COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF MARCH 10, 2003

MONDAY, MARCH 10

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
Masaaki Kijima (Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics)
"
Real options in a duopoly market with general volatility structure"
NOTE  SPECIAL:  DAY, TIME AND LOCATION:
4:10PM IN ROOM 520 MATH

Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Steven Miller (Rutgers)

"Automorphic distributions and summation formulas"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

2:10 p.m., 831
PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Veit Elser (Cornell)
"
Phase retrieval with atoms, bits, and pixels"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager, Greenwich Capital)
"Understanding US fixed income market (Mini-course with slide demonstrations)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.
 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Junior Colloquium: (A. McInroy)
John Morgan
"Morse theory and Floer homology"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry I: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:00-11:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry II: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00-4:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Bernd Siebert (Freiburg)
"
Affine manifolds, log structures, and mirror symmetry"
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY, TIME AND ROOM. 4:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz (Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager, Greenwich Capital)
"Understanding US fixed income market (Mini-course with slide demonstrations)"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Feng Luo (Rutgers)
"2-dimensional combinatorial Ricci flow"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Arttu Rajantie (DAMPT, Cambridge)
"Topological defects from gauge theory phase transitions"

2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Zeta Functions and Eisenstein Series: (
H. Jacquet)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:30-5:00 p.m., 528 Math.