Problems" abstract February 04, 2008, 3 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR ATSUSHI ICHINO (OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY AND IAS) "Formal degrees and adjoint gamma factors" abstract January 30, 2008, 3-4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR SEBASTIAN CASALAINA-MARTIN (HARVARD) "The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian" abstract December 18, 2007, 3:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR () NO SEMINAR abstract December 17, 2007, at
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR LENHARD NG (DUKE UNIVERSITY) "Knot contact homology and string topology" abstract December 14, 2007, 3:30- 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS KOBI KREMNIZER () "Lattice algebras and their chiral homology ll" abstract December 13, 2007, 3-5 PM at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR J. BELLAICHE (COLUMBIA/ BRANDEIS) "Non smooth classical point on Eigenvarieties" abstract December 12, 2007, 3- 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC SEMINAR ALLEN KNUTSON (UC BERKELEY) "Branchvarieties and automatically reduced flat limits" abstract December 11, 2007, 4:30 pm at MIT (2-142)
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR DAVID SMYTH (HARVARD) "Compact Moduli of Singular Curves" abstract December 11, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT (2-142)
BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR MARK BEHRENS (MIT) "Stable homotopy groups of spheres and modular forms" abstract December 10, 2007, 3- 4 PM at Science Center, Room 507
SPECIAL LECTURE IN HONOR OF LEONHARD EULER'S 300TH BIRTHDAY WILLIAM DUNHAM (MUHLENBERG COLLEGE) Euler's Amicable Numbers abstract December 10, 2007, 4 pm at Maxwell Dworkin G-115
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR CUMRUN VAFA (HARVARD) "Free fermions and topological strings" abstract December 07, 2007, 3:30- 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS SEMINAR ANDREJ ZLATOS (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) "Dissipation Enhancement by flows in 2D" abstract December 07, 2007, 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS KOBI KREMNIZER () "Lattice algebras and their chiral homology" abstract December 06, 2007, 3- 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
TEACHING SEMINAR Carol Findell (BOSTON UNIVERSITY) "How Can a Teacher Become an Expert Teacher?" abstract December 06, 2007, 1:00-2:00 pm at Science Center, Room 530
COLLOQUIUM DOUGLAS ARNOLD (IMA ( INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS)) abstract December 06, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Hall A
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR CHRISTOPHE BREUIL (IHES/ COLUMBIA) "From Diamond-Serre weights to representations of GL2(F)" abstract December 05, 2007, 3-4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR YANIR RUBINSTEIN (MIT) "Some discretizations of geometric evolution equations" abstract December 04, 2007, 4:30 PM at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR JAROSLAW WLODARCZYK (PURDUE) "Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic" abstract December 04, 2007, 3:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR DANIJELA DAMJANOVIC (HARVARD) " Stability of some abelian actions" abstract December 03, 2007, 3- 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS SEMINAR A. PIZZO (ETH/ ZURICH) "Multi-scale methods in atomic physics" abstract November 30, 2007, 3:30 pm at MIT 2- 136
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY WEIMIN CHEN (UMASS, AMHERST) "Symmetry groups of exotic K3 surfaces" abstract November 30, 2007, 3:30- 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS DENNIS GAITSGORY (HARVARD) "The chiral de Rhan complex and BRST cohomology" abstract November 29, 2007, 3-5 pm at
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR BJORN POONEN (BERKELEY) "The Brauer-Manin obstruction for subvarieties of abelian varieties over function fields" abstract November 28, 2007, 3-4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR LYDIA BIERI (HARVARD) "An extension of thie stability theorem of the Minkowski Space in general relativity" abstract November 27, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERGIO LUKIC (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY) "Some balanced metrics, quantization and path integrals" abstract November 27, 2007, 1:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
HARVARD -MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR JUNECUE SUH (MIT) "Plurigenera of general type surfaces in mixed characteristic" abstract November 27, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT (2-142)
BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR () NO SEMINAR abstract November 26, 2007, at
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR PENG PENG YU (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE) "Studies of the limiting behavior of the Liu-Yau Quasi-Local Energy" abstract November 20, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR NOAM ELKIES (HARVARD) "How many points can a genus-2 curve have?" abstract November 20, 2007, 3:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR RAVI VAKIL (STANFORD) "Reimagining universal covers and fundamental groups in algebraic and arithmetic geometry" abstract November 20, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
BASIC NOTIONS PAUL SEIDEL (MIT) "Pair of Pants" abstract November 19, 2007, 3- 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
COLLOQUIUM WILLIAM MINICOZZI (JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY) "The rate of change of width under flows" abstract November 15, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Hall A
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS JOHN FRANCIS (HARVARD) "Chiral homology of chiral envelopes" abstract November 15, 2007, 3- 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR LUIS DIEULEFAIT (BARCELONA) "Remarks on Serre's modularity conjecture" abstract November 14, 2007, 3- 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR TAO LUO (WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE) "Dynamical stability of rotating stars of compressible fluids with applications to white dwarfs" abstract November 13, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR MATTHIAS SCHUETT (HARVARD) "Calabi-Yau threefolds as fibre products of rational elliptic surfaces" abstract November 13, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT (2-142)
ANALYSIS /MATH PHYSICS SEMINAR WEI-MIN WANG (UNIVERSITE' PARIS-SUD) "Bounds on Sobolev Norms for Time Dependent Schrödinger Equations" abstract November 09, 2007, 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR CHRIS BEASLEY (HARVARD) "Localization for Wilson loops in Chern-Simons theory" abstract November 09, 2007, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SPEAKER SERIES SEMINAR Jon Star (HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION) "Improving Students' Flexibility in Algebra: The Benefits of Comparison" abstract November 08, 2007, 1:00 pm at Science Center, Room 530
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR SERIES JON STAR (HARVARD) "Improving Students' Flexibility in Algebra: The Benefits of Comparison" abstract November 08, 2007, 1-2 pm at Science Center, Room 530
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS JACOB LURIE (HARVARD) " Chiral homology of commutative chiral algebras" abstract November 8, 2007, 3- 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR PIERRE CHAROLLOIS (JUSSIEU) " On the argument of Stark units and periods of Hilbert modular forms." abstract November 07, 2007, 3- 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR MIHALIS DAFERMOS (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE) "The stability problem for black hole spacetimes in general relativity" abstract November 06, 2007, 2 pm at Science Center, Room 232
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR DENIS AUROUX (MIT) "Mirror symmetry in the complement of an anticanonical divisor" abstract November 06, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
BASIC NOTIONS / FACULTY COLLOQUIUM BENEDICT GROSS (HARVARD) "On the parameters of discrete series" abstract November 05, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY LYDIA BIERI (HARVARD) "An extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in general relativity". abstract November 02, 2007, 3:30-4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS/MATH PHYSICS SEMINAR JINHO BAIK (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) abstract November 02, 2007, 3:30 pm at MIT 2-136
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS JOHN FRANCIS (HARVARD) "Chiral homology" abstract November 01, 2007, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR DAVID WHITEHOUSE (MIT) "Applications of the relative trace formula to central L-values" abstract October 31, 2007, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR MAC CONAMHNA OISIN (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON) "Singularity resolutions by m-theory fivebranes-calibrated geometry, >ads solutions and special holonomy metrics abstract October 30, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR MAKSYM FEDORCHUK (HARVARD) "Linear sections of the Severi variety and moduli of curves" abstract October 30, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT (2-142)
BASIC NOTIONS/ FACULTY COLLOQUIUM SLAVA KRUSHKAL (VISITING HARVARD) "The chromatic polynomial. the golden ratio. and quantum topology" abstract October 29, 2007, 3:00-4:00 PM at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS/MATH PHYSICS SEMINAR HANS CHRISTIANSON (MIT) "Phase space analysis near periodic orbits" abstract October 26, 2007, 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY MOHAMMED ABOUZAID (MIT) "On homological mirror symmetry for toric varieties" abstract October 26, 2007, 3:30-4:30 PM at Science Center, Room 507
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 26, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS DENNIS GAITSGORY (HARVARD) "Chiral differential operations" abstract October 25, 2007, 3-5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN- PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 24, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR JEAN-FRANCOIS BURNOL (LILLE) "Relativistic causality and functional equations" abstract October 24, 2007, 3 - 4 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD MATHEMATICAL LOGIC SEMINAR PETER CHOLAK (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME) "Coding, Orbits and Computably Enumerable Sets" abstract October 23, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR BJORN ANDREAS (HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY-BERLIN) "Fourier-Moukai transforms and spectral covers for K3 fibrations" abstract October 23, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM JOE HARRIS (HARVARD) "Uniformity of Rational Points on Curves" abstract October 22, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS MATH / PHYSICS SEMINAR PETER SHORE (MIT) "Matrix product states and simulating spin chains" abstract October 19, 2007, 3:30 pm at MIT
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 19, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY BRIAN MUNSON (HARVARD) "Link maps and linking for arbitrary manifolds" abstract October 19, 2007, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
CHIRAL ALGEBRAS SEMINAR JOHN DUNCAN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) "Chiral algebras versus vertex algebras: who will triumph?" abstract October 18, 2007, 3 - 5 pm at Science Center, Room 507
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SPEAKER SERIES SEMINAR HEATHER HILL (HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION) "Well Enough to Teach It: What More Does It Take?" abstract October 18, 2007, 1:00 pm at Science Center, Room 530
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 17, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR BRIAN CONRAD (MICHIGAN) "Non-archimedean analytification of algebraic spaces" abstract October 17, 2007, 3:00-4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR CHIEN-HAO LIU (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) "Azumaya-Type noncommutative spaces and morphisms therefrom: Polchinski's d-brane in string theory from grothedieck's viewpoint" abstract October 16, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR DAWEI CHEN (HARVARD) "Mori's program on the Kontsevich space of stable maps" abstract October 16, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT 2-142
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM RICHARD TAYLOR (HARVARD) "Shimura Varieties and Rapoport-Zink Space" abstract October 15, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 12, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS/MATH PHYSICS SEMINAR TODD KEMP (MIT) "Semigroup contraction properties for q-Gaussian processes" abstract October 12, 2007, 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY DUONG PHONG (COLUMBIA) "Monge-Ampere equations and Donaldson geodesic rays" abstract October 12, 2007, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS JACOB LURIE (HARVARD) "Lie-* algebras, chiral envelopes and examples" abstract October 11, 2007, 3 - 5 PM at Science Center, Room 507
BRANDEIS-HARVARD-MIT-NORTHEASTERN JOINT COLLOQUIUM D.H. PHONG (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) "The Kahler-Ricci flow and stability" abstract October 11, 2007, 4:30 - 5:30 pm at Science Center, Hall D
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR JUNECUE SUH (MIT) "Newton integral motives over finite fields: questions of Serre and of Katz" abstract October 10, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 10, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR GABOR SZEKELYHIDI (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) "OptimalTest-Configuratin for toric varieties" abstract October 09, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD/MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR ANGELA GIBNEY (U PENN) "A new candidate for the nef cone of the moduli space of n-pointed curves of genus g" abstract October 09, 2007, 3:00 pm at MIT 2-142
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 5, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
JOINT MIT-HARVARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR JUERG FROEHLICH () abstract October 05, 2007, 4:00 pm at Jefferson, Room 453, Harvard
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY SLAVA KRUSHKAL (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA) "Algebraic and geometric duality in dimension 4" abstract October 05, 2007, 3:30 - 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS SCOTT CARNAHAN () TBA abstract October 04, 2007, 3:00 - 5:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
INFORMAL SEMINAR MARYAM MIRZAKHANI (PRINCETON) "Analogies between moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces and negatively curved manifolds" abstract October 03, 2007, 4:00-6:00 pm at Science Center, Room 530
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR MARK WATKINS (BRISTOL UNIVERSITY) "Ranks of elliptic curves" abstract October 03, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR PING AO (UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) abstract October 03, 2007, 12:10 pm at Science Center, Room 530
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract October 3, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
HARVARD/MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR MONTSERRAT TEIXIDOR I BIGAS (TUFTS) "Maps between moduli spaces of vector bundles and the theta divisor" abstract October 02, 2007, 3:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR BJOERN SCHMEKEL (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) "Quasi-Local energy and other related problems in general relativity" abstract October 02, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM CLIFFORD TAUBES (HARVARD) Smooth Manifolds in Dimension 4 abstract October 01, 2007, 3:30-4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
JOINT MIT-HARVARD ANALYSIS SEMINAR ENNO LENZMANN (MIT) "Dynamical evolution of self-gravitating relativistic matter in Hartree theory" abstract September 28, 2007, 3:30 pm at Science Center, Room 232
GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY ALVARO PELAYO (MIT) "Symplectic actions of 2-tori on 4-manifolds" abstract September 28, 2007, 3:30-4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
SERIES OF LECTURES BY SERRE JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (VISITING HARVARD UNIVERSITY) abstract September 28, 2007, 9-10 AM at Science Center, Room 507
SEMINAR ON CHIRAL ALGEBRAS JACOB LURIE () "Review of Algebraic D-modules" abstract September 27, 2007, 3:30 - 5:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR JEAN-PIERRE SERRE (COLLEGE DE FRANCE) "Examples of discrete rotation groups in 3- space" abstract September 26, 2007, 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR BJORN POONEN (UC BERKELEY) "Existence of rational points on smooth projective varieties" abstract September 25, 2007, 3:00 -4:00 pm at Science Center, Room 507
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR PAN PENG (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) "On a proof of the Labastida-Marino-Ooguri-Vafa Conjecture" abstract September 25, 2007, 4:30 pm at Science Center, Room 507
ANALYSIS SEMINAR BENJAMIN SCHLEIN (MUNICH AND UNIV CAMBRIDGE) "Hartee approximation for the dynamics of mean field systems" abstract September 21, 2007, 3:30 pm at MIT 2-136
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR BYOUNG DU KIM (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) "Iwasawa theory and the parity conjecture for non-ordinary reduction primes"