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

WEEK OF MARCH 6, 2006

 

MONDAY, MARCH 6

Physics Colloquium:
Goraq Shlyapnikov (University of Amsterdam)

Strongly interacting Fermi gases in the molecular & unitarity regimes
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

Informal Geometry/Topology: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Darren Clipston (Drake Management)
"Macro investing - What Is It
?"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

COLLOQUIUM: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban)
Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Nagoya University)

"
Vanishing theorems for Shimura varieties"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

Geometry/Analysis Seminar: (S. Paul)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
David and Gregory Chudnovsky (Brooklyn Polytechnic)

"Sparse sets in the time and frequency with diophantine problems and
     intergrable systems"
joint work by D. Chudnovsky, G. Chudnovsky,
T. Morgan (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn)

CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level:
One floor down from lobby.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
"Dynamic risk allocation
"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

DOUBLE HEADER l: Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Frank Riedel
 (University of Bonn)
"On equilibrium prices in continuous time"
10:00 a.m., Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building - Seminars will be in Room 305.

Coffee and tea will be served at 9:30 a.m.,
10th floor, Statistics Lounge.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Probability: (I. Karatzas, P. Bank)
Alexander Bufetov (Chicago)
"Renormalization for interval exchange transformations and the central limit theorem for the Teichmueller flow"
11:00 a.m.,
Statistics Department is on 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
School of Social Work Building
- Seminars will be in Room 305.
Coffee and tea will be served at 9:30 a.m.,
10th floor, Statistics Lounge.

DOUBLE HEADER l: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Nate Broaddus (Chicago)
"
Heegaard splittings and the Johnson filtration of the mapping class group"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER Il: Geometric Topology:  (P.J. Lamberson, K. Kawamuro)
Tara Brendle (Louisiana State)
"Wicket subgroups of braid groups"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.


Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (P.S. Ozsváth)
Joseph Johns (Chicago)
"Complexification of Morse functions and the directed Fukaya category"

2:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, J. Ross)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Special Number Theory:
Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Nagoya University)

"
On the geometric Jacquet-Langlands correspondance"
2:00 p.m., 520 Math.

Special Lecture:
Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton)

"
The strong perfect graph theorem"
3:30 p.m., 520 Math.