COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF MARCH 24,
2003

MONDAY, MARCH 24

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

"Multiple Dirichlet series and moments of L-functions"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Theory Group Meeting: (B. Mawhinney, D. Kabat)
Tamar Friedman (Princeton)
"Schwinger meets Kaluza and Klein"
2:10 p.m., 831 PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Thomas Rosenbaum (Chicago)
"
Tunable tunneling in spin solids, liquids and glasses"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

Zeta Functions and Eisenstein Series: (H. Jacquet)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY AND TIME. 3:00-4:30 p.m., 528 Math.

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 26

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

COLLOQUIUM: (D. Daskalopoulos, P. Ozsváth)
Charles Fefferman (Princeton)

"Fitting a smooth function to data"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

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.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Hubert Bray (MIT)
"Yamabe invariants of some 3-manifolds"
4:15 p.m., 507 Math

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto)
"On Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (T. Hayashi)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.


DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto)
"
Khovanov's homology for tangles and cobordisms"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Pier Corasaniti (Sussex)

"Phenomenology of late time scalar field dominated cosmologies"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Yuan-Pin Lee (UCLA & Princeton)
"
Quantum K-theory"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.