COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF APRIL 4,  2005

MONDAY, APRIL 4

Special Algebraic-Geometry: (I. Krichever)
Oleg Gleizer (USLA)

"Symmetries of the m-hypergeometric system"
3:00 p.m., 528 Math..

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Danny Gillam
"Zariski geometry"

4:15 p.m., 528 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
Dan Rugar (IBM Almaden Research Center)

“Single spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy”
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Evgenni Narimanov
(Princeton)
"
Light in dielectric resonators: chaos, tunneling and localization
"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
Herve Jacquet
Automorphic $L$-functions
6:00 p.m., 507 Math..

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

Special Geometric Analysis:
Klaus Ecker (Frie Universit Berlin)

"Entropy calculation"
4:30 p.m., 520 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
Klaus Ecker (Frie Universitä Berlin)
"Local monotonicity formulas for nonlinear evolution equations"
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)
Jordan Ellenberg (Princeton)
"Descent bounds for rational points on varieties"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m.,
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Columbia-Princeton Probability Meeting:
Albert Shiryaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute)
Hans Föllmer (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Alexander Bufetov (Princeton)
Soumik Pal (Columbia)
Alain Bensoussan (Texas, Dallas)
9:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Princeton University’s Friend Center, Bowl 007

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Mustafa Korkmaz (METU/Columbia)
"
Curve complexes and mapping class groups"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math
.