THE MATHEMATICAL GAZETTE

The MATHEMATICAL GAZETTE is published weekly, currently by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematical Sciences Department. It provides a list of mathematical seminars and colloquia in the Massachusetts area. Submissions should be sent to ma-gazette@wpi.edu by noon on Thursday of the week preceding the talk.

			 NOVEMBER 23 - 27, 2009


MONDAY, November 23, 2009

12:15
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GEOMETRY-ALGEBRA-SINGULARITIES-COMBINATORICS SEMINAR
Sami Assaf (M.I.T.), "Affine dual equivalence and Schur positivity," 
Northeastern University, 511 Lake Hall.

3:00
MIT GEOMETRY SEMINAR
J. Bloom (Columbia), "Link surgery, monopole Floer homology, and odd Khovanov 
homology," Room 4-145.

3:15
HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR and MIT LOGIC SEMINAR
Hans Schoutens (New York City College of Technology, City University of 
New York), "Schemic Grothendieck rings and motivic rationality," Room 3-442.
Additional information about the seminar is available online:
http://math.mit.edu/logic/seminar.html

4:00
BOSTON UNIVERSITY DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Ana Rodrigues (I.U.P.U.I.), "Double Standard Maps: Tongues and Kneading 
Sequences," MCS 149, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, 111 Cummington 
Street.  Tea & cookies: 3:45 in MCS153.


TUESDAY, November 24, 2009

4:00
FIVE COLLEGE NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Andrew Yang, "On the low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions attached to 
cubic number fields," Amherst College, SM 207.  Tea at 3:30 in SM 208.  


WEDNESDAY, November 25, 2009




THURSDAY, November 26, 2009




FRIDAY, November 27, 2009