MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Danny Gillam
"The model-theoretic proof of the nullstellensatz"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Malvin Ruderman (Physics, Columbia)
"A biography of a neutron star's magnetic field"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Charles Epstein (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
"Finite approximations to the Fourier transform, how good are they?"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Michael Thaddeus
“Floer homology and algebraic geometry”
6:00 p.m., 507 Math..

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

COLLOQUIUM: (E. Urban, M.T. Wang)
Ching-Li Chai (U. Penn)
"Leaves on moduli spaces and Hecke symmetries"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Simon Brendle (Princeton)
"Global convergence for the Q-curvature flow on S^4"
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)
Moshe Baruch (Technion, Israel)
"A Whittaker Placherel inversion formula for SL(2,R)"
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)
Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Probability: (P. Bank)
Jay Rosen (CUNY)
A Series of THREE LECTURES on Markov Local Times and Gausian Processes
"Lecture 1: Isomorphism theorems"
Please Note Location: 11:00-12:00 p.m., Floor 903 Statistics; 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(Between 121^st and 122^nd St)

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Tamas Kalman (USC)
"Contact homology and one-parameter families of Legendrian knots"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zentrum)
"Teichmuller spaces and maximal representations"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.