COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF MARCH 31,  2008

 

MONDAY, MARCH 31

Physics Colloquium:
André de Gouvêa (Northwestern)
"The Brave nu World"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, APRIL 1

Probability - Three Part Mini-Course on Stochastic Analysis via Rough Paths: (I. Karatzas)
Peter Friz (Cambridge)
 Part Three of a Three Part Series-Conclusion
1:10-2:25 p.m., 307 Math.

 Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (J. Cho)
 Richard Davis (Statistics, Columbia)
"Spatial models with applications in computer experiments"
 2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University)
"Binary matroids with no M(K3,3)-minors"
4:00 p.m., 317 Mudd
 The location of the seminar will alternate between 317 Mudd and 622 Math.
Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets" - continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Damin Wu (Ohio State)
 "Good Kahler-Einstein metrics on quasi-projective manifolds"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin,  L. Szpiro, Y. Tschinkel,  A. Venkatesh,  S. Zhang)
 Sug Woo Shin  (IAS)
"Galois representations arising from some compact unitary Shimura varieties"
Columbia University,  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)
 Rick Klotz (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets" - continued
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Henrik Hult (Brown)
"Small but heavy-tailed random perturbations of deterministic and stochastic systems"
 11:00 a.m., 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
 Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work
 Coffee and tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., Statistics Departmental Lounge on the 10th floor of that building.

 Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory: (C. Manolescu, D. McDuff,  P.S. Ozsváth, R. Lipshitz)
 Denis Auroux (MIT)
"Special Lagrangian fibrations and mirror symmetry"
1:00 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 520 Math.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Michael Harris (Columbia & Universite Paris 7)
“Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representatives"
NOTE TIME: 1:30-3:00 p.m., 207 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 Daniel Allcock (UT, Austin and IAS)
"The metric completion of a locally CAT(0) space"
2:15 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Charles L. Fefferman (Columbia & Princeton)
“Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation"
3:30-5:30 p.m., 312 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.