Columbia University Math Department Seminars

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF March 11, 2002

MONDAY, MARCH 11

Number Theory: (R. Pries , H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Frans Oort (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
TITLE: TBA
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Lee Maclin (Fellow in Financial Mathematics, Courant Institute)
"The evolution of trader risk preferences: Risk-Positive traders and extrema events"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13

Symplectic Geometry: (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Denis Auroux (MIT)
"Projective maps, branch curves and symplectic invariants"
10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.

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

THURSDAY, MARCH 14

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)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
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.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Siddhartha Gadgil (Stony Brook)
"Contact structures on elliptic 3-manifolds and equivariant framings"
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 Miller (MIT)
"Grobner geometry of flag varieties"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

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