COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21,  2005

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21


Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Matt DeLand
"Meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces and the Weierstrass gap theorem"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.


Physics Colloquium:
Stephen Arnold (Polytechnic)
"Spectroscopy of photonic atoms"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Jemma Shipton (St. Andrews)
"Shallow water turbulence on a rotating sphere"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd|

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov

"Quantitative investment projects"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Ben Weinkove (Harvard)
"
Kahler manifolds with ample canonical bundle, constant scalar curvature metrics, stability and the J-flow"
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)
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (Texas, Austin)
"The Mahler measure of modular units"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
David Schwartz (Dynamic Credit Partners)
"Credit markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Probability: (P. Bank)
Jay Rosen (CUNY)
A Series of THREE LECTURES on Markov Local Times and Gausian Processes
"Lecture II: Continuity and p-variation of local times"
Note Location: 11:00-12:00 p.m., Floor 903 Statistics; 1255 Amsterdam Ave.
(Between 121st and 122nd St)

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Indira Chatterji (Cornell & Columbia)
Groups acting on wall-spaces"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math
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DOUBLE HEADER I Algebraic Geometry:  (M. Thaddeus)
Julius Ross
"
Stability of projective varieties "

2:00 p.m., 520 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Algebraic Geometry:  (M. Thaddeus)
Gang Tian (Princeton)
"
Geometry of K-stability"

3:30 p.m., 520 Math. 

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Shou-Wu Zhang
“Periods, heights, and L-series”
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME: 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.