COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF MARCH 22, 2004

 MONDAY, MARCH 22

Physics Colloquium:
 Mark Devlin (University of Pennsylvania)
 "Millimeter and submillimeter measurements from balloon-borne and ground-based telescopes"
 4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 near the entrance to the lecture hall on the 4th floor Pupin Hall.

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
Exterior Differential Systems in Geometry
"Soliton solutions"
PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY: 2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Douglas Martin (Executive Chairman, Finanalytica Inc.)
"Advances in risk management"
 7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 24

COLLOQUIUM: (P.  Daskalopoulos)
Oleg Viro (Uppsala)
"Patchworking in algebraic geometry and tropical geometry"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Gene H Golub (Stanford)
"Solution of non-symmetric, real positive linear systems"
2:30-3:30 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
Speaker: TBA
 Title: TBA
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)
Dihua Jiang (Minnesota)
"On the non-vanishing of the central value of Rankin-selberg L-functions"
 Columbia, 312 Math, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508, 5:00 p.m.,

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Ronen Israel (AQR)
"Quantitative portfolio management"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Assaf Zeevi (Columbia School of Business)
Title: TBA
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Double Header I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Oleg Viro (Uppsala)
"Thistlethwaite subcomplex in the Khovanov complex"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Double Header II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Alexander Shumakovitch  (Dartmouth)
"Torsion of the Khovanov homology"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.
ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Jason Starr (MIT)
 "Rational curves on low degree hypersurfaces"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.