COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S
 WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9, 2004

 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9

Physics Colloquium:
 Ben Oppenheimer (American Museum of Natural History)
"The Lyot project: Instrumentation for exoplanetary science"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 near the entrance to the lecture hall on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

Special Seminar: (W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 David Bachman (California Polytechnic State)
 "The topology of generic 3-manifolds"
3:00 p.m., 528 Math.

Special Number Theory: (E. Urban)
Christopher Skinner (Michigan)
"p-adic L-functions on unitary groups and congruences with theta lifts"
 4:45 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ali Hirsa (Morgan Stanley)
"Arbitrage of risk-neutral vs. statistical distributions"
 7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 11

CANCELLED: COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Andrew J. Majda (Courant)
"Information theory and predictability"
4:15 p.m., NOTE LOCATION: 312 Math.  Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m.,

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Special Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Michael Polyak (Technion)
"Polynomials and cubic complexes in low-dim topology"
1:00 p.m., 528 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
 Enrico Bombieri (IAS)
"Zeros of Epstein zeta functions a survey"
Columbia: 5:30-7:00 p.m., 507 Math.
 Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.,

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
"Exterior differential systems in geometry"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
 SPEAKER: TBA
Title: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Darren Clipston (Drake Management LLC)
"Methods of convertible arbitrage"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Probability: (J. Vecer)
 NO SEMINAR:
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Double Header I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Michael Polyak  (Technion)
 "Tree-like and genus one invariants of links"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Double Header II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Stavros Garoufalidis  (Georgia Tech)
"The characteristic and deformation varieties of a knot"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

 ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
 Justin Khoury
"Tuning locked inflation"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Joint COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential Geometry: (J. Cheeger, D.H. Phong, G. Tian)
Tom Ilmanen  (Columbia & ETH, Zurich)
"Mean curvature flows in R3 and related questions"
Princeton, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Edward Witten  (IAS)
"Gauge theory scattering and twistor space"
Princeton, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.