COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Ioannis Karatzas
"Adaptive control, Neyman-Pearson lemma and the Monge-Ampere equation"
4:10 p.m., 312 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
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Colloqium: (J. Birman)
Arun Ram (Princeton)
"Combinatorics and representations of affine Hecke algebras"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Applied Mathematics Colloquim: (C.K. Chu), jointly sponsored by the Applied Mathematics Division, Applied Physics Department and the Department of Mathematics
C. Tang (NEC Instititute, Princeton)
"Why do proteins prefer certain folds"
4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd 4:30 p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd

Working Seminar - Trees and Related Topics: (N. Benakli, Y. Glasner, S. Mokhtari-Sharghi)
Jeremy Shor
"Using JSJ to study the automorphism group of a group" (continued).
6:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Gennady Spivak
"Maximizing the probability of a perfect hedge under partial infromation and nonlinear dynamics"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman)
Robert Friedman
"Overview Calabi-Yau three-folds: continued"
1:10 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Oliver Dasbach (Univ. of Dusseldorf & Columbia)
"A Trip Through the Combinatorics of Vassiliev Knot Invariants, I"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Working Seminar-Syzygies and Geometry: (D. Bayer, H. Pinkham, S. Popescu)
Sorin Popescu
"Mumford-Castelnuovo regularity: Classical results and open problems. Part II"
3:00 p.m., 507 Math.