MONDAY, MARCH 3
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
-
Center for Computational Learning Systems Lecture: (G.
Bal)
Abdennebi Omrane
(University Antilles-Guyane, Laboratoire d'Analyse, Guadeloupe)
"Low-regret control of
distributed systems of incomplete data: ill-posed backward heat equation"
2:45 p.m.,
214 Mudd
Physics Colloquium:
Albert Libchaber (Physics, Rockefeller University)
"Bacteria
response to temperature and oxygen"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
TUESDAY, MARCH 4
Joint
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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Center for Computational Learning Systems Lecture: (C.
Wiggins)
Sanjoy Dasgupta
(UCSD)
"Projection
pursuit, Gaussian scale mixtures, and the EM algorithm"
2:45 p.m.,
214 Mudd
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:
(D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
Mathematics of Finance
Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (
"U.S. fixed income markets"
- continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5
Special Complex Geometry:
(Z.
Hou)
Dan Popovici (Sophia
University
"Deformations of compact
Kaehler manifolds"
2:30 p.m., 406 Math.
Colloquium:
(M.T. Wang, E. Urban,
P. Daskalopoulos)
Jean-Michel Bismut (Orsay)
Title: TBA
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
Geometry and Analysis:
(Z.
Hou,
N. Sesum)
Yanir Rubenstein (MIT & Princeton)
"Quantizing
harmonic maps into the space of Kahler metrics and Legendre duality of geometric
flows"
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)
Peter
Schneider
(University
of Muenster, Germany)
"Microlocalization
of Iwasawa algebras"
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, MARCH 7
Geometric Topology:
(D.
Thurston)
Daryl Cooper (UCSB)
"Real
projective structures and non-standard analysis"
NOTE TIME: 10:45 a.m., 507 Math.
Joint Number Theory
Workshop: (D. Goldfeld,
E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Probability:
(I.
Karatzas)
Vasileios Maroulas (Chapel Hill)
"Small noise
large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems"
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.
New York Area Joint
Symplectic Geometry and Gauge
Theory: (C.
Manolescu,
D. McDuff,
M. Khovanov,
P.S.
Ozsváth,
R. Lipshitz)
1:00 p.m.:
Dusa McDuff (Columbia &
Stony Brook)
"Symplectic
embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids and Farey numbers"
2:15 p.m.:
Ko Honda (U. Southern
California)
"Contact
structures, Heegaard Floer homology and triangulated categories"
NOTE LOCATION: 520 Math., Columbia University
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.
Algebraic Geometry:
(J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
Behrang Noohi
(FSU)
"Group
actions on stacks"
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.