COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF March 4, 2002

MONDAY, MARCH 4

Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Nikolaos Diamantis

"Derivatives of L-functions and their geometry"

5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Uwe Wystup (Commerzbank Treasury & Financial Products & Frankfurt MathFinance Institute)
"Foreign exchange one-touch options"

NOTE :SPECIAL DAY, TIME & ROOM: 1:30-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

Geometric Group Theory
(M. BridsonW. Neumann)
Martin Bridson (Oxford)
This is a minicourse-continuation
4:00 p.m., 405 Math. - LAST MEETING OF THE SERIES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6

Symplectic Geometry:  (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
"Gromov-Witten invariants-Part II"
10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
By Lisa Dyson, James Lindesay, Leonard Susskind.
SU-ITP-02-07, Feb 2002
"
Is there really a de sitter/cft duality?" (e-Print Archive: hep-th/0202163)
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos)
Dan Stroock (MIT)
"A probabilistic analysis of what is happening at the cut locus"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

Advanced Topics in String Theory: (Greene, Porrati)
Massimo Porrati (NYU)

12:30-2;30 p.m., Video-broadcast
From:  NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.

Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, Schalm)
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Tom Ilmanen (ETH)
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

DOUBLE HEADER: I Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Nathan Broaddus
"Residual finiteness for 3-manifolds II"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
11:00- 12:15 p.m., 417 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Irene Hueter (Florida)
"On the 3/4-conjecture of the self-avoiding walk"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER: II Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Danny Calegari  (Harvard)
"Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

String Theory and Cosmology: (Greene, Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA

TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman)
Ezra Getzler (NorthwesternIAS)
"The equivariant Toda conjecture"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.
 

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