COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Department of Mathematics - S E M I N A R S - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2003

 

 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

Physics Colloquium:
John Womersley (Fermilab)
"Greetings from the Energy Frontier
"
4:15 p.m., 428 PUPIN HALL
Coffee served at 3:30 on the 4th floor hall, PUPIN HALL.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Samuel Eilenberg Lectures:
Tom Ilmanen (ETH Zürich
& Columbia)
"
Mean curvature flow"
2:40- 4:00 p.m., 507 Math.
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m., 508 Math.
 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
David Hobson (University of Bath and Princeton)
"A comparison of q-optimal measures in stochastic volatility models"
11:00-12:15 p.m., 520 Math.
Tea and Coffee will be served at 10:30 a.m., 621 Math.

Geometric Topology:  (J. Birman, W. Neumann, I. Kofman)
Richard Schwartz  (U. Maryland, IAS)
"
Spherical CR Geometry and Dehn Surgery"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry:  (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Alastair Craw  (Stony Brook)
"
Crepant resolutions of orbifolds by variation of GIT quotients"
3:30 p.m., 507 Math.