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


WEEK OF FEBRUARY 11, 2008

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium - NSF RTG Lecture: (D. Keyes)
 Leslie Greengard (Courant)
 "Physics, simulation and design"
NOTE:  DAY, LOCATION AND TIME: 1:00-2:00 p.m., 633 Mudd

 Physics Colloquium:
 Marlan Scully (Texas A&M and Princeton)
 "Time and the Quantum: rasing the Past and Impacting the Future"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

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

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Special Joint Probability: (I. Karatzas) and Appllied Mathematics: (M. Weinstein)
 Jonathan Mattingly (Duke)
 “Ergodicity, energy transfer, and stochastic partial differential equations”
2:45-3:50 p.m., 214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Jan Vondrak (Princeton)
"Combinatorial allocation and submodular maximization over matroids"
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)
 Claudio Albanese (Level3 Finance)
"The fundamental problem of fundamental solutions"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Sagun Chanillo (Rutgers)
Title: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
 Xiaoqing Li
"The subconvexity bounds for L-functions"
Columbia University,  312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 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 15

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
 Xiaoqing Li
"Breaking the convexity bounds for GL(3) L-functions II"
 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon., 203 Math.

 Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Jay Rosen (CUNY)
 "Existence of a critical point for the infinite divisibility of squared Gaussian vectors"
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)
Anna Beliakova (U. Zürich)
"On simplification of combinatorial link Floer homology"
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.

 Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Moira Chas (Stony Brook)
"Minimal intersection of curves on surfaces"
2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Lothar Göttsche  (ICTP/IAS)
"K-theoretic Donaldson invariants"
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.