Mathematics department colloquia take place on Friday afternoons 4:00-5:00PM in Hill Center 705 , Busch Campus. Also, due to recent construction on Route 18, most on-line maps and driving instructions are out of date. Here are updated driving directions. If you need information on public transportation , you may want to check the New Jersey Transit page for information on fares and schedules for the Northeast Corridor Line. Taxis are available at the New Brunswick train station (fare about $7) and can take you to and from the Hill Center (Victory Cabs, (732) 545-6666). The Rutgers Campus Bus System provides free inter-campus transportation, with the A and H buses taking passengers between Busch Campus and College Avenue, with the A providing a faster ride from College Avenue and the H providing a faster ride from the Hill Center : please visit their website for bus schedules and maps, including real-time tracking of campus buses.

Unfortunately, colloquium cancellations do occur from time to time. Please feel free to call our department (732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.

Colloquium participants and hosts may wish to also consult the Rutgers University academic calendar , as well as its calendars of religious holidays and of weather emergencies and university closings.

Fall 2008 Schedule

Date	Speaker; Affiliation	Rutgers Faculty Hosts	Colloquium Lecture Title
September 5			Department Welcome Reception
September 12	Demetrios Christodoulou ETH-Zurich, Switzerland		The formation of black holes in general relativity
September 19			Gelfand 95th Birthday symposium
September 26
October 3			Mathematics Department Picnic, Log Cabin
October 10	John Schotland U Penn	Michael Vogelius	Optical Tomography
October 17
October 24	Ehud Hrusovski Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Simon Thomas	Model theory and non-archimedean geometry
October 31	Guy Kindler Hebrew University	M. Saks
November 7
November 14	Katia Consani The Johns Hopkins University	Lisa Carbone
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM Thursday Nov 20, Hill 705, 4:00-5:00pm	Sergei Levendorskii University of Leicester		Wiener-Hopf factorization as a general method for valuation of real and American options
November 21	Rob Vandervorst Vrei University Amsterdam	Konstantin Mischaikow
Happening also on Nov 21-22:	SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics & Engineering		Organized by Rene Carmona and Paul Feehan. This will not coincide with the colloquium schedule. The conference will pay or reimburse graduate student registration fees.
November 28			Thanksgiving
December 5	Reserved for:	Xiaojun Huang
December 12	Reserved for:	Van Vu
December 19

Note to Rutgers mathematics faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Fall 2008 colloquium series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Colloquium Schedule Archive

	Fall 2007	Fall 2006	Fall 2005	Fall 2004	Fall 2003	Fall 2002	Fall 2001
Spring 2008	Spring 2007	Spring 2006	Spring 2005	Spring 2004	Spring 2003	Spring 2002

Colloquium organizers:
Lisa Carbone ( carbonel at math dot rutgers dot edu)
Anders Buch ( asbuch at math dot rutgers dot edu)
Konstantin Mischaikow ( mischaik at math dot rutgers dot edu)

This page was last updated on October 10, 2008 at 07:52 am and is maintained by carbonel@math.rutgers.edu