COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S



WEEK OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Physics Colloquium:
Ian Shipsey (Purdue
)
"
Bringing hearing to the deaf Cochlear implants: a technical and personal account"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

Informal Symplectic Geometry
: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (G. Bal)
Cyrill Muratov
(New Jersey Institute of Technology)
"
Self-induced stochastic resonance:  How new non-random behaviors can arise from the action of noise"
2:45 p.m.,
214 Mudd

Columbia Discrete Math Seminar
:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
Joel Spencer
(NYU)
"
Propp's deterministic realization of random walk"

4:00 p.m.,
622 Math.
The location of the seminar will alternate between 317 Mudd and 622 Math.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban, P. Daskalopoulos)
Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins)

"
Locally convex hypersurfaces of constant curvature with boundary"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel A. Venkatesh S. Zhang
)
Yiannis Sakellaridis (Tel Aviv University)
"On the spectrum of spherical varieties over p-adic fields: Towards a `relative' Langlands program?"

NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor at 5:00 p.m.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Robin Pemantle (U. Penn)
"Asymptotics of ensembles with multivariate rational generating functions"
11:00 a.m.,
903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., Statistics Departmental Lounge on the 10th floor of that building.

Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu,
D. McDuff, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton)
"
Lens space surgeries and L-space homology spheres"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.


Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Michael Harris (
Columbia & ) Universite Paris 7)
Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representatives"
1:00 p.m., 207 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometric Topology
:  (D. Thurston)
Hiroshi Matsuda (Hiroshima University)
Title: TBA
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Barbara Fantechi (SISSA/IAS)
"
Riemann-Roch theorem for virtually smooth schemes"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Charles L. Fefferman (
Columbia & Princeton)
“Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation"
3:30-5:30 p.m., 312 Math.

Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.