COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

WEEK OF MARCH 15, 2004

MARCH 15-19

SPRING HOLIDAY
 


MONDAY, MARCH 15

Special Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Hong Qian
(University of Washington)
"Nonequilibrium steady-state: from single motor protein movements to cellar signal transductions"

3:00-4:00 p.m., 214 Mudd


 

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

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

Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers & NYU)
"The class number problem"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served
in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00 p.m.,


 

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

Joint COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential Geometry: (J. Cheeger, D.H. Phong, G. Tian)


Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers)
"Fundamental groups of manifolds with positive curvature and symmetry"
1:00-2:00 p.m.

Simon Brendle (Princeton)
"The concentration-compactness principle and the Yamabe flow in conformal geometry"
2:15-3:15 p.m.

Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia)
"Mean curvature flows for Lagrangian manifolds"
3:45-4:45 p.m.

All three lectures will be held at NYU, The Courant Institute
Room 1302 Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer Street, NYC)

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Eugene Lim (Chicago)
"Can we ever see transplanckian imprints on the CMB?"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.