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


WEEK OF MARCH 10, 2008

MONDAY, MARCH 10

Physics Colloquium:
Clifford Will (Washington University, St Louis)
 “The confrontation between general relativity and experiment"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

Applied Mathematics Colloquium -  (M. Weinstein)
 Daniel Attinger (Mechanical Engineering, Columbia)
 "Dynamics of drops and bubbles in micro-geometries"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Special Seminar:  (M. Thaddeus)
Behrang Noohi (Florida State)
"String topology for stacks"
3:00 p.m., 528 Math.
Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Andrew King (McGill)
"Bounding the chromatic number of claw-free graphs"
4:00 p.m., 317 Mudd
 The location of the seminar will alternate between 317 Mudd and 622 Math.
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets" - continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

Colloquium: (M.T. Wang, E. Urban, P. Daskalopoulos)
 Ko Honda (USC)
 "Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions"
5:00 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m., 508 Math

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Carlos Kenig (Chicago)
"The concentration-compactness/rigidity theorem approach to critical nonlinear dispersive and wave problems"
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)
DOUBLE HEADER ONE:
Kazuhiro Fujiwara (Columbia & Nagoya)
"Indivisibility of relative class numbers"
5:15-6:15 p.m.
DOUBLE HEADER TWO:
Michael Harris (Columbia & Universite Paris 7)
"Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for eigenvarieties: A cohomological construction"
6:30-7:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Tea will be from 5:00-5:15 served in Room C415. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets" - continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff, P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

 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.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris
"Transverse fibered links"
2:15 p.m., NOTE THE NEW LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 312 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Ravi Vakil  (Stanford)
"Reimagining universal covers and fundamental groups in algebraic and arithmetic geometry"
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.