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.