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



WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6, 2006

 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Physics Colloquium:
Juan Maldacena (IAS)

"QCD, strings and black holes:  The Large N limit of field theories and gravity"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
Ciprian Manolescu
"Quiver varieties"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Tomas Bjork (HHS Sweden)

"Introduction to interest rate models 2"

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
Michael I. Weinstein (Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University)
"Scattering of solitons in nonintegrable systems"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
Tamar Ziegler (IAS)

"Arithmetic progressions and Nilmanifolds"

NYU, Courant Institute 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00 p.m., 
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Tomas Bjork (HHS Sweden)

"Introduction to interest rate models 3"

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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY
Tomas Björk (Stockholm)
Nicolai Krylov (Minnesota)
Dong Li (Princeton)
Robert Neel (Columbia)

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., 312 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Marc Lackenby (Oxford)
"Counting covering spaces and subgroups in dimension 3"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry
: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Benjamin Webster
"Computation in Klovanov-Rozansky homology"
2:15 p.m., 622 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
János Kollár (Princeton)
"Holonomy groups of vector bundles"
2:30 p.m., 520 Math.