COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
 Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S
WEEK OF APRIL 7,  2008

 

MONDAY, APRIL 7

Special Probability: (I. Karatzas)
 Marc Yor (University of Paris & French Academy of Science)
"The Riemann-zeta function and random matrix theory"
9:15-10:30 a.m., 903 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
 Room 903, 9th Floor in the School of Social Work

 Physics Colloquium:
Sasha Kopp (UT, Austin)
 "Neutrino oscillations at the Fermilab main injector"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL

TUESDAY, APRIL 8

Applied Mathematics Colloquium: (C. Wiggins)
 David Madigan (Statistics/Columbia)
 "High-dimensional Bayesian classifiers"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd


 Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium and Geometry and Analysis: (M. Weinstein, Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
 Philip Rosenau (Tel-Aviv University)
 "My night life with diffusion: Saturated and other nonstandard forms of diffusion"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

 Columbia Discrete Math Seminar:  (D. Bayer, M. Chudnovsky)
 NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.
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 10

MINERVA FOUNDATION LECTURES: (I. Karatzas)
Michel EMERY (University of Strasbourg)
Part One of Five Lectures on Manifold-Valued Semimartingales
1:00-2:30 p.m., 1025 SSW Bldg (1255 Amsterdam Avenue-btwn. 121st & 122nd Street)
 Room 1025, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work

Geometry and Analysis: (Z. Hou, N. Sesum)
Chicako Mese (Johns Hopkins)
"The singular plateau problem"
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)
DOUBLE HEADER I:
 Thomas Scanlon (Berkeley)
"Polynomial dynamics and difference equations"
5:15-6:15 p.m.
DOUBLE HEADER II:
 Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew University)
"Motivic Poisson summation over function fields"
6:30-7:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Tea will be from 4:45-5:15 served in Room C415. C-level: one floor down from lobby.

 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 11

DOUBLE HEADER I: Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
Boris Mezhericher
"Computing Maass forms for SL(3,Z)"
10:00 a.m., 203 Math.

 DOUBLE HEADER II: Joint Number Theory Workshop: (D. Goldfeld, E. Urban)
Yongquan Hu (Columbia and Orsay)
"Invariant norms and existence of admissible filtrations"
11:00 a.m., 203 Math.

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Edwin Perkins (UBC)
"Degenerate stochastic differential equations arising from catalytic branching networks"
 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)
 András Juhász
"The sutured Floer homology polytope"
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"
1:00 p.m., 207 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
 William Menasco (SUNY, Buffalo)
"Climbing a legendrian mountain range without stabilization"
2:15 p.m., NOTE LOCATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER - 520 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (J. de Jong, M. Thaddeus)
 Bumsig Kim (KIAS)
"A compactification of the space of maps from curves"
2:15 p.m., 417 Math.

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.