MONDAY, MARCH 7
Elementary Methods:
(B. Mezhericher)
Alex Kontorovich
"On Gauss's
class number problem and Columbia's faculty"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.
Physics Colloquium:
Mike Sheetz (Columbia, Biology)
"Understanding
complex, robust functions in mammalian cells"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Philip
Rosenau (Tel Aviv University)
"Why singularities are good for you, or: On genuinely nonlinear patterns
in a
dispersive medium"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
Mathematics of
Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M.
Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
"Nonlinear portfolio insurance"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Cancelled! Rescheduled to
April 14
Geometry and Analysis:
(M.T.
Wang,
M.P. Tsui)
William
Minicozzi (John Hopkins)
"The
Calabi-Yau conjecture for embedded surfaces"
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)
Werner Mueller
(Bonn & IAS)
"The Arthur Trace
formula and a weak Ramanujan conjecture"
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)
Darren Clipston (Drake)
"Convertible arbitrage"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Probability:
(P. Bank)
Isaac Sonin (NC, Chapel Hill)
"The optimal stopping of a
Markov chain, the generalized Gittins index, and recursive
solution of Poisson
and Bellman equations"
11:00 a.m., 520 Math
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math.
DOUBLE HEADER l:
Geometric Topology:
(C.
Leininger)
Pete Storm (Stanford)
"Lower
volume bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with boundary"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.
DOUBLE HEADER Il:
Geometric Topology:
(C.
Leininger)
Denis Auroux (MIT)
"Fiber
sums of Lefschetz fibrations"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.