COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
S E M I N A R S

WEEK OF MAY 14,  2007

 

TUESDAY, MAY 15

Applied Mathematics Colloquium:
Plamen Stefanov (Purdue)
"
Travel time tomography in anisotropic media"
2:45 p.m., 214 Mudd
 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

Probability:  (P. Bank, I.  Karatzas, M. Sirbu)
William Sudderth (Minnesota)
Stochastic Dynamic Programming I
A mini course of four lectures
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Tentative Location: Room 1025, Dept. of Statistics, School of Social Work

THURSDAY, MAY 17

ISCAP Journal Club: (S. Judes)
12:00 p.m., 908 Pupin.

Joint COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU (Rotating among the 3 Universities)
Number Theory (
D. Goldfeld, V. Kolyvagin, Y. Tschinkel,
A. Venkatesh S. Zhang L. Szpiro
)
Lawrence Breen (Universite Paris 13)
"
Non-albelian and partly abelian cohomology"
CUNY Graduate Center, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Talk:  Room C415
Tea will be from 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198.
C-level: one floor down from lobby.

FRIDAY, MAY 18

Geometric Topology:  (D. Thurston)
Jessica Purcell (Austin)
"Volumes of knots and links"
1:00 p.m., 507 Math.

ISCAP Seminar:
Northeast String Cosmology Meeting

Gauge Theory/Symplectic geometry: (C. Manolescu, M. Khovanov, P.S. Ozsváth)
No seminar: Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at
Stony Brook

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
William Fulton (Michigan
& Columbia)
“Equivariant cohomology in algebraic geometry"

3:30 p.m., 203 Math.
Tea will be served at 3:00 p.m., 508 Math.