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

WEEK OF MARCH 31,
2003

MONDAY, MARCH 31

Probability:  (T. Hayashi) (Joint with Applied Mathematics Colloquium of the Applied Physics and Applied Math department)
Terry Lyons (Oxford University)
"Rough paths"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY. TIME & LOCATION: 2:00  p.m., 214 S.W. Mudd.


Number Theory: (R. Pries, D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Dinakar Ramakrishnan (CALTECH)
"Cycles on Hilbert modular fourfolds and poles 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)
Edmond Iancu (Saclay)
"The color glass condensate and high-energy scattering in QCD"

2:10 p.m., 831
PUPIN HALL

Physics Colloquium:
Veljko Radeka (Brookhaven National Lab)
"Pioneering detection of solar neutrinos"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, APRIL 1

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, APRIL 2

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry I: (S.W. Zhang)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
10:00-11:00 p.m., 507 Math.

ADDITIONAL:
Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Gregory Leibon  (Dartmouth)
"The symmetries of hyperbolic volume"
NOTE SPECIAL DAY & TIME: 1:00 p.m., 405 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)
Hao Fang (NYU)

"
Analytic torsion on Calabi-Yau moduli"
4:15 p.m., 507 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.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

The Center for Applied Probability (CAP)
11th Annual Applied Probability Day
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.,Interschool Lab, 7th Floor of CEPSR - Shapiro Engineering Center
REGISTRATION IS FREE.  All are welcome. R.S.V.P. if attending.

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Susan Williams (South Alabama)
"Mahler measure, links and dynamics"
10:45 a.m., 507 Math.

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


DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Dan Silver (South Alabama)
"Knots, links and Lehmer's question"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
Steven Gratton (Princeton)
"Inflation without a beginning"
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Zeta Functions and Eisenstein Series: (
H. Jacquet)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:30-5:00 p.m., 528 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Stanislav Jabuka
"Dolbeault cohomology on symplectic four-manifolds"

3:30 p.m., 507 Math.