COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF April 22, 2002

MONDAY, APRIL 22

Number Theory: (R. Pries, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Niranjan Ramachandran (College Park, Maryland)
"Integral motives and values of zeta functions"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

Symplectic Geometry: (J. Morgan, D.H. Phong)
Naichung Conan Leung (Minnesota)
"Lagrangian submanifolds in hyperkahler manifolds, legendre transformation"
10:00- 11:30 a.m., 405 Math.

String Theory Group Meeting: (Greene, Kabat)
Kimyeong Lee

"BPS equations in five and six dimensional Yang-Mills theories"
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

Advanced Topics in String Theory: (Greene, Porrati)
Massimo Porrati (NYU)

12:30-2;30 p.m., Video-broadcast
From:  NYU, 269 Mercer st. room 602 (videoconference room). To: 908 Pupin.

Duke-Rutgers-Columbia String Theory: (Greene, Schalm)
2:30 p.m., Video-broadcast To: 908 Pupin.

Geometry and Analysis: (R. Hamilton, J. Loftin)
Yanyan Li (Rutgers)
"
On some conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations"
4:30 p.m., 507 Math.

Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar: (M. Smirnov)
Ezra Zask (Founder and President of Ezra Zask Associates, Inc.)
"Quantitative analysis of hedge fund risk and returns"
7:40-9:00 p.m., 203 Math.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Gang Tian (MIT & Columbia)
Geometry of manifolds with special holonomy
11:00- 12:15 p.m., 417 Math.
Tea will be served at 10:30 a.m., 508 Math. 

DOUBLE HEADER I: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Jeff Brock  (Chicago)
"Cone-manifolds, density, and Ahlfors' conjecture
"
11:00 a.m., 507 Math.

Probability: (J. Vecer)
Dr. Vicky Henderson (Oxford )
"Coupling and option price comparisons in a jump diffusion model"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Workshop in Arithmetic Geometry: (S.W. Zhang)
SPEAKER: TBA
TITLE: TBA
1:00-2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

DOUBLE HEADER II: Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Lenny Ng  (IAS)
"Relative Contact Homology and Legendrian Knots
"
1:15- 2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

String Theory and Cosmology: (
Greene, Schalm)
SPEAKER: TBA

TITLE: TBA
2:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman)
Mike Roth (Michigan)

"Quot schemes and stable maps"
2:30 p.m., 417 Math.

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