COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S  -  WEEK OF APRIL 18,  2005

MONDAY, APRIL 18

Elementary Methods: (B. Mezhericher)
Sonja Mapes
"Using pictures to compute things about monomial ideals"
4:15 p.m., 528 Math.


Physics Colloquium:
Rene Ong (UCLA)

"Exploring the Extreme Universe"

4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 7th floor hall, 705 PUPIN HALL.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

Joint Math/Applied Math Colloquium:
Peter Lax (Courant)

"
Dispersive systems"

2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd

Junior Colloquium: (A. Kontorovich)
D.H. Phong
“Moduli and canonical metrics in geometry and physics”
6:00 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov

"Quantitative approaches to risk I"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

COLLOQUIUM: (E. Urban, M.T. Wang)
Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton)

"Relative Gromov-Witten theory"
4:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

Geometry and Analysis: (M.T. Wang, M.P. Tsui)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (D. Goldfeld, M. Thaddeus)
Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue)
"
Functoriality Principle and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Functions"
PLEASE NOTE TIME: 5:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building
Tea will be served at 4:45 p.m., 508 Math.


Joint
COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, P. Sarnak L. Szpiro)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Mikhail Smirnov
"Quantitative approaches to risk II"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 207 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

Probability: (P. Bank)
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

Geometric Topology:  (C. Leininger)
Nancy Wrinkle (University of Northeastern Illinois)
Title: TBA
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures: (D. Goldfeld, M. Thaddeus)
Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue)
"
Functoriality Principle and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Functions"
PLEASE NOTE TIME: 4:30 p.m., 312 Mathematics Building
Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m., 508 Math.