COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
 S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF APRIL 12, 2004

 MONDAY, APRIL 12

SPECIAL SEMINAR: (S.W. Zhang)
 Michael Harris (Université Paris VII & Columbia)
"p-adic L-functions and congruences between stable and endoscopic forms"
4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Physics Colloquium:
James Cronin (Chicago)
"The highest energy cosmic rays"
 4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 near the entrance to the lecture hall on the 4th floor Pupin Hall.

TUESDAY, APRIL 13

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
 Nahid Emad (PRiSM, University of Versailles) and Serge Petiton (LIF de Lille (France)
"A dynamic approach to solve a large non-Hermitian Eigen problem"
2:45-3:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Geometry and Analysis: (H. Bray, M.T. Wang)
 Niall O'Murchadha (National University of Ireland)
"The independent gravitational degrees of freedom"
 NOTE DAY AND TIME:  4:30 p.m., 507 Math

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
 Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital)
"U.S. fixed income markets"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL 14

Special Lecture: H. Jacquet
Erez Lapid (Hebrew University)
"Applications of Eisenstein series"
3:00 p.m., 405 Math.

Joint Colloquium with Applied Mathematics: (P.  Daskalopoulos)
Jalal Shatah (Courant)
"Schrodinger maps"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 15

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Robert Bryant (Duke & Columbia)
Exterior Differential Systems in Geometry
"Conservation laws and solitons"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
 Tomasz Mrowka  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Knots, Triangles amd Monopoles
"Floer's Instanton Homology and Representations of Three Manifold Fundamental Groups"
 4:30 p.m., 312 Fayerweather. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

 Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak,  L. Szpiro)
 Yuri Zarhin (Penn)
 "Hyperelliptic Jacobians and l-adic representations"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, fourth floor, 5:00 p.m.,

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital)
"Derivative products"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 16

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Alvaro Cartea (London University)
"Generalised fractional-Black-Scholes equation: pricing and hedging"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Double Header I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
 Mustafa Korkmaz  (Middle East Tech. U.)
"A construction of a Lefschetz fibration with prescribed fundamental group"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Double Header II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Matthias Kreck  (Heidelberg)
"Manifolds from real life: old and new results"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

 Joint COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Differential Geometry: (J. Cheeger, D.H. Phong, G. Tian)
Mikhail Gromov (Courant)
“Geometry and topology of multiple product spaces”
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Tom Mrowka (MIT)
“Witten’s conjecture and property P”
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Both lectures will be held at Columbia University, 520 Math.,
 Tea will be at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.
ISCAP: (B. Greene, T. Baltz)
 Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 PUPIN HALL.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
 Adam McInroy
 "Orbifold mirror symmetry for complex tori"
NOTE TIME: 3:00 p.m., 507 Math.

 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (M. Thaddeus)
 Tomasz Mrowka  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Knots, Triangles amd Monopoles
"Witten's Conjecture and Property P"
 4:30 p.m., 520 Math. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.